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Portland Obaerver. August 2 0 . 1M1 P ag. 7 Save money on your insurance. ______I A uto • Life • Fire Com m ercial .T ruck! M o n th ly Payments Rita H. Jenkins S .i.« R»prn.f<tativ. 3714 N Williams Portland Oregon 9722 Z I6O3I 24» f arméis New World Lite Inswance Co BAR S BACON Mercei Island WA Art Alexander at th . consol, producing Ebony Nighta for KOAP radio. (Photo: Richard J. Brown) From spinning discs to cable TV G rassrool New», N . W . — A r t - Alexander has filled the audio world with Ebony Nights on K O A P -F M . But during this lim e Alexander has interjected h im self in the visual community o f cable, which recently won him a spot on the Com m unity Cable C o rporation. Alexander ex plains, " I t ’s the body established by the city to oversee the public access commitment. In Portland we'll start w ith five public access channels. One will be first-come-first-served, which means if you have program ming ready you can go on the air. A n o th er is set aside for regular program s and the other three are just spares. Once you pay the flat rate for these channels, y o u ’ ll be able to tune in forever w ith o u t paying again." With the inclusion o f C C C (here’s a possibility o f a Black channel. "Cablesystems suggested that they would like a community non-profit organization to lease the channel. By doing this the community will be able to produce their own shows and sell the time for commercials. As it stands now th e re ’ s really no tim e selling on the theme channel, but if the community leases it, they will be able to sell tim e and do whatever they want.” The cable industry is o f course a business. What will prevent it from using the same analysis c f profits and large audiences that motivates the big three (A B C . NBC and CBS)? advantage o f it we’ll be in a sorrier "T h e basic point o f cable is narrow shape than we’re in now.” casting, which is d iffe re n t from One o f the items proposed for the broad and cable casting. They know Black access channel is an aud io that small audiences can be side. "W h e n there is no video on, profitable. During the late ’60s and the audio side could be used fo r early ’70s. a lot o f large magazines Black music and news. The question died. What came to birth after that o f funding fo r personnel and was specialized magazines from equipm ent rem ains to be a n ’ G o lf D igest’ to ’ R acketball swered.” W eekly.’ Cable appeals to the same " I really wish Blacks who have a kinds o f things. I f you're an adver basic grasp o f T V would begin to get tiser you won’t have to pay $100,000 in volved . This process has been a minute to get a small piece o f the going on fo r quite a w hile. A t the massive audience that T V goes a f beginning there were 3 or 4 Blacks ter. So there’s enough room in there working in and with cable. Now it’s so that w o n ’ t be an im m ediate down to one or two. I feel that there danger." are enough people a ro un d who The goals that Alexander wants are fam iliar with the industry who the C C C to strive for are centered ought to have gotten in volved . on com m u nity involvem ent in People are going to have to get in c o m m u nication . " I want to en volved or it will always be the case courage people to participate in this o f three years after the involvement new electronic age because this is the was necessary that the Black com last o p p o rtu n ity fo r th ird w orld munity will wake up and say, ’ How people to get their foot in the door come we d id n ’t know about this?’ and some control over things. Cable Because th e re ’ s no im m ediate enables a Black person to b ro ad return, people haven’t put in the ef cast directly to a Black audience. fort to find out what has been going Also you can broadcast at a o n .” relatively low cost and control your A word o f thanks ought to be ex program. On a national basis you’ll tended to A rt A le xa n d e r for be able to d istribu te your own hanging in and attending the many program because a lot o f m ajo r meetings and sitting on the commit cities have their own Black chan tees where he picked up this nels. This is really our last chance to know ledge. A ll he wants is for gain some con tro l over a m ajo r others to follo w his footsteps and medium because i f we d o n ’ t take participate. POUND Black United Front "Now Is The Time" “Community Unity Day“ E SH O P ■ENOW'S August 22, 1981 12 Noon until 6pm Peninsula Park Last year. Community Unity Day ' was attended by over a thousand people Thi* year, we predict more Community unity day is the day the N E Community comes together to share it victories, reali/e it* dreams and share the sprit of Black love There will be music games, speakers for example. Thara Memory will be blowing some soulful horn. The Sojourner Truth Readers Theater b Dance Troupe will chill the soul with its presentation of Atlanta Heartbreak The Portland Stars b Stripes Drill Team will step young, gifted and Black, there will be African Drummers your f avor.t e D»sc Jockeys and much more FOR B R A N D S you k n o w V A R IE T IE S y o u lik e SIZES y o u w o o l • 6 4 1 » ft I Zr*«n4lio.