Street Roots • Nov. 10-16, 2017
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only poverty, but the environment, the
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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
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solutions to the problems we face as a
message with your money.
In community.
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us has something to contribute to society.
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no matter what’s happening in the world,
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that people still do believe in
can also
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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
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think about the newspaper
Regardless of where you come
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What it takes to create and maintain such
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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
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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
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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
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Rowe, Erin Parsons, Bridget Brown and Megan
Pickerel-Winer. If you're interested in volunteering
with Street Roots, please submit a volunteer
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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.