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Kaia Sand | Carry forward nightly demands in the daylight of work and policy

OPINION | Reimagine Oregon offers a roadmap to justice we can all follow I biked down to the waterfront to take in a key protest gathering space, Salmon Street Springs, in the daylight. Like all over downtown, art remains. A painting of Quanice Hayes on a ...

7 Aug 2020 - Kaia Sand
Kaia Sand | Roll the presses! Street Roots is returning, and you can pay with Venmo

Starting Aug. 12, readers will have a cashless option for purchasing the newspaper from vendors, who will all be trained in new health and safety protocols Hundreds of Street Roots vendors have weighed in. Nearly 700 of you, our readers, took our survey. ...

31 Jul 2020 - Kaia Sand
Kaia Sand | The flywheel has flown off the handle

OPINION | Reflecting on the poetry of Daniel Cox and its reverberations through these difficult times Daniel Cox handed me a thick packet of paper from a notebook, folded in half. Poems. “I miss people,” he said softly. Kaia Sand is the executive direc ...

24 Jul 2020 - Kaia Sand
Kaia Sand | Counting unhoused people in the 2020 Census is crucial

OPINION | Under the direction of Street Roots staffer Mallory Smith, our vendors are helping unhoused people take the Census Pops cleaned off a laptop, readying it for the next Census taker. Mask on and wearing a turquoise t-shirt announcing, “We Count St ...

17 Jul 2020 - Kaia Sand
Kaia Sand | Oregon should overturn all verdicts delivered by non-unanimous juries

OPINION | Street Roots has joined others in asking the state to retroactively apply the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling Mike was finishing up paperwork behind the desk in the vendor office to pay vendors on the action team for outreach to camps deliverin ...

3 Jul 2020 - Kaia Sand
Portland Street Response is funded, and its success is up to all of us

DIRECTOR’S DESK | The people with the most at stake must continue to guide the process for this program that Street Roots championed The Portland City Council vote to fund Portland Street Response is a victory for Jim, who told me that when his “brain itc ...

18 Jun 2020 - Kaia Sand
We must not let up on the call for justice

DIRECTOR'S DESK | Portland’s City Council has a chance to change the city's legacy of prioritizing police over its Black residents’ well-being Portland City Council members will meet at 2 p.m. Thursday to determine how the city’s budget of $4.4 ...

10 Jun 2020 - Kaia Sand
As police increase Old Town presence, Street Roots vendors focus on learning their rights

DIRECTOR’S DESK | ACLU of Oregon provided Know Your Rights training in response to concerns from unhoused people Street Roots vendors were spaced around the office wearing masks, some jotting notes. They were participating in a Know Your Rights seminar co ...

29 May 2020 - Kaia Sand
Survey: Moving into motels, hotels is top choice of unhoused people

DIRECTOR’S DESK | Street Roots and four partner organizations asked 97 houseless Portlanders where they’d prefer to live temporarily during the pandemic Over the past few weeks, the Street Roots vendor-led Coronavirus Action Team fanned out, offering unho ...

22 May 2020 - Kaia Sand
People who struggle need more direct cash from the federal government

DIRECTOR’S DESK | Street Roots is connecting impoverished people with cash assistance, stimulus checks and tax credits, but it’s not enough These days, I think about money a lot. Where is it, and how can it get into the pockets of poor folks? An antidote ...

15 May 2020 - Kaia Sand