Israel Bayer

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  Israel signed the petition | 10 months ago

  We Need Your Leadership Now - Urge Our Senate to Support SB 97- Culturally Competent Health Care
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  Israel commented on the article | over 1 year ago

  Street Paper Loses Catholic Funding for Saying Planned Parenthood Exists

  Kell,

  
  

  Actually, we are proud partners with the Catholic Church. We work with and stand by the work of many of the parishes in Portland.

  
  

  We also list many Catholic charities, parishes and non-profits supported by the church in the guide. We also publish an array of other faith-based groups working with people experiencing homelessness and poverty.

  
  

  We were never ashamed to receive funds from the Catholic Chuch. We always stood by our relationship with the church, just like we stand by our relationship to work with any group working to dismantle poverty, including Planned Parenthood.

  
  

  The bureaucracy within the church can take our money for whatever reasons it deems necessary, but it can never take our will to collectively work together, Catholics and non-Catholics alike in Portland, to fight poverty. You simply can not break that will, at any cost.

  
  

  Israel Bayer, Executive Director, Street Roots

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

   

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  Israel signed the petition | almost 2 years ago

  Join the Street Newspaper Movement!
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  Israel commented on the article | about 2 years ago

  How to Streamline the Safety Net?

  Don't forget the Rose City Resource guide in Portland town. We publish 45,000 every six months that go to more than hundred groups, plus the website - all for around 50k a year - which is a pretty penny for some, but in the larger context, it's a drop in the bucket.

  
  

  http://www.rosecityresource.org/

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  Israel commented on the article | almost 3 years ago

  10 Key Players

  Yes, I'm biased, but I think you would have to add the Western Regional Advocacy Project to this list. 
  It would also be worthwhile to highlight the Without Housing report created by the organization. We are currently working on a similar project w/out Rights. 
  
  It's interesting that policy analysis, and the spin factor, for better or worse, almost exclusively comes off the Hill on the issue of homelessness and affordable housing. 
  Would love to see more highlights of what's happening on the ground, specifically on the West Coast, where in the Pacific Northwest street papers have radically changed the dialogue on the ground around homelessness and how the media covers the issue. 
  Additionally in the past five to eight years the West Coast has seen time and again tent city movements pop up (Portland, Seattle, San Jose, Fresno, Las Vegas, Reno, L.A.,etc.). Activism on the ground in every city on the West Coast is strong right now. More importantly it's united. Technology coupled w/strong community organizing efforts has allowed for better communication and messaging and created a dynamic that is effecting how things play out on the ground. 
  Just thinking out loud. 
  Fantastic website! 
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