People's Health Radio

The great meat debate

April 13, 2011
| People's Health Radio collective members and contributors debate the health impacts of meat-eating versus vegetarianism.

60:28 minutes (55.36 MB)
People's Health Radio

Mother's Liberation: Care-giving under capitalism

May 13, 2011
| PHR marks Mother's Day with an examination of care-giving under capitalism and the struggle for mothers' liberation.

58:17 minutes (53.36 MB)
People's Health Radio

Poverty, criminalization and health

May 26, 2011
| People's Health Radio explores the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users campaign against the ticketing of poor people for vending, jaywalking and public urination.

60:37 minutes (55.5 MB)
People's Health Radio

Social and structural determinants of health: A global perspective

September 15, 2011
| The inadequacies of the WHO approach to social determinants of health and the need to look to socialist models of health care are discussed.

57:12 minutes (52.38 MB)
People's Health Radio

Canada's mass incarceration agenda

November 14, 2011
| PHR looks at the mass incarceration agenda in Canada -- from the "ominous" crime bill, to prison construction and privatization in B.C. to the targeting of poor people who use illicit drugs.

58:56 minutes (53.96 MB)
People's Health Radio

Charity vs. Justice: Can the charity industry save us from capitalism?

December 22, 2011
| A discussion of charity vs. justice looking at both international 'philanthrocapitalism' and the charity industry in Canada.

57:52 minutes (52.98 MB)
People's Health Radio

Housing, homelessness and health

January 20, 2012
| People's Health Radio takes a look at the health impacts of inadequate housing with a particular focus on people in extremely marginalized housing such as shelters and hotels.

60:55 minutes (55.77 MB)
People's Health Radio

Drug prohibition and health

February 3, 2012
| People's Health Radio looks at the current prohibition of illicit drugs, its impact on health and alternative approaches to drugs and drug use.

62:05 minutes (56.84 MB)
People's Health Radio

Women's health and women's liberation -- IWD special

March 26, 2012
| To mark International Women's Day 2012, People's Health Radio looks at the links between working class women's struggles for liberation and women's health.

56:13 minutes (51.47 MB)
People's Health Radio

A plague of prisons

April 12, 2012
| People's Health Radio looks again at the health and social impacts of prisons and the mass incarceration agenda in Canada.

60:45 minutes (55.63 MB)
People's Health Radio

Vancouver's Downtown Eastside to Occupied Palestine: Encroachment, resistance and criminalization

April 30, 2012
| PHR checks in with the anti-gentrification struggle in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and examines the health consequences of mass incarceration and political imprisonment of peoples in struggle.

53:25 minutes (48.91 MB)