Extra! Extra! Smile and the whole world smiles with you! Give it a try, starting with your neighborhood vendor who is always happy to see you. The new paper comes out tomorrow, the first day of spring, and a perfect way celebrate is to pick up your copy h ...
19 Mar 2009 - Street Roots
Book Smarts Grassroots democracy comes by our own hands “Hegemonic Love Potion,” by Jules Boykoff. Factory School, Queens, NY, 2009 103 pages. By Jay Thiemeyer Contributing writer At a recent reading, Jules Boykoff, anarchist scholar and activist with Agi ...
23 Mar 2009 - Street Roots
Street Roots talks preserving minority affordable housing From the March 20 edition of Street Roots. The housing economic forces that affect North and Northeast Portland today are rooted in changes that began decades ago. In the late 1980s, the neighborho ...
1 Apr 2009 - Street Roots
It's a great day for street papers Thing 1: The New York Times reports on the growing interest in street papers nationwide, including Street Roots, Real Change in Seattle and Street Sense in Washington, D.C. Street Roots vendor Kevin Bynum and Managi ...
13 Apr 2009 - Street Roots
Extra! Extra! Tomorrow is May Day and Street Roots is marking the day and with a package of stories reflecting on the immigrant labor experience during these remarkable times. It’s the perfect read before or after the march, or on Saturday morning over co ...
30 Apr 2009 - Street Roots
Walking on an incline Hacienda CDC battles for supportive housing in Northeast Portland By Joanne Zuhl Staff writer It is not difficult to spot Hacienda CDC-supported housing. It is by design the most colorful housing in the Cully neighborhood — now 400 u ...
1 May 2009 - Street Roots
Immigrant workers face extremes of economic crisis Published in the May 1 edition of Street Roots Growing up in the riverfront manufacturing town of St. Helens, Yesenia Sanchez knew only a handful of other Latino families. Born in Oregon to Mexican immigr ...
13 May 2009 - Street Roots
Miracle theater takes community on a cultural journey '!Viva Pancho Villa!" shouts Pedro Gonzalez, relating the story of the Mexican Revolution to his son Albert Alcazar. Photo by Russel Young From the May 15 Street Roots. Fifteen years ago, wh ...
27 May 2009 - Street Roots
Street Roots wins honors from Society of Professional Journalists Street Roots writers Mara Grunbaum, Tye Doudy and Joanne Zuhl took home honors from the Oregon and Southwest Washington Society of Professional Journalists May 30. The event honors journal ...
1 Jun 2009 - Street Roots
The check is no longer in the mail Instead, 285 Section 8 recipients in Clatsop, Columbia and Tillamook counties got an eye-opening letter from the Northwest Oregon Housing Authority, or NOHA. The letters informed the tenants that as of July 1, they would ...
4 Jun 2009 - Street Roots