Reps from street papers gather in Melbourne, Australia, to share skills, aspirations By Joanne Zuhl, Staff Writer It was in the middle of the 15th Annual Conference of the International Network of Street Papers that we all went home. Home being that place ...
8 Jun 2010 - Street Roots
You may know your vendor in Portland, but did you know that he or she is one of tens of thousands of vendors around the globe, working their way out of homelessness and poverty with newspapers papers just like Street Roots. Here are a few of the faces fro ...
7 Feb 2013 - Street Roots Staff
Greece’s economy is still in shambles as the country faces record unemployment amidst austerity cuts. But in Athens, one street paper is serving as a life raft of employment for more than 140 men and women, some who have been unemployed for four years or ...
27 Aug 2013 - Cole Merkel
The following column won top honors among vendor essays at the International Network of Street Paper Awards 2013 in July. It is written by a vendor with Street Roots’ sister paper Apropos in Austria. I’m going my way. What is this day going to bring? Some ...
28 Aug 2013 - Andrea Hoschek
Street Roots works with our sister paper in Belgrade to look at the plight of the Roma people in Europe Before coming to Street Roots in mid-August for a year of service through Jesuit Volunteer Corp Northwest, I traveled to Central and Eastern Europe to ...
10 Sep 2013 - Grace Badik
Caught in battles, animals are often displaced and, sadly, many get killed in crossfire. This series offers some startling photography, highlighting both the pain of war and how compassion can survive in the most horrific of circumstances. These photos we ...
10 Feb 2014 - Street Roots Staff
Number of chicken wings sold by Fire on the Mountain on Super Bowl Sunday: 25,653 Percent drop in Seattle-area 911 calls during the Super Bowl: 31 Percent rise in Seattle-area 911 calls after the Super Bowl: 75 Dollars per container the Port of Portland w ...
15 Feb 2014 - Street Roots Staff
I was driven to do this as I was firmly against the war in Iraq and didn’t see the point in kicking the hornets’ nest. When I started to see people coming back without their limbs, I felt compelled to say something. It wasn’t enough just to march in prote ...
4 Dec 2014 - Bryan Adams
Among the colorful markets, historic plazas and grand cathedrals of Mexico City, there are tens of thousands of homeless people living on the streets. Many live their whole lives without ever having a place to call their own. Some are the third generation ...
25 Jan 2015 - Laura Kelly
While the 112 publications differ in several ways, they share a common mission Newspapers and magazines with models similar to Street Roots’ are providing income opportunities to vulnerable citizens in cities around the globe. Some papers, such as Big Is ...
23 Jun 2016 - Emily Green