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A Disability Justice podcast centered on local movements, organizations, and activists in Oregon.

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Welcome to Voices in Action, a disability justice podcast brought to you by the Eastern Oregon Center for Independent Living!

This Episode's Guests:

  • Summer Michaud-Skog, author and founder of Fat Girls Hiking (Instagram page here)

This Episode's Further Reading:

  • “​​Fat Girls Hiking: An Inclusive Guide to Getting Outdoors at Any Size or Ability” by Summer Michaud-Skoghttps://www.workman.com/products/fat-girls-hiking/paperback

Resources Mentioned:

  • Access Trails PDX

New episodes the last Friday of the month, with transcriptions available the following Monday.

Hosted by Leo Allanach.

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Welcome to Voices in Action, a disability justice podcast brought to you by the Eastern Oregon Center for Independent Living!

This Episode's Guests:

  • Maureen Hinman, Interim Executive Director at OSBHA

This Episode's Further Reading:

  • Health Care Revolt: How to Organize, Build a Health Care System, and Resuscitate Democracy - All at the Same Time" by Michael Fine

New episodes the last Friday of the month, with transcriptions available the following Monday. 

Hosted by Leo Allanach. 

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Welcome to Voices in Action, a disability justice podcast brought to you by the Eastern Oregon Center for Independent Living!

This Episode's Guests:

  • Cooper Oakes, Sophomore at Newberg High School

This Episode's Further Reading:

  • “​​Lessons in Liberation, An Abolitionist Toolkit for Educators”, edited by The Education for Liberation Network & Critical Resistance Editorial Collective

Sources and Articles Mentioned:

  • Black Lives Matter and Pride Symbols Banned from Newberg Classrooms
  • The Decision to Fire Morelock
  • Newberg Staffer Concerned
  • Tim Graham’s Post
  • Lawsuit Targets Newberg School District

New episodes every other Friday, with transcriptions available the following Monday.

Hosted by Leo Allanach.

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Welcome to Voices in Action, a disability justice podcast brought to you by the Eastern Oregon Center for Independent Living!

This Episode's Guests:

  • Rebel Black, (previously) Executive Director at DACP
  • Jennifer Kemp, Creative Director at DACP
  • Morlock, Founder of Past Lives LLC

This Episode's Further Reading:

  • “Art As Politics: The Future of Art and Community” by Adam Krause https://www.akpress.org/artaspolitics.html

New episodes every other Friday, with transcriptions available the following Monday.

Hosted by Leo Allanach.

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Welcome to Voices in Action, a disability justice podcast brought to you by the Eastern Oregon Center for Independent Living!

CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains discussions of colonial/settler violence.

This Episode's Guests:

  • Rose High Bear, Founder and Project Director ofElderberry Wisdom Farm

Note: You can donate to the Elderberry Wisdom Farm here!

This Episode's Further Reading:

  • “To Be a Water Protector” by Winona LaDukehttps://www.akpress.org/to-be-a-water-protector.html

Sources and Articles Mentioned:

  • “The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex” edited by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
  • For Native Americans, Land is More Than Just the Ground Beneath Their Feet by Kelli Mosteller
  • How to Fight Climate Despair by Anna North

New episodes every other Friday, with transcriptions available the following Monday.

Hosted by Leo Allanach.

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Welcome to Voices in Action, a disability justice podcast brought to you by the Eastern Oregon Center for Independent Living!

This Episode's Guests:

  • Mike Turner, Filmmaker and Director of The Way We Talk

Watch it here at Vimeo on Demand!

This Episode's Further Reading:

+ "Enforcing Normalcy" by Lennard J. Davishttps://www.indiebound.org/book/9781859840078?aff=versobooks

New episodes every other Friday, with transcriptions available the following Monday.

Hosted by Leo Allanach.

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Welcome to Voices in Action, a disability justice podcast brought to you by the Eastern Oregon Center for Independent Living!

Content Warning: This episode contains discussions of child abuse, murder, and many different elements of settler colonial violence enacted upon Indigenous people to this day.

This Episode's Guests:

  • Dr. Luhui Whitebear,Center Director of Kaku-Ixt Mana Ina Haws and Assistant Professor of the School of Language, Culture, & Society at Oregon State University.

Support the Warm Springs Reservation & Other Movements:

  • https://www.seedingjustice.org/the-chuush-fund-water-for-warm-springs/
  • https://mmiwhoismissing.org/
  • https://www.nativejustice.org/mmiwg2s
  • Stop Line 3
  • Follow @lakotalaw and @wetsuweten_checkpoint on Instagram

This Episode's Further Reading:

  • Life As Activism by June Jordan (https://www.left-bank.com/book/9781936117901)

  • The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth by The Red Nation (https://www.akpress.org/the-red-deal.html)

Sources and Articles Mentioned:

  • https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2016/1/3/unmarked-graves-discovered-at-chemawa-indian-school
  • “Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction” by John Rieder:https://www.left-bank.com/book/9780819568748

New episodes every other Friday, with transcriptions available the following Monday.

Hosted by Leo Allanach.

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Welcome to Voices in Action, a disability justice podcast brought to you by the Eastern Oregon Center for Independent Living!

This Episode's Guests:

  • Jeff Williams, Director of Housing Services for EOCIL

  • Kelly Rumsey, Director of Ryan White HIV Case Management Services at EOCIL

This Episode's Further Reading:

  • Bodies and Barriers: Queer Activists on Health, edited by Adrian Shanker
    https://www.akpress.org/bodiesandbarriers.html

Sources and Articles Mentioned:
+
https://www.wearyourvoicemag.com/hiv-aids-prevention-treatment/ + https://www.thebodypro.com/article/disability-and-hiv-eliminating-barriers-to-sexual-

New episodes every other Friday, with transcriptions available the following Monday.

