Africa House supports African immigrants and refugees living in Portland When Jacques moved to Portland four years ago from a refugee camp in Burundi, job prospects for his mother were bleak, it was nearing the end of the school year, and neither he nor h ...
10 Feb 2015 -
Teens representing cultures around the world apply to become community youth ambassadors, connecting the city of Portland with its immigrant and refugee communities The day after Donald Trump won the presidential election, 16-year-old Fowzia Ibrahim was r ...
23 Feb 2017 - Jared Paben
Footballers are organizing matches with refugee children Outside the gates of an old paper towel factory in the northern Greek seaport of Thessaloniki, a group of Shedia street paper vendors waited patiently together with players of the Greek Homeless Foo ...
23 Feb 2017 - Chris Alefantis
COMMENTARY | Stay calm and get informed (Traducido en español más abajo / translated into Spanish below) Over the last few weeks, community organizations like Causa have received dozens of questions from the community regarding rumors about Immigration an ...
2 Mar 2017 - Andrea Williams
ICE's draconian measures are terrorizing families and children It’s heartbreaking to watch. A young man, taking his 13-year-old daughter to school, is handcuffed and taken away by immigration officers, all while his daughter – still in the car – fil ...
9 Mar 2017 - SR editorial board
‘It is always right to give help,’ Pope Francis says in his second interview with street papers Pope Francis has always had a special connection to those living on the street. So much so that last year, in Rome, where approximately 6,000 vulnerable, poor ...
16 Mar 2017 - Stefano Lampertico
Tim Cowley has created NewPortlanders.Net, a platform for promoting immigrant- and refugee-run businesses What’s the best way to help immigrants and refugees? It’s a question Tim Cowley’s heard a lot lately. Before moving to Southeast Portland one year ag ...
23 Mar 2017 - Emily Green
Labor leadership in Portland comes together in defense of targeted communities and immigrant workers Many activist groups may find their members fall into one school of thought or another, but few organizations represent such varying ideologies among thei ...
12 Apr 2017 - Emily Green
Street Roots separates facts from falsehoods on issues that matter Fiction: Being in the United States unlawfully is a crime. Fact: Not necessarily. Being here unlawfully – such has having expired documents – isn’t a felony, or even a misdemeanor. It’s co ...
20 Apr 2017 - Joanne Zuhl
Now, they’re speaking out in the hopes that others will too They knew their families were different, and they knew that difference meant they had fewer rights than most Americans. They watched as their parents swallowed their pride and went to work for lo ...
27 Apr 2017 - Emily Green