Truth to Power Podcast: Seeing Homeless
Listen here or follow this link: https://anchor.fm/isadora-millay/episodes/Tea–Toast–and-Truth-Seeing-Homeless-eoroq1
Content warning: profanity; drug use and addiction; domestic violence.
A project of Ashland High School’s Truth to Power club, “Seeing Homeless” is the third episode of their podcast series: “Tea, Toast, and Truth”.
This episode focuses on the struggles and biases that surround the houseless crisis. Truth to Power set out to interview houseless members of our community, home-free and homeless rights activists, and the Ashland Chief of Police, to present to the community a culmination of the ideas, adversities, joys, backgrounds, and controversies that revolve around the houseless issue in our county. And maybe, next time you see a houseless person on your way to buy your low-fat-caramel-latte-with-oat-milk-and-extra-caramel, you’ll stop to talk to them and help them–the change in our community starts with you.
Contacts to make a change-
Ashland Housing Now leaders:
Eric Navickas <[email protected]>
Chris Kendrick <[email protected]>
Community houseless/home-free advocates:
Vanessa Houk<[email protected]
Joe Gibson< [email protected]
To contact the Ashland city council and ask for policy change:
http://www.ashland.or.us/FormPageBS.asp?FormID=131
Email Ashland’s mayor:
Medford city council to ask for policy change:
I’m teaching a class about podcasts to seniors in our community. I intend to share this link to your podcast with them in the hopes that they will listen and hear your voices and work, but more importantly hear the voices of the unhoused. You did a fantastic job with these interviews. Thank you for your hard work.