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  1. A toolkit for pushing back against ageism

    BOOK REVIEW | ‘This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism,’ by Ashton Applewhite The oldest baby boomers turned 71 in 2016. Since boomers have a reputation for being involved with social movements, it’s not at all surprising, as they hit retirement age, ...

    26 Jan 2017 - Mike Wold

  2. Together, ex-Seattle street paper editor, vendor unearth a purpose

    The Olympic National Park holds amazing things — including signs to a troubled future I’m not much of a hiker, so when Bryant Carlin forged off an established trail in Olympic National Park and led me through a tangle of moss and Pacific fern, I had to sp ...

    3 Sep 2015 - Rosette Royale

  3. Re-issued memoirs detail author’s bleak, Irish upbringing

    Book review: Martha Long’s “Ma” series shows her genius for storytelling and phenomenal memory for details There are certain expectations that go with genres. A memoir set in Ireland about a girl growing up in poverty evokes the image of lovable alcoholic ...

    3 Sep 2015 - Mike Wold

  4. Frederick Douglass' journey to the Emerald Isle

    Book review: 'Giant's Causeway' by Tom Chaffin Frederick Douglass is a colossal presence on America’s 19th-century stage. An impressive black man, his electrifying oratory excoriated the injustice of slavery polluting this nation’s avowed a ...

    27 Aug 2015 - Joe Martin

  5. Living with death: Book Review: 13 Ways of Looking at the Death Penalty

    Author’s argument against capital punishment is compassionate and thought-provoking, but could go deeper If you’re going to put somebody to death for a crime, you’d want to be sure they’d committed it, right? Yet prisoners, guards, chaplains, lawyers and ...

    26 Jul 2015 - Mike Wold

  6. Director's Desk: Street papers worldwide unite around common mission

    Delegates from street papers around the world gathered in June for the INSP Global Street Paper Summit in Seattle Did you know that Street Roots is part of a growing global movement? The International Network of Street Papers (INSP), based in Scotland, su ...

    3 Jul 2015 - Israel Bayer

  7. Children of the core; Jesse Hagopian discusses his new book on the drawbacks of standardized testing

    If you’re not in some way involved with public schools, you may not be aware of the explosion of standardized testing in schools over the past 10 years. Preparing for and taking these tests has significantly affected teaching and learning on all levels in ...

    28 Jan 2015 - Mike Wold

  8. Seattle physician and filmmaker Delaney Ruston spotlights the human cost of our mental health crisis

    About 450 million people live with mental illness worldwide and nearly one million a year die of suicide. Portland’s suicide rate is higher than the national average, according the Portland Police Bureau, and last year the city’s attention was drawn to Vi ...

    26 Mar 2014 - Robin Lindley

  9. Sweet shots

    Associated Press photographer Barry Sweet chronicles four decades of contemporary American scenes from the Pacific Northwest and beyond By Rosette Royale, Contributing Writer Our concept of contemporary history is forever married to the storytelling power ...

    30 Jan 2013 - Street Roots Staff

  10. ‘Sounding the deeps of his nature’ — Remembering Ted Jack

    ‘Sounding the deeps of his nature’ — Remembering Ted Jack By Israel Bayer, Staff Writer Ted Jack was a simple man. He lived a very complex and hard life. Born on a boat off the Alaskan coast into a youth spent in orphanages, Ted ran away from a world he w ...

    26 Nov 2012 - Street Roots

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