Voz Workers Rights Education Project, Portland’s day laborer organization, was recently faced with a difficult decision: Either pursue a promising $75,000 grant through the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, or forfeit the money and stay in solidari ...
15 Jul 2014 - Joanne Zuhl
By Andrea Valderrama, Contributing Columnist “On August 12th, 2012 they arrested me around 2 a.m.,” the day laborer says. “I think they arrested me simply because they noticed I was Latino, but they wrote down it was for littering. The police officer told ...
6 May 2013 - Street Roots Staff
More than 200 people gathered today to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and to support housing and immigrant rights. Click on images to view the slideshow. MLK Sisters Of The Road VOZ Dignity Village Right 2 Dream Too Martin Luther King Jr. Print ...
19 Jan 2013 - Israel Bayer
The Portland World Cup brings together immigrants for community and competition By Alex Zielinski, Staff Writer It’s early evening at Northeast Portland’s Fernhill Park and the manicured soccer fields are swarming with cleat-clad players. As the hot summe ...
6 Sep 2012 - Street Roots
Local immigrant rights advocates seek protections against ‘Arizonafication’ Staff reports Human rights activists are campaigning to make sure Multnomah County doesn’t go the way of some parts of the country where “Arizona-style” policies have damaged im ...
2 Aug 2012 - Street Roots
Day Labor Center struggles with demand for work On a blistering cold December morning last Monday, 20 Latino people—all men, except for one woman—are sitting inside the non-descript mobile home that serves as Portland’s Day Labor Center. The sounds of peo ...
23 Dec 2009 - Street Roots
City bails on funding Visions Into Action- PSU picks up the slack (Kerfala Bangoura ("Fana") performs outside City Council Chambers as audience members file in to testify on behalf of the Visions Into Action program.) The City Council hearing on ...
10 Jun 2009 - Street Roots
Immigrant workers face extremes of economic crisis Published in the May 1 edition of Street Roots Growing up in the riverfront manufacturing town of St. Helens, Yesenia Sanchez knew only a handful of other Latino families. Born in Oregon to Mexican immigr ...
13 May 2009 - Street Roots