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In this episode, we speak with Trinh Phan, Director of State Income Security at Justice in Aging, a national organization that uses the power of law to fight senior poverty by securing access to affordable health care, economic security, and the courts for older adults with limited resources.
Welcome to the beginning of an ongoing convo we will be having about the nuances of substance use in the “post” drug war world.
Eric Harris, Associate Executive Director of External Affairs, returns to the pod to talk about what the ADA got right, and where it fell short, on improving the economic conditions of people with disabilities.
Part Two: The Real Cost of Civil Commitment
In this episode, our host Susan Li speaks with The Fund for Guaranteed Income’s (F4GI) Executive Coordinator, Melody Parker.
Todd Cunningham is the Food and Wellness Organizer at Los Angeles Community Action Network.
Communications and Strategic Partnerships Manager, California Foundation for Independent Living Centers
Susan from APHC interviewed Andy Imparato, CEO of Disability Rights California about his experience doing policy work for 4 decades, and where it took us, where it moved things, what it achieved, where it failed, and what he’s learned.
Following over six months of especially brutal attacks on Latino and Black immigrant people and communities throughout the US by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and other law enforcement agencies, Democrat Party Congressional leadership is finally making an effort to limit the abuse.
The violence of ICE and CBP is horrific.
In response to The SF Chronicle, the new legislative session, and the people, DRC & APHC demand a better path
Part One: This Is Our Money
This past week, the news has covered stories about supposed childcare fraud, the murder of a mother by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the U.S.
All People’s Health Collective podcast co-host, Susan Li, is joined in conversation with Gretchen Berman, co-founder and executive director of A New Path, a non-profit advocacy organization of parents, concerned citizens, individuals in recovery, healthcare professionals and community leaders working together to educate the public, media and decision makers about the true nature of the disease of…
Can Prop 1 Deliver on Its Promise?
Over the past two weeks, U.S politics have been both an open expression of itself, and a reflection of its relationship to the public.
Vanessa Ramos of Disability Rights California and the All People’s Health Collective joins podcast co-host Susan Li to discuss how services in California are failing to provide people with the care and supports they need and warehousing people in cruel, isolating, and coercive locked facilities instead—sometimes for years.
Vanessa Ramos and Lucina Kayee talk through the often missing stories of homelessness, substance use, and how harm reduction is imagined.
Sarah Wattar, a global teacher and an investigator with Civil Rights Corps, talks about her work fighting the policing, incarceration, and court systems and contrasts it with how intervention is understood in other countries, pointing to the ways families, and the lives of people within them, have been defined, protected, and disrupted in the U.S.
In this episode, Susan (CRC) and Carolina (DRC) discuss what carceral feminism is and how it showed up in SB 258.
