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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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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

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Part One: Harm Reduction: The Direct Action Movement that Changed How We Understand Addiction May 11, 2026

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Margaret tells you 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 1 May 10, 2026

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Margaret reads you the first part of a story about kids who grew up on the moon

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Part Four: The Dutch Resistance: The Teens Who Seduced and Killed Nazis May 06, 2026

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Margaret continues her talk with Caitlin Durante about Truus and Freddie Oversteegan and Hannie Schaft and their rebellion that left Nazi bodies around the Netherlands

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Three Ordinary Girls, Tim Brady
https://firestorm.coop/products/24908-three-ordinary-girls.html?referral=killjoy

https://socialisme-nu.translate.goog/truus-menger-oversteegen-1923-2016-een-strijdster-die-doorging/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

https://www.annefrank.org/en/timeline/222/mandatory-registration-for-forced-labour/

https://dirkdeklein.net/2025/03/29/the-arbeidsinzet-forced-labour/

https://dirkdeklein.net/2017/05/24/ernst-cahn-the-koco-affair/

https://www.flashscore.com/news/80-years-of-freedom-the-amsterdam-boxing-school-which-formed-the-first-jewish-resistance/ncIglSYp/

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=229629

https://libcom.org/article/history-dutch-fascism-and-militant-anti-fascist-response-job-polak

https://dirkdeklein.net/2018/01/21/the-dutch-jews-who-fought-back/

https://socialisme-nu.translate.goog/75-jaar-februaristaking-wat-herdenken-we/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

https://www-dedokwerker-nl.translate.goog/boksschool_olympia.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

https://sportgeschiedenis-nl.translate.goog/overige-sport/vechtsporten/het-joodse-verzet-van-1941-bestond-grotendeels-uit-amsterdamse-boksers-en-worstelaars/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

https://www.canonvannederland.nl/nl/page/206267/de-geuzen

https://elib.be/m/articles/view/FROM-THE-HISTORY-OF-THE-RESISTANCE-MOVEMENT-IN-THE-NETHERLANDS-1940-1945

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/liberation-of-holland

https://www.historyanswers.co.uk/history-of-war/armies-cant-march-in-clogs/

https://www.verzetsmuseum.org/nl/kennisbank/nederlandse-unie

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/07/nx-s1-5249956/nazi-collaborators-netherlands-archive

https://apnews.com/article/netherlands-collaboration-nazis-holocaust-remembrance-archives-d7d3b0c6e2e99146c484171e03046758

https://web.archive.org/web/20230307064313/http://home.iae.nl/users/arcengel/NedIndie/introengels.htm

https://tomgoyens.substack.com/p/how-a-dutch-anarchist-defied-the

https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/from-nazi-criminal-to-postwar-spy-german-intelligence-hired-klaus-barbie-as-agent-a-740393.html

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13507486.2019.1699505

https://royaldutchshellplc.com/2025/10/14/shells-dark-fuel-the-nazi-past-the-oil-giant-couldnt-bury/

https://www.hannahbyron.com/blog/the-first-resistance-the-geuzen

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Part Three: The Dutch Resistance: The Teens Who Seduced and Killed Nazis May 04, 2026

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Margaret talks with Caitlin Durante about Truus and Freddie Oversteegan and Hannie Schaft and their rebellion that left Nazi bodies around the Netherlands