Portland State Vanguard, Vol. 74, Issue 7

PORTLAND STATE VANGUARD

GUNS ARE HERE TO STAY

VOLUME 74 • ISSUE 7 • OCTOBER 15, 2019

CAMPUS PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS TO REMAIN ARMED

NEWS Jewish Voice for Peace calling for PSU to sever ties with Leupold and Stevens • OPINION E-scooters are not a valid form of public transportation ARTS & CULTURE Black Panther Legacy tour keeps history alive

CRIME BLOTTER

Oct. 7–14

SOPHIE CONCANNON OCT. 7 Fire Alarm Campus Public Safety officers and the Portland Fire Bureau responded to a fire alarm at approximately 8:50 p.m. in the Fourth Avenue Building. Contractors set off the alarm. CPSO reported there were no flames or smoke.

OCT. 9 Fire Alarm At approximately 12:15 p.m., CPSO and the Portland Fire Bureau responded to a fire alarm with no flames or smoke in the Art Building. The cause was a faulty smoke detector.

Theft CPSO responded to a shoplift that occurred at approximately 2:20 p.m. at the Portland State Bookstore.

OCT. 11 Fire Alarm At approximately 9:32 a.m., CPSO and the Portland Fire Bureau responded to a fire alarm with smoke and no fire in Broadway Residence Hall. CPSO identified the cause as being a microwave.

Trespass Warning A non-student was issued a trespass warning at approximately 10 a.m. for being inside a residential building. CPSO issued the trespass warning in Broadway Residence Hall.

OCT. 12 Domestic Disturbance At approximately 6 p.m., CPSO responded to a disturbance in University Pointe between non-students. One non-student was arrested.

OCT. 14 Trespass Warning A non-student was issued a trespass warning for being inside a residential building at 2:30 a.m. CPSO issued the trespass warning in Parkway Residence Hall.

Vehicle Break-in Between Oct. 7–14, CPSO responded to seven reports of vehicle break-ins. Three of the break-ins occurred in Blumel Residence Hall parking, two occurred on SW Jackson and Broadway, one occurred in Parking Structure 1 and one occurred on SW 13th and Montgomery. Property was taken in all instances.

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INTERNATIONAL 1 MILLION MUSLIMS DETAINED IN CHINESE RE-EDUCATION CAMPS

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CHANGING THE NARRATIVE AROUND HOUSELESSNESS

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FRENCH ACTIVISTS FIGHT RISING TIDE OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

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COMPANY WITH TIES TO PSU SELLING EQUIPMENT TO ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCES

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OPINION THE WHISTLEBLOWER HYPOCRISY

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SCOOT RIGHT OUT OF MY CITY

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INTERNATIONAL THIS WEEK AROUND THE WORLD

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ECUADORIANS PROTEST FUEL SUBSIDIES

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COVER PSU KEEPS ARMED OFFICERS

ARTS & CULTURE KEEPING HISTORY ALIVE: LEGACY TOUR MEMORIALIZES THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY

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COMICS

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EVENTS CALENDAR

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STAFF

EDIT ORI A L EDITOR IN CHIEF Nada Sewidan MANAGING EDITOR Marta Yousif NEWS EDITORS Sophie Concannon Dylan Jefferies INTERNATIONAL EDITOR Madison Cecil ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR Bruna Cucolo OPINION EDITOR Anthony Montes SPORTS EDITOR HIRING

ONLINE EDITOR Sangi Lama COPY CHIEF Hannah Welbourn CONTRIBUTORS Hanna Anderson Quinn Stoddard FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT Marshall Scheider–France PHO T O & MULTIMEDI A PHOTO EDITOR Alex Wittwer MULTIMEDIA EDITOR HIRING

PRODUC TION & DE SIGN CREATIVE DIRECTOR John Rojas

A DV ISING & ACCOUN TING COORDINATOR OF STUDENT MEDIA Reaz Mahmood

LEAD DESIGNER Dana Townsend

STUDENT MEDIA TECHNOLOGY ADVISOR Corrine Nightingale

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NEWS HANNA ANDERSON

OCT. 7: SUPREME COURT HEARS CASE ON NON-UNANIMOUS JURIES

The United States Supreme Court heard arguments on Louisiana v Ramos, a case which questions a state’s usage on non-unanimous juries. While the case originally stems from Louisiana, the state has since voted to prohibit non-unanimous juries, leaving Oregon as the only state that may be affected by the verdict. In Oregon, juries may render a guilty verdict with 10-2 or 11-1 votes, except in murder cases. The Oregon District Attorneys Association supported a bill to bring the issue to voters in 2020 during the state’s last legislative session. However, the bill died after the Supreme Court agreed to hear the Louisiana case.

OCT. 11: OREGON AG ORDERED TO REWRITE BIASED BALLOT MEASURE TITLE

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Oregon’s Supreme Court ordered Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum to rewrite the title and explanation of a proposed ballot measure after supporters of the measure accused the writing of being biased. The measure would create new rules for public pension systems and “prohibit government employers from taking on any new pension debt, the Oregon Supreme Court ordered this week,” according to The Oregonian. In the proposed explanation—which the Justice Department is

responsible for writing—the Supreme Court ruled both the “yes” and “no” answers were unhelpful and misleading to voters.

OCT. 11: MAYOR TED WHEELER TO RUN FOR RE-ELECTION IN 2020

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler officially announced in a letter posted to his website he would run for re-election in 2020. If re-elected, Wheeler would become the first Portland mayor to serve for two terms since Vera Katz, who entered office in 1996 and served three terms until leaving office in 2005. No Portland mayor has chosen to run for a second term since 2005.

OCT. 11: OWNER OF PORTLAND JAIL PREPARES TO DEMOLISH BUILDING

Jordan Schnitzer, owner of Wapato Jail in North Portland, has announced plans to sign a contract by the end of the month to have the building demolished. The jail was built by Multnomah County in 2004, costing $58 million, and has been unused since. It was sold in 2017 and again in 2018 to its current owner, who planned to have the building turned into a homeless shelter. However, no politician or local non-profit stepped forward to definitively support the plan.

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NEWS

CHANGING THE NARRATIVE AROUND HOUSELESSNESS PSU’S HRAC DISCUSSES WAYS TO REDUCE HOUSELESSNESS AT PSU QUINN STODDARD The Portland State Homelessness Research and Action Collaborative—a group of faculty and students dedicated to researching houselessness in Portland—showcased five studentand faculty-led research projects at an event held on Oct. 10 at the Native American Student and Community Center.

The speakers discussed a multitude of ways to aid those experiencing houselessness at PSU and in the city of Portland.

