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street roots
Jan. 7, 2011
That’s what
she said
A look back on some notable quotables
fro m Street Roots interviews in 2010
hat’s more important — losing the
lawsuit, or saving someone’s life
down the road? And their reaction,
historically, is always the same: Let’s worry
about the lawsuit and not worry about
public safety. Not only is it short-sighted, it’s
just wrong. That’s not what the community
wants. This is what the Police Bureau
wants, the lawyers, the
politicians. And it’s so • stunning because they’re everyday people.
short term, the gain,
But they are there and riding bikes. And as
to try to avoid a bad
you are aware, a bicycle and trailer for many
result in a lawsuit.
people have become a home.”
They didn’t avoid,
- Rob Sadowsky,
from their point of
Bicycle Transportation
view, a bad result in
Alliance, “Rolling
the Chasse lawsuit by
forward,” Oct. 1.
keeping the truth
away from the public
“I make a calendar
and by not disciplining
the officers. That’s not every year that
people put in their
what public safety
kitchens, and it’s part
should be ab o u t”
of the dialog in the
“kitchen community.”
— Tom Steenson,
Rob Sadowsky
The kitchen is where
Attorney for the Chasse
life happens — the meals and the nurturing
family, Chasse’s
in the family - and the art is part of that.
champion, ” November
It’s a quieter way to communicate, but it’s a
12.
part of daily life. A poster o r calendar on the
wall is welcomed into the home — not like a
“Revolution doesn’t
performance.”
usually work: It’s just
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Tom Steenson
Peter Buckley
that it’s the only game
- Nikki McClure, Artist, “The cuts and
in town. It’s like
complexities of Nikki McClure,” Aug. 6.
chemo: No one has
chemo for fun. You do
“I think the labor movement has been
it because it’s a last
• really negligent in the way they’ve dealt
ditch effort It may
with the immigration issue. Sensible
make things worse
organizing among labor unions would take
before it makes things
into account that they are dealing with
better. You do it when
transnational companies that have no
you’re desperate. 1 think that’s our situation
respect for borders. Whereas transnational
now. I mean, the economy’s dying. Forget
companies have been leapfrogging, going
about the economy: The
abroad as if borders
environment alone
were imaginary, labor
should be reason for
unions have been
revolution.”
stuck in a very old-
fashioned sense of
- Ted Rail, author
nationality.”
and cartoonist, “The
unmitigated gall of
-Jeffrey Kaye,
cartoonist Ted Rail, ”
Human rights activist
Nov. 5._
and author o f “Moving
Millions: How Coyote
“The war on drugs
Capitalism Fuels
has caused more
Global Immigration. ”
harm than good. If
From “Where we are
we had legalization
going wrong in the
and education about
immigration debate,”
what drugs do to
June 25.
people and the
consequences of
“We hold ourselves
using them, we would
up to these standards
be far more
— especially women: good mother, good
effective.”
looking, good in bed, good person. And
they’re impossible standards. So, really, it’s
- Oregon Rep. Peter Buckley (DAshland),
about holding yourself accountable to only
“Oregon’s Budding Future, ” Oct. 15.
yourself and just trying to be better all the
time. Be good and do good, and you know
“Bicycling can be perceived as a
the difference.”
privileged activity. In reality, when you look
at who is actually biking, you see a much
- Storm Large, Musician, activist, “Writ
different picture. You see people who have
Large,”
May 13.
no access to a car or money for a bus,
cycling to work or to find work. They are not
“There are people, particularly around
as blatantly out there. They don’t have the
food boxes, who have said “I organized the
bike tattoo or the fixed-gear bike. Some
food drive at my kids school last year. I don’t
might be riding on the sidewalk because
want to go get a food box.” P art of it is that
they feel safer. They might not be as visually
PHOTO BY LAURA DOM ELA
moment of listening and letting people work
through it, just to be able to talk about i t ”
- Liesl Wendt, Executive Director, 211 Info,
“You got questions. 211 has answers” April
28.
“The tragedy of dying alone on the
streets, separated from family and friends,
has always been something that is hard for
any one citizen to turn your heart away
from. It has been a very important way to
keep people aware of how deadly
homelessness can be.”
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- Jason Renaud, Mental Health .
Association of Portland, “Matters o f life and
death,” Feb. 19.
“City hall has always been a circus. The
question for the New Year is whether a
ringmaster will emerge who can corral the
animals into a coherent performance.”
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— Jim O’Connell, Doctor, homeless activist,
“Health and homelessness,”March 17
“My problem is that with the training
right now is that once a weapon has been
seen or reported by a police officer, it’s
likely at that point that someone is going to
get h u rt That means the officer is trained
to take action prior to the weapon being
actually produced. It’s alarming because in
many cases it’s a preemptive strike. Aaron
Cambell was distraught because his brother
had died, and was very emotional. The army
that showed up for this- call was ready for a
bank robber. They acted as if Aaron Cambell
was a bank robber, not an emotionally
distraught post adolescent”
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