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Sisters is a nonprofit social justice organization. We've been building community and creating systemic solutions to homelessness and poverty since 1979.

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Sisters of the Road @sistersoftheroad.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
“The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.” —James Baldwin from The Devil Finds Work
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John Breen @breen.tech · 04/09/2025
This is in the Golden Triangle Business Improvement District, basically right in the heart of downtown DC. BIDs have been one of the main tools used by the DC government to displace poor and unhoused people and make the city more attractive for real estate developers and investors
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Street Roots @streetroots.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Street Roots needs urgent support to raise $288,000 by September 30 to stabilize our cash flow and avoid cutting any services that our vendors and community rely on. Please visit our donation page where you can find more info and make a gift. streetroots.org/donate
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Matt Chorpenning, MSW @chorpenning.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
This is awesome and I could not be happier with how this hiring process went. Just the start of some good things to come!
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Sisters of the Road @sistersoftheroad.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
We have some VERY exciting news! We hope you’ll join us in welcoming our newest members of the team! www.instagram.com/p/DOHJfJSkvf...
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sistersoftheroadpdx on Instagram: "We’re entering a new era at Sisters of the Road — and it starts with people. 💜Meet Nicki, JJ, and Katie — our new team members — e…"
We’re entering a new era at Sisters of the Road — and it starts with people. 💜Meet Nicki, JJ, and Katie — our new team members — each bringing deep commitment, lived experience, and a vision for systemic change rooted in care and dignity. They join our board and existing staff to build a bright future at Sisters.➡️ Swipe to hear what drives them.View all comments
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 31/08/2025
Wait! I thought Trump was supposed to be “ending homelessness.” HUD just announced a nationwide audit of Section 8 “citizen status.” Mixed-status families could lose rental assistance, even when kids are U.S. citizens. Families including children could be thrown into eviction & face homelessness.
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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
trimet doesn’t turn away people traveling to cooling shelters during a heatwave because public transit has an obligation to serve all users that isn’t shared by any other part of our transportation system. important to remember when you hear about the existential threats facing transit today
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Sisters of the Road @sistersoftheroad.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
#StopTheSweeps #LandBack #FreePalestine
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Sisters of the Road @sistersoftheroad.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
“If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring in a folding chair” Shirley Chisholm - 1st Black woman elected to US Congress
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Remora House DC @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Unhoused people are just the most accessible target. It won’t stop there.
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Sisters of the Road @sistersoftheroad.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
The play was an absolute blast! If you have a chance to get to go see it before the end of its run August 31!
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Sisters of the Road @sistersoftheroad.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Super excited about this afternoon! Still seats available if you want to purchase at the door!
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Councilor Candace Avalos @counciloravalos.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Hey Portland, there’s a lot of fear in our immigrant communities right now and one way you can help is attending a MigraWatch/ICE Watch Training. You’ll learn how to safely identify and verify potential ICE activity, and how to contribute to PIRC’s rapid response network.
Flyer with text. Text: Training: Migra Watch, ICE Watch. Wednesday, August 13 & 27 6-7:30 pm, RSVP to receive location. Learn how to safely identify and respond to potential ICE activity in your community. How to spot and verify ICE presence. How to plug into PIRC's rapid response network. Know-your rights. After training you can join the PIRC hotline ecosystem and receive real-time alerts to help confirm ICE sightings in your community. No experience need. Just show up, learn, and tap in! RSVP: bit.ly/oregonicewatch
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Councilor Angelita Morillo @councilormorillo.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Tomorrow the Homelessness & Housing Committee will receive an update on Mayor Wilson’s shelter plan. His administration has done more sweeps than Mayor Wheeler’s did before him. I think it’s more than fair to ask if that’s working. www.portland.gov/council/agen...
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Homelessness and Housing Committee | Portland.gov
Subject matter: Housing investments, permitting, and the continuum of housing supports.Sheltering and the City’s role in homeless services.The needs, programs, policies, and bureaus addressing housing...
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Willow ᓚᘏᗢ @willowashmaple.sbs · 07/08/2025
🎸 About 20 years ago, @sistersoftheroad.bsky.social successfully broke the Guinness World Records by organizing the "world's largest guitar band" at Pioneer Courthouse Square, playing this song. The "Guitarzilla" fundraiser event was repeated the following year.
