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Holiday
Gift Trees
Offered
Employees at Powell 's City o f Books picket for a fair employment contract and affordable health care.
photo by
M ark W ashington /T he P orti ani » O bserver
Workers Picket as Contract Stalls
After a one-day Unfair Labor
Practice strike last Wednesday,
many of Powell’s City of Books
employees returned to the side-
walk Sunday to picket for a fair
contract and affordable health care,
Pow ell’s em ployees have been
working without a contract since a
wage and benefits agreement ex-
pired on Oct. 2.
The International Longshore and
Warehouse Union, Local 5 has filed
several unfair labor practices on
b eh alf o f P o w ell's em ployees
against the store, claiming that
managementhasbeenusingintimi-
dation and harassm ent against
union activists during contract
negotiations. Store officials deny
those allegations.
This holiday season you can
honor friends, family and the earth
by giving them gifts that grow-
trees planted in their honor.
Friends o f Trees is offering;
Natural A rea C om m em orative
Trees at $25 per native tree or
$50 for a grove o f six native;
trees. The cost includes a card
acknow ledging your gift to the
person receiving the gift tree.
Both you and the person who
receives your gift will also be
invited to plant the tree during
at special cerem ony on Sunday,
Feb. 8 at the T ualatin River N a­
tional W ildlife Refuge.
C om m em orative trees for the
yard you choose are also av ail­
able. The tree can be up to 10
feet tall and com es with a glass
sun ca tc h er etched w ith the
name o f the person being hon­
ored and the date o f the plant­
ing. Each tree costs $225 and
will be planted on a designated
date in the spring.
For m ore “tree-friendly h o li­
d ay
id e a s ”
v is it
w w w .friendsoftrees.org.
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Hispanic Voters Spike in Oregon
(AP) - Nearly 20,000 Hispanic
voters cast ballots in the 2002 state­
wide election, double the number
that voted in the 2000 presidential
election, according to an analysis
by a Democratic National Commit­
tee outreach project.
The increase in voter turnout
should make the state’s Hispanic
population a key target for the
2004 presidential election, said
Jason Leon, who com piled the
study.
“Nationally, everyone is saying
that Latinos in Oregon are a swing
vote in a swing state," said Leon,
former head of the Democratic
com mittee’s Hispanic outreach in
Oregon. He compiled the study to
encourage Democratic Party lead­
ers to expand outreach efforts.
Hispanics represent about 8 per­
cent of Oregon’s population, but
the state has one of the fastest-
growing populations in the nation,
more than doubling from 1990 to
2000.
Actress
Writing Play
on Her
Kidnapping
(AP) — Mexican actress Laura Zapata,
sister of pop singer Thalia, says she’s
completing a play based on her kidnap­
ping
The play is a “type o f catharsis" and a
way to move forward with her life, Zapata
told the newspaper El Universal.
Zapata and her sister, writer Ernestina
Sodi, were abducted from their car last year
after Zapata appeared in a play. The sisters
were released weeks later. Zapata has indi­
cated that her family paid a ransom but
hasn’t disclosed the amount.
The play doesn’t have a title yet, and
Zapata said she hoped to finish it by Christ­
mas. It isn't clear when it may be put on the
stage.
Laura Zapata
Hispanic workers have high injury rate
(AP) — A study finds that His­
panic workers accounted for 15
percent o f workplace fatalities na­
tionwide last year.
The study also finds that fatali­
ties for Hispanic workers increased
in a ten-year period when overall
fatalities went down.
And the study finds that work­
days lost because of injury and
illness rose 3.2 percent for Hispan­
She says language barriers of­
ics when the overall rate fell 7.6 ten limit the understanding of safety
percent.
procedures.
The study does not break down
Aguirre also says a high number
data by state.
of Hispanics work in some of the
The study's main author is Aca­ most dangerous industries.
cia Aguirre, who is medical director
of an international research com­
pany, C ircadian Technologies,
based in Lexington, Massachusetts.
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