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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 27, 2016)
January 27, 2016 Page 3 INSIDE The Week in Review This page Sponsored by: page 2 L OCAL N EWS pages 6-7 O PINION page 9 M ETRO State Rep. Lew Frederick of northeast Portland promotes education in the trades and breaking a cy- cle of poverty in the African American community during a discussion with a group of industry leaders at Portland Community College’s Swan Island Trades Center. Building a Workforce Trades Center seen as anti- poverty solution Arts & pages 8-12 ENTERTAINMENT O BITUARIES C LASSIFIEDS C ALENDAR page 13 page 14 page 15 Workforce needs in the man- ufacturing sector and the oppor- tunity to be lifted out of poverty with family-wage jobs was front and center during a roundtable discussion at Portland Communi- ty College’s Swan Island Trades Center. The industry roundtable last week at the north Portland cam- pus featured Sylvia Kelley, PCC interim college president, State by a lex W ise P OrTland O bserver A new way of examining and ighting racism is coming to Portland Community College this April. Unlike Black History Month in February or Women’s History Month in March, the irst The page 16 “It’s a really complex environ- ment,” he said. “There are a lot of jobs connected one way or another and are not necessarily all in the harbor. The scale of the environ- ment is often lost on a lot of peo- ple.” Rep. Frederick said PCC’s trades program and the fami- ly-wage jobs in the area help to reduce poverty rates. Growing up, Frederick said he remembered folks talking about how young African-American men often would be discouraged to apply for manufacturing work C OnTinued On P age 4 Whiteness History Month Defended Curriculum aims to examine, dismantle racism F OOD Rep. Lew Frederick, and the chief operating oficers from several area employers, including Curtis Robinhold of the Port of Portland, Jack Isselmann of the Greenbrier Companies, and Roger Hinshaw of Bank of America. “We would like to hear about the type of training your business- es need,” Kelley said. Robinhold discussed how the Port of Portland is preparing for the future through growth. He said Portland’s working harbor has more than 60,000 jobs, 27,000 of which are with the Port, and pay 10-15 percent better than jobs around the metro area. Whiteness History Month is being planned not to celebrate its topic but to be critical of it. The college’s campuses will host lectures, ilms, forums and discussions to explore how white- ness is given meaning by social and political systems related to identity, beliefs, cultural norms, and privileges. Organizers have goals of working to change the campus climate to help students stay in school and succeed, to promote partnerships with the community, and to examine and relect on academic skills, person- al beliefs, and their impact on oth- ers. The goal is to apply racially conscious systems of analysis to examine and dismantle systems of inequality. Organizers have received pro- posals for, among other things, a ilm that will document how dif- ferent students deine whiteness, a workshop documenting how the C OnTinued On P age 4
