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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)
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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

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)
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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

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)
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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)
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'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)
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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)
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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)
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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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