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JANUARY 16, 2019 Portland and Seattle Volume XLI No. 16 Opinion ..........................2 Calendars ......................4 A & E ...............................6 Bids/Classifieds ............7 CHALLENGING PEOPLE TO SHAPE A BETTER FUTURE NOW 25 CENTS INSIDE: Martin Luther King, Jr. SPECIAL EDITION PHOTO VIA NOSROSPDX ON YOUTUBE KING CELEBRATION A small group of students is pushing back against a new agreement to increase police presence in schools By Christen McCurdy Of The Skanner News A group of Portland students is fighting a recent decision by Portland Public Schools to fund and increase the presence of school resource officers in public schools. That decision still has to be approved by the Portland City Council, and that gives students some hope, as longtime police accountability advocate Jo Ann Hardesty just stepped into office this month. City Council staff told The Skanner there is no set date to vote on the agree- ment, but Mayor Ted Wheeler’s office is considering a February or March vote following a public engagement process. On Dec. 11 the school board voted to increase the number of days cur- rent school resource officers spend in schools, but also to shift funding from Portland Police Bureau to Portland Public Schools. Previously PPB provid- ed officers in schools at no cost to the See STUDENTS on page 3 ‘Surviving R. Kelly’ Producer Talks About the Power and the Horrific Abuse page 6 Keynote speaker author and community activist Ijeoma Oluo talks to King County Council member Larry Gossett before he introduced her as the keynote speaker for the King County 32nd Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Jan. 10 at the Sanctuary. Gossett will be the keynote speaker at The Skanner Foundation’s 33rd annual Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast Jan. 21. Government Shutdown Hits African American Workers the Hardest By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire W ith more than 50,000 federal employees, the fourth congres- sional district in Maryland represents the fifth largest number of workers, and Maryland likely counts as the third-largest impacted state by the government shutdown, according to Democratic Rep. Anthony Brown. “So, I’m hearing about this, like my colleagues, each and every day from my constituents while this shutdown is set to become the longest in the nation’s history,” said Brown, who joined Congressional Black Caucus Chair Karen Bass (D-Calif.); Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), and Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), on a media conference call on Jan. 11. The CBC members said they were calling for an end to the shutdown so that workers can again begin to collect their paychecks and critical government ser- vices can resume. During the call, the mem- bers discussed the debili- tating effects of the ongo- ing government shutdown as thousands of federal employees are unable to collect their paychecks. They also denounced President Donald Trump’s threat to declare a state of emergency if Congress refuses to fund a border wall – one in which the president claimed during his campaign that Mexico would pay for. “This shutdown and the whole issue of the wall is a fake crisis,” Bass said. “At the end of the day, even if he had all the mon- ey, it would still take em- inent domain to build his wall. That process will take years. This is further evidence that this is a fake crisis and, in my opinion, just an attempt to change our attention away from the numerous impending See SHUTDOWN on page 3 Gov. Brown Focuses on Health Care, Environment and Housing ‘Not everyone is experiencing this prosperity,’ Brown says in State of the State Address By Andrew Selsky Associated Press SALEM, Ore. — Oregon needs to shore up health care, the environ- ment, the education system and hous- ing, Gov. Kate Brown said during her State of the State address Monday. Speaking in the House of Represen- AP PHOTO/ANDREW SELESKY Students Push Back After SRO Vote PHOTO BY SUSAN FRIED Portland-area students have organized to oppose a cost-sharing agreement that would increase the number of officers in schools and shift more of the funding burden to Portland Public Schools. tatives after she was sworn in, Brown said Oregon Gov. Kate Brown is sworn in on Monday, Jan. 14, 2019, by Oregon’s unemploy- Chief Justice Martha Lee Walters in Salem, Ore. In her state of the ment rate is the lowest state address that followed her inauguration, Brown said Oregon on record and has one needs to shore up health care, the environment, the education of the fastest job growth system and housing. rates in the country. And hopefully, more opportunities,” “With growth comes a lot of really the Democrat said. “At the same time, good things. More jobs. More ideas. See STATE on page 3
