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International Vendor Week spotlight: Mauricio from Mexico City

The Mi Valedor street paper vendor urges people to get the support they need Nearly 10,000 vendors in 34 countries sell street papers, including Street Roots. Feb. 4-10 is the International Network of Street Papers’ Vendor Week (#VendorWeek), celebrating ...

1 Feb 2019 - Street Roots
International Vendor Week spotlight: Jackie from Washington, D.C.

The Street Sense street paper vendor reminds us we're all beautiful Nearly 10,000 vendors in 34 countries sell street papers, including Street Roots. Feb. 4-10 is the International Network of Street Papers’ Vendor Week (#VendorWeek), celebrating vend ...

1 Feb 2019 - Street Roots
International Vendor Week spotlight: Larmarques from Denver

The Denver Voice street paper vendor says you never know what people have been through Nearly 10,000 vendors in 34 countries sell street papers, including Street Roots. Feb. 4-10 is the International Network of Street Papers’ Vendor Week (#VendorWeek), ce ...

1 Feb 2019 - Street Roots
International Vendor Week spotlight: Julie from Vancouver, B.C.

The Megaphone street paper vendor is no stranger to activism Nearly 10,000 vendors in 34 countries sell street papers, including Street Roots. Feb. 4-10 is the International Network of Street Papers’ Vendor Week (#VendorWeek), celebrating vendors’ work in ...

1 Feb 2019 - Street Roots
International Vendor Week spotlight: Wanda from Toledo

Toledo Streets' Vendor of the Year is patient, kind and wise Nearly 10,000 vendors in 34 countries sell street papers, including Street Roots. Feb. 4-10 is the International Network of Street Papers’ Vendor Week (#VendorWeek), celebrating vendors’ wo ...

1 Feb 2019 - Street Roots
Giving up our privacy without much thought

BOOK REVIEW | In ‘Privacy: And How To Get it Back’ author B.J. Mendelson says we’re up against the power of apathy in a battle which only wealthy tech companies win The problem with universal basic income is that proponents haven’t suggested a good source ...

10 Aug 2018 - Megan Wildhood
Tech tools profile, police and punish the poor

BOOK REVIEW | ‘Automating Inequality’ by Virginia Eubanks shows how technology is stacked against the marginalized When politicians and business leaders talk about using technology to streamline service provision to the poor, they conjure up an efficient, ...

3 Aug 2018 - Mike Wold
Leaving LGBTQ+ out of 2020 census perpetuates inequality

COMMENTARY | Sexual and gender minorities are not counted by the Census Bureau, keeping many issues facing those communities out of sight and mind The Census Bureau keeps track of how many people speak Gaelic, how many employees the greeting card industry ...

3 Aug 2018 - Matthew Caruchet
Ursula K. Le Guin's radicalism of imagination

BOOK REVIEW | Although the author has left us, her essays validate that her acuity, wit and perception are eternal In your spare time, what do you do?” That question on a survey elicited this response from writer Ursula K. Le Guin at age 81: “I... don’t k ...

27 Jul 2018 - Mike Wold
Family planning is a basic human right

COMMENTARY | This is also 'central to women’s empowerment, reducing poverty and achieving sustainable development' It has been five decades since the international community affirmed the right to family planning, but many women still remain unab ...

27 Jul 2018 - Tharanga Yakupi...