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Page 2 Portland Obeerver October 19 a Portland Citizens Party endorses Jesse Jackson campaign sts nd other organizations will soon have to follow. They will pit her choose to endorse Jackson or have some very good reason for not en by Ltniu M u G rta n o ! News, N. W. — The Portland Chapter o f the Citizens Party hat added its colors to Jesse Jackson’s rainbow coalition— if Jackson decides to run for Presi The Citizens Party is a political alternative to the two major parties; its politics are based on economic democracy, disarmament, and ecol ogy. Its members have been defined os the non-Marxist left, and they coll themselves “ progressives." A fte r a thorough urging by Black United Front co-chair Ronnie H ern don, and by the chapter's co-chair, John Blank, the Portland Chapter voted unanimously to support and endorse Jesse Jackson. This move ventured away from the stand taken at the Party's na tional convention held this Septem ber. According to reports, ex-M or mon Sonia Johnson wanted the C iti zens Party to endorse a woman for president, while Barry Commoner, the Party’s 19*0 presidential candi date, proposed a nationwide en dorsement o f Jesse Jackson. Commoner told his fellow C iti zens Party members that a major left thrust in the presidential cam paign would occur if the Party threw its weight behind Jesse Jackson. However, other members o f the Party wanted to run their own candidate on a Citizens Party ticket. The national convention decided on the latter, but a Texas proposal gave each state autonomy in its presiden tial endorsement. It was in this con text that the Portland Chapter voted to support Jackson. Ed Blackburn, co-chair o f the Oregon Citizens Party, said Jesse Jackson's stand on many o f the is sues facing the United States was en- A Chemical People preview Mambara of tha Portland Chapter Citizens Party cast their votai in labor of endorsing Jesse Jackson's anticipated campaign for tha Damo- coursging. “ He has come out as much more of a progressive than any of the other so-called Democratic can didates. When we ran (Barry C om moner! in 1980 we wanted to create a context in which the winners o f the two major political parties would have to govern by recognizing a large movement outside o f those two parties. W e were not successful in doing that in 1980. W e think Jackson's rainbow coalition has a much better chance o f doing that. It will create that context by letting the leadership o f this country know there is a big group o f people out there saying— 'N o l We don’ t want cratlc Party nomination for Preeldent (Photo: Richard J. Brown) Pershing II and Cruise missiles de ployed, we want out o f El Salvador and most o f all we want the power increased for those who don’t have any. W e want justice.** Ronnie Herndon said he had not seen the kind o f spirit injected into a presidential candidacy by Jesse Jackson’s soon-lo-be-announced decision to run or not to run. “ Jack- son has brought about an increase in voter registration among Black peo ple and that has the potential o f a f fecting local as well as national poli tics.” Herndon also said this is the first time in the history o f Afro-A m eri- Strachan confirms Kafouryjob C ity Commissioner Margaret Strachan announced Friday that she had hired former State Represents live Oretchen Kafoury as Human Services Coordinator for the City. K afoury, former choir o f the House Hum an Resource C om m it tee, begins in the new position im mediately, Strachan said. She placed first among S3 applicants for the position in the Civil Service ex amination and interview process “ Oretchen K afoury’s long-stand- in« commitment and involvement with human services w ill be a major asset for the C ity as we prepare a fu ture human service agenda," Strachan said. "She has been keenly involved in virtually every human service issue, including health care, mental health, alcoholism, child core, juvenile corrections, aging, so cial services— you name it, she has been deeply involved in advocating for it ." Strachan said that she had com mitted herself from the outset to hire the person who scored highest in C ivil Service evaluating process. She said she was dismayed concern ing allegations that the C ivil Service process was unfair, noting that Civil Service Is designed to assure that candidates for jobs ore evaluated on merit alone. “ I kept arm ’s length from this process and early on said that 1 would hire the individual with the top score, no matter whom that indivi- dual was. That is what I have done," she said. "F ra n k ly , 1 think it is an additional benefit that G ret chen Kafoury and I have a fam iliar ity and respect for one another. It is important that the Hum an Services Coordinator and Commissioner-in- Chorge work together well to de velop a future human resource agenda.” Strachan described the position as one o f coordination, communica tion