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Part Two: DULF: the Drug User Liberation Front and the Fight For a Safe Supply Jun 03, 2026

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Margaret continues her talk with Miriam about the people fighting tooth and nail to save lives right now in Vancouver, Canada

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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

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Part One: DULF: the Drug User Liberation Front and the Fight For a Safe Supply Jun 01, 2026

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Margaret talks with Miriam about the people fighting tooth and nail to save lives right now in Vancouver, Canada

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CZM Book Club: The End, Like Sand, by Margaret Killjoy May 31, 2026

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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

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CZM Rewind: Part Two: Riot Dogs Are Very Good Dogs May 27, 2026

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In part two of this weeks episode, Margaret continues her conversation with producer Sophie Lichterman about the stray dogs who fight cops and guard protestors around the world.

Original Air Date: 5.24.2023

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CZM Rewind: Part One: Riot Dogs Are Very Good Dogs May 25, 2026

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Margaret talks with producer Sophie Lichterman about the strays dogs who fight cops and guard protestors around the world.

Original Air Date 5.22.2023

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CZM Book Club: Clashing/Complementary, by Rafi Kleiman May 24, 2026

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Margaret reads you a story about an enchanted graffiti turf war and a flying bike chase.

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Part Four: Harm Reduction: The Direct Action Movement that Changed How We Understand Addiction May 20, 2026

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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

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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/

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Part Three: Harm Reduction: The Direct Action Movement that Changed How We Understand Addiction May 18, 2026

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Margaret goes deeper into the story of the punks, hippies, and poets in Vancouver, Canada who pioneered the modern harm reduction movement

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CZM Book Club: Moonkids, by Abbey Mei Otis, Part 2 May 17, 2026

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Margaret continues with the final part of a gutting story about rejection and re-accimlation

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Part Two: Harm Reduction: The Direct Action Movement that Changed How We Understand Addiction May 13, 2026

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Margaret continues telling you the story of the punks, hippies, and poets in Vancouver, Canada who pioneered the modern harm reduction movement

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