The research presented a multi-faceted approach showcasing five main areas: reducing houselessness at PSU, changing the language narrative surrounding houselessness, innovative approaches to support people experiencing houselessness, housing as healthcare and policy and program evaluation.

According to Professor Greg Townley, director of research for the HRAC, he and Dr. Marisa Zapata, the director of the HRAC, enlisted the help of 11 graduate students from multiple disciplinary backgrounds and one consultant to help train the next generation of students in researching houselessness.

“Any good project is always going to have a defined audience, and you may have a disaggregated data set, but all of the studies we did this summer were focused on very specific groups,” Zapata said at the event.

One initiative undertaken by the HRAC is aimed at helping craft the Portland Street Response, a program which explores different options for responding to low-priority calls—such as houselessness—in lieu of a police response.

With the help of partners such as Street Roots, Right 2 Survive and Portland City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty’s staff, researchers interviewed people experiencing houselessness throughout the city in order to connect those in need with the proper resources.

Some of the HRAC’s researchers, such as HRAC members Kaitlyn Dey’s investigative research into Business Improvement Districts and Wendy Nuttelmans’s work on changing the language narrative surrounding houselessness, are still gathering information on how to best aid those experiencing houselessness. Other projects have already made their way into the campus population.

One such project is a survey emailed on Oct. 8 to PSU students and faculty. Developed over the summer, the survey aims to determine the breadth of students and faculty alike experiencing either food insecurity or houselessness.

“We must understand how hunger and homelessness impact our campus community,” Interim President Stephen Percy stated in the email. “This survey will help us understand our most vulnerable students and employees and shape university support in the future.”

A Temple University study estimates that 10–14% of college students are currently experiencing homelessness. The PSU survey intends to encompass students and faculty alike in an effort to not only identify the amount of people experiencing these issues but also provide ways to move forward in providing suitable assistance.

“We know students and employees are struggling to meet basic needs because we see it everyday in our classes and on our campus,” Townley said.

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Another key component of the HRAC’s work is changing the popular narrative about those experiencing houselessness. In a project to change this narrative, led by Nuttelman, researchers utilized a computer program called Corpus Linguistics to sift through large amounts of online data.

Using a keyword search, this project sought to find out what the community associates with words like “transient.”

Overwhelmingly, the information pointed toward words and phrases such as “homeless camp,” “drug use,” “illegal” and “human waste.”

Nuttelman stressed at the event that a fundamental part to addressing houselessness is how we look at it and the terms we attribute to it. To ensure positive results from these efforts to provide assistance, houselessness must first be looked at in a way that focuses on the people experiencing it and not generalizations.

In addition to highlighting the efforts of students and the HRAC staff, Luke Robinowitz, who is currently working on attaining his masters degree at PSU, recounted his own experience with houselessness in a short film put together by PSU student Lauren Everett and Stefanie Knowlton, communication specialist for HRAC. When asked about the efforts of these researchers, Robinowitz commented, “It’s a nice contrast to how you feel when you’re out there, when you feel like nobody cares at all or people are actively working against you. It’s a kind of catharsis in a way.”

Robinowitz went on to provide this advice for those in the community experiencing houselessness or food insecurity. “Street Roots is a very good resource. I don’t want to make generalizing statements, but it does get better if you reach out for support.”

This event was held as a part of Portland State of Mind, a 10-day festival which includes multiple events across PSU.

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NEWS

COMPANY WITH TIES TO PSU SELLING EQUIPMENT TO ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCES PSU CHAPTER OF JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE CALLS FOR CAMPUS TO CUT TIES WITH LEUPOLD AND STEVENS SOPHIE CONCANNON The Portland State Chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace is calling for PSU to sever ties with Leupold and Stevens, an optics manufacturing company based in Beaverton that produces military-grade sniper scopes sold to the U.S. Military and the Israeli Defense Forces, amongst others.

PSU’s School of Business’ newest building, the Karl Miller Center, has the company name outside of one of its classrooms.

Leupold and Stevens also works with PSU through the MECOP program, a nonprofit organization that works with companies to create internships for students from universities in Oregon.

On the ties between the KMC and Leupold and Stevens, Lauren Clark—senior director of development at the PSU School of Business— said “more than 200 individuals and companies invested in these efforts, including philanthropic gifts to name many spaces in the building.”

Rebecca Olson, the associate director of engagement and communications for the PSU foundation, said contributions from donors have “no exchange transactions” and help support capital projects on campus such as the Viking Pavilion and the Karl Miller Center.

“In KMC, a number of corporate donors have public spaces named for them, including Blount, Tektronix, Daimler [and] Leupold & Stevens,” Olson said.

Clark also said the school’s relationship with local industry was critically important.

“Companies employ our students and provide internships; speak in classes and provide feedback that keeps our curriculum fresh and innovative; and provide sponsorship and philanthropic support,” Clark said. “We’re grateful for the myriad of ways that companies invest in our School of Business.”

Clark couldn’t say specifically what Leupold and Stevens’ relationship to PSU is, as “corporate engagement with PSU is so vast,” but said in broad terms, the company has provided internships, employed students and guest-lectured in classes.

Knowledge of the ties between Leupold and Stevens and the IDF came to the forefront after a months-long campaign was launched centering on protesting Leupold’s sponsorship of the Portland Trail Blazers.

According to the PSU chapter of JVP, the movement was started when the Portland

chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America noticed the TV spot Hometown Heroes was sponsored by Leupold and Stevens and began the social media campaigns #endthesponsorship and #noleupold.

The PSU chapter of JVP—co-founded by Elana Rae Goldman and Zia Laboff—elaborated on the beginnings of the movement.

“The big cause was asking the Blazers not to participate in this, because that’s the whole point of power-mapping is being like you are a stakeholder in this [and] continuing to take this money and this sponsorship [is] putting yourself in this equation,” Laboff said.

After almost a year, the Portland Trail Blazers announced they would sever ties with the company on Sept. 30. The Trail Blazers denied the partnership ended because of external pressure. Laboff said it was because of the pressure from fans.

“That’s who they’re beholden to,” Laboff said. “That’s who buys all their ticket sales, so that’s a financial crutch point.”

Laboff likened the pressure from fans to potential pressure from students regarding cutting ties with Leupold and Stevens.

“Our student money...is [like a] form of taxpayer money, and we talk a lot about [how] these are your student tuition dollars at work, and...that is a big deal because we put a lot of them into [PSU],” Laboff said.

Referring to PSU’s ties to Leupold and Stevens, Laboff said she was skeptical of the screening process for companies partnering with the university.

