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APRIL 13, 2016 Portland and Seattle Volume XXXVIII No. 28 25 CENTS News ...............................3,9,10 A & E .....................................6-7 Opinion ...................................2 Art from Haiti ..................9 Calendars ........................... 4-5 Bids/Classifieds ....................11 CHALLENGING PEOPLE TO SHAPE A BETTER FUTURE NOW PHOTO BY DIPANKAN001 (PUBLIC DOMAIN) VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS STUDENTS TAKE OVER City Club on Housing Crisis T he City Club of Portland released a report Wednesday afternoon call- ing for a broad range of measures to fix Portland’s affordable hous- ing crisis — including an end to the ban on rent control, better protections for renters and the creation for a land bank of affordable housing. The report posted Wednesday to pdx- cityclub.org/housingaffordability, and this week the club’s Friday Forum will feature a panel discussion and a vote on whether to adopt the report as an official City Club position. The results of the vote — which will include votes from members who cannot attend Fri- day — will be released April 21. See CITY CLUB on page 3 University of Washington student Palca Shibale, a leader in the on campus Black Lives Matter movement, rallied protestors and a room full of students and teachers April 5 during a Conversation about Race and Equity — urging them to stop discussing the issue and actually do something about it. About 200 Black Lives Matter marchers took over the scheduled event for students at the Intellectual House on campus and issued seven demands of the yniversity, which included increased recruitment and admission of Black and other underrepresented students; a 25 percent increase of faculty of color; implementation of a new community policing and review model with the goal of improving police behavior at the UW and the demand that the University of Washington divest from prisons by the end of spring 2017. Hip-Hop Yoga Classes Seek to Create Community Classes incorporate hip-hop, R & B and soul tunes into yoga practice By Arashi Young Of The Skanner News AP PHOTO/DAVID MCFADDEN C A carved wooden sculpture is displayed inside an open-air museum and art workshop off a trash- strewn street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Haiti’s salvage artists are gaining a reputation among international collectors. Haitian Salvage Art Haiti speaks to the world with art made from junk page 9 Oregon’s Water Quality Testing Grade is a C page 10 azoshay Ward was driving around An- chorage, Alaska, lis- tening to a hip-hop track by Andy Mineo, when she had an idea. Ward saw yoga se- quences unfold as Mineo dropped a beat and she knew she wanted to infuse yoga with hip hop. Ward brings this vision to Portland through her community hip hop yoga classes. The first in the se- ries takes place at 6:30 p.m. April 19 in the Taborspace community center. More than 50 people have signed up for the class on Face- book and another 245 indi- cated they are interested in going. This class will blend to- gether the Hatha practice of holding poses and the Vinyasa style, which tran- sitions between yoga posi- tions. The movements and breathing exercises are set to an upbeat hip hop soundtrack. Ward said this class is part of her mission to bring healthy practices and com- munity support to people who don’t feel comfortable in regular exercise venues. “It’s really my goal to make yoga and wellness accessible to people that haven’t tried yoga before,” she said. Ward has long been de- voted to health access and wellness regardless of race or wealth. In 2007 she was a goodwill ambassador to the Republic of The Gam- bia after representing Alaska in the Miss Black USA Scholarship Pageant. Part of her work was to bring donations of medical and school supplies to hos- pitals and schools. She said the ambassa- dorship was an amazing experience where she was inspired by people who supported each other de- spite having little money. This gave Ward a passion for service. She often vol- unteers to teach yoga at events such as the Inter- national Center for Tradi- See YOGA on page 3 Report: Chicago Police Have ‘No Regard’ for Minority Lives Task force report outlines painful history of police interactions, spanning several generations Don Babwinand Jason Keyser Associated Press CHICAGO — Police in Chicago have “no regard for the sanctity of life when it comes to people of color” and have alienated blacks and Hispanics for decades by using excessive force and honoring a code of silence, a task force declared Wednesday in a report that seeks sweeping changes to the nation’s third-largest police force. The panel, established by May- or Rahm Emanuel late last year in response to an outcry over police shootings, found that little is done to weed out problem officers and rou- tine encounters unnecessarily turn deadly. The group concluded that minori- ties’ lack of trust and fear are justi- fied, citing data that show 74 percent of the hundreds of people shot by See CHICAGO on page 3 ERIN HOOLEY/CHICAGO TRIBUNE VIA AP By Christen McCurdy Of The Skanner News PHOTO BY SUSAN FRIED Report calls for ‘bold and immediate’ steps to address affordability In this April 11, 2016 photo, a member of the Chicago Police Department walks under police tape at the scene where Chicago police say an officer shot and killed 16-year-old Pierre Loury after the teen pointed a gun. Loury’s mother, Tambrasha Hudson, denied her son had a gun. The shooting is being investigated.
