A tent city like Right 2 Dream Too starts with a core group of people and some brainstorming The idea is simple: Give the homeless a safe, secure place to be. A core group of people gets together and starts brainstorming, on getting support, infrastructur ...
6 Aug 2015 - Leo Rhodes
I was adopted at a young age, yet I still remember my adopted parents telling me they were my new parents. Then asking if it was OK, I answered, “yes.” They were pleased; next they told me I could change my name if I wanted to. They gave me some examples ...
21 Oct 2013 - Leo Rhodes
I had been in Portland for about a month looking for a place to sell my Street Roots. I was on the MAX when I noticed Trader Joe’s in the Hollywood District. I decided to try my luck. Standing in front of Trader Joe’s, my sales were going great. Then one ...
2 Jul 2013 - Leo Rhodes
A room with a view: One year on in housing By Leo Rhodes, Contributing Columnist Dec. 7, 1941, is a day that will live infamy, as President Roosevelt put it. Coming from Arizona, this day was and still is a big date as the USS Arizona became the first shi ...
4 Dec 2012 - Street Roots
From Land Ho to Right 2 Dream Too, a look back from one year on By Leo Rhodes Checking my e-mails and working on some of my project in the Street Roots office, I was interrupted by an excited vendor. He asked if I had seen an article in The Portland Tribu ...
10 Oct 2012 - Street Roots
Plaintiff in camping lawsuit puts award toward homeless campers By Joanne Zuhl, Staff Writer Leo Rhodes, one of nine plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the city over homeless camping, says he will take his small payment from the settlement and give it to, we ...
13 Sep 2012 - Street Roots
Right 2 Dream Too more practical than political By Leo Rhodes, Contributing Columnist In 2009 when I first came to Portland, I came to rest from all the advocacy I had done in Seattle. A friend came to me and showed me minutes from the Coordinating Commi ...
18 Nov 2011 - Street Roots
Street Roots honored by Portland's Veterans For Peace Leo Rhodes, (above) Street Roots vendor, board member and columnist, recently accepted an award from the Portland Chapter of Veterans For Peace for the paper’s ongoing work to raise awareness abou ...
9 Aug 2011 - Street Roots
Vendor Leo Rhodes helps open the Bud Clark Commons [caption id="attachment_5301" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Commissioner Nick Fish, former Mayor Bud Clark and Executive Director of TPI Doreen Binder"] [/ ...
2 Jun 2011 - Street Roots
Poetic Justice: Street poets break down stereotypes and prejudice with the power of words By Devan Schwartz, Contributing Writer The audience is quiet. Lights rise slowly, backlighting the stage. There are silhouettes of men and women seated there. A woma ...
12 May 2011 - Street Roots