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Program Tour Helps SEI Build
a Future for Community Kids
Help Shape the Growth of
PCC’s Cascade Campus
Please join PCC staff and other interested community members in a discussion of the
future growth of the Cascade Campus. PCC’s bond measure w ill provide fo r significant
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expansion of our educational resources. Help us shape the college campus to improve
educational opportunities fo r our community. Your views are im portant to us.
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What:
Cascade Campus Community Forum #2 on Campus Expansion
When:
Wednesday, February 2 1,2001 6:30 to 9 p.m. (Presentation from 6:30 to 7:15;
group topics and comments to follow.)
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Where: Cascade Campus, 705 N. Killingsworth, Student Center Building Cafeteria
Light refreshments will be served.
Parking: Please park at the Renaissance Market, 909 N. Killingsworth. A van will bring
you to the meeting on campus. Shuttle bus service will run from 6 to 6:30 and
9 to 9:30 p.m.
Who:
i Morgan o f Portland (right), a major donor fo r the Center fo r Self Enhancement, Inc. and Tony Hobson (left),
chief executive officer o f the non-profit center, welcomes New York actress Linda Hart to the north/northeast
Portland facility. Hart, who has starred in several films, including the recent movie “Beautiful, ” and past flicks
“The Insider, " “Tin Cup " and “Crazy in Alabama," was touring SEI's programs fo r kids.
All members of the community are welcome.
If you can’t attend this meeting, we invite you to send
your written comments to:
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Portland
Community
College
Dr. Mildred Ollee
Portland Community College,
RO. Box 19000, Portland, OR 97280-0990
(P hoto by M ark W ashington /P ortland O bserver )
What Price
Slavery?
Group to Discuss
What America Owes
African Americans
This summer, African-American
advocacy groups and government
officials will convene at the 12th an
nual National Reparations Conven
tion in Baton Rouge, La. to discuss
the price tag for slavery.
Despite more than a century of
activism by reparations advocates,
theU.S. government never officially
has addressed what it owes, if any
thing, to African Americans whose
ancestors were slaves. At a meeting
in Chicago Feb. 2, National Repara
tions Convention organizers dis
cussed how they might better orga
nize their efforts by using the con
vention.
“More and more people see repa
rations as a possibility now,” said
Johnita Scott Obadele, a member of
the National Reparations Conven
tion planning committee. “So our
theme this year is ‘positioning our
selves to get paid. ’ What we mean by
that is devoting more work to prepa
ration and organization.” Reparations
advocates estimate that 30 million
African Americans are direct descen
dants o f slaves and could be included
in a reparations settlement with the
U.S. government. They often com
pare this settlement to the $ 1.2 billion
the U.S. government paid to Japa
nese Americans interred during World
Warll.
That figure broke down to $20,000
per Japanese person. If this number
were applied to 30 million African
Americans, for example, reparations
could top $600 billion - although esti
mates range as high as $ 10 trillion.
TheNationalCoalitionOfBlacks for
Reparations in America (N’COBRA),
which is sponsoring the reparations
convention, won’t name an official
amount. “We don’t see the value of
putting down a figure," Obadele said.
“We’re more interested in a pack
age deal that may include some land,
some manufacturing capabilities, some
tax relief for black people and perhaps
an educational fund or a fund for busi
ness development. A lot of different
things could be offered.” Getting the
U.S. government to seriously discuss
the issue is the first step. Toward that
end, two African-American congress
man - Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., and
Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich. - have
introduced “The Commission to Study
Reparation Proposals for African-
Americans A ct”
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