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November 23, 2016
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Portland NAACP Updates Work
The NAACP Portland branch
invites members of the commu-
nity to join them for their month-
ly general membership meeting,
Saturday, Nov. 26 from noon to
2 p.m. at the American Red Cross
building, 3131 N. Vancouver Ave.
This is an opportunity to con-
nect with Portland NAACP’s
work in advancing racial justice
in the community. The local civ-
il rights group’s president Jo Ann
Hardesty and executive leadership
will provide updates about current
and future initiatives.
The mission of the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People is to ensure the
Call to End Death Penalty Cases
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OJRC is urging the governor
to take swift and decisive action
that will end or greatly reduce
the costs associated with the cas-
es of those who are on death row.
The organization believes the
time is right for Gov. Brown to
commute all Oregon death sen-
tences to life without the possi-
bility of parole.
“She is able to use her powers
of clemency to end the wasteful
expense of endless litigation over
death penalty cases while still pro-
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political, educational, social, and
economic equality of rights of all
persons and to eliminate racial ha-
tred and racial discrimination. The
vision of the NAACP is to ensure
a society in which all individuals
have equal rights and there is no
racial hatred or racial discrimina-
tion.
“We reaffirm our unequivo-
cal commitment to each other,”
Wiewel said. All Portland State
students, regardless of nation-
al origin or immigration status,
should be welcome, safe and able
to pursue their higher education as
full members of the PSU family.”
Being a sanctuary campus
means PSU and its public safety
officers will follow state law that
forbids local schools and law en-
forcement from enforcing federal
immigration laws.
On Tuesday, Congressman
Earl Blumenauer of Portland also
commented on the possibility that
Trump, his new administration
and the Republican Congress will
crack down on undocumented
residents living in Oregon.
“I’m proud that people here are
making a commitment to those
who feel vulnerable and at risk,
that we’re not going to abandon
them and we’re going to stand up
for them,” he said.
Under policies adopted by both
PSU and Portland Public Schools,
facilitating or consenting to immi-
gration enforcement activities or
sharing confidential student infor-
mation, such as immigration sta-
tus, would not be permitted.
The Portland School Board res-
olution recites the presence of ICE
officers who come on to school
property as a disruption to a safe
and inviting environment. It di-
rects the Interim Superintendent
to develop a plan over the next
90 days for training all necessary
school staff on how to respond to
any ICE personnel requesting in-
L egaL N otices
tecting public safety by ensuring
none of those who are resentenced
to life without the possibility of
parole ever leave prison,” Lun-
dell said. “Since executions are so
rare, life without parole is already
the effective sentence of those on
death row.”
formation about students and fam-
ilies or attempting to enter school
property.
The board also wants policies
and procedures to protect and care
for students who have been nega-
tively impacted by the removal of
their family members during ICE
raids, until a guardian or other
designated adult is contacted, and
that all teachers, administrators
and school staff should be trained
on such procedures.
Brown said it was important to
be diligent of both state and fed-
eral law, while also knowing what
protections can be made for the
kids, administrators, teachers and
the entire school district commu-
nity.
“We needed a district wide pol-
icy to take the responsibility for
these decisions away from indi-
vidual schools and placed at the
superintendent or board level,”
Brown said.
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