nr<- pose per »a,ml. nr gm tip during r u b p-on .m tonal pcrtod |4c.nr ( Hfct not v-akd h - hu«n liability. No »uhjcct fee nr additional charges. O nh ■•iw $9.95 Portrait I ’ackag. Sjnxwl of ynttr purposes, nxlishltiti *luh sutnecO* or unaccompanied m iitnn. Oftcr m l »tec t to change at any ante Thank you for your profile o f my race for the Oregon Legislature. Of­ ten. I am asked "why are you running for office?" Primarily, 1 am running because I believe northeast Portland is a special place challenged by is­ sues that have answers in Salem. There is a chance for the Oregon Legislature to strengthen its laws around housing, jo b development, public education and preventative health care, all o f which are just some issues effecting our families and friends in my district. Also. I recognize that when hom e­ grown people bring a historical and relevant perspective to authoring these laws, progressive solutions for all Oregonians emerge. I am one o f these people. I have dedicated my life to expand­ ing emergency services and opportu­ nity in northeast neighborhoods. Fi­ nally, in Oregon, we are at a turning point as many of our elected leaders retire. Now is the time fortheemerging generation to bring their perspectives to the lawmaking process. A sa27-year-old African A m eri­ can woman, I am a proud m em ber of this dynam ic generation. I look for­ ward to a bright future o f hard work and collaborative problem solving for the com m on good o f this state. Cyreena Boston Democrat fo r House District 45 AT A R B O R L O D G E y&f/ I a )& are a rectorpharmacy! V W e fill p r e s c r ip tio n s — in c lu d in g a n tib io tic s , h ig h b lo o d p r e s s u r e m e d ic a tio n s , a n ti- d e p r e s s a n ts , b irth c o n tro l, a n d m o re . | r W e h a v e k n o w le d g e a b le , frie n d ly p h a r m a c is ts w h o h a v e th e tim e to s h a re in fo r m a tio n . ✓ O u r p r ic e s a re c o m p e titiv e . W e a c c e p t m o s t in s u r a n c e p la n s a n d a re a d d in g o th e r s a s r e q u e s te d . t r W e s p e c ia liz e in c u s t o m c o m p o u n d in g . Meet your Pharm acist Mel oda Sutler Y O U R L O C A L L Y O W N E D , N E IG H B O R H O O D P H A R M A C Y A T A R B O R L O D G E N IN T E R S T A T E A V E N U E & P O R T L A N D B L V D • 5 0 3 .4 6 7 .4 8 4 8 w w w n e w s e a s o n s m a r k e t .c o m • M O N F R I 9 a m - 7 p m • S A T 9 a m - 6 p m • S U N ,0 a m - 4 p m M. L inda J aramillo I c a n ’t stop thinking about how racism is ravaging this nation. I just c a n ’t get it out o f my mind because I d o n 't know if we realize how seri­ ous it is. T h ousands across this land were shocked and angered by the in­ cid en t in Jen a, L o u isian a,w h en white students hung nooses from a tree outside the local high school. However, thousands more are tak­ ing this opportunity to revive "white pride” movements that encourage racial divide and bigotry. Ju st tw o w eek s ago, 1 w rote th at the in c id en t in Je n a w as an ex am p le o f how racism co n tin u es to rear its u gly head in c o m m u n i­ ties acro ss this nation. U n fo rtu ­ n ately , I w as right. N o o ses are a sym bol o f h atred and b ig o try , a vivid rem in d er o f the ever-present evil o f racism in th is co u n try . H anging nooses from a stage rigging inG erm antow n.T enn. J u s t a m onth ago w as m otivated by racism and it w as m eant to intim i­ date. N ooses hanging from a tree at the high school in High Point, N.C. ju st tw o w eeks ago were m otivated by racism and it was m eant to frighten students and the co m m u ­ nity. N ooses strung on the back of a pickup truck driving past the peaceful dem onstration near Jena on Sept. 20 w ere m otivated by rac­ ism and it w as m eant to bully the d em onstrators. Y es, in ea ch o f th ese three ca ses, the p erso n s resp o n sib le w ere held ac co u n tab le fo r th eir actio n s. S om e lost th e ir jo b s and o th ers w ere ch arg ed w ith v arious crim es. For ex am p le, the 18-year-old m an d riv in g the p ick u p truck w as b ooked on ch a rg es o f inciting a riot. P o lite Sgt. C liffo rd G atlin o f A lexandria, La. stated, "I w ish we had a ch arg e in L o u isian a fo r a g ­ g rav a ted ig n o ran ce, becau se this is a classic c a se .” G atlin said the cro w d o f ab o u t 200 people at the b u s s ta tio n r e m a in e d c a lm th ro u g h o u t the ep iso d e. He also ad d ed , "They w ere ju s t o ffen d ed a n d a p p a lle d th a t s o m e b o d y w ould be that stu p id to do th a t.” M y q u estio n is w hy did this young man seem to think that this kind o f b eh a v io r is even a c c e p t­ ab le? 1 b eliev e th at m any o f the resid en ts o f th ese co m m u n ities are h o rrifie d by the actio n s o f som e. I tru st th at m any did not realize how racism is threaded in the fab ric o f th e ir co m m u n ities. 