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Page 4 Portland Observer March 30, 1989
NAPFE
APPLAUDS
APPOINTMENT
OF SAMUEL
GREEN, JR.
REGIONAL PMG
N eed A
F a m ily D o c t o r ?
Jew el I Crawford. M I)
announces the opening of
THE OPTIMUM FAMILY HEALTH CLINIC
4722 N.E Glisan Street
Portland, O regon 9~213
V FREE 10-m inute get acquainted visit by appointm ent
V Evening hours available
V Easy access off 1-84 (eastbound. take 58th Ave exit
w estbound, take 4.3rd Ave. e x it)
V ( lose to Providence Medical ( e n te r
V M em ber of selected health plans
V N utrition evaluations
Please call to schedule appointm ents
2 3 2 -5 8 7 9
Complete medical care fo r i hildreti anil adults
Grace Collins
Memorial Center
Day Care
“ Since 1952“
• Kindergarten
• Pre-School
‘Latch Key Program ’
Children 6 wks.
to 11 yrs.
• Breakfast
• Hot Lunches
• Snacks
Mon-Fri
W ASHINGTON. D .C .-R obert L.
White, National President of the National
A lliance o f Postal and Federal
E m p lo y e e s, issu e d a sta te m e n t
applauding the appointment of Mr.
Samuel Green, Jr. as Regional Postmaster
General for the U.S. Postal Service’s
Eastern Region. As Eastern Regional
P o stm a ste r G e n e ra l, based in
Philadelphia, Green will direct policy
for all postal operations in a 11-state
area including the District o f Columbia.
Mr. Green succeeds Mr. Johnny F.
Thomas who resigned from the position.
President Robert L. W hite, who heads
the nation’s largest and oldest black led
labor union said in a statement to
Postmaster General Anthony M. Frank,
“ ...we salute you for selecting him as a
replacement for Mr. Johnny Thomas,
who was also a Black career postal
employee with many years o f service.
However, the action taken in this instance,
as noble as it is, still does not irradiate
the position o f National Alliance of
Postal and Federal Employees, that race
was a factor in the decision to remove
Mr. Thomas as the Eastern Region
Postm aster G eneral.”
“ A lso” , President W hite continued,
“ let me assure you that this assertion is
not made against you, our latest
Postm aster General. In reality, racial
discrimination permeates throughout the
Postal Service as well as the Federal
Service, in many different ways. It did
not just start in recent years, and it is
very unlikely to disappear in the
foreseeable future. Nevertheless, let
me express our appreciation for your
favorable intervention, in this instance.
“ However, let me again say for the
record, that racial discrimination is still
alive and ram pant throughout the USPS
and still there is not enough being done
about it”
6:30 am • 6.00 pm
VOTING RECORD
OF CBC
Call
281-6930
128 N.E. Russell St.
4 Year O lds - M aking Cookies
Grace Collins
Memorial Center
5 Year Olds -
Reading First G rade Books
— Day Care
PORTLAND OBSERVER
“ The |=yps and Ears o f the Community”
288-0033
Get a good taste of
Beaverton Lodge
this Saturday.
Not sure moving is your cup of tea? Maybe all you
need is a taste of Beaverton Lodge.
A deliciously decadent taste...of dessert and
complimentary English tea. This Saturday afternoon, any
time between 1 and 4 p.m.
While you're here, you'll be able to take a leisurely
stroll through the Lodge. Look into our spacious one and
two bedroom apartments~the ones with patios and decks.
( heck out the pool and health club. Hear about our
homecooked meals and special activities. Get a good taste
of what living here is really like. All for one reasonable
monthly rent.
Sound like we're pouring it on too thick? Maybe. But
so far more than 100 residents have come for a taste...only
to discover that Beaverton Lodge really is their cup of tea.
B eaverton I gdge
Retirement Residence
12900 S.W. Ninth Street • Beaverton • Phone: 227-7645
O ff Main St. between Farm ington and Allen Blvd.
