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“The Dream” is a bronze sculpture
dedicated to Rev. Martin Luther King,
created by Portland artist Michael F.
Dente. The statute is next to the Oregon
Convention Center on Northeast Martin
Luther King Jr. Blvd. Photo is by Mark
Washington/The Portland Observer.
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Ibrahim Murbarak has spent his life living on and off the streets. He believes all humans should
have the right to shelter and food, a principle he supports by providing downtown Portland’s
“houseless ” a temporary place to sleep and eat.
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Prophet of the City’s Streets
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Abandoned, beggared, bum,
derelict, druggie, down-and-
out, estranged, forlorn, for
saken, homeless, houseless,
needy, outcast, poor, uncared-
for, unwelcome, squatter,
vagabond, vagrant, wanderer.
The words our society gives
a person without a place to live
can be stark and sometimes
offensive, but one man who
goes by the name Ibrahim
Mubarak is a prophet of sorts
among street people by argu
ing there is only one descrip
tion for the people he helps.
“We are all human,” says
Ibrahim Mubarak.
Wearing a hat and sun
glasses and dressed in a l o
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Islamic robe with a drawstring UP to 90 people a night take shelter at the homeless-run shelter
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Right 2 Dream Too, located in an abandoned comer lot on
Northwest Fourth Avenue and West Burnside Street.