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MARCH 6, 2019 25 CENTS Portland and Seattle Volume XLI No. 23 News ...............................3,8-10 A & E .....................................6-7 Opinion ...................................2 Slave Voyages .................9 Calendars ........................... 4-5 Bids/Classifieds ....................11 CHALLENGING PEOPLE TO SHAPE A BETTER FUTURE NOW PHOTO COURTESY OF GREEN HOP CELEBRATING COMMUNITY Green Hop was one of the first dispensaries to receive a grant from Prosper Portland.` City Doles Out Pot Grants Funds come from voter-approved tax on recreational sales See CANNABIS on page 3 Northwest Tap Connection performs during “Celebrating Community4Culture” Feb. 27 at Washington Hall. The event celebrated two years of Community4Culture providing grants, fellowships and legacy awards to organizations and individuals who are working towards racial equity in the arts. The program supports individuals and organizations serving people of color, immigrants, refugees, English language learners, people with low incomes, and King County’s rural residents. During the program King County Council member Larry Gossett was recognized for his advocacy and there were performances by Community4Culture grant recipients JHP, Northwest Tap Connection and Griot Girlz. Nonprofit Focuses on Putting Women First Organization focuses on re-entry from the criminal justice system By Christen McCurdy Of The Skanner News AP PHOTO/EUGENE HOSHIKO I Former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn, front, travels in a car March 6, 2019, in Tokyo, after posting 1 billion yen ($8.9 million) in bail once an appeal by prosecutors against his release was rejected. Ghosn was arrested in November and is charged with falsifying financial reports and breach of trust. World News Briefs page 9 t took 10 years for Shan- non Olive to start Wom- enFirst Transition & Referral Center, the nonprofit that celebrates its second anniversary this month. She had the idea in 2007 to create a program to help support women who need help rebuilding their lives, but didn’t get the or- ganization off the ground until March 2017. In the meantime, Olive volun- teered at Oregon Action, became the director of leg- islative affairs for the As- sociated Students of Port- land Community College, and worked at the Urban League, Human Solutions and Janus Youth Programs. She also got involved in advocating for local cam- paign finance reform and for extended times on bus fares. When she graduated from college in 2015, Ol- ive sought a job relating to corrections or re-entry, and ended up becoming a page 7 said. In November 2017 Olive launched a women’s em- powerment group called “I Love Me,” a 12-week pro- gram meant to encourage women to learn to love and value themselves. That has been a focus of WomenFirst, but the orga- nization also offers emer- gency clothing (as well as connecting with Dress For Success to provide pro- fessional clothing for in- terviews and court dates), a meditation and healing See WOMEN on page 3 ‘Sanctuary’ Cities and States — Except Oregon — Are Getting Their Grants Despite Threats 28 other sanctuary jurisdictions have been cleared to receive 2017 lawn-enforcement grants By Wilson Ring Associated Press Kam Reviews ‘Roma,’ ‘The Favourite’ residential services coor- dinator at a public housing complex. Then, she said, she was inspired by faith to start the organization she’d dreamed of years be- fore. “The Lord came and said, ‘Now is the time for Wom- en First,’” Olive told The Skanner. She realized the reason it took so long is that she needed 10 years to build connections and learn what resources are already available. “We’re not her trying to reinvent the wheel,” Olive MONTPELIER, Vt. — About 18 months after the Trump adminis- tration threatened to withhold law enforcement grants from nearly 30 places around the country it felt weren’t doing enough to work with federal immigration agents, all but one have received or been cleared to get the money, the Justice Depart- ment said. In most cases, courts chipped away at the crackdown that escalated in -November 2017 with letters from the Justice Department of former Attor- ney General Jeff Sessions to 29 cities, metro areas, counties or states it con- See SANCTUARY on page 3 AP PHOTO/RICH PEDRONCELLI, FILE T wo Black-owned cannabis busi- nesses in Portland have been awarded the first-ever small busi- ness grants earmarked from the city’s recreational marijuana tax rev- enue. In 2016, Portland voters passed Mea- sure 26, specifying that a 3 percent tax on recreational sales would be used in part to support minority-owned and women-owned local businesses in the cannabis industry. It is the first such tax initiative in the U.S. Further lan- guage in the measure emphasizes that these funds will provide “economic op- PHOTO BY SUSAN FRIED By Saundra Sorensen For The Skanner News In this June 20, 2018, file photo, demonstrators are outside the federal courthouse in Sacramento, Calif., where a judge heard arguments over the U.S. Justice Department’s request to block three California laws that extend protections to people in the country illegally.