« • ftfttfc A • • • • N M w o W l o »vAxo.Wo I 2 2 r 4 A N I O h toon N Lorw bw i-4 O r o e l.y t a r l o <e h M ill» P I« « « l i f t e d • • J l O4«<U«w • O a k O r» » » • I e tw I I I • a a • • A N I je o h Q J rd le b o K l« g A ft I O o w iM .n A W a t» tw re s s ld « O» x a g o 9 0 | A » C ity N ow Is The Tim e C om m unity U nity Day Be the first on your block toleam h ow to save a life. Take the Red Cross CPR course. IN T R O D U C IN G TH E UNEXPECTED GRANOLA BAR! Cell Talk Bv A xmar A bdul Sttfullah ------ Joe Hesr _______________ The 1981 Legislature emerged from its longest session w ith the conclusion: T h at another prison isn’ t necessarily the answer to the state’s corrections problem and that corrections on a com m unity level would better serve all concerned. G o v. Vic A tiyeh urged the Legislature to submit a new prison bond issue to the voters, therefore m andating a decision from the le g is la tu re (hat could not be avoided. Gov. Atiyeh cited the lack o f bed space and the lik e lih o o d that the problem would become more severe a fte r a federal court ru lin g prohibited placing more than one prisoner in a cell. Lately the airways and news services have been erroneously reporting that the prison overcrow ding class action suit filed against the state over double celling was recently lost in federal court. Basically what hap pened is that the N in th C irc u it Court o f Appeals sent the case back to Judge Burns for fu rth e r con sideration. At best the state has won a tem p o rary victory in what w ill prove to be a long war. C o m m u n ity concern over the rising crim e rate, prison o ver crowding and the economic state o f the state has brought into focus the need for a belter designed prison system. W hat emerged from the fin al days o f the session was a resolution calling for submission o f a $60 million bond issue to voters in M ay 1982. $3.5 m illio n o f that money fo r construction o f a segregation unit at the Oregon State P en iten tiary and 150 forest camp beds. The rem aining $54.3 m illio n would be allocated accor ding to a plan that would be devised by the counties in conjunction with the local C o m m u n ity Corrections Advisory Boards. A nother part o f the money, however, would be used to construct a 250-bed regional fac ility , probably in the P ortland area. IT this last p o rtio n o f the bond issue comes to pass the Black com munity should pay close attention to its im p le m e n ta tio n . There hasn’ t ever been meaningful input from the Black com m unity in the area o f corrections and now it would appear that the better part o f $60 m illion will be doled out for a prison unit in the Portland area. W ith the crime problem that the Black community has, its only com m on sense and good insurance against the rising Black crime problem, that some o f that money go into the Black com m u n ity. W e must take into con sideration that when the statistics are used to ju s tify such spending that Blacks and other m inorities com prise significant numbers o f those statistics. One w ould think that since Oregon leads the nation in incarcerating Blacks that the likely place to begin some o f these reforms would be the Black community. But we know from past experience that the money is usually used to buy more police cars, guns and gas for use in the Black community. Other bills that effect the prison situation are as follows: H B 2327, which reduces the m andatory m inim um period o f active parole supervision from one year to six months. Approxim ately $3 million will be saved. — H B 2321 which allows the state P aro le Board to " u n s ta c k ” con secutive sentences by a vote o f four out o f five members. This means that a number o f sentences which are imposed on a person to run con secutively, or one after another, can be imposed to run concurrently, or at the same time. — H B 2 3 2 8 , which elim inates the requirem ent that every prison in mate appear before the Parole Board for prerelease hearing. Many prisoners are already on prerelease leave before their final release, and current law requires them to come back to prison for the hearing. — H B 2326, which allows a senten cing judge to give a person who is on probation and violates it a second chance and extend the period o f probation for up to six years. H B 2322, which makes any term in prison concurrent with another that is being served, whether it is state or fed eral, unless the judge specifically orders otherwise. On the reverse side, a bill was ap proved giving clear statutory authority for a judge to impose con secutive sentences— and thus lengthen the total time in prison in stead o f shortening it. We must all pay close attention to what is happening on the correc tio n al scene. 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