camps, actions commonly referred to as “sweeps.” On average, the city sweeps about a hundred camps ... that impose draconian policies targeting the poorest people in society. In “Cannot Sweep Nature,” she ... describes the aftermath of city contractors removing the camp where unhoused people reside. Cannot Sweep ...
20 Sep 2023 - Kaia Sand
by Vanessa Veselka (2020) Winner of the Oregon Book Award for fiction. This sweeping novel follows two half-sisters’ ...
23 Jun 2021 - Street Roots
sweeps of unhoused residents in the city. This movement inspired Christina Tran to apply to the Portland ...
19 Jan 2022 - Sarah Hansell
belongings and trash. A camp of just a few tents was swept earlier that day. The sweeps are getting more ...
29 Sep 2021 - Karly Quadros
but it’s an enormous net that sweeps in millions of people every year based on minor, low-level ... are more specific, but they sometimes do the same work. They end up sweeping in poor people, people of ...
22 Feb 2019 - Emily Green
a sweeping chronicle of the common people left out of historical works by scholars with a penchant for ...
30 Nov 2018 - Joe Martin
epidemic of HIV sweeping through the neighborhood. There was a whole lot of different health problems that ...
25 May 2018 - Joanne Zuhl