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Opinion | ‘Bigger than me and larger than life’

With lessons learned from time unhoused, Gary Barker strives to support others I came back to life in a time of trouble. It was 2019, and I was sitting in my apartment on Sandy Boulevard, out of my mind, and frankly, near death. I was tied up in a hell ...

18 May 2022 - Gary Barker
How one organization in Ukraine is assisting those searching for safety

Narodna Dopomoha, an aid organization based in Chernivtsi, near Romania, has worked with displaced people in Ukraine since the initial conflict in the Donbas region was instigated by Russian military forces in 2014 The International Network of Street Pape ...

9 Mar 2022 - Tony Inglis
Opinion | ‘We have to go beyond people just attaining housing’

Larmarques ‘Misha’ Smith on their journey from temporary to stable housing In 2010, I did a year of service with Americorps for the Homeless and Housing Coalition of Kentucky and the Kentucky Domestic Violence Association. I learned a bit about homelessne ...

2 Mar 2022 - Larmarques “Mis...
Mutual aid gives refugees in Germany a fresh start

A new pilot project taps volunteers to help refugees settle in Germany. The recipe for success? Responsibilities are shared among many people. “ Fertig!” This was first word that Hibo Mohamed learned of this, to her, very foreign language. Because Germans ...

5 Jan 2022 - Ulrich Jonas
Seeking change through Black cosplay

Tif von Batsy takes up space as a Black cosplayer, subverts cosplaying norms Standing in a blue striped leotard with large ethylene vinyl acetate foam wings protruding from her back and sharp pointy horns sticking up from her head is a female cosplayer wh ...

29 Dec 2021 - Adrian Michael
Housing for the People | Stories from the frontlines

Mandee and Mindy write about their firsthand experiences with homelessness and the urgent need for affordable housing Mandee Seeley spent three of her five years in Oregon without a home, living in the national forest with her husband and two children. Fo ...

24 Nov 2021 - Mindy Woods and Mandee Seeley
‘Sorcerer Jackl’ tells a dark chapter in Salzburg’s history

German street paper, Apropos, delves into what really happened 340 years ago in Salzburg By the end of the story of the sorcerer Jackl, 167 people had died. But nobody ever found Jackl. And yet he, the 20-year-old Jakob Koller, was the reason why the wors ...

6 Oct 2021 - Wilhelm Ortmayr
Albanian Roma fight for their rights

Young Roma activists are fighting for a better future, calling for education access and political representation The demonstrators had nothing left but anger. They were holding up images of what used to be their homes. Bulldozers caved in the plastic corr ...

29 Sep 2021 - Astrid Benölken and Tobias Zuttmann
Olympics star Eliud Kipchoge: ‘Running is freedom’

‘Kipchoge: The Last Milestone,’ documentary details an Olympian's mission to run 26.2 miles in under two hours “ Running is a democratic space. ” So says the greatest male marathon runner of all time. Eliud Kipchoge recently became the first man in ...

15 Sep 2021 - Adrian Lobb
Opinion | Confronting inequity in the homeless system requires immediate action

And the government must help, writes the executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless Donald Whitehead is executive director of National Coalition for the Homeless. “This is no time … to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.” — Dr. M ...

21 Jul 2021 - Donald Whitehead