News
Unions picket Amazon site
Behind a metal fence on a once desolate lot, construction crews excavate solid rock, erect thick steel beams and pour concrete for long hours in the day in a rush to complete a warehouse that, in a year, will be the third-largest Amazon fulfillment center in the country. In front of the metal fence, more…
Vendor Profiles
Street Roots vendor profile | Good people make good community
Street Roots Vendor Melissa Hansen is tenacious. Her resilience in the face of adversity is apparent as she recounts the many challenges she has faced in the last year, which required her to pause selling the paper. But she’s back now, and she wants her customers to know it. “I got sick for two months…
Opinion
Opinion | Big finance continues to threaten our survival
Acording to defenders of the status quo, the best response to our most serious problems is to let markets work their magic. That is certainly the line that big finance is pushing when it comes to our ever-worsening climate crisis. A case in point is the growing popularity of ESG investing, which stands for Environmental,…
Kaia Sand | Wealthy, white Oregonians reap the state’s largest housing subsidy
The largest government subsidy for housing in Oregon does not help people exit homelessness. Rather, it benefits high-income, white, urban Oregonians, according to an audit of the state’s Home Mortgage Interest Deduction this month by Secretary of State Shemia Fagan and the Oregon Audits Division. The state is losing more than a half-billion dollars annually…
Culture
Mic Crenshaw finds peace pursuing creative work, but it’s not always easy
Mic Crenshaw often fantasizes about how humans would be in a world where everyone’s biological needs were met and if they had the time to simply exist — not just working to survive. As a long-time community activist, educator, artist and father, Crenshaw wonders how people would think and behave if humans were allowed to…
Gang of Four is on the road again
Gang of Four have aged well. That’s because of the band’s music — clattering, sometimes funky, ahead-of-its-time art-punk that has never stopped being a frame of reference for contemporary bands in both the U.K. and America. But it’s also because their work served as a political critique — not so much “protest songs” à la…
