The 13-year-old Palestinian journalist and activist sits down with Street Roots to share her perspective on what’s happening to children in the West Bank Sounds of explosives reverberate in the background of the video posted to Facebook on April 20, 2018. ...
9 Aug 2019 - Emily Green
While Clackamas County Community Court rolls out a new program, Multnomah County’s counterpart goes through the motions Kalea Fischer of Sandy went to Clackamas County Community Court a week ahead of her scheduled appearance to ask the judge for an extens ...
2 Aug 2019 - Emily Green
Fresh from another trip to a Texas detention center, Sen. Jeff Merkley reminds Americans that children are being detained for extended periods, denied basic needs and separated from their families Simply “do the math” to see how the Trump administration h ...
26 Jul 2019 - Emily Green
While the agency encourages people to call if they suspect animal abuse or neglect, the vast majority of complaints it receives are unfounded After sitting in traffic for a half-hour, we arrived at Southeast 35th Avenue and Yamhill Street. It was an unsea ...
12 Jul 2019 - Emily Green
The inmates' attorney plans to file an amended complaint alleging unconstitutional use of segregation A lawsuit filed in April 2018 on behalf of two Oregon prisoners alleging unconstitutional use of solitary confinement by Oregon Department of Correc ...
28 Jun 2019 - Emily Green
Programming at p:ear in Portland promotes self-esteem, which is critical to psychological well-being, according to research by a PSU grad student Jonny Perez was deeply depressed, feeling as if he were “nothing” when, two years ago, he first walked into p ...
21 Jun 2019 - Emily Green
Street Roots’ former director is recognized for his advocacy, which he’s continued since leaving the newspaper Israel Bayer, Street Roots’ former executive director, was awarded an honorary doctorate from Portland State University on Sunday, June 16. The ...
21 Jun 2019 - Emily Green
Her new book, 'Elderhood,' reveals a reality in which doctors receive little training in the complexities of treating the elderly With improvements to health care and quality of life in the 20th century, the American life expectancy lengthened. ...
14 Jun 2019 - Emily Green
Oregon has had a moratorium on nuclear energy facilities for 40 years, but legislators are considering whether to explore the potential in small modular reactors to meet greenhouse gas reduction goals Tucked into a bill calling for additional data collect ...
7 Jun 2019 - Emily Green
The progressive pundit talks to Street Roots about his new book highlighting American’s history of firearms, which have been a tool of oppression for centuries, he says Literally nowhere, at any time, under any circumstances – even remotely – did any of t ...
31 May 2019 - Emily Green