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Stadium Envisioned The Barber of Seville Riverfront site gets backing Magic of opera for kids See Local News, page 3 See Metro, page 9 ‘City of Roses’ Volume XLVII • Number 46 www.portlandobserver.com Wednesday • December 5, 2018 Established in 1970 Committed to Cultural Diversity photo credit d anny p eterson /t he p ortland o bserver Volunteers with Critical Resistance Portland have a home in a new community gathering space open to multiple social justice organizations and communities of color at 14 N.E. Killingsworth St. Pictured are Mohamed Shehk (from left), Anna Swanson, Myell Thompson and Cory Lira. Shared Stewardship Social justice advocates introduce new space for organizing by d anny p eterson t he p ortland o bserver A new public gathering space for multiple organiza- tions to share and one geared toward social justice issues and support for communities of color is giving various non-profit groups a better way to consolidate their limited resources and make a bigger impact. The Dismantle, Change, Build Center (DCBC) is the newest designation for the old storefront at 14 N.E. Kill- ingsworth St. The stewards behind the center are attempting to op- erate it within the spirit of how the space has historically been used: To provide a culturally diverse and enriching gathering and organizing space for community members in the tradition of the former Albina Arts Center, and later, In Other Words feminist bookstore, two organizations the space formally housed. The importance of holding a shared stewardship of a community space is seen as both a logistical one in terms of cost sharing and for the ability to build on the number of voices who advocate and envision a better future for their stakeholders in the community, according to Anna Swanson, one of the organizers of the center and a volun- teer with the group Critical Resistance Portland. “We’re taking the opportunity to be the future that we are working to create by holding this space, holding it col- lectively, living that sort of shared vision of sharing re- sources, not treating anyone as disposable, having a space that’s really oriented around that,” Swanson told the Port- land Observer. Critical Resistance Portland is a chapter of an interna- tional movement dedicated to the abolition of what it calls the “Prison Industrial Complex” through activism work. Their efforts are often geared toward advocating for the c ontinued on p age 4