Today on The Radio Activist, at 9am hosts Suzanne LaGrande and Lisa Loving interview youth educator and mental health advocate Javonnie Shearn about her current winter coat drive for teenagers, her work on the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill and as vice chair of the Hospital Advisory Board at the Oregon State Hospital in Salem.
Then at 9:30 am Ben Hodgson and Diana Rempe, street librarians with Streetbooks. Started in 2011, Streetbooks allows people living outside to check out thousands of paperbacks in all genres, from sci-fi to romance to memoir. James Patterson to Jeanette Walls to Flannery O’Connor and Stephen King. Patrons are issued an official Street Books library card without being required to show proof of address or identification. By providing good literature, and conversations about literature to those who are pushed to the margins, Streetbooks seeks to empower people on the streets through access to literature, and create a community of support for people living outside, through a shared love of books. For more about Streetbooks, visit http://streetbooks.org/