Below are some ways to help end homelessness, organized by Sisters’ Civic Action Group (CAG), community organizers who have experience with homelessness.

Candidate Forum

Join us for a forum with Portland’s mayoral candidates. A broad base of community organizations will be asking candidates questions about homelessness and affordable housing.

First Unitarian Church
1011 SW 12th Ave.
Portland, Oregon 97205.
Thursday May 1, Noon-1:30PM.

Click here to download the flier, PDF format.

May Day! May Day!  And a Race for your Bladder

Thursday, May 1, join CAG for an exciting Flag Action to be held in conjunction with the May Day march.  We will be displaying flags and socks to represent the 1438 people that the city says are sleeping outside each night. After the event, the new socks will be put in to the Sisters’ hygiene barter program and used by people who need them. To donate socks,

Join us at noon at the May Day March rallying place, in Portland’s South Park Blocks between 9th and Park, and between Main and Salmon. Bring new socks!  Then stick around for the march at 5pm.

RACE FOR YOUR BLADDER!
Then on Friday June 6 at 3pm, join us for a “restroom orienteering event, “Race for your bladder”, where we will have CAG members and local semi famous people (a local reporter for instance) navigate between Portland’s downtown restrooms to show both the lack of available public restrooms and the distances that one would have to travel in order to use one. The event will be ending at the City Hall restroom, one of Portland’s only overnight restrooms for public use.  Check back here for further details as they unfold.

If you would like to be involved in the organizing of either of these events, would like to donate new socks, or have a question, please feel free to call Patrick at 503-222-5694 extension 13, or .

Help Someone to Register to Vote!

It’s CAG’s goal to register 300 people with experience of homelessness to vote before July 1, 2008, and to form a voting block of people that can be rallied to vote on issues that affect their lives.  Help make it a reality!  Come down to Sisters and register to grab a cup of coffee and vote, and encourage someone who has experienced homelessness or poverty to do the same.  We’re at 133 NW Sixth Ave, Portland, 10am to 3pm.  to learn more.

More About Homelessness and Voting

Often, people on the streets think they cannot vote - that is not true. People experiencing homelessness have the legal right to vote!  On the registration form, people must simply give a mailing address, which can be Sisters Of The Road or another organization that receives mail, and must give their approximate physical location, like “corner of Glisan and Sixth.”

To learn more about the voting rights of people experiencing homelessness, click here. To learn more about registering to vote in Oregon, click here.