Dear Friends,

Join us for Pitch a Tent 2018!!!

Pitch A Tent is an annual direct action event produced by Right2Survive that celebrates the resiliency of the houseless community while highlighting the hypocrisy of the city who allow housed folks to camp for the Rose Parade; all while conducting sweeps of houseless shelters.

Through music, speakers, fun and free food, Pitch A Tent is an opportunity to hear from the houseless community themselves and their efforts to make a better Portland for everyone.

Houseless and housed folks alike are welcome to help us send this clear message to the city: sweeping houseless folks, while promoting housed folks to camp for Rose Parade is hypocritical and dangerous.

This year Pitch A Tent will be held on Friday June 8th and runs from 10:30am 6/8 to 10:30am 6/9, with main events beginning Friday evening. (Schedule coming soon!) Everybody is welcome to camp! Free set up tents will be made available but donations are always needed!

Pitch A Tent is *free* but if you are able to help please check out ways to contribute below...

To make the 8th annual Pitch A Tent a great success we will need all hands on deck!

See facebook even here >>>>>>

***We will need a variety of volunteers. These range from Peace Keeping, Cross-Class Messengers, Food Prep, donations (food, gear, entertainment!) and Set Up/ Tear Down.
Please think about where you have natural skill and interest before signing up for a position, or more than one position.

To find out how you can volunteer/donate please PM us through our Facebook messenger.

Our BADASS friend is biking from Portland to San Francisco AND raising funds at the same time!
That’s really cool!

See facebook event here >>>>>>>

I'm biking from Portland, OR to San Francisco (that's 8 hundo miles!) and raising money for the Western Regional Advocacy Project along the way! If you think I'm a glutton for biking-punishment--then donate! If you think everyone deserves basic needs being met-- then donate! If you think the OR and CA coast are beautiful--then donate! If you believe in community organizing led by poor and houseless people--then donate! WRAP is a coalition that supports the organizing work of three ahhmazing groups of people in Portland that I feel very strongly about: Sisters of the Road, Street Roots, and Right 2 Survive. These non-profits are dedicated in their own unique ways to ending homelessness and poverty and believe wholeheartedly in houseless people leading that charge. WRAP ensures that our organizations are able to collaborate and connect in this shared struggle; it fosters a sense of community across city and state lines. Check out my first blog post about it here: https://shannonsbikeadventure.wordpress.com/2018/05/26/why-ride-for-wrap/ Badass people doing kickass work-- help me reach my goal!

Remembering George Mayes

May 8,1955 – May 3, 2018

I am being the best I can be
I am homeless
I am working
I am a carpenter
I am an artist
I am a poet
I am paying my way
I am a son
I am a brother
I am a friend

-George Mayes

If you’re lucky, you work with people who can turn a break in the day into a tiny vacation – people who create moments where work gives way to friendship and laughter. For Street Roots, that person was George Mayes.

All of us at Street Roots knew George as a great vendor and treasured friend, but in his passing we’re learning how much of an impact he has had on so many more people, as a mentor, friend and family man.

“George was a good uncle to me,” said Marcus Carson. “He taught me about being an independent man in world full of judgment, despair and destruction. He taught me how to drive. He supported me in any and everything that I wanted to do to advance in my life. All George wanted was to see me become successful and be good man and a good father.”

Read More >>>>>>>

Oregon Poor People’s Campaign - 40 days of Action Against Policy Violence!

WRAP is an endorser of the Poor People’s Campaign: National Call for Moral Revival and Oregon Poor People’s Campaign is in the midst of 40 days of action with 41 other states across the country and in our capital of WA DC. We’ve already had two powerful days of action in Salem - read more here. We are asking the lawmakers to stop creating policy violence that supports poverty, systemic racism, the war economy and ecological devastation.

The next days of action in Oregon are Monday, June 11th and Monday, June 18th. For more information go to poorpeoplescampaign.org and fill in the pledge form, go to OregonPPC on FaceBook or email Oregon@poorpeoplescampaign.org.