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Title: Bob Smith Interview, March 27, 2016
Date: March 27, 2016
Creator: Person responsible unknown; Person responsible unknown; Person responsible unknown
Description: SUMMARY: Bob Smith spoke about his employment history and educational background. He spoke extensively about the conditions that the homeless experience on the street in Washington, DC. He especially spoke about the conditions that are experienced when the weather is severe and how dangerous it could be. Bob also spoke about how difficult it was to make a living while trying to deal with discrimination. He expressed his frustration with elected leaders on their lack of attention on the issue of the homeless. He spoke about the lack of support that homeless experience on the street and how there are very few places to turn to help. Finally, he expressed that he hoped this project would improve the conditions of people living on the street. PROJECT’S OBJECTIVES: The Homeless Voices Amplification Co-op (HVAC) works to amplify stories of unhoused individuals’ past and present work experiences. Recognizing that unhoused individuals are the most valuable source of knowledge on the realities of their employment, HVAC partners with the unhoused to create space for strategic community reflection as a means to further activism for economic justice. HVAC believes stories have the power to humanize individuals and undermine stigmas and stereotypes in ways statistics cannot. HVAC intends to draw upon the power of these stories to create a powerful, multi-dimensional online platform that can enhance efforts to mobilize the community.
Subject: employment discrimination
Country: United States
Collection: Homeless Voices Amplification Coop
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1523
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Title: Carlton Johnson Interview, March 25, 2015
Date: March 25, 2015
Creator: Person responsible unknown; Person responsible unknown; Person responsible unknown
Description: Carlton Johnson talks about his background, especially in electronics, for which he went to trade school. He also has held a variety of jobs in sales, but mostly in CCTV and Surveillance work and communications. His worst job was as a day laborer, and he believes they ought pay more. Through this job, though there was no on-the-job training, he gained a connection that allowed him to apprentice and work gainfully for a number of years in contracting. He says that he’s never had difficulty making ends meet, and that the best way to work through financial woes is through sales, and that money is therefore attracted to him. While he identified no barriers to finding jobs to apply for, he says that he has been outright talked out of jobs because of discrimination on the part of employers. He concludes that his children are going to be successful, one owing to their skills with electronics and the other as one of the brightest minds in Fairfax County. PROJECT’S OBJECTIVES: The Homeless Voices Amplification Co-op (HVAC) works to amplify stories of unhoused individuals’ past and present work experiences. Recognizing that unhoused individuals are the most valuable source of knowledge on the realities of their employment, HVAC partners with the unhoused to create space for strategic community reflection as a means to further activism for economic justice. HVAC believes stories have the power to humanize individuals and undermine stigmas and stereotypes in ways statistics cannot. HVAC intends to draw upon the power of these stories to create a powerful, multi-dimensional online platform that can enhance efforts to mobilize the community.
Subject: employment discrimination
Country: United States
Collection: Homeless Voices Amplification Coop
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1524
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