Portland Observer Thursday, August 3,1978 Page 3
Crowell seeks
board positioa
Evie Crowell has announced that
she is a candidate for appointment to
the Portland School Board for the
position to be vacated by Gladys
McCoy on September 11th.
Ms. Crowell, a faculty member at
Portland State University, was raised
in Portland. A resident o f Northeast
Portland, she was an unsuccessful
candidate fo r the D em ocratic
nomination to Legislative D istrict
No. 16.
“ I have spent many years in a
voluntary capacity helping m inority
and indigent students o b ta in
adequate education. For two years 1
served as Secretary/Treasurer and
chairperson o f the student screening
committee fo r the M artin Luther
King Scholarship Fund o f Oregon. I
am presently a board member emeri
tus,” stated Ms. Crowell. "Educa
tio n at every level should be a
vital concern to all citizens. It is the
only way to m aintain a healthy,
democratic society.”
Ms. C ro w e ll’ s co m m u n ity ac
tivities include Urban League and
Guild, Oregon Assembly o f Black
Affairs, and Oregon Fair Share. She
is a board member o f the YW C A and
Northwest Oregon Health Systems.
The School Board is seeking ap
plications fo r the position, which
must be filed with board secretary
Lori Cargill by August 14th.
T-8
Program honors role of South African women
by Fungai Kumbula
Remember all our women in the ja ils
Remember all our women in cam
paigns
Remember all our women over many
fighting years
Remember a ll our women f o r their
triumphs, and f o r their tears.
The above refrain is taken from
the South A frican W omen’ s Day
Song and it says a lot about the
struggle in South Africa in general,
and the role o f women in particular.
It is unfortunate that the role o f
women always seems to be either
belittled or ignored altogether every
time someone talks or writes about
South Africa. A closer look at South
A frica’s everyday life would reveal
that they are very much a part o f the
resistance to apartheid.
One o f the most odious
m anifestations o f the practice o f
apartheid is the issue o f the pass laws
as they affect Black males in South
Africa, t very adult male, sixteen and
older is required to carry a pass,
which is like a passport and which
bears his name, address, photo,
place o f origin and where he works.
Failure to produce such a pass on
demand (any police officer can stop
any Black man at any time) leads to
arrest. 70,000 such arrests were made
in 1968 alone and today, the rate is
from 1,000 to 3,000 every day. So,
passes e ffe c tiv e ly c o n tro l the
movement o f a ll Blacks and the
moment you lose your job, you have
72 hours to get out o f town — to the
"homelands.**
The government has, since the
1950s, extended the pass laws to
women also, triggering some very
spirited opposition. M y, did the
women fight! As far back as 1913,
they had marched and burned
passbooks. On August 9, 1955, 2,000
women marched in P retoria, the
capital. The following year, August
9, 1956, 20,000 women from all over
the country conducted one o f the
biggest demonstrations South Africa
has ever seen. In fear, the govern
ment banned all processions that
day, but the women were not to be
thwarted. They merely broke up into
groups o f twos and threes and
proceeded to m arch to th e ir
destination u n til, fin a lly , th e ir
20,000 voices rose as one in protest.
Since that day, August 9th has been
designated South African Women’s
Day.
This August 9th, Portland w ill
jo in in a celeb muon o f this all impor
tant day. It is extremely important
that people get together on this day
and make a c o n trib u tio n to the
grow ing movement against apar
theid.
In addition to nursing the wound
ed, caring fo r the sick, sheltering the
homeless, comforting the bereaved,
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feeding the hungry, clothing the
naked,
and
supporting
the
movement the women also take part
in organizational work, the actual
demonstrations and even the armed
conflict. They participate in every
facet o f the struggle.
Looking closer to home, we notice
the crucial role played by women in
the various struggles in this country
all the way from slave days. It was
the women who, on most cases bore
the brunt o f the countless battles. It
was the women who kept a semblance
o f fa m ily life going and H a rrie t
Tubm an was only one shining
example o f the many contributions
women made in the fig h t fo r
freedom . W ith that in m ind, it
should be easy to see just how impor
tant the role o f women is in South
Africa. Even today, too, in all our
communities, most o f our organiza
tio n s ’
women
play a v ita l
role.
The program, to be held at the
K in g
N eighborhood
F a c ility
Cafctorium on Wednesday, August
9th from 7:30-9:30 p.m. w ill consist
o f a speaker, a slide show, a film ,
music, poetry reading from Zindzi
Mandela’ s new book ‘ black as i am’
and refreshments. Admission is free.
Childcare w ill be provided.
The follow ing groups are spon
soring this very im p o rta n t day:
American Friends Service Commit
tee, Black Women’ s Rap Group and
Portland Citizens Against Racism.
So, come jo in in paying tribute to
these g a lla n t fighters w ith o u t
whose p a rtic ip a tio n our struggle
w ould never have gotten o f f the
ground.
Rhodesia’s psuedo-settlement
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the real power.
Smith had hoped that by bringing
in Muzorewa, who, until March 2,
1978, was the most popular leader in
Zimbabwe, he would be able to sell
his pseudo-settlement to the Z im
babwe masses. What he overlooked
was that Zimbabweans have always
been "n o to rio u s ” fo r follow ing a
‘ ‘ leadership”
rather than
a
"leader” . As long as Muzorewa was
voicing the wishes o f the people, they
followed him; the moment he signed
that agreement, he also committed
political suicide.
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headache would be another round
table conference to which all parties
would participate. Then they would
thrash out the problems that the
"Salisbury Agreement” did not ad
dress, such as the Land Tenure Act,
parliamentary representation, com
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court rather than arrest; that there be
available 24 hours a day the capacity
to evaluate and release those who are
arrested; and that at the jail there be
screening for alcohol, emotional and
drug problems and diversions fo r
those in these categories that should
go to other institutions or programs.
The program w ill include a Central
R eferral Program that w ill coor
dinate criminal justice agencies and
community services to do everything
possible to keep the arrested out o f
ja il pendi.ig trial. This program w ill
work with the client until he leaves
the criminal justice sytem including
pre-sentence evaluation; find alter
natives to confinement; provide job
tra in in g , jo b placement, alcohol,
drug treatment, counseling, etc.
M any o f the services w ill be
provided through contracts w ith
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The Community Corrections Ad
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m inority member, Shirley Hamilton
(Dr. Lee Brown was a member until
he left Oregon) on the 36 member
committee and asked that additional
m inority members be appointed.
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