The Black Cross Healthcare Collective was a group of healthcare workers who lived in Portland, Oregon. They formed after the WTO protests of 1999, after seeing a need for medical care that specifically served people who were attending direct actions, demonstrations and political protests. 

In the early 2000s they pioneered community-supported trials to find an antidote to pepper spray. These trials resulted in an antidote that has been used in street protests internationally. The collective disbanded as a medical group in 2005 or so, morphing into the Black Cross Social Club.

Fight the Power, Do No Harm is the story of the Black Cross Healthcare Collective.

Fight the Power, Do No Harm was written, edited, and produced by Jodi Darby, Honna Veerkamp and Erin Yanke.

( Reposted here because Apple Podcasts keeps archiving the episode for unknown reasons!) In the late 1980s, Portland was a known haven for racist skinheads. They roamed the core of Portland unhindered. 

In this episode we hear from the punks in the late 1980s Portland punk scene, a place fraught with violence and conflict. We also hear about the recruiting and radicalization of Portland’s skinheads by right wing and white nationalist organizers.

Kate Boyd and Cristien Storm of the Seattle-based collaborative group If You Don’t They Will discuss “no. NOT EVER”, an interactive, immersive presentation of cultural resistance to white nationalism practiced by Western rural and suburban groups throughout the 80s and 90s.

In this episode we hear from antiracist street fighters: Iran, Jackson, Pan and Tom. The four veterans recount their experiences fighting Portland neo Nazis, how it affected them and where we should direct our energy to continue the fight.

This episode features hosts Mic Crenshaw and Celina Flores as well as Coalition for Human Dignity activists Steve Wasserstrom, Jonathan Mozzochi and Abby Layton. In this special bonus episode we look at how the meticulous collection of data mined for opposition research contributed to a world-famous trial to debunk fascist Holocaust denier David Irving.

The Multnomah County Library sponsored this event, hosted by Enrique Rivera , with the IDHH podcast producers Celina Flores, Mic Crenshaw and Erin Yanke.They play clips of the podcast, talk about their favorite moments in the process of making the podcast, storytelling, book recommendations, and much more. 
Thanks to Lyndsey Runyan and Enrique Rivera of the Multnomah County Library.

In this bonus episode, we hear from Coalition for Human Dignity veteran Devin Burghart, now Executive Director of left wing think tank Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights. Burghart talks about the role of YouTube personalitiesin the effective radicalization of white nationalists, especially younger viewers.

Scot Nakagawa and Eric Ward talk together at “It Did Happen Here: Nothing is Final”, recorded March 4, 2021 at an event sponsored by the Multnomah County Library. 

Scot was the founding staff person of the Coalition for Human Dignity, and is co-founder and Senior Partner of ChangeLab, a national racial equity think/act lab promoting innovation in racial equity advocacy. Eric Ward  founded and directed a community project to expose and counter hate groups and respond to bigoted violence with the Community Alliance of Lane County (1990–1994).He is currently the Executive Director of the Western States Center.

How did Anti-Racist Action create a national network without a central dedicated office, staff or phone number? In this episode It Did Happen Here talks to Martin Sprouse, longtime associate and staff member of Maximum Rocknroll about the role of the long-running punk rock zine as a cultural organizing tool for many groups, including ARA.

Join IDHH producers Mic Crenshaw Celina Flores and Erin Yanke along with IDHH interviewee China for a discussion of the historical fight against fascism in the Pacific Northwest at the Oregon Historical Society.