Redefining our relationship with the homeless

Last year, Portland City Council approved a pilot "overnight sleeping" program that would permit churches and other non-profits to make their parking lots available to people currently living in their cars. The measure, loosed based on a similar program in Eugene, was intended to offer refuge for those on the brink while more permanent support was found. When Sellwood's Moreland Presbyterian Church announced earlier this spring their intent to be the first church to carry out the program - in their case for a single woman living in her car - a vocal minority raised a sufficient ruckus that the church delayed implementation of its plan.

A war has either started or is about to. Bombs are going off in the city. But people seem strangely disengaged. Della's activist friends seem more concerned about the next sex party or the finer points of vegan ideology, and customers at the vegan café where she works, talk of leaving the country for a life of escape and eco-tourism. But Della feels compelled to stay as the bombs inch closer. Even though she isn’t quite sure how to engage, and what exactly to fight for. This is the world of Zazen.

Andy hosts this week and will spin a wide ranging mix featuring some of his favorite African releases of the past decade, including Orchestra Baobab, Bembeya Jazz, Ba Cissoko, Wendo Kolosoy, Oliver Mtukudzi, Oumou Sangare, Tinariwen, Vieux Farka Toure, and many others.....

we are very excited to have fellow natural hair advocate/active-ist, lover of teacher michael and model amber starks with us! 

1. through mentorship of young women of African descent