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Title: Dmitri March Interview, March 27, 2016
Date: March 27, 2016
Creator: Person responsible unknown; Person responsible unknown
Description: SUMMARY: Dmitri was born and raised in Washington, DC. He has worked as a performer, but also as a custodian and a sales associate. Dmitri attributes most of the successes and challenges in his life to God. He prefers not to talk about his past and to focus on his relationship with God, which he feels has been the main reason that he has been able to get through the difficult times in his life. 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: Asbury United Methodist Church; Homeless Voices Amplification Co-op’s DC Employment Justice Research Project; homelessness
Country: United States
Collection: Homeless Voices Amplification Coop
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1533
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Title: Eric Sheptock Interview, February 18, 2015
Date: February 18, 2015
Creator: Person responsible unknown; Person responsible unknown
Description: 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: homelessness
Country: United States
Collection: Homeless Voices Amplification Coop
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1534
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Title: Eric Sheptock Interview, May 2, 2020
Date: May 2, 2020
Creator: Eric Sheptock; Dan Kerr
Description: Eric Jonathan Sheptock, a working homeless person addresses how Covid-19 has impacted him. He works for a company that provides porta-potties and hand washing stations for events and has had his hours dramatically cut. His company contracts with the city to now provide these services to homeless encampments, and he has gained a greater sense of the large numbers of people living outside. He is currently in a hotel under quarantine after discovering the person who sleeps near him at his shelter contracted Covid-19, but he does not have symptoms. He hopes we do not forget about the homeless when things go back to normal, that we work together to end homelessness and increase access to affordable housing and living wage jobs. This video is part of the Humanities Truck's From Me To You: A Covid-19 Oral History Project. https://humanitiestruck.com/frommetoyou/
Subject: Humanities Truck; American University; Washington, DC; COVID; COVID-19; coronavirus; pandemic; quarantine; homelessness; affordable housing; living wages; work; shelter; encampments
Country: United States
Collection: From Me To You: A COVID-19 Oral History Project
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2131
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Title: Eric Sheptock Interview, October 12, 2012
Date: October 12, 2012
Creator: Person responsible unknown
Description: SUMMARY: Eric Sheptock’s interview begins with his pilgrimage from Florida to Washington, DC in 2005 tracing his initial impetus to move through his current advocacy efforts as SHARC (Shelter, Housing and Real Change) chairman. Mr. Sheptock shares his insights on shelters, relationships, affordable housing as well as his personal experience as an advocate for the growing population of unhoused individuals in Washington, DC. PROJECT’S OBJECTIVES: The interviews conducted as part of the DC Oral History and Social Justice Project record how unhoused residents of the greater DC area view the history of homelessness – how did homelessness become such an entrenched part of the city. The interviews will be used to create critical dialogue among people who are currently unhoused in Washington, DC, and then they may be used to assist future advocacy efforts.
Subject: Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library; DC Oral History and Social Justice Project; homelessness; homelessness advocacy
Country: United States
Collection: Homeless Voices Amplification Coop
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1535
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Title: George Olivar Interview, April 12, 2015
Date: April 12, 2015
Creator: Person responsible unknown
Description: 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: Georgetown Law School; Homeless Voices Amplification Co-op’s DC Employment Justice Research Project; homelessness
Country: United States
Local Identifier: George Olivar_April 12_2015_Sound
Collection: Homeless Voices Amplification Coop
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1427
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Title: Harry Washington Interview, March 21, 2016
Date: March 21, 2016
Creator: Person responsible unknown
Description: SUMMARY: Harry Washington was born in Georgia, but grew up in Washington DC. His parents were ministers. During his childhood, he took martial arts classes, which he believes taught him values and principles. He received his high school diploma and a culinary degree and worked as a chef at a hotel in DuPont Circle for many years, but the hotel closed down causing him to lose his job. After Washington’s parents died, his sister sold his family house without giving him his share. He is currently living with his niece, who is the daughter of his schizophrenic younger brother. Overall, Washington believes there is a widespread degradation of values within the United States. He believes the education system no longer teaches people to think for themselves and causes people to only think about their own interests. Washington cites the current presidential election and his sister’s selfish behavior as examples of a general loss of principles within the United States. Washington also mentions his experience with the police, both personal experience and witness to unfair treatment from the police force. 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: homelessness
Country: United States
Collection: Homeless Voices Amplification Coop
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1536
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Title: Hope Lassiter Interview, March 25, 2015
Date: March 25, 2015
Creator: Person responsible unknown; Person responsible unknown
Description: SUMMARY: The interview with Hope Lassiter goes over main points such as her past and current working experiences, conditions of the jobs, ability to make ends meet, skills acquired, barriers to seeking employment and her own vision for the homeless. It touches upon her acquiring license at Roosevelt STAY, her acorn and day labor jobs, as well ass her security jobs at CSC. She has typing skills and would like to get a permanent job and go back to school. She currently works on commission at Street Sense. She is homeless since she was 29 years old and has been unemployed since 2013. Her jobs do not usually lead to future one and she thinks homeless need to get out of the shelters and be provided with resources so they can attend proper job interviews. Ultimately, the homeless need better wages. 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: Church of the Epiphany; Homeless Voices Amplification Co-op’s DC Employment Justice Research Project; homelessness;
Country: United States
Collection: Homeless Voices Amplification Coop
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1537
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Title: Interview with Nadia Johnson, April 1, 2022
Date: April 1, 2022
Creator: Nadia Johnson; Dan Kerr
Description: Nadia Johnson speaks with Dan Kerr about changes to downtown DC at the 2022 DC History Conference, held at the MLK Jr Public Library in downtown DC.
