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Helping the
Poor Clinic
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Community
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photo by
M ark W ashington /T he P ortland O bserver
Rev. Mark Knutson, senior pastor of Augustana Lutheran Church in northeast Portland follows in the
path of Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. by promoting social justice and equity issues. Knutson leads
a diverse and multicultural congregation and serves as a member of the Albina Ministerial Alliance.
Promoting Justice, Equity
y o u r doors.
For the last 14 years, K nutson
h a s w o r k e d t i r e l e s s l y at
A u g u stan a L utheran C hurch to
form co alitio n s o f people and
organizations seeking social ju s
M ark K nutson, the p asto r at tice and equity by opening the
A ugustan a L utheran C hurch in doors to the church and keeping
northeast Portland, has learned a hand ex ten d ed to people w ho
m a n y le s s o n s fro m M a rtin m ight not agree w ith him.
L uther K ing Jr., w hose books
D uring his tim e as senior p as
line his shelves in northeast Port tor, h e ’s opened up office space
land office.
in the church basem ent to local
But one o f the m ost im portant n on-profits, traveled to E astern
m ay be the notion that change O regon to speak out for im m i
can happen w hen you fling open grant rights, gone to Salem w hen
Local pastor
follows in
MLK’s path
ev er the L eg islatu re is in session
to lobby fo r m ore funding for
education and an ti-p o v erty p ro
gram s, and has been a reg u lar in
m arches against police brutality.
“T he q u estio n I have to ask is,
w here is, w here is M ark not
involved in the com m unity ?” said
D avid L eslie, the ex ecu tiv e d i
rector o f the E cum enical M in is
tries o f O regon, w hich recently
gave K nutson the “E cum enist o f
the Y ear” aw ard for his broad
range o f activities.
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Advocates Take Police to Task
M ax light rail station d u rin g a L. H enry, issued a public letter
struggle.
Friday to city, state and federal
P o lice C o m m is sio n e r D an officials ex p ressin g grave co n
Saltzm an suspended H um phreys cerns o v er the actions o f police
T h e O re g o n A ssem b ly fo r after w atching a video o f the during the g irl’s arrest and the
B lack A ffairs has form ally taken incident captured by T riM et su r union that rep resen ts P o rtla n d 's
P ortland police to task in the veillance video.
o fficers.
arrest o f a 12-year-old girl w ho
T he suspension sp ark ed o u t
It also asserted that the girl,
w as shot at close range w ith a rage by the police union, w hich w hose identity has not been re
beanbag shotgun.
held a m arch and a vote o f no leased by the police, w as black,
In N ovem ber, the Police B u c o n fid e n c e on S a ltz m an an d and q u estio n ed if the incident
reau revealed that O fficer C h ris Police C h ie f Rosie Sizer, w hich w ould have been handled d iffer
to p h e r H u m p h rey s, the sam e w as not released a fte r S altzm an ently if the girl had been w hite.
officer involved in a 2006 death backed dow n on H u m p h rey ’s
T he letter im plies that the inci-
o f a schizo p h ren ic m an, w as the suspension.
continued
on page 34
o fficer w ho shot the girl on a
O A B A president C alvin O.
Black affairs
group outraged