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2022 Elections | Portland City Council and City Auditor’s race

median income housing and a range of self-governing shelters like Right 2 Dream 2 & Dignity Village, ... climate change and climate justice? We have an obligation to make the right decisions to ensure we are ... cultural resources and tribal treaty rights. I stood united in affirmation of the city of Portland’s ...

7 May 2022 - Street Roots
Kaia Sand | We are responsible for giving our unhoused neighbors good options

Village more than two decades ago and we have long championed Right 2 Dream Too, Hazelnut Grove and other ... gift today. © 2022 Street Roots. All rights reserved. | To request permission to reuse content, ...

13 Apr 2022 - Kaia Sand
Street Roots vendor profile | Richard Winkowitsch acts with kindness

help others, too. “Everybody in Portland loves Street Roots,” he said. “There are good people here. ... fishing with his dad. Those times are some of his fondest memories, and he dreams of fishing again one day ... Walleye, Bass, you name it. We used to catch carp, too, and those suckers are huge. I once caught ...

2 Mar 2022 - Dylan Jefferies
Arantza Peña Popo wants to tell your story right

pandemic, Arantza Pe ñ a Popo found time to create the comics she had been dreaming up for years. Primarily ... "Filling the Void." (Illustration by Arantza Peña Popo) Peña Popo: Right now, I’m kind of in a lull ... an artistic block with the comic. I was thinking, ‘I don’t know if I’m telling this story right ...

2 Feb 2022 - Kanani Cortez
Opinion | ‘Why Scribes?’ The long, ancestral journey that led me to change my name

name, the one I answer to daily, the ground was not so much as conceded but rightfully seized by Ms. ... been in that class a short time before while relaying the lessons of Civil Rights. Caught between the ... Fisk but ended up at the University of Oregon. It was at Fisk that the Civil Rights era was carved onto ...

9 Feb 2022 - Donovan Scribes
Kaia Sand | Unhoused people must have a voice in policy

undertaken as an organization. Too much policy that impacts the lives of unhoused people is written without ... been channeled through the ambassador program, dreamed up and managed by Raven Drake, who began as ... “around an agenda that includes living wages, health care, strong anti-poverty programs, voting rights and ...

2 Feb 2022 - Kaia Sand
Meet the artists changing the narrative around student homelessness

artwork. I’m really interested in the dream life and the subconscious and mythology that speak to the ... story might affect how I told the story too much, so we decided to just go off of the source material ... manuscripts, you know, when you look at an old illuminated manuscript is not too far off from really what ...

5 Jan 2022 - Kanani Cortez
Kaia Sand | The Making of the Street Roots Holiday Zine

and the imagination that expresses dreams, and expresses the hard realities too. Read the zine as ... this: for five dollars, buy the zine ($4) and the newspaper. Vendors accept tips, too, and you can pay ... gift today. © 2021 Street Roots. All rights reserved. | To request permission to reuse content, ...

1 Dec 2021 - Kaia Sand
Housing for the People | Stories from the frontlines

have a place to call home. That must be the American dream, embracing our values for a caring economy ... right thing and invest in building, maintaining and preserving affordable housing in America. The need ... that had mold spores on it. We had no family in the area, and I was too humiliated to tell my closest ...

24 Nov 2021 - Mindy Woods and Mandee Seeley
City can’t say when they will plan, build Safe Rest Villages

Boden said. “Governments are co-opting the community model to meet their needs.” The Right 2 Dream Too ... self-managed outdoor shelter sites in Portland. One example is the Right 2 Dream Too (R2D2) shelter in ... decision making and operating the shelter. (Photo by Taylor Griggs) Right now, there are several ...

27 Oct 2021 - Taylor Griggs