focusing on hunger
Thursday night,
Racism symposium :
she addressed a benefit for Tools of
Peace, an organization gathering io < *
for Nicaragua.
Lappe refused to talk about hunger
in terms o f numbers, but rather in
terms o f the emotions — grief, anger,
Blacks rejected by left
by Robert L oth un
hum iliation, fear — that she witnessed
in her travels to Third W orld coun
tries.
She told o f an impovenshed Nica
raguan woman: "F o r her. hunger
meant watching those close to her
According to Ron Herndon, rela
tions between the Black community
and white activists started out reflect
ing the racism o f the greater society
but appear to have improved in recent
die — it was grief."
Lappe said that the world’s grain
production capacity alone is enough
to supply every person in the world
with 3,000 calories each day.
Also, according to Lappe. studies
show that so-called “ basket case
countries” like Bangla Desh could not
only feed thor people but export food.
Land needs to be given to peasants
and food production for local con
sumption rather than export in
creased, she said.
The problem o f hunger is politics,
according to Lappe. who described
El Salvador as a microcosm o f the
world power relations that keep peo
ple hungry.
There, six
families
control
the
same amount o f land as 300,000 peas
ants. These families gear food pro
duction on their vast holdings to an
export market with sophisticated,
years.
Herndon spoke at a symposium on
racism and the left at PSU. He was
joined by Duane Campbell, a college
instructor from Sacramento and head
o f the anti-racism commission of
Democratic Socialists o f America
Campbell spoke on the history of
left-Latino relations. D .S .A . spon
sored the symposium,
Herndon said that one o f the con
sistent patterns in relations between
white and Balck activists is the atti
tude o f whites that, "Y o u can t
think; your thinking will have to be
done for you by white people."
W illiam Lloyd Garrison, for in
stance, the white editor o f the aboli
tionist newspaper. The Liberator, at
one point advised Frederick Douglass
not to start another newspaper. He
felt that Frederick was incapable o f
the proper kind o f analysis to fight
wasteful tastes while peasants go
hungry, she said.
In Ethiopia. she continued, the
government neglects ptax farmers
while building up the cities, which
adds to hunger "Stalinist” describes
the power problem in Ethiopia, she
Francis Moore Lappa, author of the book Diet fo r a
Small Planet, «peaking at PSU.
(Photo: Richard J Brown)
Hunger not necessary
by Robert Lothian
Frances M oore Lappe, whose book,
ZJlrt fo r a Small Planet, sensitized mil-
bom io the pobtks o f food and became
a Bible for vegetarians, said in Portland
last week that hunger is not caused by
scarcity of food or land, or by natural
disasters.
“ It is caused by a scarcity of democ
racy," she said.
Revututiun, said lappe. is the only
word that describes die change needed
to end hunger in Central America and
other parts of the world.
She called for a shift of power from
ndi landowners and slate bureaucracies
to poor producers. Such a shift is oc
curring with Nicaragua’s revolution,
she said, which makes that country an
example for the world.
lap p e spoke at PSU in the final
installment of a month o f programs
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Ijip p e called for solutions on a
level of morality "beyond capitalism
or sialism. T hat’s really what we're
talking about — freedom ," she said
The first step would be for the
United Stales to cut o ff the aid that
props up dictatorships and "give
change a chance," The U.S. also needs
to start obeying international law, she
said.
Nicaragua's land reform holds out
an example for hungry countries,
Lappe continued. There, thousands
of peasants have been given land for
free that once belonged to the rich.
Food production for local consump
tion has increased, she said.
"E ffo rts toward such change are
inevitable. . we couldn't slop it if
we wanted to,” Lappe said.
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donations, and
several
hundred
pounds o f hammers, saws and hand
nails that will he seni to Nicaragua
in a cargo container.
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Each student will beprovided a spe
cial hamburger lunch cooked by the
Rotary Club of Albina members. A
wide variety o f community based
entertainment is set, with everyone
invited.
U.S. Congressman Ron Wyden is
scheduled to attend the second annual
Greater Albina Spring Festival and
will congratulate students, parents,
school representatives and more at the
event. Congressman W yden’s attend
ance will also offer the community yet
another opportunity for interchange
of community-supportive thoughts
and observations.
Highlight o f the day’s festivities
will be the Junior Rose Festival Court
Knighting Ceremonial and Rose
Planting Ceremony, with Portland's
Royal Rosartans attending.
