APRIL 13, 2016
Portland and Seattle Volume XXXVIII No. 28
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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.