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O CTOBER 5, 2011
P ORTLANd & S EATTLE
V OLUME XXXIII, N O . 49
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CENTS
I NSIDE
Herman Cain
page 5
‘Boogie Cat’ Honored
page 7
Breast Cancer
C hallenging P eoPle to S haPe a B etter F uture n ow
Muslims
Allege
FBI Bias
page 10
Urban Farm
FBI accused of using
‘false, misleading,
fear-producing’ info
SEattLE (AP) — A Washington state
Muslim group has asked the U.S.
Department of Justice to investigate alleged
anti-Islam bias in FBI trainings of law
enforcement officers and regular citizens.
In a letter mailed Monday to the depart-
ment’s civil rights division, the Washington
Council on American-Islam Relations
accused the FBI of trainings that include
“false, misleading and fear-producing infor-
mation.”
The letter lists a number of complaints
about FBI trainings, including one in Seattle
last spring, where participants at a “citizens’
academy” at the FBI office said they were
given a handout comparing Arab/Islamic
propaganda with Nazi propaganda.
The complaint also mentioned an FBI
training lecture in Washington, D.C., also
last spring that was critical of Islam. The
bureau employee who gave the lecture con-
tended, among other things, that the more
devout a Muslim is, the more likely he is to
be violent. The lecture came to light last
month, at which time the FBI said it has
begun a review of its training to make sure
it is consistent with FBI standards.
A Muslim-American woman who partici-
pated in the Seattle training said she was
surprised by the handout because everything
else about the eight-session “citizens’ acad-
emy” had been respectful.
“I felt as if I had been invited to some-
one’s house and then the host started calling
me bad names,” Ghada Ellithy, a structural
engineer who works for the Army Corps of
Engineers and is an America citizen, said
during a news conference Monday.
Ellithy wrote to the FBI to complain about
the handout but says she hasn’t received a
response.
The FBI in Seattle has issued a statement
saying the agency is currently conducting a
comprehensive review of all training and
PHOtO by SuSaN frIED
by Donna Gordon blankinship
the associated Press
Megan Horst introduces her chicken Lolly to the Palacios family Saturday Oct. 1 at the Rainier Beach Urban Farm
and Wetlands Preserve Groundbreaking. The community farm festival included tours of the farm and wetlands, an
opportunity to meet neighborhood farmers, hear live music, and eat delicious food.
Race Talks Series, Equity Event
Race in the Spotlight: Two Efforts Ask, ‘How Progressive Is Portland?’
by Helen Silvis
Of the Skanner News
T
wo upcoming events will
shine the spotlight on race
in Portland. One will fea-
ture young Portlanders asking
whether the ideal of being ‘post-
racial’ is now possible or if
that’s simply fiction. The other
will look at Portland through the
lens of the 2010 Communities
of Color report, which showed
wide disparities in income that
fall along troubling color lines.
Is racism dead? Is it
Possible to be ‘Post-
racial’?
The ‘Race Talks’ series, spon-
sored by the city’s Office of
Human Relations, has brought
together Portlanders of all races
and from all walks of life to
grow understanding of our dif-
fering perspectives on race. On
Tuesday Oct. 11, the program
will showcase five young
Portlanders, members of the
Millenial generation also known
as Gen. Y. The event is called:
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INDEX
News ............2,3,10,11
Opinion ..................4,5
A & E .........................7
Food.......................8,9
Bids/Classifieds ........11
‘Post-Racial, Fact or Fiction?
Millennials Speak!”
The
presenters
are:
Hannah Eko, an active duty
officer in the US Coast Guard
Jaime Guzman-Limon, active in
the Student Alliance Project and
the Northwest Immigrant Youth
Alliance
Nathan Holst, an employee of
homeless nonprofit, Sisters Of
The Road, as well as a musician,
anti-racist and youth director
Caitlin Campbell, a field coordi-
nator for NARAL Pro-Choice
Oregon
Jahzeel Ormeno, born and
raised in Peru, he came to the
United States at age 13 to
escape terrorism.
So is a post-racial society pos-
sible? Following the presenta-
tions, the audience will break
into small discussion groups
facilitated by trained volunteers
from Uniting to Understand
Racism. Listen to the presenters
and make your contribution to
Race Talks Tuesday Oct. 11 at
the Kennedy School, 5736 NE
33rd
Ave.
503-249-3983
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‘Are You Ready?’ Project for East County
Goal is to build a stronger support network for underserved families
Helen Silvis
Of The Skanner News
L
inda Hornbuckle and Zeke ‘Yung
Mil’ Jones plan to be at Highland
Christian Center, Saturday Oct. 15.
The singers are just two of the high-profile
Portlanders taking part in ‘Are You Ready?’
a community-wide event to build a stronger
support network for East Portland.
“Are you Ready?’ will run from 10 am to
4 pm Saturday Oct. 15 at Highland
Christian Center, 7600 NE Glisan St.
East Portland is rapidly becoming the
youngest, most diverse part of the city. With
a growing population of Latinos, African
Americans and immigrants from all over the
world, East Portland is home to 37 percent
of the city’s children. Many of the areas
newest Black residents were displaced by
gentrification from North and Northeast
Portland and moved to East Portland. Yet
transportation and social services are still
catching up with the needs of the families
living here.
“People don’t know where to go for help?
said Pastor W.G. Hardy, the senior minister
from Highland. “Where do they go when
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