February 29, 2012
Portland Observer
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Advocating for Disability Rights
In January, Tyrone Waters
was honored by Disability Rights
Oregon with a plaque to thank
him for his six years of volunteer
service on its Board of Direc
tors.
As a Board member, Waters
helped guide the non-profit or
ganization and support its mis
sion to promote and defend the
rights of individuals with disabili
ties in Oregon.
W aters is the son o f form er
G R AN D
Tyrone Waters
O re g o n S ta te S e n . A v el
Gordly. Like his mother, he is a
com m unity advocate and vol
unteers tim e prom oting the
rights of all people with a focus
on individuals in the mental
health system and the A frican
A m erican com m unity.
W aters has released a CD
that tells about his encounters
with the Portland police and the
O regon State Hospital as an
African-American man.
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The U.S. M arine C orps is
ho n o rin g the co m m u n ities
M arines proudly call home for
Black H istory M onth.
A highlight of the campaign
is the “W here I’m From ” in
te r a c tiv e m a p , fo u n d at
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their hom etow ns and post in
spirational m essages for the
M arines who serve in their
community.
Also placed throughout the
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tow ns, childhood m em ories
and influential people in their
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unique story o f w hy they
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Cold Shoulder for 7-Eleven
Black History Month
programming at Reed is
developed and cosponsored
by the Multicultural
Enrichment Committee and
the Office for Institutional
Diversity.
c o n t i n u e d f r o m page 3
All events are free and open
to the public,
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Segregated waiting mom at railroad depot Jacksonville Florida. 1921 troin State Archives of Florida
JAZZ PERFORMANCE: "Double Legacy Project"
DARRELL GRANT
I he internationally recognized jazz pianist and composer with drumm er Brian Blade,
saxophonist Steve Wilson, and vibraphonist Joe Locke, in an exploration of the legacies
we inherit and those we leave behind.
February 11, 8 p.m., Kaul Auditorium
LECTURE: "Race, Racism, and Discrim ination in America"
CHARLES J. OGLETREEJR.
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I larvard Law School's Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and author of The Presumption
of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Race, Class, and Crime in America.
February 18, 7:30 p.m., Vollum lecture hall
LECTURE: "Obama is No King: Reflections on Presidential Politics and
the Black Prophet Tradition"
GLENN C. LOURY
Brown University's Merton P. Stoltz Professor of Social Sciences and
professor of economics. Cosponsored by the Walter Krause Economics Lectures fund.
February 20, 4:30 p.m., Vollum lecture hall
LECTURE: "The Warmth o f Other Suns"
ISABEL WILKERSON
Professor of journalism and director of narrative nonfiction at Boston University
and author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration.
February 25, 7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium
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whole neighborhood doesn’t want
them here.”
Narayan, who has owned her
small business for 20-years, said
she is certain the new corporate
mart will affect their business, espe
cially because the chain will be open
24 hours.
“I don’t see the need. There are
already six stores in 15 blocks,” she
said.
A n g ela Koh, the o w n er of
Killings worth Street Market, a block
away, agreed.
“I don’t understand it,” she said.
“There are too many small grocery
stores already.”
Like Narayan, Koh said she is
also worried about the impact on the
hours of operation of her store,
which she explained is consistent
with the other marts on the street.
“We are open from 8:30 a.m. to 10
p.m. every night. Everyone is the
same, but 7-Elevens are 24-hours,”
she said.
The area surrounding the new
proposed location was recently re
zoned from residential to commer
cial, and like many residents, Koh
said she is worried about the late
night activity.
7-Eleven is also looking to build
at a comer lot on a commercially
zoned lot on North Lombard Street
in St. Johns, which local residents
have also been publically opposing
in the past month.
Officials at Portland's Bureau
o f D evelopm ent Services said
convenience stores, like 7-Eleven,
are required to com e up with a
plan to make sure they are pre
pared for issues specific to each
neighborhood they are in, but the
neighborhood does not have to
approve the plan.
Northeast resident Grace Cox,
who has worked at the Alberta Street
Co-op on 15th and Alberta since
November, said her concern lingers
around the health of individuals
within the community.
“The neighborhood in a broad
context is over serviced with conve
nience type stores, and for the health
of the community, if we need any
thing, we need more fresh food, real
food outlets and fewer convenient
stores,” she said.
She said new 7-Elevens will also
hurt the surrounding local indepen
dent shop owners in the neighbor
hood.
Although she said she doesn’t
consider the co-op to be in the same
industry as convenience stores, Cox
explained “that any business in its
right mind wants to serve the people
in its community.”