The Future of Climate Change is Here
The unprecedented is quickly becoming precedented. Climate change is well on its way to creating an unprecedented housing and refugee crisis. The devastating aftermath of Hurricane Helene in Western North Carolina, as well as this year’s fires in Los Angeles,...
The Aid Crisis in Gaza
How hunger and displacement in the Middle East mirrors the same issues back home. When we think of fundamental human needs, shelter and food are two of the most basic ones. A safe, comfortable place to live and having enough food is a baseline metric for...
The Importance of Food Justice
Food justice is a movement that draws on environmental justice, racial equality, and various social movements to address hunger in an equitable and comprehensive way. As a social justice organization that works to address hunger on a daily basis, food justice is an...
Public Schools, Public Good
A strong education system benefits everyone. Every child deserves a high-quality education. Unfortunately, not all educations are created equally. Inequality in a variety of different spheres plagues the education system in the U.S., giving different students...
Culture, Colonization, and Hawai’i’s History
The Hawiian Islands have an extensive human history dating back to over a thousand years ago when Polynesians arrived by canoes. With them they brought livestock and seedlings, helping them to establish their new home.1 Throughout the centuries following their...
From Field to Landfill
How inequitable food systems cause harm. Food is one of the most vital parts of life. It sustains us, gives us energy, and nourishes our bodies. It is a basic right and need for every human being. Unfortunately, food has become a commodity. The systems that...
Mass criminalization undermines autonomy of Portland residents
Portland, Oregon is no stranger to the interconnected issues of poverty, homelessness, and drug addiction. An annual government count found that roughly 6,000 Multnomah County residents are currently experiencing homelessness. The reason people end up unhoused is not...
The Beginning of a Movement
Traci Rossi is the executive director of Friends of the Children Portland, a nonprofit organization dedicated to children.
The Youth of Our Future
In the midst of the Black Lives Matter Movement, she has become one of the young activists taking to the streets in demand of change. Arieanna Morehead is no stranger to the normalization of racism.
A Legacy of Activism
Recent Portland State graduate Sharona Shnayder has co-created Tuesdays for Trash, dedicated to cleanups, education and community outreach.