SEASON 1 RECAP - 2022 Boosting Our Voice Clip Show
End 2022 on a high note by listening to all the best highlights from this year on Boosting Our Voices. Thank you so much for listening and have a great holiday season!
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Ari O’Donovan
Transcript:
Ari O’Donovan: (00:00)
Thank you so much for listening to boosting our Voices. This program has been brought to you by Boost, Oregon. You can find them online@boostoregon.org. Welcome back, fam, to a very special final episode of Boosting our Voices for 2022. Cut. For your convenience, the clips you're about to hear are some of our favorite moments from this year. If you really love a sound bite, check out the description where we've listed the episode and the clip it's associated with in order of appearance. You can also head over to our website and be sure to check out full-length episodes, transcriptions, and so much more. We'll be back on January 11th. Our first two clips are from the episode with Taylor Stewart of the Oregon Remembrance Project and focus on understanding ideas and the failures of capital punishment.
Taylor Stewart: (00:52)
One of the things that I tell people is, I don't get people to see new values, but to see the values they already have in a new way. And so it's this sort of like positive bend that you know, you're like, I believe that you believe in justice. And rather than telling you how you are furthering injustice, let me tell you how your belief injustice can come from this new angle. And that just showing people that in order to continue to live out those values that you affirm you see in them, that it's gonna require a new approach. And so that was sort of, that's what did it for me. It was, I always cared about justice, and that part never changed. It was just my understanding of injustice that informed what I believed our system of capital punishment actually produced. And so, you know, when I'm in these other communities, it's you do want to better your community.
Taylor Stewart: (01:49)
You want a more just society. Here's a new approach to achieving those ideals with which you already have. The death penalty continues to be really what I believe is the tip of the iceberg for racial injustice in the United States since 1976. For every 10 people we've executed, we've actually exonerated someone from death row, meaning someone who was wrongfully arrested, wrongfully convicted, wrongfully, put, imprisoned wrongfully put upon death row. And 10 to one is a shocking rate of error that we just sort of seem to accept that we wouldn't accept in any other scenario. I was just at the grocery store today. If one outta 10 apples were poisonous, I wouldn't buy apples. And we also wouldn't be selling them. We would've a mass recall, because 10 to one is a shocking rate of air.
Ari O’Donovan: (02:42)
Our next clip comes from Tam Lutz of the Northwest Portland area Indian Health Board. Here Tam focuses on community stewardship.
Tam Lutz: (02:51)
Another thing that we learned from Boost Oregon was the peer advocacy training. And I think think that really rings true for Indian country. A lot of times we may, as individual native people have a lot of confidence in vaccines, but it's that circle around us that maybe is struggling, and whether that's a friend or a coworker or a neighbor or another relative, that we're very concerned about those circles around us and keeping the people that we love safe, but we're not quite sure how to talk to them or how to have meaningful conversations without seeming judgey or condescending or dismissive of their concerns. And so, working with just individual community members who have a desire to make a difference in the circles that surround them and find new ways that they can talk and, you know, maybe not bring people to immediate change, but hopefully keep a dialogue open and help people recognize meaningful information and where to find it and have discussions about things that people are struggling with, or connect them to resources in the community, other trusted voices that they might be able to access so that they can get to that, you know, over a journey of time, possibly get to that point where they're willing to, to become vaccinated.
Ari O’Donovan: (04:34)
This clip is from our disinformation episode with Dr. Ryan Hassan, where he talks about what online spaces could look like for information sharing.
Dr. Ryan Hassan: (04:44)
It is possible to create an online space that is democratically governed, that is actually a true meritocracy, where the best ideas do come to the top because all ideas are fairly represented and where everyone's voice can be heard. And it's not just the person who has the most funding or the most bots who's able to get their message across better than everyone else.
Ari O’Donovan: (05:09)
Our next clip is from our episode with our former intern Sejal, who shares her experience of what it was like being a member of the Boost Oregon team.
Sejal Dubey: (05:18)
The focus that Boost Oregon has on making connections with people. I mean, you can really tell with the staff, all really care for each other, all willing to pick up for one another and are willing to kind of, you know, cover each other. So it's a really positive working environment. This is my first professional work experience that I've ever had, and it was just, it was just a really great work environment to work in. And then as far as the work that Boost Oregon does, I really loved the fact that Boost Oregon puts a focus on individual education and talking to people one-on-one about personal health decisions, because yes, there's a lot of organizations that focus on community health and public health, but I think it's a lot more unique that Boost Oregon focuses on that, but also emphasizes the importance of having conversations with people and addressing their individual concerns and their individual questions because, um, forming that bond and that trust is something that you can only do one-on-one, in my opinion.
Ari O’Donovan: (06:22)
This final clip is from our episode on motivational interviewing with newest member of the Boost Oregon team, Carrie Bader, who talks with us about building a better framework for communication and developing connections alongside others
Carrie Bader: (06:37)
If we're in a position where we do have expertise on this subject. So it is our responsibility to share that expertise. We just need to do it in a way where it's gonna have the most beneficial effect possible. And I think too, it's focusing on the person and, you know, how do they see you? You know, people are more likely to get the vaccines from somebody they trust. And when you're able to build that trusting relationship, you know, even if they're hearing this stuff, if they see you as a trustworthy person, they might start coming to you with these questions. You know, I heard this, I read this, what do you think? And then we can engage in that. Gosh, yeah, can you show me that? What was that website? Or, you know, and if we have that trusting relationship, we can share those concerns.
Carrie Bader: (07:26)
Like, you know, actually that website, I've got a lot of concerns about it. I, you know, I took a look at it and I saw, I know you can, there's so many directions you can go with that, but it might be, I saw who's behind it or who's not behind it. Hey, here's a site that I think has some really good information. And if you are a, a trustworthy person in their life, they're a lot more likely to just listen to you and to come to you when they hear these other things that are, you know, potentially questionable.
Ari O’Donovan: (08:01)
Thank you for listening to boosting our voices. We appreciate y'all subscribing and sharing our podcast. It's really amazing. We look forward to bringing you all new and dope content in 2023. Any questions, comments, new podcast episode ideas, hit me up at boosting our voices@gmail.com. Finally, stay up to date on vaccines. Be well, and thank you for boosting our voices. Happy holidays. and be well.