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Page 2 November 23, 2016 Protest Organizers Arrested Established 1970 USPS 959 680 4747 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., Portland, OR 97211 The Portland Observer welcomes free- lance submissions. Manuscripts and photographs should be clearly labeled and will be returned if accompanied by a self addressed envelope. All creat- ed design display ads become the sole property of the newspaper and cannot be used in other publications or person- al usage without the written consent of the general manager, unless the client has purchased the composition of such ad. © 2008 THE PORTLAND OBSERV- ER. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, REPRO- DUCTION IN WHOLE OR IN PART WITHOUT PERMISSION IS PROHIB- ITED. The Portland Observer--Oregon’s Oldest Multicultural Publication--is a member of the National Newspaper Association--Founded in 1885, and The National Advertising Representa- tive Amalgamated Publishers, Inc, New York, NY, and The West Coast Black Publishers Association Mark Washington Sr. e ditor : Michael Leighton P ublisher : e xecutive d irector : Rakeem Washington A dvertising M AnAger : Leonard Latin Office Manager/Classifieds: Lucinda Baldwin c reAtive d irector : Paul Neufeldt Reporter/Web Editor: Cervante Pope P ublic r elAtions : Mark Washington Jr. Three members of Portland’s Re- sistance, the justice group which has sponsored protests against Donald Trump since his Nov. 8 election, were arrested Tuesday during a Portland student soli- darity protest. The protest leaders claim the arrests were a targeted effort by Mayor Charlie Hales, something the mayor called inac- curate and dangerous. said. Officers learned there was a disturbance outside the club and that an African American male fire several shots toward a parked Hundreds of Students March group were encouraging students vehicle containing several people Hundreds of Portland Public to block traffic. and fled the scene. Schools students marched from Shooting Outside Strip Club Holladay Park to downtown Tues- Obama Clemency Milestone Two females were injured in a day in one of the latest protests President Obama announced he shooting Friday night outside the of president-elect Donald Trump. would free 79 more drug offend- Jags Clubhouse, a strip bar located Portland Police said that as the ers from federal prison Tues- at 605 N. Columbia Blvd., police night progressed, adults in the day, pushing the total number of commutations under his tenure to over 1,000. With this new grant, Obama has handed out more com- mutations than the past 11 presi- dents combined. The in Week Review Hillary Clinton Increases Popular Vote Margin While the number of votes for both president-elect Donald Trump and his former Democratic rival Hil- lary Clinton continue to increase, the gap is widening, with Clinton expanding her popular vote lead over Trump. According to new figures released by The Associat- ed Press, Clinton received more than 1.5 million votes more than her Republican rival. Bus Accident Kills 5 Kids A school bus driver has been charged in connection to a crash that killed five young children in Tennessee. The bus was travel- ing at a “high rate of speed, well above the posted speed limit of 30 mph,” police said. Of the five deaths, three were in fourth grade, one was in first grade and the other was a kindergartner. Bomb Threat at PCC Cascade CALL 503-288-0033 FAX 503-288-0015 news@portlandobserver.com ads@portlandobserver.com subscription@portlandobserver.com Postmaster: Send address changes to Portland Observer , PO Box 3137 , Portland, OR 97208 Two buildings on the Portland Community College Cascade campus were briefly evacuat- ed Tuesday morning follow- ing a phoned-in bomb threat. According to school officials, the Student Union and Cascade Hall were evacuated just before 11 a.m. No suspicious devices were found and police deemed the area safe.
