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16 Street roots April 1, 2012 Support grassroots media! Support SR this spring! NÜTRU-ffîOrs, BUT NOT EÎTî LOOKS TO C O IN OS (TÍMATE OSASSE EVERYONE'S TASTE •it Q&te pxíaUy fa ' í&tf. nn&sfrilfct tàftsdfag. A conversation with What does Street Roots do for the community? ■ Street Roots publishes 26 editions of award-winning journalism, professional and gutsy commentary, along with highlighting those on the fringe. ■ Street Roots works with nearly 300 people experiencing homelessness and poverty to provide an income to imporve their quality of life. Giving people a hand up to both prevent and end their homelessness. ■ We publish more than 100,000 copies of the Rose City Resource Guide distributed by more than 200 organizations and institutions in the Portland region. ■ We are solution-based leaders on the housing and homeless advocacy front Thank you readers for supporting your local neighborhood vendor and all of our April Fools’ Please support us with a one-time or recurring donation this spring! Give at www.streetroots.org or by check made out to Street Roots, 211 NW Davis, Portland, OR. 97209 By H unter S. Thompson, Astrologist to the Stars! Aries (March 21-April 19) Hello there, lonely hearts. Hunter S. here, glancing down on the cesspool of humanity you have found yourself drowning in. It’s not all that bad. It actually looks much better from a distance. Oh, Ghandi just told me to pass along that saying about being the change you want to see, although he can’t seem to remember who said it. Taurus (April 20-M ay 20) Platitudes are i. safe, because they’re easy to wink at, but truth is something else again. G em ini (M ay 21-Ju n e 20) Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long. C an cer (June 21-July 22) Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaim ing- “Wow! W hat a Ride!” 211 NW Davis St. Portland, OR 97209 Leo (July 23-A ug. 22) I have a theory Sagittarius (Nov. 23-Dec. 23) If I’d written that the truth is never told during the nine- all the truth I knew for the past ten years, to-five hours. Hope this helps you. about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to fear — today. Absolute truth is a very rare and fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random dangerous commodity in the context of terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or fired professional journalism. because of the plunging economy, fear of getting evicted for bad debts or suddenly Capricorn (Dec. 24-Jan. 19) In a closed getting locked up in a military detention society where everybody’s guilty, the only camp on vague charges of being a terrorist crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, sympathizer. the only final sin is stupidity. Libra (Sept. 23-O ct. 22) In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upwardly mobile— and Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) The music the rest of us are fucked until we can put our business is a cruel and shallow money acts together: not necessarily to win, but trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves mainly to keep from losing completely. We owe that to ourselves and our crippled self- and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side. image as something better than a nation of panicked sheep. Pisces (Feb 19-M arch 20) No man is so Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) A man who foolish but he may sometimes give another procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably good counsel, and no man so wise that he lave his choice made for him by may not easily err if he takes no other circumstance. counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master. SUPPORT STREET ROOTS WITH A CONTRIBUTION OF: Return service requested. $35 $50 $100 $250 $500 $__ Send your check to: Street Roots, 211 NW Davis, Portland, OR, 97209 Street Roots is a 501 (c)3, nonprofit organization. Your donation may be tax deductible. Or donate securely online at www.streetroots.org
