NORTHWEST JOB MARKET
March 5, 2018
Beauty among
our broken dishes,
broken bones
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grassroots organizers, artists, elders, and youngsters, and
a dozen masked anarchistas moving toward those
counter-protestors. I was imagining one side or both
losing their tempers, Port of Portland police arriving, and
all kinds of mayhem on local evening news. But then:
Something beautiful happened.
Off the side of our turmoil stood Dr. Baher Butti, an
Iraqi refugee and father who with his professional peers,
before the disintegration of his entire nation, introduced
the theory and practice of communal and familial wellness
to the Arab world. He was chatting with a circle of pretty
little girls and Bambi-eyed boys. Kids he brought to sing
at our celebration. I went to him. “Dr. Baher, can your kids
come on stage now? Right now?”
“Now?” Then checking my eyes the way doctors do, he
smiled. “Yesss.”
I went on stage with a mic. “Fellas, fellas —” I asked
those big bad guys, facing down our demonstrators.
“Fellas — listen. Listen please.” A few turned around.
“Fellas please. Everyone please.” More turned my way.
“Everyone, please know this. Because this matters a lot. It
really does.” They listened.
“Coming on stage now are Iraqi kids. Little girls and
their little brothers. Really wounded children, they are.
Hurt so bad by all that craziness back home. All that
anger.” They listened.
“Please, let’s give them, let’s give their broken bones
and broken hearts, our reverence. Please.” They were
moved. Those men were. And they moved to the side.
Backs against PDX’s arrival driveway railing, they gave
their respect to our children.
We went off our planned run-of-show, and our kids sang
earnestly. The way sweet little souls do. They danced in
folk-step as old as Rivers Euphrates and Tigris, and their
elegant civilization in between. For that slim moment all
of us, pro- and anti-immigrant, went off script. A beautiful
departure.
We departed from habits of thinking and doing, from
reflexes traditional and modern, from biases left and
right. And we turned instead toward instincts simpler and
truer.
Our Saturday was all that. Port authorities permitted
us a very public place, when they could’ve put our protest
behind that mammoth parking structure. Portland Police
officers, men and women daily distancing themselves
from a legacy of awful excesses, secured protest
participants’ arrival on the same eastbound MAX ride
that ended with the fatal stabbing of a Portland dad and a
Reed grad just last May. Two white men who had shielded
two black girls from another’s rage.
Likewise, our pro-Trump protestors permitted our girls
and boys their quiet moment. They backed off for long
thoughtful minutes. And our kids sang their hearts out.
These guys did that, for them. They gave this, to all of us.
For which I am humbled. Terima kasih banyak — I offer
you our love.
Notas:
To Tiny, Pro-Trumper and Samoan brother, big as a
school bus: Mahalo nui brah, for letting me duck behind you.
To Portland Peace Team, thank you all for sandwiching
yourselves between troubles. Thank you for your self-discipline.
You kept our peace, our promise to the Port and to Portland.
Event participants:
Unite Oregon; City of Portland, New Portlanders Program; Greater
Portland chapter of the National Organization for Women; Portland
Immigrant Rights Coalition; Oregon chapter of the Council on
American-Islamic Relations; Buddhist Peace Fellowship, Portland;
Portland chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace; Portland-Shiraz Friendship
Community; Veterans For Peace Chapter 72; Portland Peace Team;
Cascadia Pacific Peace Professionals; Anarchist Alternative Media
Collective; Portland Refugee Support Group; International Socialist
Organization; Portland Network Against Racism and Islamophobia;
Oregon Small Business for Responsible Leadership; Jump Jump
Music; Terra Incognita Media; Women’s March on Portland;
No Lost Generation UO; United Nations Association Portland Chapter;
Amnesty International USA Group 48; and Portland Meet Portland.
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Mystery cloaks Japanese dad
of 13 born from Thai surrogates
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kissing a baby when they
visited their son in Cambo-
dia, where he also had sev-
eral children by surrogate
mothers.
The Thai court said
Shigeta plans to send the
children to an international
school and is preparing a
house for them in Tokyo
where they will be looked
after by nurses and
nannies. His lawyer in
Thailand said he simply
wants a big family.
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