Public argues against extending Sit-Lie [caption id="attachment_1258" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="Leo Rhodes"] [/caption] Fritz and Fish insist they need time for further discussion City Council heard a w ...
29 Apr 2009 - Street Roots
Vendors corner: Leo Rhodes Homeless advocate Leo Rhodes moved from Seattle to Portland a couple of months ago to get some rest. He had become so preoccupied with educating people — politicians, journalists and school children — about homelessness that he ...
11 Jun 2009 - Street Roots
Vendor Leo Rhodes proofs his new column in the paper Leo Rhodes has been picked by vendors at Street Roots to be the organizations rep when working with the city and county on housing alternatives. He will be writing a monthly column about his experiences ...
7 Aug 2009 - Street Roots
Vendor Leo Rhodes: Portland was a place to rest — and renew street activism I have been in Portland since about the first week of March. I came from Seattle, Wash., where I started my advocacy on homelessness specifically for shelters and tent cities. But ...
20 Aug 2009 - Street Roots
The life of Leo Rhodes Leo Rhodes is a Street Roots vendor, columnist, board member and homeless advocate. His work has been highlighted in the newspaper throughout 2009. He sells the newspaper almost daily in the Hollywood neighborhood in Northeast and h ...
1 Dec 2009 - Street Roots
Vendor Leo Rhodes shares a common bond, poetry with Oregon Poet Laureate [caption id="attachment_3698" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Leo Rhodes, Lawson Inada, Kaia Sands"] [/caption] Last night, in the driz ...
4 Jun 2010 - Street Roots
Humor salves the soul and binds a family together By Leo Rhodes In the worst of times I always tried to find humor, to alleviate tension. Sometimes others did the same. After a three-hour meeting in one of Seattle’s tent cities — three hours of debating, ...
23 Jun 2010 - Street Roots
Memorial rededicated as part of Nikkei celebration [caption id="attachment_3960" align="alignleft" width="500" caption="Photo courtesy of Murase Associates"] [/caption] Street Roots vendor joins memorial with poetry ...
29 Jul 2010 - Street Roots
Poetic Justice: Street poets break down stereotypes and prejudice with the power of words By Devan Schwartz, Contributing Writer The audience is quiet. Lights rise slowly, backlighting the stage. There are silhouettes of men and women seated there. A woma ...
12 May 2011 - Street Roots
Vendor Leo Rhodes helps open the Bud Clark Commons [caption id="attachment_5301" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Commissioner Nick Fish, former Mayor Bud Clark and Executive Director of TPI Doreen Binder"] [/ ...
2 Jun 2011 - Street Roots