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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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