News
Street Roots vendors to showcase painted pottery
Street Roots vendors have become naturals in painting pottery for the Gather:Make:Shelter project, filling the office with original new designs. The vendor office has been jam-packed each Thursday for the painting sessions, led by Gather:Make:Shelter founder Dana Lynn Louis. Potters from regional art schools have contributed more than 500 bowls for the project, and vendors…
Dior Vargas: Mental illness not just ‘a white person thing’
Dior Vargas is a Latina feminist mental health activist whose work has appeared in publications such as Forbes, Newsweek and The Guardian, and whose many awards include the White House Champion of Change for Disability Advocacy Across Generations. But in 2014, before any of this, she was searching for a way to be more active…
Star power: A walk of fame for Native people
There is only one Indigenous person on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame: Jay Silverheels, the Mohawk actor who played Tonto in the original Lone Ranger. Only three Indigenous people are featured on Canada’s Walk of Fame. These facts stood out to filmmaker and Aboriginal Peoples Television Network Producer Steve Sxwithul’txw (pronounced Swee-thult). How can a demographic…
Former foster youths lobby to improve transitions for their peers
Foster care youths past and present are drawing on their own traumatic experiences to help create policies to improve the system – and they have a fresh list of ideas for 2019 lawmakers. “My experience taught me a lot about how screwed up our systems are,” said Elsana, a 23-year-old who is still struggling to…
Culture
Drugs of Deutschland: Nazis, fascists and methamphetamine
Winston Churchill was utterly flummoxed. The German Army’s unexpected Blitzkrieg through France was an astonishing act of audacity that drove the Allied armies to the brink of disaster at Dunkirk. German tanks and foot soldiers kept on charging forward as though they had no need to sleep and refresh what had to be their collective…
Star power: A walk of fame for Native people
There is only one Indigenous person on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame: Jay Silverheels, the Mohawk actor who played Tonto in the original Lone Ranger. Only three Indigenous people are featured on Canada’s Walk of Fame. These facts stood out to filmmaker and Aboriginal Peoples Television Network Producer Steve Sxwithul’txw (pronounced Swee-thult). How can a demographic…
Housing
Locking down Portland’s short-term rentals
Portland is “on the cusp” of reaching an agreement with Airbnb to have the short-term rental company share its listing data with the city, a spokesperson for Mayor Ted Wheeler said. It may sound like a simple technicality, but this gap in information has held Portland back from effectively monitoring the runaway industry and enforcing…
Opinion
SR editorial: Portland Clean Energy Fund is the right thing for the people
When the air is thick with the smoke from forest fires, it is people on the streets who have to breathe that air day and night. They are the ones most punished by extreme heat, extreme cold, storms – the troubling weather of a disrupted climate. And when people live inside houses, it’s the poor…
