NOVEMBER 8, 2017
Portland and Seattle Volume XL No. 6
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CENTS
News ...............................3,9,10 A & E .....................................6-7
Opinion ...................................2 Lead in Portland Water ..9
Calendars ........................... 4-5 Bids/Classifieds ....................11
CHALLENGING PEOPLE TO SHAPE A BETTER FUTURE NOW
MAXINE WATERS
IN SEATTLE
Constantin
Severe
Speaks
Director of IPR talks
about the present and
future of police reform in
Portland
By Christen McCurdy
Of The Skanner News
P
See SEVERE on page 3
PHOTO BY SUSAN FRIED
PHOTO BY
olice reform
is at a cross-
roads
in
Portland.
The city just
hired a new po-
lice chief — the
first Black wom-
an to serve in the
position — after
Constantin Severe
a
nationwide
search. Outlaw
replaced Mike Marshman, the interim
chief after Larry O’Dea retired after
the revelation he had shot a friend in
the back on an eastern Oregon camping
trip.
And the settlement agreement the
city reached with the federal govern-
ment in 2012, after the Department of
Justice found a pattern of excessive
force against people with mental ill-
ness, faced an uncertain future. While
attorney general Jeff Session has asked
for a review of the DOJ consent decrees
across the country, Mayor Ted Wheel-
er has asked the federal government to
continue federal supervision of Port-
Keynote speaker Congresswoman Maxine Waters enjoys a laugh with Seattle King County NAACP President Gerald Hankerson at the Seattle NAACP’s
104th Freedom Fund Celebration Nov. 4 at First AME Church. The sold-out event included the presentation of the Community Service and Justice award
to Michael Bennett, the President’s award to Nikkita Oliver and the Golden Apple award to 3 outstanding teachers, Tracy Gill, Jonathan Greenberg and
Tess Williams.
Homeless Youth Screen Documentary
Outside the Frame hosts its annual gala at The Armory Nov. 13
By Melanie Sevcenko
Of The Skanner News
PHOTO COURTESY OF NAACP
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Derrick Johnson, the new president and CEO
of the NAACP, said that the NNPA is critical, as
the delivery source of information for the Black
community.
n Nov. 13, Portland-
ers have the chance
to glimpse a fresh
perspective of life on
the streets in a city faced
with a staggering homeless
crisis.
Outside the Frame — a
local nonprofit that offers
filmmaking
workshops
to homeless youth — is
hosting its annual gala at
The Armory in Northwest
Portland with the pre-
miere of its new documen-
tary, “Leaving Home.”
“At Outside the Frame,
we realize that leaving
home for the streets is not
a choice, it’s a last resort,”
executive director Nili Yo-
sha told The Skanner.
Filmed over the past year,
the documentary is an an-
thology of shorts made by
two dozen youths experi-
encing homelessness in
Portland.
“It’s not that I left home, I
left my situation for some-
thing that could be better,”
says one young partici-
pant, named Unity, in the
film.
“Leaving Home” takes
the viewer on a journey
of street life in the Pacific
Northwest, while render-
ing the challenges and am-
bitions of marginalized
youth through various
points of view.
Since its foundation just
two years ago, Outside
the Frame has been teach-
ing video production to
young homeless people be-
tween the ages of 17 and 25,
many of whom identify as
LGBTQ.
The majority of its par-
ticipants come to the orga-
nization from broken fam-
ilies or through the foster
care system; several battle
physical and mental health
issues.
But at Outside the Frame,
they can pick up a camera
and learn the art of film-
making as an intervention
— while shaping society’s
perception of homeless
youth.
“Film has the power to
open people’s hearts and
bring into focus things
New NAACP
Approve Renewal of PCC Construction Bond
Vows to Work Voters
Early totals show 58 percent of voters approved
with Black
bond for repairs and facility upgrades
page 12
Press
The Weinstein
Effect Continues
page 9
to Grow
V
oters in the taxation district
for Portland Community Col-
lege approved a $185 million
bond for construction and
workforce training by a wide mar-
gin Tuesday — 58 percent percent,
according to returns reported by the
Secretary of State’s office.
PCC’s tax district includes parts of
Multnomah, Clackamas, Columbia,
Washington and Yamhill Counties.
About 400,000 voters – or 29 percent
of the 1.3 million voters registered in
the district — weighed in on the bond.
For most Multnomah County vot-
ers, the bond was the only item on
the ballot. Multnomah County voters
had slightly higher turnout than the
district overall, with 32 percent of
voters casting ballots, and approved
See PCC on page 3
PHOTO BY ADUMBVOGET (PUBLIC DOMAIN) VIA WIKIPEDIA
The Skanner News Staff
See DOCUMENTARY on page 3
Voters in the PCC tax district voted to renew a
construction bond the school plans to use for
construction and equipment upgrades.