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Sisters of the Road @sistersoftheroad.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
🎉Tourchsong Theatre Co has added a special matinee performance on August 16th at 2pm for their modern Robin Hood Musical, "Ballad of the Merry Folx"! All proceeds with benefit Sisters of the Road, and Leaven Community Land & Housing. TICKETS: torchsongentertainment.square.site
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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 03/08/2025
We need to redefine “national security” and what makes us safe. Making sure people are fed and housed makes us safe. Healthcare for all makes us safe. Renewable energy and climate solutions make us safe. Imagine if we funded these instead of mass kidnapping and swamp prisons.
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Sisters of the Road @sistersoftheroad.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
“We are not outnumbered we're out organized” Quote often attributed to Malcolm X (also sometimes attributed to Black Panther Bobby Seal and South African Anti-Apartheid activist Steve Biko)
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WeShinepdx.org @weshinepdx.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Come to see our Avalon Village in #hosfordabernathy and listen to awesome free local chamber music!
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Sisters of the Road @sistersoftheroad.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
“Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.” — James Baldwin “If Beale Street Could Talk”
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Electric Chimp @electricchimp.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Goldstone's work needs to be understood. We're cranking up the number of people who are homeless into the millions, and the rich are making a fortune off exacerbating not just the number of homeless folks, but also their levels of suffering It is a crime against humanity
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Sisters of the Road @sistersoftheroad.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Trump's new executive order treats homelessness and mental illness as crimes.
Stylized black and white background with black text on green “Trump's new executive order pushes for forced mental health treatment, threatens to defund housing first and harm reduction programs”. Below over grid paper background of Donald Trump holding a signed executive order next to black text “The order threatens to criminalize homelessness and mental illness at the jurisdiction of local and state governments”Black text on white grid “President Trump's new executive order to combat homelessness encourages local governments to revive ‘civil commitment’ which [underlined] places people with mental health issues in treatment facilities without their consent.”
Cited as “Source: Axios ‘What to know about civil commitment, Trump's new policy for homelessness’"Black on green text at top asks “What is involuntary commitment?”
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“Involuntary civil commitment is the process in which a judge, or someone else acting in judicial capacity, orders a person be admitted to a psychiatric hospital or a supervised outpatient treatment facility without their consent.
• The specific criteria that a person needs to exhibit to be confined varies in every state, but the guidelines usually mention those with mental illness, developmental disabilities and substance abuse issues that pose a danger to themselves or others.
• Modern day commitment proceedings have to follow due process laws under state and federal law.”

Source: Axios "What to know about civil commitment, Trump's new policy for homelessness"
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Sisters of the Road @sistersoftheroad.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
“We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community. It all happened while we sat there talking, and it is still going on.” -Dorothy Day Co-founder of the Catholic Worker from her book The Long Loneliness
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 25/07/2025
“This policy and this new program approach will provide clarity and consistency and intentionality,” Kotek said
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Homeless shelters from Ashland to Portland to the Wallowas will now have one thing in common
“This policy and this new program approach will provide clarity and consistency and intentionality,” Kotek said
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Read “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” @grouchyoutreach.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Walked to the store today + bumped into 1 of my unhoused neighbors I regularly used to support in a small mutual aid laundry service I helped run out of a church basement. He told me his on again/off again partner, one of our other regulars, died earlier this yr. He found her in her tent. RIP Jamie
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Trump’s order “seeks to shift federal funding away from longtime policies that sought to get unhoused people into housing first, and then offer treatment. Instead, it calls for prioritizing money for programs that require sobriety and treatment, and for cities that enforce homeless camping bans.”
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Trump signs an executive order making it easier to remove homeless people from streets
The White House directive calls for prioritizing money for programs that require sobriety and treatment, and for cities that enforce homeless camping bans.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
You don’t see articles like this about moms with three jobs who still manage to take care of their kids.
Headline: Nvidia CEO works from 'the moment he wakes up' 7 days a week - he can't even sit through a movie without thinking about his 4.2 trillion tech giant
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Sisters of the Road @sistersoftheroad.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread” -Anatole France (early 20th Century French novelist and satirist)
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Sisters of the Road @sistersoftheroad.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Enjoying Pride from the upstairs at the office
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Shelterforce @shelterforce.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Shelters that serve trans people face new restrictions under Trump’s HUD—restrictions so vague they may be illegal. This piece breaks it all down. 🔗 bit.ly/4jnz3C5 #CivilRights #TransJustice #Shelterforce
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Increased Danger for Unhoused Trans People as HUD Moves to Limit Equal Shelter Access
Having access to shelter based on your gender identity is still the law, but HUD won't enforce it, and is working to remove that protection.
