Voices In Action

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-Skog
https://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. 

Follow EOCIL on social media:
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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.

Follow EOCIL on social media:
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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 of Elderberry Wisdom Farm

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

This Episode's Further Reading:

+ “To Be a Water Protector” by Winona LaDuke
https://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.

Follow EOCIL on social media:
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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.

Follow EOCIL on social media:
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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.

Follow EOCIL on social media:
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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.

Follow EOCIL on social media:
Facebook - @EOCIL.org
Instagram - @eocil_official
Twitter - @EOCIL

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 Smith https://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.

Follow EOCIL on social media:

Facebook - @EOCIL.org

Instagram - @eocil_official

Twitter - @EOCIL

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.

Follow EOCIL on social media:
Facebook - @EOCIL.org
Instagram - @eocil_official
Twitter - @EOCIL