Domestic violence: A zero-possibility addiction by Julie McCurdy, Contributing Columnist Looking back, I was addicted to possibilities. I think that kept me locked into a 32-year-long pattern of domestic violence. The names of my partners and a listing of ...
24 May 2012 - Street Roots
Reflections from the frontlines, armed with empowerment The Great American TARP Tour was a session of workshops and demonstrations organized by the Western Regional Advocacy Project. Volunteers and staff from Street Roots and Sisters of the Road participa ...
15 Sep 2011 - Street Roots
On fear and transitioning out of the concrete jungle By Julie McCurdy You know, I think the thing that all of us have in common is fear — a thousand unruly forms of it. Wherever we are, there is fear to be faced. Becoming unhoused turned me feral. That is ...
22 Jun 2010 - Street Roots
Festival of Resistance Regular Street Roots columnist and Right 2 Survive member Julie McCurdy (she also has a poem and column in the current edition) wanted to invite readers out tomorrow to the Festival of Resistance, a celebration and preparation to ta ...
30 Apr 2010 - Street Roots
Diaries of the Disenfranchised: Optimism is not an early riser As I sit here perusing the park, several things occur to me. Number one: Nothing much has changed. The police, in my opinion, are still getting away with killing unarmed people, as we see from ...
11 Mar 2010 - Street Roots
Together, we forge a movement By Israel Bayer Street Roots Executive Director Street Roots, along with allies at Sisters Of The Road and Community Alliance of Tenants, took a monumental road trip to San Francisco for the Western Regional Advocacy Project’ ...
26 Jan 2010 - Street Roots
Cries of solidarity leave this marcher speechless By Julie McCurdy Contributing Writer I was asked the other day by a very well-intentioned woman about the “face” of homelessness. She asked if I could describe a “typical” homeless person. I looked at her ...
25 Jan 2010 - Street Roots
Women stand together in defense of latest attacks From the Dec. 25 edition of Street Roots It isn’t often that I get the opportunity to write about positive things anymore. But here's the thing. I have recently witnessed my community stand as one and ...
7 Jan 2010 - Street Roots
Help SR name a new column and educate ourselves about racism all in one In this week's Street Roots we published a Letter to the Editor, in which an avid reader, and elder from the Watoska Band of Ramanichal took offense to the liberal use of the wor ...
3 Nov 2009 - Street Roots
The Urban Gypsy From the June 12 edition of Street Roots I’m sitting here, looking around my city, hard pressed. I still feel that Portland is full of potential and possibilities. I wait with the patience of a newly awakened predator. For people’s smiles ...
25 Jun 2009 - Street Roots