Hosted by Leo Allanach.

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Welcome to Voices in Action, a disability justice podcast brought to you by the Eastern Oregon Center for Independent Living!

Content Warning: This episode contains discussions of sexual assault, sexual exploitation, human trafficking, police violence, and policing around sexuality.

This Episode's Guests:

  • Corinne Hawk (she/they), organizer and advocate with the Human Rights Commission for Oregon Sex Workers

  • Jay St. James, organizer and advocate, previously associated with the Black Sex Workers Collective in Eugene, Oregon

This Episode's Further Reading:

  • "Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex” by Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smithhttps://www.akpress.org/captivegenders2.html

Sources and Articles Mentioned:

  • HRCOSW Resources: https://www.oregonsexworkers.com/resources/
  • https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/4/13/17172762/fosta-sesta-backpage-230-internet-freedom
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Dworkin
  • https://www.vice.com/en/article/dyv8jv/an-oregon-woman-says-a-police-officer-raped-her-she-was-the-one-arrested

New episodes every other Friday, with transcriptions available the following Monday.

Hosted by Leo Allanach.

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Welcome to Voices in Action, a disability justice podcast brought to you by the Eastern Oregon Center for Independent Living!

This Episode's Guests:
+ April Cox - De Muniz Resource Center Director
+ Kimberley Mansfield - De Muniz Legal Clinic Director, Supervising Attorney, Board Vice-Chair

Guest Speakers' Links:
+ De Muniz Legal Clinic Website: https://www.demunizlegalclinic.org/
+ De Muniz Resource Center Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/demunizresource/

This Episode's Further Reading:
+ "Prisons Make Us Safer”: And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration by Victoria Law" (https://www.akpress.org/prisons-make-us-safer.html)Sources and Articles Mentioned:
+ https://www.prisonpolicy.org/research/economics_of_incarceration/ + https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/09/polluters-climate-crisis-fossil-fuel + https://theconversation.com/us-military-is-a-bigger-polluter-than-as-many-as-140-countries-shrinking-this-war-machine-is-a-must-119269

New episodes every other Friday, with transcriptions available the following Monday.

Hosted by Leo Allanach.

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Welcome to Voices in Action, a disability justice podcast brought to you by the Eastern Oregon Center for Independent Living!

Content Warning: This episode contains language that may be inappropriate for younger listeners.

This Episode's Guests:
+ Julie Chick, Board President of Sammy’s Place and the Oregon COAAST Network
+  Dr. Allison Hobgood, Executive Director of the Corvallis Daytime Drop-in Center and Board member of the Disability Equity Center

This Episode's Further Reading:
+ "Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the next)" by Dean Spade https://www.akpress.org/mutualaidbuildingsolidarity.html

New episodes every other Friday, with transcriptions available the following Monday.

Hosted by Leo Allanach.

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Welcome to Voices in Action, a disability justice podcast brought to you by the Eastern Oregon Center for Independent Living!

CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains descriptions of transphobic violence, medical violence, and sexual health.

This Episode's Guests:
+ Max Matta Flores (they/them)
+ Alex Sylvester (she/her), Assistant Director of Equity and Access at Southern Oregon University and member of the LGBTQ+ Work Group for SO Health-E

This Episode's Further Reading:
+ "Queer Embodiment: Monstrosity, Medical Violence, and Intersex Experience by Hil Malatino" https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9780803295933/

Articles Mentioned:
+ https://jezebel.com/when-surgeons-fail-their-trans-patients-1844774990 + https://www.out.com/transgender/2020/6/22/over-600000-demand-answers-death-tete-gulley-black-trans-woman + https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/marking-the-deadliest-year-on-record-hrc-releases-report-on-violence-against-transgender-and-gender-non-conforming-people + https://www.realchangenews.org/news/2021/06/23/honoring-29-trans-people-killed-2021-already

New episodes every other Friday, with transcriptions available the following Monday.

Hosted by Leo Allanach.

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Welcome to Voices in Action, a disability justice podcast brought to you by the Eastern Oregon Center for Independent Living!

This Episode's Guests:
+ Critical Resistance Members Woods Ervin and Maddy

This Episode's Further Reading:
+ "Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement" https://www.akpress.org/beyond-survival.html
+ http://criticalresistance.org/resources/abolitionist-tools/

New episodes every other Friday, with transcriptions available the following Monday.

Hosted by Leo Allanach.

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Welcome to Voices in Action, a disability justice podcast brought to you by the Eastern Oregon Center for Independent Living!

This Episode's Guest:
+ Zondie Zinke

This Episode's Further Reading:
+ "Take Back the Land" by Max Rameau (https://www.akpress.org/takebackthelandak.html)
+ MMIWG Report: https://www.uihi.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Missing-and-Murdered-Indigenous-Women-and-Girls-Report.pdf

New episodes every other Friday, with transcriptions available the following Monday.

Hosted by Leo Allanach.

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Welcome to Voices in Action, a disability justice podcast brought to you by the Eastern Oregon Center for Independent Living!

This Episode's Guest:
+ Scott Lemons

This Episode's Further Reading:
+ "What A City Is For" by Matt Hern (https://www.akpress.org/what-a-city-is-for.html)

New episodes every other Friday, with transcriptions available the following Monday.

Hosted by Leo Allanach.

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Welcome to Voices in Action, a disability justice podcast brought to you by the Eastern Oregon Center for Independent Living!

This Episode's Guests:
+ Dr. Jonathan Hitzman
+ Dr. Tim Menza
+ Jeff Williams
+ Maria Handley

New episodes every other Friday, with transcriptions available the following Monday.

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