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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
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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)
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She was chief legislative sponsor of
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icies and laws covering domestic vi
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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
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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
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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
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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.
Washington pointed out his can
didacy was largely responsible for
the registration o f more than
200,000 Black voters in two months.
But he also told the audience that
even with 85 percent o f the Black
votes, and 70 percent o f the Hispan
ic votes, "W e would not have won
without white voters."
Just as Dellums exuded a sense of
confidence and determination on
the national level, Washington pro
jected a fighting stance in his
ongoing battle with the machine-
dominated, conservative Chicago
City Council. " W e are going to
straighten out that mess in Chicago
if it takes 20 years,” he said.
"N either a city council nor the Rea-
ganites are going to stop this move
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