“[It] definitely sounds like PSU trying to get people into programs to boost numbers, so they’re...like [a] tech company? You’ll take some more of our students? Awesome, we’re not going to think too much about it if they don’t.”

Laboff also said it was a big win to see the Trail Blazers sever ties with Leupold, because after that much campaigning, it’s “hard for someone to look away and claim [they] didn’t know better.”

“Especially as PSU students, it’s really frustrating to see there’s that same kind of influence and that same kind of unquestioning take-whatever-money-we-can [attitude] on PSU campus,” Laboff said. “[PSU] doesn’t care to look into what you’ve done or what harm is being propagated abroad, or [even] what campaigns are happening.”

Laboff said from a university that “talks a lot about progressivity,” it was deeply frustrating to see where it wasn’t really about progressivity. “[PSU] does not listen to community response and communitydemands...because right now, the larger Portland community is saying ‘dump Leupold,’” Laboff said.

Members of JVP, an anti-Zionist Jewish organization with a PSU chapter, said that it’s not anti-Semitic to offer criticism of Israel.

“A lot of people...think that just because of the reallybiased, purposeful propaganda we see everywhere in the U.S., any critique [of Israel] is deemed anti-Semitic,” Goldman said.

“It could literally be anything.”

Goldman also said as a group on campus, JVP was useful to show a group of young Jewish people explaining what is anti-Semitic and what is not.

“Yes, there are both,” Goldman said, referring to anti-Semitism in leftist organizing and Islamophobia present in Zionist movements.

“You can also work against both.”

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INTERNATIONAL

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Oct. 7

LAMPEDUSA, ITALY

A boat carrying approximately 50 migrants and refugees capsized and killed at least 13 people, but 15 are still missing, according to The New York Times. The Italian coastguard rescued 22 people from the boat before it sank. The boat was on its way to Italy from Tunisia and was carrying Tusisian and West African migrants and refugees seeking asylum. The incident is the most recent in a string of migrant-boats capsizing on their way to Italy, and the death toll since Jan. 1 is now over 1,000 people. “Enough massacres in the sea,” Toto Martello, mayor of Lampedua, told The New York Times. “We cannot continue to watch bodies being unloaded of poor people who are following a dream to better their lives. Politicians must react.”

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Oct. 7–12

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM

Hundreds of protesters from the climate activist group known as the Extinction Rebellion took to the streets on Oct. 7 as part of a two-week long protest. Protesters blocked roads and bridges throughout London, taking drums and banners to 11 main protesting sites, according to Al Jazeera. On Oct. 12, roughly one

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hundred climate activists entered a hallway which connects the London City Airport to the Docklands Light Railway station and glued themselves to the floor. Al Jazeera reported at least 842 protesters were arrested between Oct. 7–12.

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Oct. 9

HALLE, GERMANY

A gunman attempted to attack a synagogue on the Jewish holiday, Yom Kippur. The gunman filmed and live-streamed the attack on social media. The video showed his collection of weapons in his car as well as his several attempts to enter the Humboldt Street synagogue before giving up and killing one woman. The shooter then drove to a kebab shop and shot three more people, killing one of the three. “Watching the video was beyond disturbing but extremely characteristic of this new wave of farright terror,” Rita Katz, head of the SITE Intelligence Group, a group that tracks online hate groups, told The New York Times.

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Oct. 12–13

JAPAN

Typhoon Hagibis reached land on Oct. 12 and killed at least 33 people. A total of 187 people were injured, with 19 still miss-

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ing, according to NPR. As the storm made landfall just south of Tokyo, a 5.7 magnitude earthquake struck the Chiba region nearby. The storm and earthquake caused mudslides and flooding, and several structures are still buried with authorities searching for survivors. Over 100,000 rescuers were deployed on Oct. 13 to search for survivors and to assist in cleaning up the debris. Al Jazeera reported Typhoon Hagibus was one of the most powerful storms to hit Japan in at least 60 years.

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Oct. 13

SALMOSSI, BURKINA FASO

Several armed men entered a mosque and killed 15 people.

The attack also seriously injured at least two people. BBC reported no group has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Authorities have not identified the gunmen or their motivations, according to Al Jazeera. Officials deployed military troops to the village after the attack in order to help restore peace, but many residents are fleeing the area. Many of those who are leaving are migrating to Mali. An unnamed resident of a nearby town, Gorom-Gorom, told reporters there was a “climate of panic” after the attack.

INTERNATIONAL

ECUADORIANS PROTEST FUEL SUBSIDIES PRESIDENT DECLARES STATE OF EMERGENCY AN ECUADORIAN MAN AND A YOUNG GIRL ARE PHOTOGRAPHED LEAVING A MILITARY ROADBLOCK ON MONDAY, OCT. 7 2019. DOLORES OCHOA/AP IMAGES

MADISON CECIL Less than 24 hours after protests in Ecuador began, President Lenín Moreno declared a state of emergency on Oct. 3, 2019.

According to The Guardian, Moreno said the state of emergency was “to ensure citizens’ security and avoid chaos.”

Ecuadorians began protesting on Oct. 3 when a new economic reform package went into effect.

The package includes tax reforms, a relaxation of labor protections and the abolition of fuel subsidies, which have been in place for over four decades. Officials said the removal of the subsidies will allow for improvement in Ecuador’s economy as well as decrease smuggling.

According to The Guardian, Economic Minister Richard Martínez claimed the removal of subsidies will save Ecuador at least $2.27 billion per year.

The removal of these fuel subsidies, however, is the protesters’ central complaint. The

removal of the subsidies would cause the price of gasoline to increase from approximately $1.85 per gallon to $2.30 per gallon, according to Deutsche Welle. France 24 reported gasoline prices could increase by as much as 120%.

Taxi, bus and truck drivers mostly pay for their own fuel, and increasing the price of gas will result in decreased income for drivers.

These transportation employees were the main organizers of the protest, using their vehicles to blockade main roads while refusing to work.

“It’s an indefinite action until the government overturns the decree on subsidies,” Abel Gómex, a bus transport protest leader, told Reuters.

“We’re paralyzing the nation.”

Moreno declared a state of emergency on the same day the protests began. The declaration allows for the suspension of some rights while also giving the military the power to end the protests. The Guardian reported by the end of Oct.

3, at least 19 people were arrested in relation to the demonstrations, including President of the Federation of Taxi Drivers of Ecuador Jorge Calderón. Calderón’s organization is closely tied to the protests’ organization, according to NPR. “To those who want to impose chaos as a mechanism to achieve something, that time is over,” Moreno said in a statement on Oct. 3, according to The New York Times. “The measures we have taken together are firm. There is no possibility of change.”