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' imtiltmmtary English Teas unll hr served every Salundav during Ihr Spring m m n
W A SH IN G T O N - The Black
members o f the 100th Congress, the
m ost recent, voted better on “ W orld
O rder” issues than the Congress as a
whole. The Congressional Black Caucus
members achieved an 89% rating
com pared to 54% for the entire House
according to the Global Statesmanship
ratings of the Campaign for UN Reform.
O f the 22 voting Black members, 21
achieved a rating above 80% and 12 a
ra tin g abo v e 9 0 % .
T he top
representatives were: Ronald Dellums
(D-C a ), with 98%; W illiam Clay (D-
MO), Charles Rangel (D-NY), Julian
Dixon (D-CA), W illiam Gray (D-PA),
Major Owens (D-NY), Alan W heat (D-
MO), Floyd Flake (D-NY), John Lewis
(D-GA), and Kweisi Mfume (D-MD),
each with a rating o f 96%; and John
Conyers (D-M l), and Mervyn Dymally
(D-CA), each with a rating o f 90%.
Representative Mervyn Dymally (D-
CA), immediate past Chairman of the
Congressional Black Caucus and member
o f the Committee on Foreign Affairs,
stated that *
*he number o f Black
members in the
> e s s quantitatively
reflect? ’ th. representation o f Black
Amc i . ans in the general population, I
< m sure that qualitatively United States
Foreign policy would be much more
constructive and globally-oriented.”
The Campaign based its ratings on
how the representatives voted on 12
issues. F iv eo f the issues included votes
against cutting funding for international
organizations, for limiting atomic testing,
for a national oceans policy commission,
for a foreign aid program, and f tr
sanctions against South Africa. Also
included were votes on various issues
which may violate U.S. treaty obligations
These inc luded votes against testing the
kinetic-kill vehicle, against assembly
o f binary chemical weapons, against
aid to the Contras, against reducing
funds for international organizations,
for a convention against ocean dumping,
for compliance with the ABM Treaty,
and for terminating the Strategic Defense
Initiative.
The Campaign for United Nations
Reform promotes efforts to give world
organizations the structures, authority,
and funding necessary to a-e’-je a
peaceful, orderly, and more just world.
It advances a 14-point U.N. reform
program , rates the House and Senate on
“ «'orld order” issues, endorses globally
minded candidates, and supports U.N.
improvement legislation in Congress.
so strong ihat addicts arc willing io
com m it crim e, sell their bodies and
destroy family relationships to obtain
HOW ONE
CHURCH DEALS
WITH THE
CRACK
EPIDEMIC
SAN FRANCISCO (UMNS) - When
the area surrounding G lide Memorial
United M ethodist Church here became
“ infested” with crack addicts and
dealers, the church’s pastor, the Rev.
Cecil W illiams, knew something must
be done.
A year ago, the church began its own
program dealing with the crack cocaine
problem.
Mr. W illiam s is now
instrum ental in organizing a national
conference here April 11-14 on “ The
Black Fam ily/Com m unity and Crack
Cocaine:
Prevention, Treatment,
Recovery.”
W hat m akes the conference unique,
according to Mr. W illiam s, is that it
treats crack as a problem related to
public health, not just to criminal justice.
Mr. W illiams said he considers crack
the m ost destructive force ever to face
the black family, “ worse than slavery
... worse than the Ku Klux Kian. T hat’s
the im pact som e o f us feel.”
But, he points out, it is a problem
that concerns everyone. * ‘Crack cocaine
is m oving heavily into the Hispanic
community, into segm ents o f the white
community and into suburbia,” he added.
The purpose o f the conference is to
create a national network and support
system to deal with the crack epidemic.
Participants will include health-care
providers, lawyers, police and probation
officers, com m unity activists, students
and clergy.
Mr. W illiam s believes churches in
particular should involve themselves in
the crisis. “ W e have the greatest
opportunity we have had in a long time
to give leadership,” he said.
W hen sm oked, crack delivers a sudden
burst o f cocaine to the brain, bringing a
feeling o f euphoria. But the intense
high lasts only short time, which is why
addicts seek it constantly.
“ T he
c ra v in g
is
a lm o st
unbelieveable,” Mr. Williams explained.