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Read “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” @grouchyoutreach.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Turns out folks who have a place to go, getting their immediate needs met, aren’t busy getting themselves in trouble.
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New Police Report Shows Crime Decrease Around Portland’s Overnight Shelters
A new report from the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) reveals a significant decrease in crime in the areas surrounding two of the City’s overnight shelters, SAFES (30 SW 2nd Ave) and Moore Street Shelter...
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Shelterforce @shelterforce.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Seattle, Berkeley, and other cities are banning rent-setting algorithms. Lawmakers say these tools allow price coordination that pushes rents higher. More: bit.ly/45abOqf #TenantPower #HousingJustice
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Legislators Push Back Against ‘Rent-Setting’ Software
Lawmakers in two dozen cities and states have made strides to stop landlords from using algorithmic software to determine rent prices.
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Sisters of the Road @sistersoftheroad.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
If you’re free this evening @weshinepdx.bsky.social is running a screening of “No Place to Grow Old”
Flier for “No Place to Grow Old” shows the film poster as well as a picture of St Andrew’s Episcopal Church.
Text says Wednesday July 16th at 7pm with a WeShine Presentation and Village tour after the film. 7600 N Hereford Ave Portland, Oregon 97203
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Sisters of the Road @sistersoftheroad.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
“We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.” - Pastor and part of the Nazi resistance Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
While writing There Is No Place for Us, what I wanted most was for readers to feel the fury I carried throughout my reporting—the outrage, the horror at what this country forces our neighbors to endure. This review by @lilysanca.bsky.social says everything I hoped the book would convey, and more:
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You’re Not Angry Enough About Homelessness in America
Homelessness is increasingly caused by soaring rents and low wages, not laziness or personal failures. The solution is strong government intervention to house everyone and to end landlords’ control ov...
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Sisters of the Road @sistersoftheroad.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
“Those forces most affected by the problem have to be at the forefront. They know when their pain has been relieved” -Willie Baptist
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Sisters of the Road @sistersoftheroad.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
When you’re organizing [people], 1st thing that we do is we talk about history of what other ppl have been able to accomplish; ppl that look like them…ordinary ppl, working ppl, +we give them the list. These are ppl like yourself, this is what they were able to do in their community Dolores Huerta
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Nathaniel Glasgow @ncglasgow.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
This has happened again and again - to Aaron Campbell, James Chasse, and Robert Delgado off the top of my head. These are not accidents. They are not innocent mistakes due to a lack of training. These are murders.
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Sisters of the Road @sistersoftheroad.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Tonight!
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Sisters of the Road @sistersoftheroad.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
“Ask any Mexican, any Puerto Rican, any black man, any poor person - ask the wretched how they fare in the halls of justice, and then you will know, not whether or not the country is just, but whether or not it has any love for justice, or any concept of it…
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Feed The Streets PDX @feedthestreets.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Today our volunteers made & shared 100+ servings potato-ham stew, grapes, water, & other supplies w/our unhoused neighbors! (the stew tastes better than it looks, so that's good) We rely on donations to feed people Venmo- pdxfeedthestreets Cashapp- FTSPortland #MutualAid #PDX #MutualAidPortland
a glob of potato ham stew and a bunch of red grapes on a white plate
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
It’s been five days since floods in Texas killed at least 111 people and FEMA’s Acting Administrator David Richardson still hasn’t made a single public or internal statement.
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Sisters of the Road @sistersoftheroad.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Since last fall, our board has been putting in 30+ volunteer hours a month to rebuild Sisters. At the same time, we've been staying rooted in the lives and voices of the community we serve. 1/3
Graphic made of two sepia photos of a woman wearing a name tag in front of an open bin, the lower photo is of two individuals standing next to one another. One wears a name tag and holds a tablet. Separating the two photos is a banner that has a logo w a key next to it ”Finding Home: Lasting Housing Solutions Rooted in Community Experience”. To the right in the banner is the logos for Welcome Home Coalition and Sisters of the Road.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Sisters of the Road @sistersoftheroad.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
“[I]f you always think the way you’ve always thought, you will always get what you’ve always got. Working together does not mean the absence of conflict; expect it” Sisters of the Road Co-Founder Genny Nelson
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