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Street Roots: Thinking Outside the Cardboard Box
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Wednesday, May 7, 2008. Thinking Outside the Cardboard Box. Join Dignity Village and Kwamba Productions along with Street Roots and Sisters Of The Road tomorrow for a night of theater, film, art and education. At the event, Kwamba and Dignity Village will screen a portion of the Tent Cities Toolkit interactive movie in which Dignity Villagers, Portland¹s former commissioner EriK Sten, Street Roots Israel Bayer, JOIN’s Marc Jolin, and many others are featured. Admission is free at the door! Thinking Outsi...
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Street Roots: Director's Desk from Street Roots
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008. Director's Desk from Street Roots. Street Roots and Sisters Of The Road delivered more than 2,000 postcards to City Hall last week asking that the council suspend the camping and sit-lie ordinances. It’s clear that Portlanders care about the civil rights of individuals experiencing homelessness. It’s unclear if Portland can develop any out-of-the-box methods as an alternative to the criminalization of people sleeping without shelter. The funding from these great foundations is goi...
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Street Roots: April 2008
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008. Candidate calls for reduction in homeless sweeps, commitment to more housing. A press release from Jim Middaugh's campaign. Look for more coverage of the homeless protests in the up and coming Street Roots. Middaugh called on the Portland Development Commission, the Bureau of Housing and Community Development, Multnomah County, the Housing Authority of Portland and the development and homeless provider community to find or create 1,000 new units of housing for the homeless duri...
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Street Roots: March 2008
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Thursday, March 27, 2008. We're not betting on it. From this weeks Directors Desk. The sit-lie ordinance continues to be a controversy. Seventy-nine of the 88 warnings and tickets issued under the ordinance have gone to people experiencing homelessness. According to police reports, 69 of those were either homeless or transient and 10 had no address listed at all. In fact, one individual was cited at the very location he gave police as his. Address — the Portland Rescue Mission. It's been clearly document...
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Street Roots: Homeless rise up on the streets to fight anti-camping and sit-lie ordinance
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Sunday, May 11, 2008. Homeless rise up on the streets to fight anti-camping and sit-lie ordinance. Individuals experiencing homelessness and activists have been camping on City Hall for nearly three-weeks. The group is calling itself the Homeless Liberation Front. Portland Homeless Liberation Front. In late April, a group of individuals were swept from under the Burnside and Morrison bridges in downtown Portland. The group marched to City Hall in the dead on night in defiance of the ordinances. Shortly a...
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Street Roots: September 2007
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Friday, September 21, 2007. Want to know what Street Roots readers are saying about us? Street Roots recently finished its 2007 Readers Survey with the help of volunteer consultant Sarah Johnson. Below are some of the comments people left on the survey. Look for a more in-depth report from the survey in the up and coming paper on September 28th. Thanks for continuing to put out a quality publication! 8220;How about at least two different views shared by writers on crucial issues? 8220;I like the fact tha...
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Street Roots: Interview with the late, great Utah Phillips
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Monday, May 26, 2008. Interview with the late, great Utah Phillips. Street Roots was sad to hear that the great folk singer and rebel rouser Utah Phillips died this past weekend. He passed away peacefully at his home in Nevada City, California on May 23. He was 73 years old. He has been likened to Mark Twain and Will Rogers, but probably the best compliment you can give Utah Phillips is that, search high and low, you will find no better friend of the working man and woman. By the time Phillips was a teen...
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Street Roots: May 2008
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Monday, May 26, 2008. Interview with the late, great Utah Phillips. Street Roots was sad to hear that the great folk singer and rebel rouser Utah Phillips died this past weekend. He passed away peacefully at his home in Nevada City, California on May 23. He was 73 years old. He has been likened to Mark Twain and Will Rogers, but probably the best compliment you can give Utah Phillips is that, search high and low, you will find no better friend of the working man and woman. By the time Phillips was a teen...
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Street Roots: The mice who roared. New Street Roots out tomorrow!
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Thursday, May 15, 2008. The mice who roared. New Street Roots out tomorrow! In many ways Street Roots has remained rather quiet on the protests in front of City Hall. While most newspapers, TV and radio stations in Portland covered the homeless protests – Street Roots stepped back – one because of our publication schedule, two, we have a small staff working with individuals on the streets throughout Portland. And of course, we have street art, poetry and two vendor profiles of individuals selling the new...
