EPISODE · May 20, 2026 · 42 MIN
Part Four: 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
In part four of this series, Margaret tells you more about 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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