Posted Oct. 30, 2008
Change is coming, yes, but change arrives early with the latest edition of Street Roots, appearing this Friday in the sturdy hands of your neighborhood vendor. Check out the Oct. 31 edition, and remember – subscriptions make great stocking stuffers for your friends out of town!
Blazing a new trail: Brandon Roy wears lucky No. 7 but luck has nothing to do with it. Roy worked learned the value of hard work on the docks of Seattle and now is giving back to the community with a new focus on helping young adults with learning disabilities. Israel Bayer interviews.
Measuring our vulnerability: Amanda Waldroupe headed out with a crew of outreach workers to assess the health of the city’s homeless. This breakthrough event presents disturbing figures on the morbidity rate of our city’s most vulnerable.
Shelters package services with winter respite: The city is opening shelters for the winter, this time with a social service component to help more people get into transitional and permanent housing. Amanda Waldroupe reports
How agents of fear destroyed a UN refugee: Yassin Aref is serving a 15-year prison term for supporting terrorism, according to the FBI. John Hart reviews Aref’s book, ‘Son of Mountains,” in which he talks not only of being a refugee, but then being set up as a terrorist by the country he now calls home.
Canada’s eco-granny fights back: Betty Krawczyk is fighting the Canadian government for its policies regarding shutting down legal demonstrations and then bypassing laws that would give protesters legal recourse. Eerie!
Read also commentaries on the future of the GOP by Alejandro Queral, organized efforts to help prisoners and felons by Ruth Kovacs, and a whole lot more in the new edition of Street Roots!
Posted by Joanne Zuhl