Self d efen se
A free five-week self-defense class
will be taught by Ron Cardenas for
men, women and children. The classes
will be held on Tuesday night from 6
to 7 p .m ., at the Interstate Firehouse
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Rainbow Coalition success in get
ting out the District 18 vote and in
Margaret Carter’s campaign holds
out hope for future elections, Hern
don said. "People are looking. . .if
we are attentive we can at long last
give people the kind o f leadership
they need."
According to Campbell, some C h i
canos and Mexicanos are open to
left-wing ideas because of the tradi
tion o f the left in Mexico. The M exi
can revolution o f 1911 "was a very
radical revolution,” he said, and
the Mexican Constitution "reads like
the writings o f Karl M a rx ."
Immigration and quality education
are two important issues fix the latino
community, said Campbell " I f people
don't look at immigration, they won't
understand (he future." and bilingualism
means preservation of culture,” he said.
One thing white activists have been
insensitive to, sax! Campbell, is the
unpixtance ol the Kixnan Catholic
Church in Latin culture "Ann religious
si.dements don’t fly very far" in the
Spanish-speaking axnmumiy. he said
The term “ Hispanic" is the most re
cent attempt to whitewash Mexicans,
said Campbell Mexicans who live in
ones refer io themselves as Chicanos, he
said, and those who live in rural areas
call themselves Mexicanos
In 1970, sax! Campbell, an incident
occurred in Los Angeles which influ
enced le ft-la tin o relations. Chicanos
there, upset with the white-dominated
anti-war movement, organized the
Chicano M oritorium which turned
into a three-day pitched battle with
police.
"Chicanos had to stand by them
selves, with little or no help from
the white left. Thai's remembered,
and that's a very important part of
the Central America movement,"
said Campbell
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racism.”
Ironically, several abolitionist o r
ganizations refused membership to
Blacks, said Herndon. Leaders of the
Progressive Movement (about 1900)
came around to saying that Blacks
shouldn't vote, he continued, and
early craft unions couldn’t let Blacks
a.
join.
Some Blacks then walked across
the picket lines o f these unions. “ That
wouldn't have happened if people
hadn't let their racism get the better
of them ."
Racism in the labor movement
came home to Portland during W orld
War II when shipbuilding unions at
Swan Island refused admission to
Blacks. Auxiliary unions were set up
fix Black workers, said Herndon.
But they still had to pay dues to white
unions Blacks were assigned the
most filthy and dangerous jobs, he
said.
In the 1930s. said Herndon, Black
intellectuals gravitated toward the
Communist Party after J. Edgar
Hoover destroyed the Garvey M ove
ment Most dropped out o f the C P,
however, he said, when they were
cixifronted with the argument that.
"Black people hadn't progressed
enough to discuss the question.
Those who wanted to discuss rac
ism were met with cries o f, "Let s not
diside the movement," said Herndon.
During the Civil Rights Movement,
groups like SNC C (Student N on
violent
Coordinating
Committee)
stain found that when whites donated
money, they also expected to be able
to tell Black organizations what to
do That led the move toward Blacks
and white organizing separately in
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“ Jesse Jackson’s campaign has
shown the way the community has de
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to have a base it would have to be in
his own community.”
"W ith Jackson getting I I percent
o f the vote statewide while "o n a
giaal day" the Oregon Black popu
lation reaches 2 percent, "T h a t's
astounding," said Herndon. The
Jackson campaign "has really started
the rebirth o f the whole idea of coali
tions."
Brown trip
Portland Observer photographer
Richard Brown is leaving soon for a
month-long visit to Nicaragua.
He will be travelling with a dele
gation from Witness fix Peace, an
inter-denominational
religious or
ganization that sends witnesses into
war zones.
Rxhard said not to worry, though,
because none o f the witnesses have
been hurt.
He said he will travel to all parts of
the country, "to get an education and
awareness of what’s going on down
there.
"1 want to be able to tell folks
what's happening with the Black pop
ulation there," he added.
Richard will o f course be taking a
kx o f pictures during his trip; he’s
taking along 100 rolls o f film.
On Sunday, June 2nd, from 5 - 10
p.m. at St. Andrew H all, 4940 N .E .
8th, there will be a benefit for Richard
and Rainbow Coalition anti-apartheid
efforts. Attractions include a "spec
tacular multi-cultural dinner," music
by Velvet and Antarra and cartoons
for children. Admission is $5 - $10 for
adults (sliding scale) and $2 for chil
dren.
Richard says it will be your last
chance to take his picture before he
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