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August 18, 2004
Presidents Lead PCC
.A, Gresham Police Chief Carla Piluso and
Portland Assistant Police Chief Stanley Grubbs speak
out against assault weapons at a demonstration at
Pioneer Courthouse Square.
Roxy Dollar of a northeast Portland V
says she feels guns make a home
unsafe for kids. She supports renew
ing the ban on assault weapons,
which expires on Sept. 13.
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T he P ortland O bserver
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in targeting high schools such as
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fr o m F ront
Jefferson and R oosevelt to make
and small businesses to work.
his college a natural bridge to
T he co lleg e has aw arded a higher education.
third o f contracts to m inority- and
“The bottom line is to do what
w om en-ow ned businesses, to ta l we can to help students be suc
ing $8.7 m illion to date.
cessful in this com m unity. Until
Pulliams also wants to raise we feel that students have goal to
scholarship funds for the college be successful after high school,
by soliciting donations from alumni. we w o n ’t be m eeting this goal,"
“We at PCC have a real need he said.
for more scholarship dollars, to
PCC is still accepting new ap
meet the financial challenges. It’s plicant for the fall term. Financial
part o f being accessible and af assistance is available. For more
fordable,” Pulliam s said.
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8E 87 th & C laybourne
Moms Rally Against Assault Weapons
brought its national tour to Port
land last week to bring attention to
the expiration of an assault weap
ons ban.
The federal Assault Weapons
by J aymee R. C uti
Act bans the manufacture and sale
T he P ortland O bserver
A van packed with mamas with o f semiautomatic assault weapons,
a cause parked at Pioneer Court including the AK-47, Uzi andTEC-
house Square with the message to 9. The act expires Sept. 13, unless
keep assault weapons off the streets. renewed by Congress.
G resham Police C hief Carla
The Big Pink Rig, a 26-foot rec
reation vehicle, staffed by mem Piluso, who spoke at the event, said
bers of the Million Mom March, these weapons could escalate a
Police join group
supporting ban
M M H H M B M M I
Decisive Action to Stop Sudan Genocide Wanted ■
A chorus o f civil rights activists
“At our July National Conven
Now the United States tion in Philadelphia, NAACP del
and business leaders are express
ing concern and calling for swift Holocaust Museum has
egates voted unanimously to d e
and more decisive action from the
clare the killings in Darfur acts of
United States to put an end to the agreed with us that the
genocide,” Bonds said. “Now the
genocide in the Darfur region of the crisis there constitutes a
United States Holocaust Museum
Sudan.
has agreed with us that the crisis
full-fledged genocide
In a letter to U.S. Secretary of
there constitutes a full-fledged
State Colin Powell, NAACPchair- emergency.
genocide em ergency.”
inan Ju lian Bond adm onished — NAACPchairman Julian Bond
The NAACP resolution called
Powell and the Bush Administra
upon U.S. and world leaders to re
tion and asked them to remember the U .S.’s failure to act, allowing spond to the crisis by disarming the
the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, and the murder of thousands.
militia and allowing humanitarian
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violent domestic situation.
bullets that will pierce our vests.”
“Guns and domestic violence,
A renewal of the assault weap
guns in relationship to youth and ons ban is supported by police
guns in gang activities is our high chiefs across the nation, said Port
est priority in Gresham this sum land Assistant Police Chief Stanley
mer,” Piluso said.
Grubbs.
Accordi ng to data gathered from
“This is not an issue against
the FBI, a home with a gun is eight personal possession of firearms,"
times more likely to have a homicide he said. “This weapon was not
caused by a firearm.
designed for hunting or home pro
Piluso expressed a specific con tection. It’s a military weapon de
cern over m ilitary-type assault signed to kill as many people as
weapons, saying, “these are the quickly as possible.”
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The NAACP is expressing concern over findings
of health care disparities in medical care given to
elderly African Americans versus whites.
In a report released in the Aug. 5 New England
Journal o f Medicine, researchers found inadequate
healthcare for black Medicare patients.
More than 25 percent o f African-American Medi
care patients visited physicians who could not con
sistently deliver high-quality care, com pared to less
than 20 percent o f white patients. The study reported
that only 22 percent of all U.S. primary care physicians
accounted for 80 percent o f all visits by African-
American patients.
“While these findings are preliminary, the current
state of affairs regarding health disparities is unac
ceptable,” said Kweisi Mfume, NAACP president
and chief executive officer. “We urge the leaders of
this study to continue their investigation for greater
comprehensive and accurate conclusions concern
ing the disparities between the African-American
community and the society at large. All Americans
ought to have a reasonable expectation that our
nation will be committed to ending such gross differ
ences in the availability o f quality health care.”
The NAACP Call to Action on Health initiative
details disparities in such diseases as cardiovascular,
diabetes, HIV/AIDS and cancer. The initiative calls
for a reduction in health care disparities by at least 25
percent over the next five years by focusing on health
management and prevention efforts on raising aware
ness of health risks, unbiased research and develop
ment, and changes in healthcare policy.
The study also found that African-American eld
erly patients were more likely than whites to see
physicians who could not consistently refer patients
to high-quality specialists, diagnostic imaging, and
hospital admissions. More than 85 percent of white
patients' visits occurred with physicians who are
board certified, compared to less than 80 percent of
African-American patients.