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Kaia Sand | Camp sweeps solve nothing — but upcoming budgets could help

OPINION | How should Portland and Multnomah County funding be spent for what is, in fact, a diversity of needs?
By
Kaia Sand
May 26, 2021
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Street Roots Podcast | Kim McCarty: Government needs to step up to protect renters

Episode 19: Oregon must extend the eviction moratorium, the Community Alliance Tenants director says
By
DeVon Pouncey
May 25, 2021
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Street Roots Podcast | Escalation of sweeps rattles Portland’s unhoused community

Episode 18: Several residents with a stake in the increased police presence discuss its impact on the West Coast
By
DeVon Pouncey
May 25, 2021
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Opinion | Portland, it’s time to ensure equal access to bathrooms

Pops, a Street Roots staffer and former vendor, has faced harassment in public restrooms, as have so many other trans and gender non-conforming people
By
Kat Wasula
May 19, 2021
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Opinion | A queer teen’s story of activism

‘Black queer femmes need to be the center of everyone’s advocacy,’ says Ben Louis, an organizer of PDXQueerFront
By
Ben Louis
May 19, 2021
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Opinion | TeTe Gulley helped me learn how to forgive myself

The last time columnist Ga lo Vann saw her, it was on the news: The Black trans woman had been found hanging from a noose in a tree
By
Ga lo Vann
May 19, 2021
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Editorial | We need to talk about anti-trans violence

Portland has been a refuge for transgender people fleeing atrocities elsewhere, but we must recognize where we are still failing these members of our community
By
SR editorial board
May 19, 2021
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A badge is seen on a Portland police officer's uniform

Opinion | Changes to Portland police union contract are possible with impasse

Accountability is lacking, but we have an opportunity to make a difference
By
Hannah Saiger
May 12, 2021
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Barbed wire fence

Opinion | In Oregon, prisoners learn violence, not rehabilitation

Even nonviolent offenders accept the culture for the sake of their survival, a state prisoner explains
By
Basim Floro
May 12, 2021
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Kaia Sand | Empathy is built through Street Roots’ journalism and vendors’ prose

OPINION | When writers provide familiar details, they help us make sense of unfamiliar experiences
By
Kaia Sand
May 12, 2021

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