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People's Health Radio

A weekly conversation about how racism, sexism, and class shape the health of our families and communities. People's Health Radio also shares news and views from grassroots struggles for health and justice.
People's Health Radio
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)
People's Health Radio
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
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
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
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
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
People's Health Radio

'Ghetto Palestine': Challenges and possibilities for resistance, with Jon Elmer

December 9, 2011
| Canadian writer and photojournalist Jon Elmer discusses ghetto Palestine and the challenges and possibilities for Palestinian resistance from a perspective not heard in mainstream media.

56:21 minutes (51.6 MB)
People's Health Radio
People's Health Radio

Smile with Dignity rally and lecture on 'Care and the Welfare State'

November 26, 2011
| We report from two recent events in Vancouver: a rally for universal public dental insurance, and a lecture at UBC by Professor James Struthers on trends in health-care delivery.

57:53 minutes (53.01 MB)
People's Health Radio
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
People's Health Radio

Healing trauma in our movements: A spotlight on the Kindred Collective in the Southern United States

October 17, 2011
| Jennifer from People's Health Radio had the chance to speak with Tamika Middleton and Cara Page of the Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective from their base in Atlanta, Georgia.

41:20 minutes (37.84 MB)
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