In Guayaquil, protesters looted several shops along the main road, while those in Quito threw stones and petrol bombs at authorities. While the main protests were in the capital city of Quito and Ecuador’s port city, Guayaquil, several smaller protests were organized throughout the country. Reuters reported a local opposition mayor led a protest against the financial package in Cuenca, where some protesters fired

paintball guns at authorities. NPR reported 28 police officers had been injured by Oct. 4 throughout Ecuador.

Bus stations were closed due to the lack of employees on Oct. 3, and schools were closed when students and faculty lacked transportation to the institutions. Flights to and from Quito International Airport were delayed or canceled throughout the day because the main road to the airport was blocked by buses, taxis and burning tires, according to The New York Times.

“The lack of transport affects us all, but equally the rise in gasoline prices will affect us,” Cesar Lopez told Al Jazeera.

According to the The New York Times, these are the worst protests Ecuador has seen in several years, and there is currently no sign the demonstrations will end unless the financial package is revoked.

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COVER

PSU KEEPS ARMED OFFICERS INTERIM PRESIDENT PERCY IMPLEMENTS CAMPUS PUBLIC SAFETY PLAN

OLIVIA PACE HOLDS A SIGN THAT READS “DISARM PSU” AT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETING WHERE PRESIDEN

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RESIDENT PERCY ANNOUNCED HIS PLAN FOR CAMPUS SECURITY ON OCT. 10, 2019. ALEX WITTWER/PSU VANGUARD

COVER SOPHIE CONCANNON Portland State Interim President Stephen Percy announced at an Oct. 10, 2019 Board of Trustees meeting campus public safety officers would remain armed.

At a press conference following the Board meeting, Percy responded to concerns from the PSU community that disarming police wasn’t taken seriously in the decision-making process.

“I would say the students we heard from today were very concerned about that,” Percy said. “I’m not sure all students would agree with that. We’ve tried really hard to notice lots of different points of view and again, talking to students [and] looking at surveys. Some students in this...violent society we seem to be living in [have] said to me they feel the need for...at least some resources on our campus that could respond to an incident involving a weapon.”

PSU alum and activist Olivia Pace also said students, staff and faculty took every possible measure to inform the Board how the decision to put a privatized campus police force on campus would affect the community.

“Five years ago, this body made a decision that would affect all of us and none of them,” Pace said. “Thousands of members of this campus warned you that any decision to arm our security would be paid in Black lives.”

In response to addressing students who feel threatened by armed CPSO officers on campus, Percy said he respects their concern about not feeling safe.

“I’d like to try to do some healing or working together,” Percy said. “We want everyone to feel welcome and safe at PSU. We’ve learned that safety means different things to different members of our diverse community, and creating a plan that responds to those differences is a challenge.”

PERCY’S PLAN

Percy detailed his campus public safety plan at the Board meeting, which addressed campus public safety and the details surrounding armament.

According to PSU University Communications, the existing 10 slots for unarmed campus public safety officers and 10 slots for sworn officers will remain the same.

The plan also includes enhanced officer training, such as “de-escalation techniques and building relationships with diverse groups.”

Other notable aspects include strengthening oversight through the University Public Safety Oversight committee, increasing security for campus buildings and diverting more attention to community mental health professionals when responding to people in crisis. The plan also includes 10 student ambassador positions to be screened by UPSOC and hired by the CPSO chief. These student ambassadors will serve as a “community presence” and provide information about safety concerns from students, faculty and staff to the CPSO office.

The plan details why Portland Police Bureau won’t be relied upon for campus security, stating in a FAQ that PPB would need special training.

“According to Chief Davis, PPB cannot provide the type of policing [PSU would] need and that it would be far better, since we have the authority, for PSU to have its own specialized university police department,” the FAQ reads.

The Board voted in 2014 11-2 in favor of creating an armed branch of police officers within CPSO. However, they have since made it the responsibility of the president to oversee campus security.

Discussing Percy’s campus safety plan, Board member Margaret Kirkpatrick said, “It is the president’s role to manage campus public safety, and it is the Board’s role to hold the president accountable.”

STUDENTS SAID THEY WERE IGNORED

“Students were ignored at Board meetings—we’ve been systematically shut out of this process,” Pace said, referencing the administration’s reluctance to consider

student opinion. “The implementation advisory committee was ignored by this administration. The research and knowledge of our educators that can inform this decision were ignored.”

An independent assessment conducted by Margolis Healy released on Feb. 22, 2019, found that of those sampled, 52% were in favor of disarming PSU’s campus police.

The report—referred to as an “extensive review” at the Oct. 10 Board meeting—recommended retaining armed officers despite the opinion of the majority sampled in favor of disarmament and has been heavily criticized by members of the PSU community.

Similarly, in 2014, a survey of students showed more were in favor of keeping campus public safety officers unarmed than arming campus police. Approximately 68% of faculty surveyed at the same time were against armament.

“We see who’s been on what side the entire time,” Pace said, referencing the original votes against armament cast by a Board member who was the president and chief executive officer of Children’s Institute and the faculty representative on the Board.

“From this moment forward we will spend every minute and every fiber of our being into letting the world know one thing: do not come here,” Pace said. “PSU has declared a war on marginalized peoples that inhabit downtown Portland. We urge any person with a conscience, with a sense of morality and love for other people to spend their money anywhere but here. Boycott PSU. We’re done.”

JASON WASHINGTON AND #DISARMPSU

The announcement CPSO would stay armed came a year and four months after the death of Jason Washington, a Navy veteran shot nine times by campus police on June 29, 2018 outside the Cheerful Tortoise, a bar located near campus.

The death of Washington marked the first fatal shooting involving campus public safety officers since CPSO was armed in 2014 and greatly expanded the #DisarmPSU movement, especially after the two officers involved in the shooting were cleared and reinstated in September 2018. #DisarmPSU continued to be a strong campus presence as months passed without a conclusive decision from the Board; members occupied the CPSO office, held rallies in the Park Blocks and took the issue down to Salem as the Board remained inactive.

“We continue to grieve his death as a community,” Percy said at the Board meeting.

Pace said in response the one thing the Board hadn’t asked the community was what the family wants.

“What does it look like to actually give justice to the community who was attacked in this?” Pace said.

“He was our world, and our world [has] been destroyed,” said Michelle Washington, addressing the Board with her family. “These people, these children, these students back there told you guys years ago this would happen—and no one has listened. You continue not to listen.”

Washington also said she hopes no one else has to go through what her family has gone through.

“I feel like we’ve worked so hard to try and make people understand what it’s like to go through this, but I feel like no one is listening and nothing is going to change, and another person is going to have to go through what our family is going through. And I pray that no one has to.”

