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Lawsuit: Grants Pass criminalizes homelessness while offering no shelter

them up no matter where they sleep or sit, telling them to “move along” and encouraging them to leave ... in Grants Pass that I can legally sit or rest. I have been repeatedly awakened by Grants Pass police ... found her lying in a sleeping bag at Riverside Park. Her original fine was $590, but she couldn’t pay ...

25 Apr 2020 - Emily Green
A Frayed Knot, Afraid Not

the Painted Desert sitting in the dark of their front room lit only by a kerosene lamp, as they had no ... I miss all those things. Now, she lies in the churchyard of the humble white clapboard church her ... is. Sitting in my grandparents’ home on the Navajo Nation, lit only by that kerosene lamp, the room is ...

29 Nov 2019 - Jacqueline Keeler
Extra! Extra!

Judge: Sit-lie still unconstitutional: Another judge, another ruling against the city- same problem as ...

25 Jun 2009 - Street Roots
Housing advocate Art Rios fought the system; now he fights within it

for weeks, asking then-Mayor Tom Potter and the City Council to suspend the city’s sit-lie and camping ...

19 May 2016 - Amanda Waldroupe
Life on the Streets: Faith and spirituality

lying on the table in the trauma room. I thought I was dreaming. And then I came back to life, and ... sitting on a sidewalk with his head down. “When I asked him if he needed anything, he said he would like ...

27 Sep 2019 - Helen Hill
Martin v. Boise confronts excuses about homelessness, demands action

that is an unavoidable consequence of being homeless — namely sitting, lying, or sleeping on the ...

12 Apr 2019 - Sara K. Rankin
An unprecedented crisis in the U.S. immigration courts

administration. In her capacity as president of the NAIJ, Tabaddor is the only sitting judge with leeway to speak ... you think about the word “court” and the word “judge,” and that is where our problems lie. We have ...

6 Sep 2019 - Helen Hill
Street Roots vendor profile: ‘Perfect love’

a fence and a tree. Sitting in there with our cat, in the rain, we just cried. Where are we? Where do we ... homeless people,” Tammy said. “It was a bad winter. We almost had a suicide pact. We would just lie there ...

23 Aug 2019 - Helen Hill
Her cry from inside the occupation: Janna Jihad is a voice for Palestinian children

The 13-year-old Palestinian journalist and activist sits down with Street Roots to share her ... growing up under occupation. Her small village is a hotbed for activism. Sixty percent of Nabi Salih lies ...

9 Aug 2019 - Emily Green
For Australian scientist Tim Flannery, the climate crisis feels personal

a sports complex the school badly wanted – that led to us both accepted back to sit the HSC. They were the ... change. They can’t get a free ride anymore, such as by lying about climate change and continuing to ...

5 Aug 2019 - Katherine Smyrk