Street Roots editorial Jim and Street Roots’ Vendor Coordinator Cole Merkel started around the same time. Jim was a Street Roots vendor. Cole was a Jesuit Volunteer a year out of college and looking to make a difference in the world. For more than a year, ...
25 Apr 2013 - Street Roots Staff
A conversation with Portland’s sultriest chanteuse Liv Warfield By Sue Zalokar, Contributing Writer Sultry, smoky, soulful and smooth – sentiments that flow effortlessly between the tone and timber of Liv Warfield ’s amazing voice. She is a Portland origi ...
25 Apr 2013 - Suzanne Zalokar
By Ann-Derrick Gaillot, Contributing Writer On any given day at the Red and Black Café, an anarchist, worker-owned vegan restaurant at the corner of Southeast 12th Avenue and Oak Street, you can find people from all walks of life enjoying good food and a ...
25 Apr 2013 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
The NAYA Native American Literature class has been studying the history of Celilo Falls, shown at right, and the impact of the building of the dam on Native communities. Students wrote two-voice poems, capturing two perspectives on the building of the dam ...
24 Apr 2013 - Street Roots Staff
Mission Continues helps returning veterans reconnect with their community through service By Robert Britt, Contributing Columnist It’s been five years since I left Iraq. Five years since I stepped off that flight carrying me and hundreds of others from th ...
24 Apr 2013 - Robert Britt
By Joseph Santos-Lyons and Victoria Demchak, Contributing Columnists I learned early that the question, “How are you?” could become profound. Elders would look into my eyes and ask me in such a way that I felt not only a deep connection, but had to answer ...
24 Apr 2013 - Street Roots Staff
Aries (March 21–April 19) It’s a strange world. If you know up from down this month, then you are well ahead of the rest of us. Stick with that. Taurus (April 20-May 20) It’s spring. BTW, it’s not. It’s still gloomy and wet and cold. At least the flowers ...
23 Apr 2013 - Soup Can Sam
Labor organizer Saru Jayaraman says that restaurants are the next front in the fight for food justice By Mike Wold, Contributing writer Fair trade, farm-to-table, locally sourced: Restaurant menus are replete with politically correct terms, but the kitche ...
23 Apr 2013 - Street Roots Staff
Report: Affordable housing remains out of reach for many Staff Reports Fewer available rental units, rising demand among renters and higher rents are putting greater stress on low-income renters. That’s according to the annual housing affordability report ...
23 Apr 2013 - Street Roots Staff
By Joanne Zuhl, Staff Writer They carpooled and packed into buses, wearing buttons in solidarity and some paired in matching T-shirts. More than 150 of them, of all ages, abilities and backgrounds, made the trip. They came for Housing Opportunity Lobby Da ...
23 Apr 2013 - Joanne Zuhl