Vendor Profiles
Street Roots vendor profile | ‘So happy to come back to work’
For Joe V., the five months of March to August without a print edition of Street Roots was tough. By June, he was actively lobbying the Street Roots staff. “I told them, ‘Look, man, I gotta get back to work. We need to get rolling.’” Street Roots and food stamps are Joe’s only income. He…
News
As law enforcement scours social media, protesters are catching on
With Portland at the center of the Trump administration’s push to quash protests and paint protesters as “violent anarchists,” law enforcement increasingly relies on social media to identify those involved, leading many to adopt stricter online practices. On July 31, an affidavit from Amanda Johnson, an agent at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and…
Interest in adopting children of color grows in Oregon
Bruce and Robbie Crowell, of Medford, were told white babies are the preferred choice in adoption because white couples want infants who look like them. Counselors at the adoption agency also told the couple that adopting a white baby could take years, but adopting a minority infant might mean a call within weeks. For every…
Farm labor amid today’s crises: ‘Exhausted, and I want to go home’
Erica Sanchez spent the end of her first season as a farmworker in Southern Oregon dodging historic blazes, bouncing from hotels and overcrowded labor camps and enduring a global pandemic. But she said what she really wants the world to know is that her life is boring. “When I open my eyes, I see pears.…
Opinion
Editorial | Strengthened by empathy in a time of unprecedented urgency
Summer ended this week, and what a summer it’s been. But if the trials of 2020 have shown us anything, it’s that we are standing on common ground. That may seem hard to believe, given this summer of division — between protesters and police, between political parties, between the housed and the unhoused. Street Roots…
Culture
Lee van der Voo on the landmark legal fight against climate change
For the past five years, 21 young people from across the country have wended their way through the court system as plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the federal government. They allege their constitutional rights to a livable planet have been violated and are demanding intervention from the courts to implement a climate remediation plan across…
Environment
Lee van der Voo on the landmark legal fight against climate change
For the past five years, 21 young people from across the country have wended their way through the court system as plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the federal government. They allege their constitutional rights to a livable planet have been violated and are demanding intervention from the courts to implement a climate remediation plan across…
