It Did Happen Here

IDHH Presents: Fight the Power, Do No Harm: The Story of the Black Cross Healthcare Collective

The Black Cross Healthcare Collective was a group of healthcare workers who lived in Portland, Oregon. They formed after the WTO protests of 1999, after seeing a need for medical care that specifically served people who were attending direct actions, demonstrations and political protests. In the early 2000s they pioneered community-supported trials to find an antidote to pepper spray. These trials resulted in an antidote that has been used in street protests internationally. The collective disbanded as a medical group in 2005 or so, morphing into the Black Cross Social Club. Fight the Power, Do No Harm is the story of the Black Cross Healthcare Collective. Fight the Power, Do No Harm was written, edited, and produced by Jodi Darby, Honna Veerkamp and Erin Yanke.

IDHH Episode 01 (repost)

( Reposted here because Apple Podcasts keeps archiving the episode for unknown reasons!) In the late 1980s, Portland was a known haven for racist skinheads. They roamed the core of Portland unhindered.  In this episode we hear from the punks in the late 1980s Portland punk scene, a place fraught with violence and conflict. We also hear about the recruiting and radicalization of Portland’s skinheads by right wing and white nationalist organizers.

IDHH Bonus 6: no. NOT EVER.

Kate Boyd and Cristien Storm of the Seattle-based collaborative group If You Don’t They Will discuss “no. NOT EVER”, an interactive, immersive presentation of cultural resistance to white nationalism practiced by Western rural and suburban groups throughout the 80s and 90s.

IDHH Bonus 5: More Fighters

In this episode we hear from antiracist street fighters: Iran, Jackson, Pan and Tom. The four veterans recount their experiences fighting Portland neo Nazis, how it affected them and where we should direct our energy to continue the fight.

IDHH Bonus 4: The Holocaust Denier

This episode features hosts Mic Crenshaw and Celina Flores as well as Coalition for Human Dignity activists Steve Wasserstrom, Jonathan Mozzochi and Abby Layton. In this special bonus episode we look at how the meticulous collection of data mined for opposition research contributed to a world-famous trial to debunk fascist Holocaust denier David Irving.