COMMENTARY | No More Deaths provides direct aid to desert travelers along the Mexico border, often operating outside of the official system — because ‘humanitarian aid is never a crime’ The first time I came across vandalized humanitarian supplies in a re ...
29 Dec 2016 - Colleen Sinsky
COMMENTARY | Death and desperation on the border The main street of downtown Nogales, Ariz., ends abruptly in a steel wall towering 20 feet above the colorful junk shops cluttering Morley Avenue. Historically, Nogales straddled the international border. T ...
3 Nov 2016 - Colleen Sinsky
COMMENTARY | Colleen Sinsky is helping rescue refugees on the island of Lesvos I was driving my small rental car, full of fellow volunteers and supplies, during a beach patrol shift when we got the call about a nearby boat in trouble. The engine of the sm ...
10 Dec 2015 - Colleen Sinsky
Colleen Sinsky reflects on the 2015 Housing Opportunity Day at the state Capitol in Salem, Oregon Most homeless people don’t care about politics. They just think that everything is "how it’s going to be.” This was my friend Mike, a grizzled veteran ...
19 Mar 2015 - Colleen Sinsky
My heart breaks each time I am listed as the sole “emergency contact” above a blank “next of kin” line on an apartment application. It is sadly not uncommon for people who have been homeless to lack even that basic human need: a reliable person to call wh ...
16 Aug 2014 - Colleen Sinsky