BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Lewis & Clark//NONSGML v1.0//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20160313T100000 RDATE:20160313T100000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20161106T090000 RDATE:20161106T090000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160411T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160411T200000 LOCATION:Council Chamber GEO:45.44918;-122.670969 SUMMARY:Electoral Politics: Where the Presidential and Portland Mayoral C andidates Stand DESCRIPTION:Electoral Politics: Where the Presidential and Portland Mayor al Candidates Stand \; Black Lives Matter has decided not to endor se any presidential candidate. \; \;Nonetheless\, individual BLM activists have supported particular presidential candidates and put press ure on all candidates to address the issues of police brutality and mass incarceration. \; This panel invites local BLM activists and politic al scientists to evaluate the records of the presidential and Portland ma yoral candidates on issues of concern to BLM. \;Black Lives Matter re cognizes that the struggle for black freedom and justice must continue be yond this electoral cycle\, and yet Portland's next mayor and the country 's next president will set the stage for the possibility of change or mor e of the same. \;Ben Gaskins\, L&\;C Assistant Professor of Poli tical Science \; Alyssa Pagan\, PSU student and BLM activist Teressa Raiford\, Don't Shoot Portland leader Moderator\, Elliott Young\, Director of Ethnic Studies \;Where do the candidates stand on racial justice issues? Click here for an overview. (https://coll ege.lclark.edu/live/files/21598-wheredopresidentialandportlandmayoralcand idatessta)Join us for the fourth and last Black Lives Matter forum of the academic year sponsored by Ethnic Studies.Please click here for more inf ormation on previous BLM forums. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
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Black Lives Matter has decided not to endorse any presidential candidate.  \; \;Nonetheless\, individual BLM activists have supported particular presidential candidates and put pressure on all candidates to address th e issues of police brutality and mass incarceration. \;
This panel invites local BLM activists and political scientists to evaluate th e records of the presidential and Portland mayoral candidates on issues o f concern to BLM. \;Black Lives Matter recognizes that the struggle f or black freedom and justice must continue beyond this electoral cycle\, and yet Portland's next mayor and the country's next president will set t he stage for the possibility of change or more of the same.
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\;Where do the candidat es stand on racial justice issues? Click here for an overview.