Washington said she met and started dating Jason when she was 15, and she doesn’t know how to go on without him. “I mean, could you imagine?” Washington said.

“Having to tell your 15-year-old daughter that her father is dead? Your 5-year-old grandchild that her best friend... was gone? She continues to ask when he’s coming home.”

Washington also said that she knows the decision “has been made” but hopes the administration will change its mind. “Hopefully sooner than later, before it happens to anyone else.”

Dylan Jefferies contributed to this report

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INTERNATIONAL

1 MILLION MUSLIMS DETAINED IN CHINESE RE-EDUCATION CAMPS MADISON CECIL At least 1 million Uighur Muslims are currently detained in China’s self-declared “re-education” centers, which face multiple allegations of torturing those in the camps.

According to BBC, a UN committee first heard allegations of torture from within China’s re-education centers in August 2018, but the country denied their existence for several months. China acknowledged the centers did exist in October 2018 but said they were designed to provide vocational training as a response to “ethnic separatism and violent terrorist criminal activities.”

“The education and training centers are schools that help the people free themselves from the influence of extremism and terrorism and acquire professional skills,” Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told PBS. “The centers are anything but horrific concentration camps.”

Uighur Muslims are an ethnic minority group located mostly in Western China, specifically in the Xinjiang region. The group makes up less than 1% of China’s total population.

Uighur heritage can be traced back several centuries to Central Asia, but in recent years many have fled from China to Istanbul.

China faced criticism on an international scale, despite their denial of alleged torture, but the United States is the only country that has made an individual effort to implement policies that would deter the continuing of the re-education centers.

BBC reported a statement, released by the U.S. Commerce Department, that the country is now actively fighting against “China’s campaign of repression, mass arbitrary detention and high-technology surveillance

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against Uighurs, Kazakhs and other members of the Muslim minority group.”

Despite the U.S. blacklisting 28 Chinese organizations from purchasing any U.S. products—effective Oct. 8, 2019—the Chinese government continues to deny the allegations.

“There is no such thing as these so-called ‘human rights issues’ as claimed by the United States,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Greg Shuang told BBC. “These accusations are nothing more than an excuse for the United States to deliberately interfere in China’s internal affairs.”

Previous to the U.S.’s recent change in policy, The New York Times reported the most significant international response to Uighurre-education center issue was a document signed by 23 countries of the UN. The document demanded China close the centers.

“Many, many governments are looking the other way and self-censoring on the issue of [reeducation camps],” former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs under the Obama administration Daniel R. Russel told The New York Times. “Beijing is notoriously prickly about its self-declared ‘core interests,’ and few countries are willing to put the economic benefits of good relations with China at risk—let alone find themselves on the receiving end of Chinese retaliation.”

In response to the statement, China collected the signatures of 37 countries who agreed the re-education camps were a “contribution to the human rights cause,” according to The New York Times.

Many Uighur Muslims have migrated over 2,500 miles from the Xinjiang region to Istanbul, Turkey, in fear of prosecution or im-

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A UIGHUR PROTESTER WEARS A MASK FEATURING THE FLAG AND COLORS OF “EAST TURKESTAN,” AN UNOFFICIAL NAME FOR THE XINJIANG REGION OF WESTERN CHINA. LEFTERIS PITARAKIS/AP IMAGES prisonment. Some of those in Istanbul have been in the re-education camps and claim they were tortured, made to eat pork and drink alcohol and forced to reject their religion.

“In Xinjiang, the Chinese government prevents Muslims from praying and reading the Quran, and it has destroyed or defaced a great number of mosques,” U.S. diplomat John Sullivan told Al Jazeera. “This is a systematic campaign by the Chinese Communist Party to stop its own citizens from exercising their unalienable right to religious freedom.”

Not all of the detainees are Chinese citizens either. Omir Bekal was visiting China

from his home country of Kazakhstan when he was detained by Chinese authorities.

According to The Independent, Kazakhstani officials say Bekal was held in a Chinese prison for at least seven months—but possibly longer—before he was transferred to a reeducation center for a month. He was then extradited back to Kazakhstan.

“The psychological pressure is enormous, when you have to criticize yourself, denounce your thinking—your own ethnic group,” Bekal told The Independent. “I still think about it every night until the sun rises. I can’t sleep. The thoughts are with me all the time.”

INTERNATIONAL

FÉMINICIDES PAR COMPAGNONS OU EX

FRENCH ACTIVISTS FIGHT RISING TIDE OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

GRAFFITI IN MARSEILLE, FRANCE READS “WOMEN ARE NOT PREY.” MARSHALL SCHEIDER/PSU VANGUARD MARSHALL SCHEIDER The walls of Marseille, France are covered in posters decrying violence against women as part of Paris-based group Féminicides par compagnons ou ex —which translates to “women killed by partners or exes”—and their campaign for domestic violence awareness month.

The movement to raise awareness about domestic violence has been ongoing in France, increasing in intensity throughout 2019. Activists in Marseille have mobilized a guerrilla information campaign and mounted hundreds of posters on walls throughout the city center. This technique—inspired by the work of Paris-based activist Marguerite Stern—has taken hold in cities throughout the country.

The key word on many of the posters is feminicide.

Official figures are not maintained by the government, so Féminicides par compagnons ou ex combs local and national newspapers and police reports in order to compile a registry of all women killed by spouses, partners or ex-lovers.

According to the group’s research, more than 115 women have been killed by domestic violence in France since Jan. 1, 2019. With two-and-a-half months left in the year and a woman murdered every two-and-a-half days on average, the group expects the number to surpass the 121 domestic violence-related deaths reported by French news outlet Le Point in 2018.

“Beyond the numbers, we want to tell the story of each woman killed in order to pay homage and point out the details,” an organizer involved in maintaining the registry told Vanguard.

The stories collected by the Paris-based group can be read on the walls of Marseille. A construction barrier in the working-class

neighborhood of Cours Julien is covered in over 100 sheets of printer paper. Each one bears the name of a woman killed and a brief description of the circumstances of her murder.

“We gathered and organized anonymously to cover the streets of our city with these messages,” Soizic, an activist in Marseille told Vanguard. “We are not an association; we are not all feminists of the same stripe. We are just anonymous people who take our time and energy to illustrate something that our world denies and forgets. We want to give a voice to women who have been silenced by men.”

Organizers in Marseille criticized a lack of government funding and commitment to stopping the cycle of violence.

Last month, The Guardian reported the case of a French police officer refusing to assist a woman whose husband had threatened to murder her. The incident came as no surprise, according to activists in Marseille.