Subject: DC History Conference; MLK Jr Public Library; Washington, DC; downtown DC; Convention Center; homelessness; Madame Tussad's Wax Museum; tent cities; Franklin Park; displacement; pandemic; Adams Morgan; Shaw; Blow Pierce Elementary; Garnet-Patterson Middle School; Kemp Mill Music; Filene's Basement
Country: United States
Collection: DC History Conference 2022
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:4086
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Title: Jackie Grant Sr Interview, March 21, 2016
Date: March 21, 2016
Creator: Person responsible unknown; Person responsible unknown
Description: SUMMARY: Jackie Grant Sr was born in South Carolina, but raised in Washington, DC. He considers himself a Washingtonian. He found work in South Carolina that was similar to work his mother had experienced in earlier years (picking string beans). Grant did not complete high school, but was offered an art scholarship to college. After trying to do work and school, he suffered from exhaustion and had a breakdown. He experienced homelessness, job loss, and divorce. He has worked several types of jobs, including special police officer, aide on Capitol Hill, and bus driver. His daughter was murdered in 2010, and he has three grandchildren. He often cited the importance of spirituality and family. 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: homelessness; South Carolina
Country: United States
Collection: Homeless Voices Amplification Coop
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1538
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Title: Jamal Francis Interview, April 12, 2015
Date: April 12, 2015
Creator: Person responsible unknown; Person responsible unknown
Description: 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: Georgetown Law School; Homeless Voices Amplification Co-op’s DC Employment Justice Research Project; homelessness
Country: United States
Collection: Homeless Voices Amplification Coop
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1540
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Title: James Allen Higgins Interview, April 12, 2015
Date: April 12, 2015
Creator: Person responsible unknown; Person responsible unknown
Description: 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: Georgetown Law School; Homeless Voices Amplification Co-op’s DC Employment Justice Research Project; homelessness
Country: United States
Local Identifier: James Allen Higgins_April 12_2015 _Sound
Collection: Homeless Voices Amplification Coop
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1467
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Title: James Azala Interview, April 12, 2015
Date: 42106
Creator: Person responsible unknown
Description: 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: Georgetown Law School; Homeless Voices Amplification Co-op’s DC Employment Justice Research Project; homelessness
Country: United States
Local Identifier: James_Azala_April 12_2015_Sound
Collection: Homeless Voices Amplification Coop
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1470
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Title: James Shabazz Interview, March 20, 2013
Date: March 20, 2013
Creator: Person responsible unknown; Person responsible unknown
Description: SUMMARY: This is an interview with lifelong D.C. Resident, James Shabazz, whom at the time of the interview was currently homeless. He works as a street vendor during the day and spends nights at the CCNV shelter. The interview touches on the subject of homelessness in the district, development of the downtown business district, decline in street vendors, Shabazz’s personal history, his activism and other subtopics surrounding those subjects. PROJECT’S OBJECTIVES: The interviews conducted as part of the DC Oral History and Social Justice Project record how unhoused residents of the greater DC area view the history of homelessness – how did homelessness become such an entrenched part of the city. The interviews will be used to create critical dialogue among people who are currently unhoused in Washington, DC, and then they may be used to assist future advocacy efforts.
