January 27, 2016
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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.
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Trades Center
seen as anti-
poverty solution
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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
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A new way of examining and
ighting racism is coming to
Portland Community College
this April. Unlike Black History
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“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
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Whiteness History Month Defended
Curriculum aims
to examine,
dismantle racism
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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
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