“Today, going to a police station to file a complaint denouncing violence, you’re likely to hear ‘we’ll look into it,’” Marion, another activist told Vanguard. “There is this very basic idea that [women] are always a little responsible. The fault is often placed on the victims and not on the perpetrators of violence.”

According to organizers, the French justice system’s focus on punishment consistently fails to address the needs of survivors of domestic violence. “The police, like other institutions, are part of a patriarchal function that does not allow space for the care of victims,” Clémence, an activist in Marseille told Vanguard.

Several activists in Marseille emphasized the importance of education in disrupting patterns of domestic violence.

“The issue of domestic violence and violence against women more largely is a systemic, social problem,” Anna, an activist, told Vanguard. “Education—both private and institutional—is the most important aspect of social life that needs to be addressed if we wish to live in a more non-violent society.”

“We need to work on how we raise our children, what we teach them about love and relationships and how to respect the other and themselves. It starts very early, with all the sorts of stereotypes that are taught to children from kindergarten.”

A peer-reviewed study published by the U.S. National Institute of Health in 2017 found that “the patriarchal family structure creates an environment that normalizes many forms of violence...” [including] “intimate partner violence.” These findings were corroborated in a report published by the American Psychological Association in 2018.

The work is slow, and there are no easy answers, but those involved said they are not without hope. “It is a great recognition to see passers-by stop, read our messages and discuss them,” Marion said. “Some people think that hanging up these posters to pay tribute to the victims, to denounce feminicides and the lack of action is useless, ridiculous. This is false, and we have proof of it every day.”

Some of the interviews were translated from French.

The activists interviewed are part of an anonymous organization, therefore their last names were omitted. These anonymous sources are verified by the foreign correspondent, international editor and editor-in-chief.

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OPINION

THE WHISTLEBLOWER HYPOCRISY ANTHONY MONTES Honesty is the best policy, unless you expose United States war crimes and mass surveillance.

As Democratic Party leadership praise the whistleblower—“leakers”—who sparked the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, their position on whistleblowers like Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden reveal their partisanship and fealty to the American empire.

In September 2019, a whistleblower complaint surfaced claiming Trump asked the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, who sat on the board of a Ukrainian energy company collecting $50,000 a month, while Vice President Biden led a 2014 anti-corruption effort in Ukraine.

Democrats and former national security officials expressed their support of the whistleblower, and they have done so on purely partisan lines.

The fate of the whistleblower is unclear, but what is certain is the reception from Democrats at least rhetorically have been preferential in comparison to the vilification of Snowden and Manning. If Democratic leadership is going to hail the whistleblower as a hero, they need to also recognize Snowden and Manning’s courage.

Manning, a former U.S. Army intelligence analyst, leaked classified documents to Wikileaks in 2010 exposing war crimes the U.S. committed at the peak of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. One of the most infamous disclosures was a video of a U.S. helicopter indiscriminately killing a dozen people, including two Reuters employees.

The leaks received bipartisan condemnation and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called it “an attack on America” and a “tear at the fabric” of responsible government.

Republicans, of course, lost their minds.

The Obama Administration swiftly charged Manning under the Espionage Act of 1917—a draconic law with a range of statutes including releasing classified documents—and sentenced her to 35 years in prison. Her sentence would later be commuted by Obama, freeing her seven years into her sentence, but Obama’s gesture came after presiding over one of the most unprecedented attacks on leaks and journalist’s sources, charging more people under the Espionage Act than all previous administrations combined.

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BRANDON PAHNISH Manning was one of the first whistleblowers the Obama Administration charged under the act, and she exposed the realities of war that the national-security state would rather keep secret. She did not receive the warm reception the Trump whistleblower is receiving now.

Manning went after the war machine and that just won’t do.

It doesn’t stop there. The Trump Administration, in an effort to build a case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, subpoenaed Manning in early 2019 to testify before a Grand Jury. Manning refused to

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testify, calling the Grand Jury “a secret process that I morally object to” and claiming it is “historically used to entrap and persecute activists for protected political speech.”

The judge ruling over the case, in response, sent Manning to jail and imposed a $1,000 per day fine until she agreed to testify.

Manning is still in jail today, and Democratic leadership is as silent as the solitary confinement Manning was being subjected to daily.

Another prominent whistleblower that received the ire of established powers is Snowden, a former CIA subcontractor who

leaked NSA documents in 2014, confirming what many believed was true: Big Brother’s watching you.

The NSA collected large amounts of online metadata and phone records from Verizon customers, bugged the offices of the European Union in New York and was authorized to spy on 193 different countries and their citizens. These are just some of the gross invasions of privacy that fell under the purview of the NSA. Needless to say, Democratic leadership was angry, especially Obama, who said in a press conference, “No I don’t think Mr. Snowden was a patriot.”

Obama was wrong. Snowden’s action uncovered an egregious invasion of privacy, not just of American citizens but also the citizens of our allies, infringing on their fourth amendment right against search and seizure.

Snowden immediately left for Hong Kong after he leaked the documents and spent 40 days in a Russian terminal before Russia agreed to let him stay as a political refugee.

Snowden, who recently released a new memoir, has expressed interest in returning to the U.S. to face trial but fears he will not receive a fair trial because under the espionage act he will not be able to defend himself and the documents he disclosed in front of a jury.

According to Paige Kreisman, an Army veteran running for the Oregon House of Representatives, the differences between the Trump whistleblower and Snowden are that “Manning and others challenged U.S. imperialism, and that is punished bipartisanly in this country.”

“You cannot respect and honor the Trump whistleblowers while not acknowledging and respecting the heroic sacrifice of others,” Kresiman stated.

Unfortunately, the precedent has been set and the Trump Administration picked up where Obama left off in his war against whistleblowers. The administration has already prosecuted their eighth under the Espionage Act since the beginning of Trumps’ presidency, including Reality Winner, who disclosed documents showing Russia attempted to hack into U.S. electoral systems.

We must protect all whistleblowers, not when it is convenient or politically expedient, but also when it challenges our leaders to behave unethically, so they think twice about committing another heinous act under the guise of “national security.”

OPINION

SCOOT RIGHT OUT OF MY CITY

E-SCOOTERS NOT A VALID FORM OF TRANSPORTATION ANTHONY MONTES Blocking the curb? In pieces in the street? Hogging the bike lanes? Somehow in the neighbor’s yard?

E-scooters may be fun to ride through downtown streets, and the thrill of nearly knocking a pedestrian over is probably exhilarating, but let’s make one thing clear: They should not be considered a valid form of public transportation. Portland and the federal government need to invest in equitable housing and zoning policy that includes access to reliable and free public transportation.

