Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Part Five: Harm Reduction: The Direct Action Movement that Changed How We Understand Addiction

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-1.3566844 https://riseupfeministarchive.ca/poster/la-quena-presents-inti-illimani-and-holly-near personal correspondence https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/christopher-b-r-smith-harm-reduction-as-anarchist-practice https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/zoe-dodd-alexander-mcclelland-taking-risks-is-a-path-to-survival https://inpud.net/who-we-are/ https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/zoe-dodd-alexander-mcclelland-the-revolution-will-not-be-sober https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/when-labour-organizing-and-harm-reduction-meet https://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.html https://uppingtheanti.org/journal/article/20-you-get-exactly-what-you-fight-for-and-nothingmore https://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-1.3663917 https://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-vancouver https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/07/13/619546120/watchful-eyes-at-peer-run-injection-sites-drug-users-help-each-other-stay-safe https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/dulf-compassion-club-guilty-drug-trafficking-9.6972135 https://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 [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

CZM Book Club: Phone Resistance, by Safear Ness -- with In The Belly Magazine

This week we are collaborating with In The Belly Magazine to read you a short memoir piece about organizing behind bars. See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Part Two: DULF: the Drug User Liberation Front and the Fight For a Safe Supply

Margaret continues her talk with Miriam about the people fighting tooth and nail to save lives right now in Vancouver, Canada Sources: Previous episodes of this show Personal correspondence https://www.cbsnews.com/news/overdose-deaths-decline-2025-rate-cdc-data/ https://govfacts.org/health-healthcare/mental-health-substance-use/the-federal-agencies-fighting-americas-opioid-crisis/ https://www.cdc.gov/overdose-prevention/about/understanding-the-opioid-overdose-epidemic.html https://www.drugpolicyfacts.org/chapter/overdose_crisis https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/wellness/story/fentanyl-deadly-drug-dealers-lace-illicit-drugs-96827602 https://harmreduction.org/issues/fentanyl/ https://govfacts.org/health-healthcare/mental-health-substance-use/substance-use-disorder-treatment/safe-injection-sites-and-needle-programs-do-they-save-lives-or-enable-drug-use/ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-premier-involuntary-care-prince-george-surrey-1.7645702 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-human-rights-commissioner-drug-stigma-9.6978690 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095539592400015X https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/11/26/b-c-drug-club-co-founder-felt-invincible-arrested/ https://filtermag.org/dulf-conviction-challenge-compassion-club/ https://filtermag.org/dulf-constitutional-challenge-health-canada-official/ https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/vancouver-compassion-club-founders-guilty-of-drug-charges-but-sentencing-on-hold https://www.capilanocourier.com/2026/01/01/dulf-and-the-case-for-radical-harm-reduction/ https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/fatal-drug-overdoses-have-doubled-mexico-15-years-2024a1000f6b?form=fpf See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Part One: DULF: the Drug User Liberation Front and the Fight For a Safe Supply

Margaret talks with Miriam about the people fighting tooth and nail to save lives right now in Vancouver, Canada Sources: Previous episodes of this show Personal correspondence https://www.cbsnews.com/news/overdose-deaths-decline-2025-rate-cdc-data/ https://govfacts.org/health-healthcare/mental-health-substance-use/the-federal-agencies-fighting-americas-opioid-crisis/ https://www.cdc.gov/overdose-prevention/about/understanding-the-opioid-overdose-epidemic.html https://www.drugpolicyfacts.org/chapter/overdose_crisis https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/wellness/story/fentanyl-deadly-drug-dealers-lace-illicit-drugs-96827602 https://harmreduction.org/issues/fentanyl/ https://govfacts.org/health-healthcare/mental-health-substance-use/substance-use-disorder-treatment/safe-injection-sites-and-needle-programs-do-they-save-lives-or-enable-drug-use/ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-premier-involuntary-care-prince-george-surrey-1.7645702 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-human-rights-commissioner-drug-stigma-9.6978690 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095539592400015X https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/11/26/b-c-drug-club-co-founder-felt-invincible-arrested/ https://filtermag.org/dulf-conviction-challenge-compassion-club/ https://filtermag.org/dulf-constitutional-challenge-health-canada-official/ https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/vancouver-compassion-club-founders-guilty-of-drug-charges-but-sentencing-on-hold https://www.capilanocourier.com/2026/01/01/dulf-and-the-case-for-radical-harm-reduction/ https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/fatal-drug-overdoses-have-doubled-mexico-15-years-2024a1000f6b?form=fpf See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

CZM Book Club: The End, Like Sand, by Margaret Killjoy

Margaret reads you a story about how to set up mutual aid societies in the wake of social collapse, and how to fight against cannibal nazis from the suburbs See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.