All AFSCME members are
invited to a special open house to celebrate the new Council 75 Portland office
building on Friday, Nov. 18. The open house will run between 5 and 9 p.m.
The new office is located at
6025 E.
Burnside Street, just off the corner of 60th and E. Burnside. The newly
remodeled building formerly housed a medical facility. Council 75 owns the
building, continuing a long-range plan for the union to eventually own all of
its facilities.
As of Nov. 1, visitors will
be greeted with a new look at the building’s entrance. Renowned Venezuelan
artist and painter Nelson Santana has finished a mural in the entrance foyer.
The mural honors both longtime AFSCME International Secretary-Treasurer William
Lucy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Lucy was a young AFSCME organizer in
Memphis when King was assassinated there in 1968; Lucy was in-town but away
from the site where King was killed. King was in Memphis to support striking AFSCME-represented sanitary
workers.
Santana’s mural invokes the
spirit of the entire civil rights movement while linking Lucy to King. To the
staffers on hand the day of Nov. 1, perhaps the most impressive aspect of
Santana’s work was the fact it was finished in just a few hours.
There are several possible
routes to the new office building. One way, of course, is to simply follow
Burnside from anywhere in the city. To come via freeway, the route changes
dramatically depending on your direction. If you are eastbound on I-84, you can
simply take the 58th
Street
exit, which will put you on 58th & Glisan.
Turn left on Glisan, right on 60th and
Burnside is the next stoplight.
However, I-84 has no 58th Street exit if you’re westbound. In that case, you need to
take the I-205 south exit, then take the Glisan Street exit off of I-205. Follow Glisan
to 60th, turn left, and again Burnside is the next stoplight.
If you have any questions
about the open house event, contact Stephanie Swan at (503) 239-9858, (800)
792-0045 or via e-mail at sswan@oregonafscme.com.
For more photos of the
mural, go to the Photo Gallery tab here on the web site’s Main Menu.
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