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street roots
Education *f)ialogue* Independence
Photos by Steve Liss
IN OUR OWN
BACKYARD
heSe photos, by award-winning Time
Magazine photojournalist Steve Liss, are
part of a powerful collection of images
that chronicles the plight of regional poverty in
modern-day America. “In Our Own Backyard:
U.S. Poverty in the 21st Century” is a free
exhibit, open to the public, mounted in the
Plaza Foyer of the Portland Hilton, 921 SW
Sixth. Ave., from 10 a.m. on Thursday, Sept 24
until noon on Saturday, Sept 26.
The exhibit will serve as the backdrop for Hie
Catholic Charities USA 2009 Annual Gathering,
“Journey to Reduce Poverty in America.” There
will be an opening reception for Liss, Thursday,
Sept. 24, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in the Portland
Hilton’s Pavilion Ballroom, adjacent to the Plaza
Foyer.
Catholic Charities USA is collaborating with
the organizers of the exhibit to assign a visual
cue to its goal of cutting poverty in half by Hie
year 2020. This is one of nine exhibits
throughout the country Reflecting the face of
poverty from the immediate region. To reflect
the universality of the situation, none of the
photographs in the exhibit are labeled as to
people, place or time.
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