Past Issues :: 2006 July 14:: Contents
[Cover
Story]
Hobo 101: The down and out found strength and hope in Ben Reitman's Hobo College
If you are homeless or have an interest in the rights and history of the homeless, you need to know the story of Ben Reitman and the long-lost Hobo College. Founded in 1907, it was an unprecedented effort to address the needs of Chicago's down and out.
[News]
Renters group wants city to balance tenant/landlord relationship
It is a ceaseless, blinking beacon of distress and hope, flashing around the clock for the past 10 years in the office of Community Alliance of Tenants, or CAT. It is the tenants' hotline, channeling the complaints and concerns of renters from across the state of Oregon.
[Street Culture]
Ashamed!
Those Eyes
[Street Culture]
Out Key Road, Part V
In any event, by '85, I was living in a dead car, an old Valiant, belonging to this fella I met while bumming booze change. … It was the dead of winter, and I would drink a half-pint of 100-proof vodka and cover myself with this old Army blanket. At dawn I'd proceed to GSU law school to read briefs in the law reviews.
[Street Poetry]
Poetry
[Column: Hungry in Portland]
Action works when individuals awaken the larger solidarity
Three thousand people around the United States and the world fasted at least one day, July 4, 2006, in memory of the dead and wounded and calling for the return home of troops from Iraq. Among those who took part were Cindy Sheehan, Willie Nelson, Alice Walker and street roots columnist Ruth Kovacs.
[Column: Continuous Care for the Family Affair]
Outside In takes its healthcare program on the road
Pain from the indignity of living on the streets can be unbearable. Every day, some one cries out, and nearly every day the Outside In Healthcare for the Homeless Medical Outreach Program is there.
[News]
Homeless Soccer's countdown to Cape Town
Forty-eight countries are on their way to Cape Town, South Africa, for the fourth Homeless World Cup, with one goal in mind: to kick off global poverty and change their lives forever.
[News Briefs]
Housing event focuses on Native American housing needs; Homeless veterans seek their own Dignity Village in St. Louis; Summer food program gets $100,000 boost to feed kids; Northwest RAGE seeks summer volunteers
[Street News Service]
One year on: Are we making poverty history?
A year after the Gleneagles G8 meeting, a new report shows the way the world's leaders have failed even to live up to the "lukewarm" promises they made in Scotland last July. Leading Scottish campaigners claim a child still dies every 3.5 seconds due to poverty.
[Editorial]
G8 energy postures fall short of real leadership
[Letters]
A Fourth of July that will be difficult to forget
10-year plan guinea pig is reporting for duty
Advocates fear homeless 'clean ups' for G8 Summit
[Vendor Corner]