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Street Roots • Nov. 10-16, 2017 Page 3 O p in io n Every penny counts toward making a difference If you wool upporting Street Roots has never been more important. only poverty, but the environment, the criminal justice system, race and more. Street Roots isn’t afraid to tackle hard When you give a donation to Street subject matters and deliver readers Roots you’re sending a message that you important information that helps support still believe in humanity. You’re sending a solutions to the problems we face as a message with your money. In community. this edition of When you support Street Roots you’re Street Roots, you’ll supporting the idea that homeless people find an envelope on aren’t lazy and that, yes, in fact, each one of page 5 to give a donation. Five us has something to contribute to society. dollars. Ten. Twenty. Your support of Street Roots means that One hundred. Every no matter what’s happening in the world, penny counts. You that people still do believe in can also humanity. We believe that give a donation to Street Roots together, given the through the Willamette Week opportunity, we will do the GivelGuide at giveguide.org or right thing and support one Street Roots is online at streetroots.org. reader-supported. another through hard times. Why give to Street Roots? Your donation, no We will stand up to injustice. First and foremost, Street Roots provides income matter how small We will stand up in the face of hate with love. We will march opportunities for people or large, means on, regardless of the experiencing homelessness the world to us. and poverty. We build hardships we face both relationships across class and individually and collectively. political lines through the I encourage all readers to sales of the newspaper. think about the newspaper Regardless of where you come you’re holding in your hands. from or where you’re going, What it takes to create and maintain such Street Roots believes that each and every quality content every single week. What it one of us play a part in making our means for people on the streets to have the community and our world a better place. publication to sell, to survive and to Your investment in Street Roots means improve their quality of life. giving to in-depth, grassroots journalism in Street Roots is reader-supported. Your a time when propaganda is flooding the donation, no matter how small or large, airwaves. It means supporting hundreds of individuals on the streets who refuse to give means the world to us. It means believing in humanity. Thank you for your up, regardless of how hard the howling winds blow outside. It means being a part of consideration, your readership and your something bigger than ourselves. support. You are a part of the difference. Street Roots continues to shape public You are a part of the solution. opinion in Portland around the issue of not S Israel Bayer is the executive director o f Street Roots. You can reach him at israel @streetroots. org or follow him on Twitter @israelbayer. to have something coie@streetroots.org Operations Director Sarah Beecroft Program Assistant Caeiin Miltko, Jesuit Volunteer Vendor Assistant Scott Jackson, Alex Gilbw-Wiles Development Assistant Rosemary Wilson Editorial Producer Monica Kwasnik Senior Staff Writer Emily Green Reporters Sarah Hansell, Leonora Ko, Emilly Prado, Jared Paben, Amanda Waldroupe, Stephen Quirke, Helen Hill Photographers Diego Diaz, Arkady Brown Canvasser Desmond Hardison Board of Directors Chairman Brad Taylor Vice-Chairman Rachel Langford Treasurer Heather Stadick Secretary Dan Jones Directors Michael Anderson, Sandra Hahn, John Brown, Nets Johnson and Alison Hallett Volunteers Jan Bayer, John Barker, Stacey Heath, Anjali Rathore, Zoe Klingmann, Dan Jones, Dennis Hogan, Monica McKune, Susan Wolfe, Lucas Hawthorne, Thomas Buell Jr., Jason Cohen, Doug Spangle, Susannah Kamala, Jon Raymond, Diana Richardson, Paul and Madeline Gefroh, Mary Anne Joyce, Del Shawn Davidson, Gillian Floren, Mark OIDani, Bianca Butler, Alex Cherin, Jenny Farres, Evan Firsick, Camber Hansen-Karr, Miranda Woods, Henry Brannan, Megan Smith, Luke Scheuermann, Helen Hill, Lily Krai, Mary Emerson, Brooke Anderson, Kathleen ■L • ■ .■ 1 = ¥ • '■ ’x • ; ■ I - > -I- . 7 - McFall, Robb Hengerer, Bronwyn Miles, Maile Yeats- Rowe, Erin Parsons, Bridget Brown and Megan Pickerel-Winer. If you're interested in volunteering with Street Roots, please submit a volunteer P H O T O BY COLE M ERK EL Street Roots vendors A ngie Rebensdorf, Paulette Bade and Aileen McPherson. application at streetroots.org/volunteer. Or you can call for more information at 503-228-5657.
