Street Roots

for those who cannot afford free speech

Our Mission

Street Roots creates income opportunities for people experiencing homelessness and poverty by producing a newspaper and other media that are catalysts for individual and social change.

What We Do

Latest News

May
10

Extra! Extra!

Blue skies are headed our way this weekend. Perfect weather for a sweet tea and a good read, which is why you’re friendly neighborhood vendor will be ready with a fresh edition of Street Roots tomorrow morning. Here’s what’s rolling on the press right now:

Boarded up: Neighborhoods...

May
10

‘Domicile unknown’

By Joanne Zuhl, Staff Writer

Laurie Crow would have been 54 on Dec. 27, 2011.

Instead, she became one of 47.

Only a few weeks before her birthday, she died curled up in her sleeping bag in a meadow near Going Street. Her partner, Clarence, was next to her, awake and listening as...

May
10

Building a wiser — albiet older — queer community

By Kendall, Contributing Columnist

Kendall is a photojournalist working with Occupy Portland, writing for the Portland Occupier. She is also a member of Gay and Gray and Old Lesbians Organizing for Change. She holds a PhD in theater and is a retired professor.

In 1975, if you were a smart...