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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.
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"Now Is The Time"
“Community
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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
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Bv A xmar A bdul Sttfullah
------ Joe Hesr
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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. D o n ’ t wait u n til it ’ s
happening to you, before you know
it's happeningl Black people have a
vested interest in the criminal justice
system, whether we choose to
protect that interest is a question
that may well decide the fate o f
thousands o f Blacks in maximum
and m inim um (g h e tto ) prisons
across the nation.
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