About me: Out of the Doorways was a Street Roots campaign to gather homeless people in protest of the lack of a permanent and safe place to sleep. Jack and core group set up camp on a parcel of public land, were given notice to vacate, packed up their shopping carts, paraded across town, and set up camp on another plot of land, picking up other protesters along the way. Rinse and repeat, and the snowball grew. The city and the media began to realize that they weren’t planning on disbanding, and the task of finding a solution was tossed from city to state and back again. Throughout, the protesters used the media and Kwamba Productions to voice our petition for a premanent site to settle the newly named Dignity Village. After long arguments, we were granted seventh tenths of an acre near the outskirts of Portland. Six years later we have evolved into a true Village, providing temporary housing, portalets, a shower, food and clothing donations, computer access, resource references, and a phone. We are operated by a council elected from members of the community, have worked out through the course of experience all the various kinks of our original bylaws, and have thus far been the only legally sanctioned and longest lasting tent city in America. We are currently expanding the original seven tenths of an acre to an acre and a quarter, and although our maximum capacity of sixty people has not increased, as we finish the new common area, office, shower facilities, dorms, and housing structures we may be able to expand that capacity when our contract with the city comes up for renewal in 2010.
For anyone interested in visiting, we are open to the public from 10 to 10 and are located at the end of the #10 Bus Line:
9401 NE Sunderland
Portland, OR 97211
(503) 281-1604
Who I'd like to meet: Bums of Stature, and all who share our wish to end homelessness. I am currently sending out friend request to everyone in Portland, as we've had a good scattering of publicity in the past but no consistent way of keeping our friends in the community up to date and involved. If you would honor us with adding this page to your top eight, it would make my work go much faster!
STRANGE MUSIC IN CONJUNCTION WITH DEADMAN PRODUCTIONS BRING YOU
From the ever-changing mind of Prozak comes the new album "Tales From The Sick" in stores 6/3/08. "Tales From The Sick" boils over with the visual and sharp-edged lyrical delivery of Prozak. "The Hitchcock of Hip-Hop" best describes this visionary MC, who explores the limits of the human psyche with graphic detail on tracks like "Keep Grindin’", "Scapegoat" and "Bombs Away". "Tales From The Sick" lets you see things from the psychotic side of Prozak. Featuring Appearances by: Cypress Hill, Twista, Insane Clown Posse, Tech N9ne, Bizarre and Blaze Ya Dead Homie. With Production by: Mike E. Clark, Michael "Seven" Summers, The Legendary Traxster, Robert Rebeck and others. Get yourself a good dose of Prozak and settle in with "Tales From The Sick" on 6/3/08.
STRANGE MUSIC IN CONJUNCTION WITH DEADMAN PRODUCTIONS BRING YOU
From the ever-changing mind of Prozak comes the new album "Tales From The Sick" in stores 6/3/08. "Tales From The Sick" boils over with the visual and sharp-edged lyrical delivery of Prozak. "The Hitchcock of Hip-Hop" best describes this visionary MC, who explores the limits of the human psyche with graphic detail on tracks like "Keep Grindin’", "Scapegoat" and "Bombs Away". "Tales From The Sick" lets you see things from the psychotic side of Prozak. Featuring Appearances by: Cypress Hill, Twista, Insane Clown Posse, Tech N9ne, Bizarre and Blaze Ya Dead Homie. With Production by: Mike E. Clark, Michael "Seven" Summers, The Legendary Traxster, Robert Rebeck and others. Get yourself a good dose of Prozak and settle in with "Tales From The Sick" on 6/3/08.
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Brothers and Siters! Peace to you and yours. And thanks for getting the awareness out.Blessings to you from someone who has suffered being homeless several times. The lord is holding you up and hears your prayers.I wish you a safe and happy Thanksgiveing. Peace and blessings to you all. Love ya, Joanna.
Hello Villagers! I hope you're all well. I'm still gonna come out there and bring you a CD of the radio show I did about Dignity Village. I've been super busy but I haven't forgotten. In the meantime, I hope some of you can hear it on my website.
Hi Everyone, Thank you so much for hanging out with the PEEPS crew. The kids really learned alot and loved hanging out with everyone. We hope to bring them back next year. Again, Thank you so much!
Hey Everyone, Hope you are all doing well. I've been hearing your voices in my head and the radio show is available now! Check my page for details and please let me know if you want me to drop off a CD or something. Thank you all for sharing your stories with me. I learned so much.
always wanted to go to homer. i lived on the water, in a boat in SE. a small passenger boat-we took people from Juneau to Sitka, and kyaking in Glacier Bay. i went back for three seasons, love alaska summers.
