SR editorial: Keep pushing Occupy... There’s a lot of white noise enveloping the Occupy Wall Street movement, but one truth still resonates: OWS has awakened a sleeping giant, and despite tense confrontations, the menacing numbers of riot police, and eve ...
30 Nov 2011 - Street Roots
The Occupy Homeless Movement From the artist, Ronnie Goodman: “The print I call The Occupy Homeless Movement is about the persecution of being homeless. It’s also about my life having to deal with rats and bedbugs that you may encounter being homeless. Bu ...
30 Nov 2011 - Street Roots
Labor unions join Occupy Movement today [caption id="attachment_6196" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Protesters block Steel Bridge, photo by Israel Bayer"] [/caption] Labor unions led the way in the latest O ...
17 Nov 2011 - Street Roots
Calling City Hall, Occupy Portland on housing... In spirit, the Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Portland protests over the past five weeks are about creating social change, locally and nationally, on a range of policy matters from poverty to foreign wars. F ...
11 Nov 2011 - Street Roots
Occupiers can learn from those who succeeded before By Devan Schwartz, Contributing Writer I opened Augusta Dwyer’s “Broke but Unbroken: Grassroots Social Movements and the Radical Solutions to Poverty” on October 6th. It was the morning Occupy Portland b ...
4 Nov 2011 - Street Roots
Another piece of occupied land: People’s Park More than 40 years on, the creation of People’s Park remains an inspiration for modern movements by Mary Pacios, Contributing Writer The year was 1968, the place Berkeley, Calif. When eco-activist Chuck Herric ...
4 Nov 2011 - Street Roots
Taking space to dream [caption id="attachment_6084" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Photo by Nat Needham"] [/caption] By Amanda Eckerson, Contributing Writer On the corner of Third and Main Street, a village ...
25 Oct 2011 - Street Roots
Occupy Portland, Jobs With Justice to bridge Portland, Vancouver Occupy Portland activists say they will be joining with Jobs With Justice in a joint march across the Interstate 5 bridge tomorrow to "connect struggles on two sides of the river." ...
21 Oct 2011 - Street Roots
Occupy Portland visits Right to Dream Too Around 200 people marched from the Occupy Portland headquarters in SW Portland to the Right to Dream Too rest area tonight. The group listened to homeless individuals, including two Street Roots vendors who talked ...
18 Oct 2011 - Street Roots
Occupy Portland sends open letter to city officials in support of homeless Occupy Portland has sent the following letter to city officials... This open letter from the General Assembly of Occupy Portland affirms our solidarity with the homeless people in ...
18 Oct 2011 - Street Roots