The Calculated Assault of Suicidegirls. com

News Selena Hoover was walking into a calendar store at Lloyd Center in December the first time it happened. Two young men were pointing and talking about her. A sylphlike 19-year-old with almond-shape ... More

Wednesday, March 19, 2003 Amy Roe

Billboard Beef

News Animal-rights activists thought last month's Diabetes Expo 2003 was a perfect opportunity to highlight the link between obesity, diabetes and the consumption of meat. But Portland's billboard comp ... More

Wednesday, March 5, 2003 Amy Roe

Tough Lesson for Young Activists

News When high-school students walked out of class earlier this month to protest an impending war with Iraq and cuts to education, they got a police escort, television coverage and face time with the m ... More

Wednesday, February 19, 2003 Amy Roe

A Parodic Quest Misfires

News The editors of Reed College's student newspaper were asked to step down when a parody based on the popular website Hotornot.com misfired, drawing charges of racism. "Academic or not?" a full-page ... More

Wednesday, February 19, 2003 Amy Roe

Reading, Writing & Radicalization

Students, connecting the dots between books and bombs, plan their own Liberation School.

News Politicians in D.C. are preparing to wage war with Iraq, but in Salem legislators have already dropped the bomb, laying a direct hit on Oregon's education system. Coincidence? Portland high-school stu ... More

Wednesday, February 5, 2003 Amy Roe

The Fix

How do you keep an addict from getting pregnant? Pay her.

News Sidebar: Death of a "Crack Mother"Sidebar: Left to their Own Devices Last month, Heather Keithley, 21, went to Planned Parenthood on Northeast Fremont Street. Inside the clinic she lay down on an ex ... More

Wednesday, January 29, 2003 Amy Roe

He Says He Wants a Revolution

A former ELF figure defends the historic role of violence in social change.

News Craig Rosebraugh has an incendiary message for fellow activists: Violence may be necessary to achieve political change in America."We must use a range of tactics, legal and illegal, violent and nonv ... More

Wednesday, January 8, 2003 Amy Roe

War at the Peace Institute

News When former congresswoman Elizabeth Furse endorsed Republican Sen. Gordon Smith's re-election bid in October, she set off a feud with the Oregon Peace Institute--the nonprofit group she founded in ... More

Tuesday, December 24, 2002 Amy Roe

A THIN LINE BETWEEN LOVE AND FAITH

What happened when Cameo Garrett fell for a monk?

News About once a month, Cameo Garrett locks the door of her Tualatin apartment, gets into her pale blue 1994 Toyota Corolla and drives 31 miles to Mount Angel to sit at the corner of College Street an ... More

Wednesday, December 18, 2002 Amy Roe

No Sweat Shopping

...For Peace on Earth-niks

Special Section Gift Guide No. 1-- gifts over $50, published Dec. 4, 2002 Gift Guide No. 2 -- winter fashions, published Dec. 11, 2002 contents Stocking Stuffers Toys Books and ... More

Wednesday, December 18, 2002 Amy Roe