and advocacy. She said Ms. Ka foury w ill help develop a new City Hum an Services Policy to guide the city’s short-term and long-term de livery o f human services. She said that Ms. K afoury’s extensive exper ience in state, local and federal gov ernment will help her coordinate the city’s functions with those o f other governments. Ms. Kafoury served for six year (1977-1983) in the Oregon legisla ture. Most recently, she was a legis lative consultant for the Tri-County Com m unity Council. She also pre viously served as technical assist ance coordinator for the Civil Rights Division o f the State Bureau o f Labor. Ms. Kafoury also was a Peace Corps Volunteer, a public school teacher and a member o f the fiscal staff o f the M etropolitan Child Care Coordinating Council. W hile in the Legislature, she led the legislative oversite o f budgets for Adult and Family Services. C h il drens' Services, M ental Health. Among the meetings in the Port land area are a general public meet ing on October 23rd, 7:00 p m ., at the Retail Clerks H a ll. 913 N .E . Da vis. They will appear at: Portland State University, October 24th, 3 p .m .. Smith 298; Lewis and Clark College, Council Chambers. 3:30 p.m .; Cornelius, Centro Cultural, 3 p m.; Teachers meeting, l ewis A Clark Council Chambers, 7:30 p.m .; Public Employees Meeting, 1529 SW 12th, 7:30 p.m. (Call Jamie Partridge, 232-7206 for infor m ation.) (Continued fro m page I column 6) Kids and Drugs in Oregon A startling look at the school-age substance abuse problem in Oregon and a preview of the unprecedented national outreach program beginning in November. W e d n e s d a y 8 :0 0 P M Oregon Public Broadcasting Cure the cammon cold. If v$tur hi<me licatintf bill leave y»Ri c»4d. here» an c.i*\ tu re switch to natural tf.t' heating New natural u.»s lu n u k e ' have remarkahle annual e ttk iencv rates up to ^7 percent A n d JepenJinm w i lx * * »»« now heat hom e.a im d e m natural i$t* h im .ke van puv he itx-lt w ith energy saving» in three to five war». N o wvwkler last w ar »R tf 6,000 pet^Me switched to MARGARET STRACHAN Health and Juvenile Corrections. She was chief legislative sponsor of a wide variety o f human service pol icies and laws covering domestic vi olence, day core, hospice care, nurse practitioners, mental health deinsti tutionalization, civil rights, juvenile corrections and displaced home makers. She also advocated for the statewide Medically Needy program and for cost containment in the mental health system. Ms. Kafoury also has served on the boards o f many social service agencies in the metropolitan area. Starting salary for the position is $28,104, Strachan said. They will discuss the situation in trade unions in their countries and how the., labor movements view the Central American conflict. Dellums attacks missiles to thunderous applause. M ayor Washington dealt with a similar if somewhat more localized theme as Dellums, although he too joined the East Bay Representative in blasting arms spending by the Reagan Administration. Referring to the military budget, Washington told the crowd, " W e don’t have to accept that, we don't have to accept the destruction of social programs.” The bulk o f Washington's talk to diners, however, centered on how a coalition was built in Chicago that successfully put the progressive leg islator in the mayor's seat. T o begin w ith, Washington ar gued his victory ahd roots tb it reached all the way back to "th e late ’50s.” W hile it represents a move ment that finds its source in the civil rights upheavals o f that period, it cans* involvement in politics that the issue o f coalition was being ad dressed on a national level. And he stated that the Citizens Party had nothing to lose and everything to gain by endorsing Jesse Jackson. However. Herndon said, they made a "tragic mistake" at their national convention by not endorsing Jack- son. O ff the record, many leftists feel that the Citizens Party has made a Try our home heating remedy. Central American union leaders visit Portland Three trade union leaders from Central America w ill meet with trade unionists in Oregon this week Miguel Angel Albizures is general secretary o f the National Committee for Trade Union Unity in Guate mala. representing 85 percent of G uatm ala’s workers. M arta Alicia Rivera, U .S . representative of the National Association o f Salvadoran Educators, representing 90 percent of the nation's teachers, was the group's general secretary until she was forced to flee the country in 19*2. Sebastian Castro represents the Sandinista Workers Confedera tion, the principal union federation in Nicaragua, which represents 63 percent o f the nation’s union workers. dorsing him. Either way. some feel, the move in Oregon may cause the national Citizens Party to reconsid er their own candidate. has grown far beyond that now. " I t is a real rain b ow ," he said. 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