The popular e-scooter company, Bird, began its e-scooter program in Santa Monica, and since then, the market for the niche service has blossomed as tech companies appeared overnight trying to get in the e-scooter business. Just two years later, companies like Bird now operate in 100 cities around the world, and e-scooters have accounted for 38.5 million trips—early half of the shares in the micromobility sector, according to Tech Crunch. Although we do not have a clear picture of the longterm effects these e-scooters bring to American cities, the little data we do have is concerning.

Because e-scooters have a top speed of 15 miles per hour, helmets are not required in order to use them and a measly 4% of riders do, according to Business Insider. This has already created problems. According to the Center for Disease Control, a study found that 20 individuals per every 100,000 e-scooter trips were injured, and nearly half those sustained head injuries, which could have been prevented if riders wore helmets.

Additionally, since the beginning of 2018, there have been 11 recorded deaths.

Safety issues aside, e-scooters changed the way Portlanders commute. In a 2018 report, the City of Portland found 71% of Portlanders reported they used e-scooters “to get to a destination,” while only one-third used it for recreation. Additionally, the report found 19% of all trips occurred during rush hour times—3 p.m. to 6 p.m.—during the week. This data indicates Portlanders prefer the convenience and affordability of escooters in comparison to other mobility systems, including ride-hailing services and public transportation.

At $100 for a monthly pass, TriMet fees can rack up, and it’s easy to see the appeal of unlimited Bird scooter rides for only $25 a month. This is a classic case of private enterprise recognizing and capitalizing on needs not met through public services.

“It is important in the planning and permitting of these emerging services that they complement our existing system,” said John MacArthur, sustainable transportation program manager at Portland State, “and that they don’t undermine the system and that they serve all people in the city.”

They already have undermined our current systems, and there is only one solution: Make public transportation free.

The ability to travel within a city should not be monetized by e-scooter companies like Bird, which employs “independent

contractors” to service and gather scooters. The “independent contractor” status allows companies to circumvent labor laws without providing proper benefits to workers, an issue ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft have been fighting in court.

It is also not enough to means-test public transportation, forcing citizens to prove they are poor enough to receive reduced fare for a public service that should be accessible to all, even the richest among us. Furthermore, the federal government needs to step in on the state and local levels to provide additional funding for mass transit projects, prompting sustainable and equitable programs that fare better than our current system.

Although the City of Portland has the 10th best rated public transportation system, only 5% of Americans reported using public transportation daily, dead last among surveyed countries.

The unpopularity of public transportation can be attributed to zoning rules that do not allow for efficient transit-oriented development, a car culture obsessed with SUVs and roots dating as far back as the 1920s, when 17,000 miles of streetcar lines were ripped up and paved over to make way for cars.

It is clear we need new investments in the area of mass transportation in this country, and until we do, expect more services like Bird and Lime to fill the void, pissing off communities across the country and making a dollar on our lack of moral clarity.

DANA TOWNSEND

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ARTS & CULTURE

KEEPING HISTORY ALIVE

LEGACY TOUR PRESERVES THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY

FORD SPEAKS DURING THE LEGACY TOUR TO A CROWD OUTSIDE OF JUMP FOR JOY CHRISTIAN LEARNING CENTER, FORMERLY THE HIGHLAND UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST WHERE THE PANTHERS ONCE SERVED FREE BREAKFAST TO CHILDREN. ALEX WITTWER/PSU VANGUARD

NADA SEWIDAN The Black Panther Party legacy tour is like walking into the past.

Kent Ford, founder of BPP Portland Chapter, in collaboration with Vanport Mosaic, leads a series of tours across the Albina district titled “Power to The People: Black Panther Party Legacy Tour,” preserving BPP history and its impact in the Portland community.

As Ford led the crowd, weaving through schools and church buildings, he shared his experiences as a BPP member in the ‘60s and recalled times of community and unification as well as times of hardship and discrimination.

The BPP Portland chapter was originally sparked by Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in 1968 when Ford and other like-minded Black people decided to form a group to study the works of Malcolm X and Mao Tse-Tung ’s “Little Red Book.” One day in June of 1969, Ford was arrested, beaten and jailed, and as he stood on the steps of the Portland police station on SW 3rd and Oak in 1969, he declared, “We’re going to defend ourselves.”

Standing today in front of what was once the Highland United Church of Christ (now known as Joy Christian Learning Center) along with the crowds that formed, Ford recalled the fruition of the Children’s Breakfast Program, a BPP-led social initiative that provided free breakfast to kids in the community. He remembered how the “snake-like” pastor of the white church threatened “someone would burn the church down.” He laughed as he reminisced about the well-known cook who—if you caught him before he hit the “sauce”—he’d come and make food for the children, food they very much loved. “Some [people] were so impressed with the breakfast program, you could see tears coming from their eyes,” he said.

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programs, a sense of community and partnership forming in the process.

Toward the end of 1969, BPP had a well-established breakfast program, feeding as many as 125 school children every morning, children of all races. It’s within that time BPP also opened a health clinic, providing free medical care to those in need of it, and a dental clinic in 1970.

Ford said he still sees the youth he helped serve around Portland. “I have kids coming up to me today saying, ‘You used to feed us at church! You use to feed us at the church!’”

These social programs, however, were under scrutiny. Ford recalled J. Edgar Hoover and other officials threatening to shut it down. “They didn’t like people like us,” Ford said, pointing at his skin.

Ford then lowered his voice and spoke to the crowd about the time city officials tried to shut down a breakfast program in the Philadelphia chapter. “Hoover’s guys, they wanted to figure out a way to stop the kids from coming to the breakfast program, and one of them decided to get the ranch and fill it with laxatives. The kids would get diarrhea and would not come back to the breakfast program anymore. When I heard that, I said, nothing is too low for them.”

Hoover, an FBI director at the time, told his intelligence team to neutralize the Black Panther Party in whatever means possible. This led to nationally persecuting, assassinating and arresting members of the Black Panther Party. “They were the bullet, we were the bullseye,” Ford said.

“But the people always watched our back,” he said, alluding to people in the community at the time who volunteered in the breakfast program and clinics. “I just want to say the people always watched our back. That’s why we always say, in anything we do...power to the people.”

The social programs and the BPP were eventually pushed

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out, with gentrification knocking down the clinics and making way for the expansion of Emanuel Hospital, which is now Oregon Health & Science University. It’s part of the reason why reviving the history through preserving these landmarks is important, according to Randolph Carter, a member of the BPP Seattle chapter. “[People] need to understand the history of this area,” Carter said, “and as gentrification pushes people out, something needs to remember what went on here because we may have to come back and figure this out all over again. Let’s not forget history.”

