NOVEMBER 16, 2016 Portland and Seattle Volume XXXIX No. 7 25 CENTS News .............................. 3,8-10 A & E .....................................6-7 Opinion ...................................2 Gwen Ifill .......................10 Calendars ........................... 4-5 Bids/Classifieds ....................11 CHALLENGING PEOPLE TO SHAPE A BETTER FUTURE NOW STUDENTS WALK OUT Vanport survivor Betty-Deulen tells her story in ‘The Wake of Vanport Series 2016’ Hollywood Theatre to show new documentary shorts this Sunday By Arashi Young Of The Skanner News T he Skanner News will host a screen- ing of its new series of Vanport sto- ries. “The Wake of Vanport,” the oral history documentary project will show ten new stories of Vanport survivors. The film will be shown at 4:30 p.m. Nov. 20 at the historic Hollywood The- atre in Northeast Portland. “The Wake of Vanport” chronicles the history surrounding the city of Van- See VANPORT on page 3 PHOTO BY SUSAN FRIED ‘The Wake of Vanport’ to Screen New Stories Garfield High School students left class and joined 5,000 other Seattle students from 20 public schools in a walkout Nov. 14 to protest the election of Donald Trump. Students chanted “Not My President” and “We Reject the President Elect” and they carried signs that said things like “America was Never Great for P.O.C” and “Love Trumps Hate.”  The walkout was not sanctioned by the school district, but in a statement Seattle Public Schools said, “SPS students do have the right to peacefully demonstrate and express their personal views. Any time a student leaves school without permission the district considers it an unexcused absence.” In Wake of Election, Organizers Look Ahead Anti-racist advocacy groups talk about organizing after Trump victory By Christen McCurdy Of The Skanner News N Wheeler joins mayors nationwide saying they will protect refugees Portland and Seattle: Sanctuary Cities page 9 Kam Previews Movies Opening This Friday page 6 ational leaders on both sides of the aisle and some national media outlets were cautiously optimistic in the first days after Republican candidate Donald Trump was elected to the U.S. Presidency last week. But local leaders have taken a dif- ferent tack. Congressman Earl Blu- menauer and Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley have all condemned Trump’s appointment of Steve Ban- non — known for running the White nationalist website Breitbart News — as his chief of staff. Mayor-elect Ted Wheeler has said he plans to preserve Portland’s sta- tus as a sanctuary city, even if that means, as Trump has threatened, the city loses federal dollars. And activists and community orga- nizations that serve communities of color mobilized immediately against the President-elect. Thousands of people have marched in the days since the demonstration. Protests have, on the whole, been peaceful, though about 100 demonstrators have been arrested, mostly on van- dalism charges. The Skanner spoke with organizers from several local community groups that advocate for communities of col- or about how they plan to move for- ward in the wake of Trump’s election to the highest office in the land. “Movement building continues,” said Oscar Guerra-Vera, an organiz- er for Unite Oregon, which launched Joann Hardesty, president of the NAACP’s Portland branch, said local election results made her feel much more optimistic than the national results in July 2016 as the merger of Oregon Action and the Center for Intercul- tural Organizing. The organization advocates for immigrants, refugees See ORGANIZING on page 3 PCC Holds Open House for Evelyn Crowell Longtime librarian, philanthropist honored at gathering — which doubled as opening for Center for African American Community History Portland Community College’s Cascade Campus hosted a community open house to celebration the inauguration of the ren- ovated Cascade Campus Library and the naming of a new Center for African American Community His- tory in honor of longtime community leader Evelyn Crowell. The new Center for Afri- can American Community History will be created and installed in 2017. The in- tention is to tell the story of the Black community in Northeast Portland from early days into the present day, including events such as the Vanport Flood. Evelyn “Evie” Crowell had been a resident of North Portland since 1942. She was the first member of her family to attend col- lege. After graduating in the third graduating class of Portland State Universi- ty, she went on to teach and become a librarian at PSU. Crowell has shown a life-long dedication to ed- ucation through her work See CROWELL on page 3