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Murnane
Wharf . . . - Neighborhood: Old Town - OregonLive.com By bxmunoz Mr. Munk's excellent article that raises an issue that ought to be a concern to masses, especially anyone that might have the slightest interest in the labor history of Portland's waterfront - the destiny of the Wharf and the plaque honoring Francis J. ... It stated: Here at the site of Portland's first commercial dock, the citizens of Portland, Oregon, have dedicated this area of the Waterfront Park in memory of Francis J. Murnane, many times president of ILWU Local 8 , ... http://www.oregonlive.com/neighborhoods/index.ssf/ |
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This appeared on the Big O's website but West's
talk was not covered in the print edition. Also Rede evidently didn't know or didn't ask West whether he's sticking to his campaign promise to become Obama's "fiercest critic" if he was elected. The audacity of Cornel West by George Rede, The Oregonian February 02, 2009 http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/02/the_audacity_of_cornel_west.html Dr. Cornel WestPaul Krugman wasn't the only Princeton-pedigreed commentator in town late last week. While Krugman, the Nobel Prize laureate in economics and New York Times op-ed columnist, was packing them in for a World Affairs Council lecture at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Cornel West was doing the same, one block south, in a talk hosted by Portland Community College at the Newmark Theatre. That the two men were booked at the same time on the same Thursday night, virtually next door to each other, didn't go unnoticed by West, a Harvard undergraduate and Princeton Ph.D who teaches religion and African American studies at Princeton and is one of the nation's best-known commentators on race. (West is the author of 16 books, including his latest, "Hope on a Tightrope.") "You got Paul Krugman next door," West said approvingly of his Ivy League colleague, a "progressive economist" with a Ph.D from MIT who continues to teach at Princeton. "You got Princeton just taking over." The anti-intellectual crowd -- G..O.P. talk radio hosts and their ilk -- would have recoiled at the remark, but with it West was off and running for the next hour, weaving political commentary and four centuries of U.S. history with a Baptist preacher's cadence and a showman's expressive physicality. "Welcome to the Age of Obama," the black-suited, Afro'ed West said to a delighted audience. "The Age of Reagan is over. Brother Rush Limbaugh will have absolutely no impact on public policy. Sister Ann Coulter, Brother Bill O'Reilly, Brother Sean Hannity...no impact." The Age of Obama, he said, will be characterized by respect for what Sly Stone called "everyday people." During the Reagan years -- and he left no doubt that he included the administrations of father and son Bush -- "it was about being well adjusted to injustice," West charged. It became fashionable to disregard, if not dehumanize, the poor and the homeless while ignoring inequities in education, employment and income, especially in "chocolate pockets of our inner cities," he said. So that when Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast, the Bush administration's half-hearted response smacked of indifference. President George W. Bush may have left office with historically low public approval ratings but, West noted, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had nearly identical numbers when he died. If the country was reluctant in the '60s to confront issues of social, racial and economic justice, the age of Reagan showed us "the human cost of free-market fundamentalism," the professor said. Barack Obama's election as president gives him hope, West said, even in the face of two wars, the legacy of Katrina and the current "financial Katrina." But, he added with a wry smile, "I just imagine brothers and sisters in barber shops and beauty salons saying, 'That's when the black man takes over.' " Initially skeptical of the first-term U.S. senator from Illinois as a brilliant, charismatic speaker with little experience, West said Obama showed he could "neutralize white fears while keeping black support" during his unlikely march to the White House. That he began his quest with an upset victory over Hillary Clinton in lily-white Iowa and wound up winning traditional GOP states like Virginia, North Carolina and Indiana bodes well for bringing the country together in these critical times. "Barack Obama is not a black leader," West said. "He is the American president, who is black." No one individual -- not even Obama -- has the solution to our myriad problems, he said. But at least now we have a president who's willing to try. "The audacity of hope? You the last hope, brother." George Rede is the Sunday Opinion Editor. Reach him at commentary@news.oregonian.com
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