As Ford explained the effects of gentrification on the BPP legacy, he also expressed hope and a sense of empowerment. “We’re like Ali,” he said, “we always come back, we always come back.”

These walking tour events happen in collaboration with Vanport Mosaic and are repeated throughout the year for the purpose of memory activism—remembering where we’ve been and learning for the future.

“This event is important for so many reasons...it is a part of Portland history that could use a more clear understanding and re-telling,” said Jennifer Lundstrom, a regular volunteer on the tours. “The Portland Black Panther Party was involved in so many important civil rights and social justice causes. It is an honor to hear stories directly from someone who was a part of this movement.”

Ford recalled many more stories and visited several other sites in the Albina district, tracing its history along with the crowds. “Students in school, in college, grad school and all that,” he said, “you can’t learn this in the classrooms. You can only learn this on the street corner one on one, one on two, one on three, like this.”

A sit-down Q&A and presentation with Kent Ford is scheduled for Feb. 8, 2020.

COMICS

“BAD TIME”

“DARK ROAST”

DANA DANA TOWNSEND TOWNSEND

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Nada Sewidan & Hannah Welbourn

OCT 15–21 MUSIC

FILM & THEATRE

“THE EMOTIONAL LANDSCAPE” CAMERAWORK GALLERY 9 A.M.–6 P.M. FREE Catch these works by Baltimorebased photographer Karen Klinedinst until Oct. 25.

THE TELEGRAPH QUARTET LINCOLN PERFORMANCE HALL 7:30 P.M. $32-57 Come see the winners of the 2016 Walter W. Naumburg Chamber Music Award right on campus.

‘ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD’ HOLLYWOOD THEATRE 7 P.M. $9, $7 W/ STUDENT ID A screening of the movie in 35mm, followed by a presentation of shorts directed by Quentin Tarantino.

REJECT THE PRETENTIOUS FIGURE DRAWING THE FUN ZONE 6–9 P.M. $10–15 Draw what you want, how you want: “who cares?”

DOUG JECK, ANGELA WHITE EUTECTIC GALLERY 10 A.M.–5:30 P.M. FREE Angela White’s spiderweb-inspired pieces and Doug Jeck’s sculptures are featured in this exhibition.

KPSU DJS KELLY’S OLYMPIAN 8 P.M.–12 A.M. FREE • 21+ See student media in action! This week’s featured DJ is DJ Gray.

‘MACBETH’ PORTLAND CENTER STAGE AT THE ARMORY 7:30 P.M. $50, $25 W/ STUDENT ID Watch power-hungry Lady Macbeth all large and in charge in this stripped down play adaptation.

“THRILLER” FLASH MOB PORTLAND STATE PARK BLOCKS 11:30 A.M.–1:30 P.M. FREE If you ever wanted to be part of a flash mob, this is your chance.

“NECK OF THE WOODS” GALLERY 114 NOON–6 P.M. FREE Jeremy Gregory and Curtis Settino collaborated on this exhibition featuring dioramas and lots of puppets.

EMO KARAOKE NIGHT CHOPSTICKS 8:30 P.M. NO COVER You KNOW you sing Dashboard Confessional in the shower—now’s your time to shine.

‘PSYCHO’ HOLLYWOOD THEATRE 7:30 P.M. $9, $7 W/ STUDENT ID One of Hitchcock’s classics about a runaway, a serial killer (Norman Bates) and his interesting(?) relationship with his mother.

THE FEAR PDX HAUNTED HOUSE ATTRACTION FEAR PDX 7 P.M. $28–50 Ride rusty carnival rides, survive the apocalypse, explore a haunted mansion, try not to cry…

“DAVID” ADAMS AND OLLMAN 11 A.M.–5 P.M. FREE These works by Jessica Jackson Hutchins and Ryan McLaughlin are some of the first in the new downtown gallery.

THE TALBOTT BROTHERS ALADDIN THEATER 8 P.M. $20 This locally based folk-rock duo is in town as part of their Run No More tour.

‘THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT’ HOLLYWOOD THEATRE 7:30 P.M. $9, $7 W/ STUDENT ID Producer Gregg Hale will join the audience in the rescreening of this found-footage inspired film.

PORTLAND STATE OF MIND: THE FUTURE OF TRANSGENDER HEALTH SMITH MEMORIAL STUDENT UNION 327–9 11 A.M. FREE Listen to panelists and other community members discuss transgender-inclusive health policies and research.

“THE HYSTERICS” OPENING RECEPTION STEPHANIE CHEFAS PROJECTS 5–8 P.M. FREE Heather Day’s solo exhibition is named for her mark-making techniques.

THE GREEN NOTE—FALL AUDITIONS SMITH MEMORIAL STUDENT UNION 10 A.M.–2 P.M. FREE Auditions are open for PSU’s A Capella group. Experience is a plus but not required.

‘A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET: THE PLAY!’ SIREN THEATER 7:30 P.M. $15–25 A play adaptation of Freddy Krueger’s havoc-wreakingnightmare-on-elm-street-dreamhaunting ass.

ALL AMERICAN MAGIC ALL AMERICAN MAGIC PDX 2:05 P.M. $16–22 Ventriloquists and illusions, if you’re into that sort of thing.

SARAH SHIELDS STUMPTOWN 1 7 A.M.–6 P.M. FREE These nature-inspired paintings are on display at the Southeast Stumptown until Nov. 26.

JADE BIRD WONDER BALLROOM 8:30 P.M. $20–22 This up-and-coming singer-songwriter out of the United Kingdom will have you all in your feels.

‘FLEABAG’ LIVE WORLD TRADE CENTER THEATER 12 P.M. $23, $9.99 W/ STUDENT ID Special screening of the live stage one-woman production, written and performed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge.

HOWLOWEEN OREGON ZOO 9:30 A.M.–3 P.M. FREE W/ ZOO ADMISSION Scavenger hunt your way through the Oregon Zoo in costume.

Disclaimer: lots of children will be there.

TE·NAC·I·TY LITTMAN GALLERY NOON–5 P.M. FREE Check out this group exhibition on campus until Oct. 25.

METAL MONDAY STAR BAR 10 P.M. FREE • 21+ You know what to do.

‘THE WICKER MAN’ HOLLYWOOD THEATRE 9:30 P.M. $9, $7 W/ STUDENT ID Watch Lord Summerisle, pagan rituals and conservative Christians in this 1973 horror classic.

AN EVENING OF IMPROV COMEDY TO BENEFIT RAHAB’S SISTERS PORTLAND CENTER STAGE AT THE ARMORY 7–9 P.M. $15 A comedy fest for a good cause.

Seriously, you should go.

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