Israel Bayer

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  Israel commented on the petition | 7 months ago

  Williamson County Stands for The Contributor and the First Amendment

  Street newspapers are an essential part of the community, and deserve to have a place in your city.

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  Israel signed the petition | 7 months ago

  Williamson County Stands for The Contributor and the First Amendment
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  Israel signed the petition | 9 months ago

  Cultural Competency for All of Oregon (SB97)
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  Israel commented on the article | over 2 years ago

  Street Papers: The Story Behind the Stories

  Well SlumJack, I do respect your opinions, but I have to disagree on the panhandling aspect. 

  
  

  While some cities and street newspapers possibly struggle w/adequate staffing, therefore creating barriers to publishing when an individual gets ill, for example, that doesn't represent the vast majority of the papers. 

  
  

  I can't speak for the Bay area, but I've worked at Real Change (weekly) in Seatown, and am currently w/SRs (byweekly) in Portland. Both papers are having an impact locally, and we know people (homeless included) are reading them on a regular basis. Same goes for Nashville, D.C., Boston, Chitown, Denver, Montreal, Vancouver, etc., etc...

  
  

  To say that a newspaper vendor is standing around asking for money and using papers as "cover" is, well, just plain wrong, respectively.