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APRIL 6, 2016 Portland and Seattle Volume XXXVIII No. 27 25 CENTS News ...............................3,9,10 A & E .....................................6-7 Opinion ...................................2 Vanport event photos .....7 Calendars ........................... 4-5 Bids/Classifieds ....................11 CHALLENGING PEOPLE TO SHAPE A BETTER FUTURE NOW PHOTO BY ARASHI YOUNG ‘THE WAKE OF VANPORT’ Former Black Panther Wiley G Barnett protested the use of corporate money to gain police access outside Friday’s “Meet the Heat” fundraiser Friday. ‘Meet the Heat’ Draws Protest Fundraiser for Citizens T he golden morning sun was still low on the horizon as protestors gathered in front of the Portland Police Training facility on Airport Way. Cars quickly sped by, while com- mercial freight trucks honked their horns in support. The protestors held signs calling for accountability of police in cases where people have died in their custody. Kea- ton Otis, James Chasse, Kendra James and Aaron Campbell’s names were written on their banners. The group gathered on April 1 to pro- test what they thought was a bad joke: the use of public police resources to hold an exclusive $1,000-per-person AP PHOTO/DAVID KEYTON See PROTEST on page 3 People protest in front of the Progressive Party headquarters building in Reykjavik, Iceland, Tuesday. Iceland’s prime minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson resigned amid outrage over revelations he used a shell company to conceal a conflict of interest. World Briefs Off-shore accounts leaked, Cruz and Sanders take Wisconsin page 9 Kam Reviews the new Miles Davis Biopic page 6 A capacity crowd showed for a showing of The Wake of Vanport Sunday, including the survivors pictured here. Dan Scarl (top row, left), Hurtis Hadley, Ethan Scarl, Lee Moore and Terry Kanderkooy, Mariah Taylor (middle row, left), Dorothy Hadley, Betty Jones;,Bottom Alta High Elk (bottom row, left), Marian Loveland and Betty Chinn. For more photos, see page 7. Twelve-Year-Old Arrested at Beaumont Police say unnamed girl is charged in alleged fight two weeks earlier By Lisa Loving Special To The Skanner P ortland police last week handcuffed and arrested a 12-year-old girl in the office of Beaumont Middle School — two weeks after an al- leged fight between her and another student. Police said the other stu- dent’s family filed charges of misdemeanor assault against the child, which were referred by the Mult- nomah County District At- torney’s Office and they were forced to arrest her. The unidentified child was taken to the Donald E. Long Home, the county’s only juvenile detention center. Multnomah County is currently facing scrutiny for recent use-of-force sta- tistics showing Black in- mates in county facilities are far more likely to face violence from sheriff ’s’ deputies, especially when they are first booked into a correctional facility. Neither the child arrest- ed last week nor her family has been publicly iden- tified and the family’s race has not been disclosed. The incident is reminis- cent of the last time the po- lice arrested a child. In that case an African American nine-year-old was arrested on her porch in her bath- ing suit almost a week after an alleged conflict she had with another student at an after school program. The story was first re- ported by the Portland Mercury. “They put the handcuffs on her,” the girl’s mother, See ARREST on page 3 PCC Kicks Off Whiteness History Month Events Monthlong educational program examines the roots of racial designations, White supremacy By Christen McCurdy Of The Skanner News “I sometimes think we’re only going to realize we’re human when we’re invited by aliens from outer space,” James S. Harrison, a history and humanities instructor at Portland Community College, told a small crowd mostly composed of PCC faculty and staff Monday afternoon. Harrison’s talk on the Cascade cam- pus — titled “Imagining a World Without Whiteness” — touched off a monthlong program on PCC campus- es called Whiteness History Month, which will run throughout April. Some are broad in their focus, offer- ing introductions to concepts in race theory, and some are more specific, discussing specific moments in histo- ry or specific identities. One talk, for instance, is titled, “How Arab-Ameri- cans Became White — and Then Weren’t Again.” According to Abe Proctor, the com- munity relations manager for PCC’s Cascade Campus, planning for the event grew out of a series of discus- sions over a faculty and staff email list following the death of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and the an- nouncement that Darren Wilson, the officer who shot him, would not be indicted. “There was a long internal email exchange on Ferguson and the email reactions to it,” Proctor told The Skanner News. “It became clear that a PHOTO BY CHRISTEN MCCURDY By Arashi Young Of The Skanner News PHOTO BY ANTONIO HARRIS Crime Commission cost $1,000 per person PCC kicked off its Whiteness History Month education program with a series of events focused on history, race theory and the construct of Whiteness. larger conversation was necessary on race, and racism and white privi- lege and how the concept of white- ness came to be.” Whiteness History Month was the See WHITENESS on page 3