1 w ould subm it that m any o f us do not realize that such in cid en ts are h ap p en in g in o u r co m m u n ities ev ery day. If w e are aw are, too often w e rem ain silent. T h ere is no d o u b t that the rac­ ism r e v e a le d in J e n a , G e r ­ m an to w n , H igh P oint and A lex ­ an d ria w as d irec ted at A frican A m erican s. H o w ev er, we can n o t d irect blam e at the d o m in an t c u l­ ture in these co m m u n ities alone. W e are all resp o n sib le for a social cu ltu re th at sees racism , yet says and d o es nothing. Dr. M artin L u th er K ing said, “O u r liv es begin to en d the day we b eco m e silen t about things that m a tte r.” T h e racism w e are w itn essin g today m atters and it is tim e to break the silen ce and co n fro n t this ev il in o u r m idst. M. Linda Jaramillo is the executive minister o f Witness fo r Justice Minis­ tries in the United Church o f Christ. Next stop: César E. Chavez Boulevard Make your voice known A manda S hank “E verybody know s that Rosa Parks did not like to sit in the back of the bus,” a resident on M ayor Tom Potter's blog wrote recently, sug­ gesting that we should have given Parks a more prominent honor than renaming Portland Boulevard as Rosa Parks Way. On the other hand, during the heat o f the debate around the street’s fate last year, resident Rich Little urged the m ayor to scratch the idea entirely and “name the street after someone w hohelpedeverybody and just not vocal minorities.'’ From changing Union Avenue to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in 1990, to this year's talks about hon­ oring César E. Chavez, a labor orga­ nizer who worked to improve the lives o f farmworkers, decisions to rename streets to remember our na­ tional heroes have been anything hut unanimous Looking back, the Martin Luther King Jr. street proposal em erged not from a shared desire to honor a hero o f the civil-rights movement, but from acrisis. The name change was meant to curb the increase in crime along the street, which was famous for its streetwalkers and boarded-up store­ fronts. The decision, when finally made by the City Council in 1990. was picketed in front ofCity Hall, and a petition to change the name back to Union Avenue gathered over 50,(XX) signatures, but was ultimately un­ successful. In the case o f Rosa Parks Way. many Portland residents expressed concern that Portland Boulevard was selected because it was a non-cen­ tral neighborhood thought to be primarily African American. Incom ­ munity meetings and in online dis­ cussion forums, some suggested that it would be more appropriate to name the downtown bus mall after Parks. Still others argued that Portland by Boulevard had a history o f its own and that to change the name equaled social blasphemy. In the end, the street name was changed by a unani­ mous vote o fcity com missioners in October of last year. The current question o f whether to renam e Interstate Avenue has also brought much public comment. In the context o f the Del Monte im­ migration raid last June that detained 160 immigrant workers, as well as Bush’s failed attempts at immigra­ tion reform, the question of honor­ ing a prominent Chicano hero strikes a chord in many Portlanders. The Cesar E. Chavez Boulevard Com mittee has said that their inten­ tion is “not only to rename a Portland street, but to draw attention to the legacy o f one o f our country's great­ est leaders and to create a concrete rem inder that the struggle for civil rights for all people still continues today.” But there remains a rift between those who are for it and those who w ould rather not see the name changed. “He did nothing for the ‘American’ people, but bring in more work for the illegals," writes Marie Pokomy on a petition against renaming the street. Still others believe that it is mis­ guided for the com munity to focus on a street name rather than on bor­ der security and what many see as inhumane immigration laws. Every street renaming has been discussed at length by community members who feel a deep connec­ tion to theireity. And perhaps in that case it is more about the journey than the destination. It will be up to Port­ land residents in the weeks and months ahead to show up to commu­ nity meetings, to make their faces known to each other and their voices heard. Amanda Shank lives in north Portland.