TODAY! Policing Justice Symposium at PICA | March 9th
Join us in celebrating ten years of activism by visiting our latest installation, The Center of Injustice, at Portland Institute of Contemporary Art. Daily hours are on Thurs / Friday from 12-6pm and Sat / Sun from 12-4pm through May 19!
Please join us this Saturday at The Center of Injustice for a vigil to support Manny’s family and other victims of police violence. Vigil will begin at 5pm.
The family of Immanueal Jaquez Clark-Johnson, an unarmed man shot in the back by Portland police as he ran away from officers who had approached the wrong car in a robbery investigation, filed a wrongful death suit Thursday against the city and police.
The suit alleges police had no probable cause or reasonable suspicion to stop the car that Clark-Johnson was driving on Nov. 19, 2022, as part of an armed robbery call.
Clark-Johnson and others in the car also didn’t match the description provided by the robbery victim, according to attorney Juan Chavez and audio of the 911 call.
On his initial 911 call, the victim said the three to four suspects who took off in a car were “white, definitely white” men, according to the audio. The dispatch report that appears on police mobile computer screens also described the suspects as white men, dispatch records indicate.
The family’s GoFundMe can be found here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-the-family-of-manny-clark?utm_campaign=unknown&utm_content=undefined&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=linktr.ee
Our art exhibition space, The Black Gallery, is welcoming the public with a new show following Malique Pye’s Still Life of Lives Made Still.
Adriene Cruz: Power Prayer to the Community is now up through April 21, 2024!
This intimate exhibition touches on 32 years of Cruz’s working practice, reflecting on her meditative use of fiber materials, the visual language of her installation and sculptural practice, and her spiritually guided methodology to transform utilitarian objects into relics and treasures. Please schedule your visit via the appointment link here.
One of the pieces in the “Liberated Archives” exhibit calling for an end to police brutality. The exhibit is in collaboration with Don't Shoot PDX and Public Research Fellows.
Media Credit:Natalie Gordon/ The Beacon
Last fall, Public Research Fellows and the social justice minor at University of Portland were working on a Clark Library exhibit that would showcase archival research done by students in collaboration with Don’t Shoot PDX.
Now, anyone can engage with this work at the library’s Covert Gallery, where you'll find zines brimming with commentary, letters, photographs and even clippings of Beacon articles dating back to the early 1960s — all highlighting the history of racial injustice and collective resistance in Portland and at UP.
Please join us for the opening reception on the University of Portland campus on March 21 from 4 to 6pm.
