NOVEMBER 16, 2016
Portland and Seattle Volume XXXIX No. 7
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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
