EPISODE · Jun 8, 2026 · 37 MIN
Part Five: Harm Reduction: The Direct Action Movement that Changed How We Understand Addiction
from Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff · host Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
Margaret resumes telling you the story of the punks, hippies, and poets in Vancouver, Canada who pioneered the modern harm reduction movement Sources: Fighting for Space, Travis Lupick (https://firestorm.coop/products/11537-fighting-for-space.html?referral=killjoy)https://www.addictionresource.net/heroin/types/china-white/https://www.vice.com/en/article/poll-taxriot-anniversary-solomon-hughes-382/https://abcbookworld.com/article/article-15099/https://globalnews.ca/news/370804/income-by-postal-code/https://immigrationnewscanada.ca/most-dangerous-cities-in-canada-mid-2025/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/expo-86-evictions-remembered-1.3566844https://riseupfeministarchive.ca/poster/la-quena-presents-inti-illimani-and-holly-nearpersonal correspondencehttps://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/christopher-b-r-smith-harm-reduction-as-anarchist-practicehttps://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/zoe-dodd-alexander-mcclelland-taking-risks-is-a-path-to-survivalhttps://inpud.net/who-we-are/https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/zoe-dodd-alexander-mcclelland-the-revolution-will-not-be-soberhttps://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/when-labour-organizing-and-harm-reduction-meethttps://www.drugpolicy.ca/insite-vigil-poem-by-the-late-bud-osborn/https://www.toronto.com/news/harm-reduction-worker-remembered-at-leslieville-memorial/article_2e6eeeac-47de-57bd-88bc-aa9922ba1e5d.htmlhttps://uppingtheanti.org/journal/article/20-you-get-exactly-what-you-fight-for-and-nothingmorehttps://www.vice.com/en/article/meet-the-harm-reduction-worker-who-called-out-trudeau-on-the-opioid-crisis/https://www.cbc.ca/radio/outintheopen/out-in-the-open-on-july-9-2016-addiction-1.3663909/harm-reduction-worker-by-day-fentanyl-user-at-night-one-man-s-story-of-recreational-opioid-use-1.3663917https://www.straight.com/news/959286/vancouver-area-network-drug-users-looks-back-20-years-fighting-human-rights#https://www.thesocialjusticecentre.org/blog/2018/1/14/fighting-for-space-travis-lupick-and-ann-livingston-on-drug-users-struggles-in-vancouverhttps://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/07/13/619546120/watchful-eyes-at-peer-run-injection-sites-drug-users-help-each-other-stay-safehttps://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/dulf-compassion-club-guilty-drug-trafficking-9.6972135https://www.stalbertgazette.com/health/stopping-overdoses-like-bailing-a-boat-with-a-thimble-bc-court-hears-11535161 https://filtermag.org/dulf-safe-supply-compassion-club-exemption/https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/04/15/For-One-Day-BC-Activists-Handed-Out-Clean-Heroin-Cocaine/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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