Past Issues :: 2006 July 14 :: Contents
[Cover Story]
Darfur is burning: Photographer Brian Steidle's eyewitness account of Sudan's genocide
The photographs sear the mind, haunt the spirit. A village aflame, oily black clouds rising. A helicopter gunship strafing civilians. Soldiers looting, burning food stores. … The photographs show the crimes against humanity committed … in a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing in Darfur, a remote region of western Sudan, Africa.
[Street Culture]
Street Roots joins global street paper movement
In June, the North American Street Newspaper Association, which includes Street Roots, was voted into the International Network of Street Papers at a conference in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The union of the two organizations brings the total membership to more than 70 newspapers worldwide.
[News]
County medical van makes house calls for the homeless
A new mobile medical clinic will deliver primary care services to homeless families and individuals throughout Multnomah County. The clinic, in the form of a 40-foot van, will provide medical care, lab and screening services at designated social-service agencies.
[Poetry]
Poetry From the Street
[Street Culture: Out Key Road]
Out Key Road, Part IV
A month or so ago I began reminiscing in Street Roots about the Atlanta Prison Farm, which everyone called 'out Key Road.' I resided there a time or two (in fact, five) during the '80s. In Part IV: One of an army of suddenly homeless, traipsing Ponce de Leon and Peachtree and looking for the glow, I get caught in the web of "Operation Clean Sweep."
[Column: Hungry in Portland]
Free information, the truth, shouldn't be such a hard sell
This week I found myself (again) on a street corner passing out fliers. I hoped to motivate the strangers who hurried along to pause and give real thought and consideration to an issue. Why are folks offended by free information?
[Column: Paul Rogat Loeb]
Generations graduate from dying for Nixon to dying for Bush
I admire those who fought in World War II. We owe them the debt of our freedom. But to die for Nixon's love of power, fear of losing face, deception and vindictiveness — to die for him — was obscene. And it's the same with Iraq.
[Column: Bob Healy]
Human dignity and respect are at the heart of Pride month
Every year, "Pride" is celebrated in hundreds of cities across the country and the world. Over the years, Pride has opened its doors to include the general public. Pride is all about everyone being proud of who they are, whether they are Latino, gay, Black, lesbian, Christian, Jewish, etc.
[News]
Oregon chocolate recall alerts public to lead hazards
Lead is probably the last ingredient people expect to find in their chocolate. But lead is sometimes found in chocolates, vinyl miniblinds, porcelain bathtubs, pottery, imported tin cans and many other products.
[News: The Big Issue Australia]
Crisis Point: HIV is pushing Papua New Guinea to the brink
At least 60,000 Papua New Guineans (around 1 percent of the population) are currently infected, and some pundits believe PNG could end up another South Africa, where almost 27 percent of the population is living with HIV.
[News: Real Change]
Ag workers alarmed over pesticide reports
In central Washington, concerned agricultural workers are learning to operate equipment to capture samples of airborne pesticides for laboratory analysis. In a 2004 study, more than three-quarters of farm workers in Washington said they had been sickened by pesticide exposure at work.
[Editorial]
Our role in the street paper movement
[Letters to the Editor]