Jason, who is getting vaccinated, hopes he can travel to see his daughters this year Longtime vendor Jason Scheer first connected to Street Roots almost a decade ago because he needed the work and it beat working at a bar. He saw that Street Roots was hir ...
26 May 2021 - Jessica Hamilton
Rodney Stotts uses birds to help youths before incarceration, instead of responding to it R aised in Southeast Washington, D.C., during the crack epidemic, Rodney Stotts, now 50, became involved in illegal activities as a young person. But that was anothe ...
26 May 2021 - Monique Wilson
These groups are working to create safe and accessible spaces for people of color May 30 to June 5 is Black Birders Week, aimed at increasing recognition of Black birders, the racism they experience and the importance of diversity in outdoor activities. T ...
26 May 2021 - Joanne Zuhl
The state has done little to protect its coastal communities from catastrophe B ack when Oregon’s positive cases of COVID-19 could still be counted on two hands, Jay Wilson, the former chair of Oregon’s Seismic Safety Policy Advisory Commission (the earth ...
26 May 2021 - Chris May
STREET SMART ECONOMICS | This research legitimizes efforts in Portland and beyond to defund the police C onsiderable research shows that oppressive economic and social conditions are bad for one’s mental and physical health. A number of studies have also ...
26 May 2021 - Martin Hart-Lan...
Get this funding into the hands of those who provide direct social services Samm McCrary is a housing advocate who advocates with Residents Organizing for Change, Here Together, REACH and Central City Concern. The best time for legislators to act on behal ...
26 May 2021 - Samm McCrary
A long-sought memorial honoring hundreds of Chinese immigrants and people with mental illness whose graves were paved over is coming to fruition S ixteen years ago, officials discovered what some people had long suspected: a neglected corner of Southeast ...
26 May 2021 - Christen McCurdy
Planned Parenthood Advocates of Oregon will continue to work together in solidarity across movements to fight for justice An Do serves as executive director for Planned Parenthood Advocates of Oregon. T his month, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Oregon c ...
26 May 2021 - An Do
OPINION | How should Portland and Multnomah County funding be spent for what is, in fact, a diversity of needs? How could the city of Portland possibly sweep unhoused people when there’s nowhere to go? And about those places to go — where and what should ...
26 May 2021 - Kaia Sand
Episode 19: Oregon must extend the eviction moratorium, the Community Alliance Tenants director says On this episode of the Street Roots Podcast, Kim McCarty, the e xecutive director of the Community Alliance of Tenants, joins host DeVon Pouncey to discus ...
25 May 2021 - DeVon Pouncey