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AUGUST 29, 2018 25 CENTS Portland and Seattle Volume XL No. 48 News .............................. 3,8-10 A & E .....................................6-7 Opinion ...................................2 Voter Suppression ........10 Calendars ........................... 4-5 Bids/Classifieds ....................11 CHALLENGING PEOPLE TO SHAPE A BETTER FUTURE NOW PHOTO VIA SEI MARCH ON WASHINGTON ANNIVERSARY Self Enhancement, Inc. has received a multi- year grant to expand its wraparound services to students and families. SEI, Partners Receive Federal Grant Nonprofits will be able to expand wraparound services to East Portland T he U.S. Department of Education awarded a five-year, $28 million grant this week to Self Enhance- ment Inc. to allow SEI and part- nering organizations to expand wrap- around services to students in the Portland area. Oregon Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley announced the award in a joint press release Tuesday. “SEI and its partners have long, prov- en histories of helping vulnerable chil- dren and families throughout Portland by delivering quality services that make a hugely positive impact,” Wyden See GRANT on page 3 PHOTO BY SUSAN FRIED Christen McCurdy Of The Skanner News A line of pastors and community members including Rev. James O. Stallings, Interim Pastor of Mount Zion Baptist Church (center with red tie) marched a short distance down the Rev. Dr. S. McKinney Avenue to the front of Mount Zion to commemorate the 55th Anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The event was also the official kickoff of the I-1000 signature gathering campaign. If 300,000 signatures are gathered, the initiative would go before the legislature and, if passed, would effectively repeal I-200, the 1998 law that ended the use of Affirmative Action in Washington State. Expert Speaks on Juvenile Justice Reform Criticism is growing of mandatory minimums for young offenders By Lisa Loving Of The Skanner AP PHOTO/STEVE CANNON A Andrew Gillum kisses wife, R. Jai Gillum as he addresses his supporters after winning the Democrat primary for governor on Tuesday in Tallahassee, Fla. renewed push to re- peal Oregon’s youth mandatory mini- mums law under Measure 11 emerged in Jan- uary with a critical report by the Oregon Council on Civil Rights, a panel of the Bureau of Labor and In- dustries. Passed by voters in 1994, Measure 11 took power away from judges with systematic require- ments that kids under age 15 charged with certain violent crimes to be tried as adults. Today, almost a quarter century after Mea- sure 11’s passage, years of research has shown that criminalizing youth is ex- pensive and fails to deter crime. Before he left office, Gov. Ted Kulongoski suggested tinkering with Measure 11 to reduce the future cost of the prison system, and there have been a few changes over the years. But finding policy solutions to youth violence often seem out of reach. But nobody knows youth violence prevention like Guillermo Cespedes does. A lifelong social worker appointed director of the Los Angeles Office of Gang Reduction and Youth De- velopment from 2009 to 2014, Cespedes used data, partnerships and strategy to help cut the gang vio- lence rate there in half -- where it stayed for almost a decade. Now he uses the strategies he helped pio- neer in the United States to help teenagers and fam- ilies in other parts of the world. The Skanner’s Lisa Loving spoke with Ces- pedes last month in Teguci- galpa, Honduras, where he helps lead Proponte Mas, a gang prevention program that also operates in other countries of Central Amer- ica, the Caribbean and North Africa. The Skanner News: One of the ground-breaking programs that you helped build was in Los Ange- Three States Portlanders to Vote on Clean Energy Fund Now Have Black Ballot measure would tax high-revenue retailers Candidates for to create a $30 million fund for green energy Governor page 9 Kam Reviews ‘In Support of the Girls’ page 7 T his fall Portlanders will vote on a bill that, if approved, would create a $30 million fund non- profits could apply for to create green jobs. The Portland Clean Energy Fund announced in July it had collected 60,000 signatures — 25,000 more than it needed to qualify for the ballot. Organizers have continued to canvass and engage in outreach and the campaign has had a timelier feel in August as wildfire smoke has choked much of the west coast, re- sulting in unhealthy air quality off and on for the last two weeks. “As communities of color we re- alized there were a lot of obstacles to participating in the green econ- omy,” said Khan Pham, manager of immigrant organizing at Asian Pa- See ENERGY on page 3 PHOTO COURTESY OF PORTLAND CLEAN ENERGY FUND The Skanner News See REFORM on page 3 A November ballot measure would create an annual fund where nonprofits could apply for grant funding to create green jobs.