Culture
Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards has spent decades making trouble
It started relatively small: A black felt armband worn to her Texas grade school as part of a nationwide protest of the Vietnam War. Cecile Richards was only 13 at the time, and it was her first big leap into the resistance. For her act of rebellion, she was summoned by the principal, who promptly…
News
Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards has spent decades making trouble
It started relatively small: A black felt armband worn to her Texas grade school as part of a nationwide protest of the Vietnam War. Cecile Richards was only 13 at the time, and it was her first big leap into the resistance. For her act of rebellion, she was summoned by the principal, who promptly…
50 years after King’s assassination, his Poor People’s Campaign re-emerges
Fifty years after the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. envisioned a mass movement for economic equality, activists are working to reignite the flame of the movement. In February, revival of the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign began a six-week period of national activism. Demonstrators in more than 30 states and Washington, D.C., met in their…
April 4 events to mark 50th anniversary of MLK assassination
On April 4, 50 years ago, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated while standing on a balcony outside his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn. King had traveled to Memphis to stand with the local chapter of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) after two African-American…
Oregon groups sue USDA for dropping animal welfare rule
Attorneys at the Center for Food Safety’s Portland office have taken the lead in a lawsuit filed against the U.S. Department of Agriculture in California’s Northern District. Plaintiffs in the case, which include the nonprofit Cultivate Oregon and two other West Coast food safety groups, allege the USDA violated laws governing its own policy processes…
Vendor Profiles
Street Roots vendor profile: Drummer found new rhythm at SR
On a Thursday morning, Ron Sanford begins his shift as a Street Roots vendor with a smile and a stack of newspapers. For a chilly, wintry Portland day, Ron is sensibly dressed in a plaid jacket, light-wash jeans and a cherry red and white Street Roots knit hat. Through his gravelly rock ’n’ roll almost…
Environment
Oregon groups sue USDA for dropping animal welfare rule
Attorneys at the Center for Food Safety’s Portland office have taken the lead in a lawsuit filed against the U.S. Department of Agriculture in California’s Northern District. Plaintiffs in the case, which include the nonprofit Cultivate Oregon and two other West Coast food safety groups, allege the USDA violated laws governing its own policy processes…
Portland ‘Valve Turner’ Leonard Higgins spared prison
Leonard Higgins, 66, is not going to prison for his role in the most expansive takeover of fossil fuel infrastructure ever attempted in the United States. On March 20, a district court judge in Chouteau County, Mont., handed Higgins a three-year deferred sentence, along with a $4,280 bill for restitution and court fees. It’s welcome…
Housing
Director’s Desk: Plans for Portland’s future must not neglect the poor
Holding out a lime-green lava lamp and a brown belt, a man asked whether Street Roots vendors might be able to use these items he found discarded on the sidewalk. He couldn’t use the lava lamp, he explained, because he was homeless himself, so he didn’t have access to an outlet. And the belt, well,…
Opinion
Director’s Desk: Plans for Portland’s future must not neglect the poor
Holding out a lime-green lava lamp and a brown belt, a man asked whether Street Roots vendors might be able to use these items he found discarded on the sidewalk. He couldn’t use the lava lamp, he explained, because he was homeless himself, so he didn’t have access to an outlet. And the belt, well,…
Editorial cartoon: March 30, 2018
Portland native Elizabeth Considine is the creator of Street Roots' editorial cartoon, Sheeptoast. Want to see more Sheeptoast cartoons? VIEW OUR GALLERY Street Roots is an award-winning, nonprofit, weekly newspaper focusing on economic, environmental and social justice issues. Our newspaper is sold in Portland, Oregon, by people experiencing homelessness and/or extreme poverty as means of earning…
