Attention: Participants in Listen for a Change: Oral History & Social Justice
Hello everyone, A reminder that we will gather for workshop session #4 tonight again at ADAPT. We will look at the brief videotaped interviews from last week (those that people did not ask us to...
View ArticleWelcome new oral history & social justice participants…
The challenge of starting a new project is that it takes a while to get the word out; the happy news is that as people find out what is happening, participation grows. In the last couple of weeks...
View ArticleScott Medlock of the Texas Civil Rights Project explains it all for you….
Forgive your correspondent for not bringing you any news in the last couple of weeks. Let me call your attention to a useful guide by Scott Medlock of the Texas Civil Rights Project, in which he...
View ArticleHeiwa Salovitz: Why oral history matters, an interview by Erica Suprenant and...
“What brings me to oral history? Well as a person with a disability — I’ve had my disability all my life — people with disabilities tend to be seen as the invisible people. We tend not to document...
View ArticleDiana Claitor: Stories from Texas county jails
Diana Claitor of the Texas Jail Project participated in the fall workshop series, “Listen for a Change: Oral History and Social Justice” presented by ADAPT of Texas and Wire Cutter. Layla Fry and...
View ArticleCathy Cranston: workers’ rights, disability rights
For about a decade, ADAPT of Texas has sought to engage direct care workers in the fight for community services. Cathy Cranston is an organizer with ADAPT of Texas and, since 2005, also an organizer of...
View ArticleOral history and The Troubles
What follows is a personal, partial response to the Boston College Troubles Subpoena, which you might also call the Boston College Subpoena Troubles….I am not involved in this case and have not read...
View ArticleAnother resource on The Belfast Project and the subpoena to Boston College
In my post of yesterday, I recommended the Boston College Subpoena News as a resource for following what that organ calls “The Threat to Oral History Archives.” To follow researcher/journalist Ed...
View Article“There are no strangers”— Toni Morrison
“…There are no strangers. There are only versions of ourselves, many of which we have not embraced, most of which we wish to protect ourselves from. For the stranger is not foreign, she is random, not...
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