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
Memorial rededicated as part of Nikkei celebration [caption id="attachment_3960" align="alignleft" width="500" caption="Photo courtesy of Murase Associates"] [/caption] Street Roots vendor joins memorial with poetry ...
29 Jul 2010 - Street Roots
Humor salves the soul and binds a family together By Leo Rhodes In the worst of times I always tried to find humor, to alleviate tension. Sometimes others did the same. After a three-hour meeting in one of Seattle’s tent cities — three hours of debating, ...
23 Jun 2010 - Street Roots
Vendor Leo Rhodes shares a common bond, poetry with Oregon Poet Laureate [caption id="attachment_3698" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Leo Rhodes, Lawson Inada, Kaia Sands"] [/caption] Last night, in the driz ...
4 Jun 2010 - Street Roots