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By Sara Hottman, The Oregonian, July 29, 2013 For decades, the sidewalk outside Portland City Hall has been home to a rotating population of protesters who push the limits of the city’s 32-year-old camping ban. Homeless campers stay for weeks or months to protest war, homelessness policies or the anti-camping law itself. Last week, in […]
By Paul Boden, for Street Roots, March 1, 2012 The Western Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP) and the USA-Canada Alliance of Inhabitants (USACAI) are calling on our members and allies throughout the United States and Canada to join us on April 1 for a bi-national day of action against the ongoing criminalization of poor and homeless […]
By Denis C. Theriault, Portland Mercury, March 01, 2012 It was about 9pm on a blustery, rain-soaked Tuesday night — and, yet, thanks to a horde of Mardi Gras revelers, Old Town was unusually festive. Precisely what happened next isn’t exactly clear, but the basic inflections of the story, told by a handful of different […]
Editorial published in The Oregonian, by Michael M. Moore, a board member of Sisters of the Road, October 19, 2010 The Oregonian’s “Hard Choices” series frames the problem of dwindling state resources coupled with increasing demand for state services as a trap from which our state must free itself. But there’s another trap we’ve created […]
Broad cross section of Portland groups calling for public involvement in police union talks and other reforms The Albina Ministerial Alliance Coalition for Justice and Police Reform is sponsoring a rally and march in at Pioneer Square in downtown Portland starting at 11:00a.m. on Saturday, September 25. In less than a year, Portland police have […]
From the Portland Tribune, December 18 2008 Report shows rise in homelessness – Successes shown by city’s ten-year plan appear to lose ground For the past two years, city officials have announced with pride that their 10-year plan to end homelessness was working. An annual one-night count of the homeless showed there were fewer people […]
From the Oregonian, August 21, 1997 Glasker Rankin has spent nearly half of his 42 years bouncing in and out of prison. But his time behind bars didn’t stop him from using drugs the minute he was paroled. The only lesson he learned: never visit your parole officer. READ – Glasker Rankin Jr., 1954- 2005 […]
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