Subject: Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library; DC Oral History and Social Justice Project; homelessness; homelessness advocacy
Country: United States
Collection: Homeless Voices Amplification Coop
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1542
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Title: Jaqueline Turner Interview, March 18, 2015
Date: March 18, 2015
Creator: Person responsible unknown; Person responsible unknown
Description: SUMMARY: This interview sheds light to employment experiences of older women without sufficient skills training in D.C.. Jacqueline Turner has overcome obstacles with domestic abuse, for that was how she found herself homeless and in need of a shelter. She outlines the different employment experiences she faced- the good jobs and the bad; her experiences working with day labor; and her familiarities with having to work multiple jobs at one time. Jacqueline gives insight to changes needed to employment practices that will help not only women, but all whom are struggling to make ends meet. 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: Homeless Voices Amplification Co-op’s DC Employment Justice Research Project; homelessness; domestic abuse
Country: United States
Collection: Homeless Voices Amplification Coop
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1543
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Title: Jeff Taylor Interview, April 12, 2015
Date: April 12, 2015
Creator: Person responsible unknown
Description: 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: Georgetown Law School; Homeless Voices Amplification Co-op’s DC Employment Justice Research Project; homelessness
Country: United States
Local Identifier: Jeff Taylor_April 12_2015_Sound
Collection: Homeless Voices Amplification Coop
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1468
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Title: Joseph Slovinec Interview, April 12, 2015
Date: April 12, 2015
Creator: Person responsible unknown
Description: 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: Georgetown Law School; Homeless Voices Amplification Co-op’s DC Employment Justice Research Project; homelessness
Country: United States
Local Identifier: Joseph Slovinec_April 12_2015_Sound
Collection: Homeless Voices Amplification Coop
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1428
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Title: Kanie Pendarvis III Interview, March 24, 2015
Date: March 24, 2015
Creator: Person responsible unknown; Person responsible unknown
Description: SUMMARY: Kanie Pendarvis gives detailed history of his experiences with employment, mental health, housing, and the military. Born in DC 1954, Mr. Pendarvis was raised by foster parents; his foster father was employed as a printer. Mr. Pendarvis has had extensive education in college programs, the US Marine Corps, and health work certification. He sees himself as a people person and would like to work in home health aide. Mr. Pendarvis sees his criminal record as his biggest challenge to employment; he explains mandatory sentencing for drug possession and how his convictions impact him. Mr. Pendarvis discusses his time in the US Marine Corps and his travels through Europe. Mr. Pendarvis discusses recognizing and dealing with depression, and how complicated peoples’ experiences with homelessness are. Mr. Pendarvis describes training programs available in prisons. Mr. Pendarvis recalls his work experience from his first job to the present. Death of foster parents, mental health, and drug use made housing difficult. Mr. Pendarvis was a part of black empowerment movements in college. He recounts experiences with racism while in North Carolina during his time in the service, and how his international and military experience gave him a different perspective on issues of race. Mr. Pendarvis worked day labor and explains how that system worked in the 80s, and how it’s changed. He currently stays at Central Union Mission and gives an overview of their approach to aide. Mr. Pendarvis discusses the difference between unions and collegiate training programs. 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: homelessness; military; mental health; drug abuse
Country: United States
Collection: Homeless Voices Amplification Coop
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1545
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Title: Levester Green Interview, April 14, 2015
Date: April 14, 2015
Creator: Person responsible unknown; Person responsible unknown
Description: 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: Church of the Epiphany; Homeless Voices Amplification Co-op’s DC Employment Justice Research Project; homelessness
Country: United States
Collection: Homeless Voices Amplification Coop
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1547
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Title: Marie Wills Interview, April 19, 2015
Date: April 19, 2015
Creator: Person responsible unknown; Person responsible unknown
Description: 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: homelessness
Country: United States
Collection: Homeless Voices Amplification Coop
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1548
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Title: Mark Anderson Interview, April 26, 2013
Date: April 26, 2013
Creator: Person responsible unknown; Person responsible unknown
Description: SUMMARY: In this interview, long-time DC activist and resident Mark Andersen talks about the history of homeless advocacy in Washington DC, recounting his memories of Mitch Snyder and the struggle over the CCNV shelter. Andersen also discusses the shifts in the movement over time, the causes of persistent homelessness in DC, and the dynamics of social struggle. PROJECT’S OBJECTIVES: The interviews conducted as part of the DC Oral History and Social Justice Project record how unhoused residents of the greater DC area view the history of homelessness – how did homelessness become such an entrenched part of the city. The interviews will be used to create critical dialogue among people who are currently unhoused in Washington, DC, and then they may be used to assist future advocacy efforts.
Subject: homelessness advocacy
Country: United States
Collection: Homeless Voices Amplification Coop
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1549
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