“ Y ou’re alw ays chasing that first h it.”
M edical researchers say crack is the
m ost addictive drug ever. The desire is
M ost people involved in the seven
recovery groups sponsored by G lide
M emorial come when they are “ shot to
the curb” ; in other words, they have
nothing left. “ The sense o f rejection
and abandonm ent is param ount,” he
said.
W hile crack addicts get help on the
physical part of the addiction from Haigh’
Ashbury Free Medical Clim es or other
places, Glide Memorial provides spiritual
rebirth and a new will to live through its
“ fam ily” there.
In fact, the recovery program includes
a type o f birth process, according to Mr
W illiams. Recovering crack addicts
“ are bom into a huge family here and
have it for the rest o f their lives,” he
said. “ This is their home. T hey’re here
every day.”
O f the more than 2,000 people who
have become involved in G lide’s
program , he estim ates that ‘ ‘30 percent
are recovering now .”
Issues to be addressed at the
conference include the psychological
and social im p act o f crack; its
underground econom y; the connections
with AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases,
hom elessness and poverty; the impact
on women users and their children; and
the connection with the criminal justice
system.
M odels for prevention and recovery
for crack addicts also will be discussed.
Speakers include Peter Bell, executive
director o f the Institute on Black
Chem ical Abuse, M inneapolis; W ade
Nobles, executive director of the Institute
for Advanced Study o f Black Family
Life and C ulture, O akland, Calif.; and
Dr. Beny Primm, executive director of
the A ddiction, T reatm ent & Research
Corporation, Brooklyn, N.Y.
O ther speakers are D avid Smith, a
MAN WHO BLEW THE
WHISTLE ON TAWANA
BRAWLEY SAYS HIS
ATTITUDES TOWARD
RACISM WERE
FORMED IN VIETNAM
New York, March 23—” 1 stood up
and did what an A m erican should do,
j black or w hite,” declared Perry
t M cKinnon, who has been criticized by
other blacks for casting doubt on Tawana
Brawley’s charge that she was kidnapped
and raped by a group o f w hite men.
In an interview to be published this
. S unday in P A R A D E m a g a z in e ,
M cKinnon, who has accused the Rev.
A1 Sharpton and B raw ley’s attorneys,
Alton Maddox Jr. and C. Vernon Mason,
o f lying, said he once “ thought they
were progressive men dealing with black
people’s problem s.”
M cKinnon, who once worked for
Sharpton, said his feelings about racism
were formed in Vietnam where a white
racist who eventually becam e his “ best
friend” was killed.
“ Suddenly I woke up one day and
realized that we all bleed the same. If I
gave a w hite guy blood, he did not turn
i. black. If he gave me blood, I was still
i the same. To the enemy we were ju st
. targets. C olor didn’t m atter to him. So
why should it m atter to u s?”
“ If I would be prejudiced against a
racist today, I would be no better than
him ,” McKinnon told w riter W allace
Terry. “ I learned that I could not hate
all whites because one w hite man called
. m e ‘nigger.’ A fter all, there were white
people who m arched for my freedom
too. There was a w hite guy I loved who
had died in my arms. And I d on’t want
M addox, M ason and Sharpton to make
people forget that.”
physician at the Haight Ashbury Fre: c
Clinics; Elaine Johnson, director, Offic C
o f Substance A buse Prevention i,
Rockville, Md.; M other Clare am; 2
Lorraine Hale, Hale House o f Harlem;
W illie L. Brown Jr., speaker, California
State Assembly; San Francisco m ayor
A rt A gnos and author M aya Angelou.
Judy Hunt, a staff member of the Division
of Health and W elfare M inistries of the
United M ethodist Board o f Global
Ministries, is a member of the conference
planning committee.
Rally for
Reproductive
Rights to be held in
Portland
“ Affirm W om en’s L ives” , a rally
for reproductive rights will take place
at 1p.m. Sunday, April 9th at Terry
Shrunk Plaza. Shrunk Plaza located at
S.W. 3rd and Madison in Portland.
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