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By Erin Yanke
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The podcast currently has 22 episodes available.
Fight The Power, Do No Harm: The Story of the Black Cross Healthcare Collective
There were lots of opportunities in the late 90s in Portland Oregon and the Pacific Northwest to get pepper sprayed by the police. Before the World Trade Organization protests took place in Seattle in 1999, there wasn’t an effective antidote to pepper spray that was well known, easy to use on the street, and affordable.
The Black Cross Healthcare Collective was a group of health care 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 Health Care Collective. This audio documentary was produced by Jodi Darby, Honna Veerkamp, and Erin Yanke. April 27, 2024
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 rural and suburban groups in the Pacific Northwest throughout the 80s and 90s.
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Producers: Celina Flores, Erin Yanke, Mic Crenshaw
Editors: Erin Yanke and Icky A.
Story editors: Celina Flores, Erin Yanke, Icky A., Mic Crenshaw, Moe Bowstern
Visual archivist:Julie Perini
Mastering: Colin Casserd
Music: Neo Boys
Thanks: Kate, Cristien, Marat
In this episode we hear from antiracist street fighters: Iran, Jackson, Pan and Tom. The four
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Producers: Celina Flores, Erin Yanke, Mic Crenshaw
Editors: Erin Yanke and Icky A.
Interviewer for this episode: Mic Crenshaw
Story editors: Celina Flores, Erin Yanke, Icky A., Mic Crenshaw, Moe Bowstern
Visual archivist: Julie Perini
Mastering: Colin Casserd
Music: Godspeed You Black Emperor
This episode features Coalition for Human Dignity activists Steve Wasserstrom, Jonathan Mozzochi and Abby Layton. In this 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.
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Producers: Celina Flores, Erin Yanke, Mic Crenshaw
Editors: Erin Yanke and Icky A.
Interviewer for this episode: Claire Rischiotto and Celina Flores
Story editors: Celina Flores, Erin Yanke, Icky A., Mic Crenshaw, Moe Bowstern
Visual archivist: Julie Perini
Mastering: Colin Casserd
Music: Kai Engel, the fucked up beat, and silicone transmitter, all from the Free Music Archive
Enrique Rivera of the Multnomah County Library, hosted this event with the IDHH podcast producers on March 11, 2021. They play clips of the podcast, talk about making the podcast, storytelling, their favorite moments, 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 personalities in the effective radicalization of white nationalists, especially younger viewers.
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Producers: Celina Flores, Erin Yanke, Mic Crenshaw
Editors: Erin Yanke and Icky A.
Interviewer for this episode: Ceina Flores
Story editors: Celina Flores, Erin Yanke, Icky A., Mic Crenshaw, Moe Bowstern
Visual archivist: Julie Perini
Mastering: Colin Casserd
Music: LG 17nfrom the Free Music Archive
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.
Thanks to Enrique and Lindsey from the Multnomah County Library
We talk to Martin Sprouse, former shitworker and coordinator Maximum Rocknroll about the role of the long-running punk rock zine as a cultural organizing tool for many groups, including Anti Racist Action.
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Producers: Celina Flores, Erin Yanke, Mic Crenshaw
Interviews for this episode: Erin Yanke
Story editors: Celina Flores, Erin Yanke, Icky A., Mic Crenshaw, Moe Bowstern
Photo: Cammie Toloui IG:@cammietolouiphoto
Mastering: Colin Casserd
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A Touch of Hysteria
It Did Happen Here: Histories of Fighting White Supremacists was recorded on February 25, 2021. This was a panel discussion with one of the podcast participants China, Producers Celina Flores, Mic Crenshaw, and Erin Yanke, and moderated by Eliza Canty-Jones. The event was sponsored by the Oregon Historical Society.
It Did Happen Here returns to the Midwest for deeper conversations with veterans of the Minneapolis Baldies and Skinheads of Chicago (SHOC) about what it means to be a Black, Brown or Indigenous person in a predominantly white movement, a woman in a male-dominated movement, how we direct our anti-racism as middle-aged activists, with deep discussion on how experiences with a violent youth have shaped political and personal philosophies.
Interviews with Lorraine, Gator, Malachi/Mickey, Marty, Gator, and Mobonix/Mo.
The podcast currently has 22 episodes available.