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Center for Intercultural
Organizing
Portland
Community College Multicultural Center
12000 SW 49th Ave Sylvania CC202 Portland, OR 97219 Phone:
503-977-4116 culture@pcc.edu ...
www.interculturalorganizing.org/links/culture.html
The Multicultural Center invites you to attend the following presentation
Wednesday, February 28
1:00p.m.-2:00p.m.
TCB Rm 212
Race and Immigration: Making the Link
Guest Speaker: Kayse Jama, Director, Center for Intercultural Organizing
Kayse Jama is Trainer/Organizer at Western States Center, he joined in June 2005 under a New Voices Fellowship. Born into a nomad family in Northern Somalia, Kayse left when the civil war erupted, and finally found sanctuary in Portland. After becoming a social worker, he left the social services arena compelled by the attacks against immigrants and refugees post 9/11. Kayse eventually founded the Center for Intercultural Organizing to bring cross-cultural solidarity to the struggle for political, social and economic justice. He is a Leadership Fellow and an adjunct instructor for University Studies at Portland State University.
The Center for Intercultural Organizing was originally established to combat widespread anti-Muslim sentiment after 9/11/2001. On September 8, 2002, authorities arrested a well-known Portland Imam at the airport�Sheik Mohamed Abdirahman Kariye, spiritual leader of the Islamic Center of Portland�falsely claiming his brother's luggage contained traces of TNT. The Center�s founders organized a multicultural march and protest outside the federal building in downtown Portland, attended by local Muslims and other activists. Since then, the Center for Intercultural Organizing has maintained the struggle against Islamophobia, while broadening its organizing toward building a multi-racial, multicultural movement for immigrant and refugee rights.
http://www.interculturalorganizing.org/index.html
The event is made possible by generous support from the Sociology department and the Multicultural Center. For more information please contact the Multicultural Center at 503.977.4112.
"Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students.
What better books can there be than the book of humanity?"
- Cesar Chavez U.S. labor rights activist, 1927-1993
D. Claire Oliveros, Coordinator
Multicultural Center
Sylvania Campus CC 202
Portland Community College
PO Box 19000
Portland, OR 97280
