Street Roots gave my location to a violent stalker and then assisted this person in attempting to assault me Portland Oregon

From October 2017 to January 2018 myself and my husband were homeless in Portland OR and wound up employed by Street Roots working as independent contractor vendors. We had wound up in Portland escaping some abusive relatives of his (we are legal adults and this entire thing is actually ridiculous truth be told), and Street Roots saw fit to not only supply these relatives with information regarding our employment, which is ethically and probably legally questionable to say the least, they also saw fit to allow the abusers to use the business office and newspaper as a means to slander us and instigate threats and attempted violence towards us.

We even received death threats from members of the Portland OR community because of this organization. Anyone thinking of working for or buying from them should keep in mind that they assist perpetrators of abuse not victims. Please be careful. There are better ways to help yourself if you're homeless than risking your physical safety any more than you already are. Please stay away if you're fleeing abusive situations. Please keep this information in mind if you are a donor as well.

The worst part about the entire situation is that all I wanted from them was a public apology and an admission of wrong doing, considering the fact that they used their platform as a newspaper to publicly smear me and I couldn't even get that. I can't believe, after the amount of terror I was put through by people who had no real idea what the situation was that I had left, that a, "We're sorry, we were very wrong" is too much to ask. I think this would be especially apt following Stalking Awareness Month (January), considering the fact that stalking is so poorly understood by people who have never experienced this.