Search results | Street Roots

Results

Susan Emmons and her beautiful career

COMMENTARY | Portland’s leading advocate for affordable housing is retiring from her role as executive director of Northwest Pilot Project Portland is losing one of its most treasured and unique assets as Executive Director Susan Emmons retires from North ...

27 Oct 2016 - Martha Gies
The price of peace for S. Brian Willson

COMMENTARY | A new documentary tells the story of the Portland peace activist and Vietnam veteran “We have assumed the name of peacemakers,” wrote the Rev. Daniel Berrigan, the beloved Jesuit prophet, author and activist who died in April, “but we have be ...

28 Jun 2016 - Martha Gies
Portland author's dream a long time in the making

Harold Johnson, a longtime teacher and poet, aspired to write a novel. Decades later, his goal has come to fruition. Last fall, Portland poet Harold Johnson launched his novel at Broadway Books, and a standing-room-only crowd filled the Northeast Portland ...

28 Apr 2016 - Martha Gies
An impenetrable force: Reflecting on the Portland police union, past and present

In the new documentary “ Arresting Power,” which premiered at the Northwest Film Center in January, there is a 1981 film clip of Portland police commissioner Charles Jordan in heated dialogue with outraged citizens protesting a blatant act of racial haras ...

24 Feb 2015 - Martha Gies
O’Keefe Sober

In September 2012 the snazzy new Blanchet House opened, leaving the original three-story brick building alongside looking forlorn. Over the 60 years that the Catholic Worker-inspired program operated there, at the corner of NW 4th and Glisan, nearly 16 mi ...

15 Jan 2014 - Martha Gies
Susan Emmons one of the city’s seers

Thanks for the interview with Susan Emmons and for archiving online the important talk she gave at First Congregational Church. Better than anyone in Portland, Emmons tells the story of how this community contributed to the numbers of homeless people by ...

7 Dec 2013 - Martha Gies
Hungry for Justice: Guantanamo Prison

A personal perspective on the humanitarian crisis at Guantanamo Prison By Martha Gies, Contributing Writer On Sunday, March 24, in response to an email I’d received the day before, I quit eating. Witness Against Torture (WAT) had proposed a Holy Week fast ...

23 May 2013 - Martha Gies
The vets came to town: An immersion into the anti-war movement at the Veterans for Peace National Conference

The vets came to town: An immersion into the anti-war movement at the Veterans for Peace National Conference By Martha Gies, Contributing Writer There was not much promise in the week beginning August 1. On Tuesday, following the Congressional battle over ...

30 Aug 2011 - Street Roots
Mark Hatfield's 1989 speech resonates in Pioneer Courthouse Square

Mark Hatfield's 1989 speech resonates in Pioneer Courthouse Square By Terris Harned Contributing Writer A crowd of approximately 40 people showed up at Pioneer Square today to listen to a recitation of a speech delivered by former Oregon senator, Mar ...

2 Aug 2011 - Street Roots
Every time we say goodbye, or what I've learned about relocation

Every time we say goodbye, or what I've learned about relocation [caption id="attachment_4375" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="A lodger caught in the closure of the Royal Hotel"] [/caption] by Martha G ...

26 Nov 2010 - Street Roots