Aug 24, 2012
Medicare and class struggle
People's Health Radio looks at the history of the struggle for medicare and the class politics of the current attempts to dismantle it.
People's Health Radio
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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.
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Apr 30, 2012 Vancouver's Downtown Eastside to Occupied Palestine: Encroachment, resistance and criminalizationPHR 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. |
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Apr 12, 2012 A plague of prisonsPeople's Health Radio looks again at the health and social impacts of prisons and the mass incarceration agenda in Canada. |
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Mar 26, 2012 Women's health and women's liberation -- IWD specialTo 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. |
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Feb 3, 2012 Drug prohibition and healthPeople's Health Radio looks at the current prohibition of illicit drugs, its impact on health and alternative approaches to drugs and drug use. |
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Jan 20, 2012 Housing, homelessness and healthPeople'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. |
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Dec 22, 2011 Charity vs. Justice: Can the charity industry save us from capitalism?A discussion of charity vs. justice looking at both international 'philanthrocapitalism' and the charity industry in Canada. |
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Dec 9, 2011 'Ghetto Palestine': Challenges and possibilities for resistance, with Jon ElmerCanadian writer and photojournalist Jon Elmer discusses ghetto Palestine and the challenges and possibilities for Palestinian resistance from a perspective not heard in mainstream media. |
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Nov 26, 2011 Smile with Dignity rally and lecture on 'Care and the Welfare State'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. |
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Nov 14, 2011 Canada's mass incarceration agendaPHR 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. |
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Oct 17, 2011 Healing trauma in our movements: A spotlight on the Kindred Collective in the Southern United StatesJennifer 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. |
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Oct 5, 2011 Health and healing among activists and organizersAre our radical communities healthy places? How can we fight burnout, depression and isolation among organizers and activists? Includes interview with radical Vancouver accupuncturist Laurel Irons. |
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Sep 15, 2011 Social and structural determinants of health: A global perspectiveThe inadequacies of the WHO approach to social determinants of health and the need to look to socialist models of health care are discussed. |
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Sep 1, 2011 Social and structural determinants of health in the PhilippinesMartha and Aiyanas, recently returned from 6 weeks in the Philippines, reflect on how the people's movement is addressing both the social and structural determinants of health. |
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Aug 31, 2011 Report back from the frontlines of the health-care fight in the U.S.Jennifer interviews fellow collective member Rohith on his summer spent with the Physicians for a National Health Care Program in Chicago. |
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Aug 10, 2011 The Revolution Starts at Home: The Vancouver launchAudio from the July 21 Vancouver launch of the book "The Revolution Starts at Home, Confronting Intimate Violence In Activist Communities." |
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Jul 22, 2011 Think before you Pink: The politics of breast cancerWe constantly hear about the CIBC "run for the cure." Why is nobody running for cancer prevention, and what is the role of large business interests in setting the agenda for cancer activism? |
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Jun 30, 2011 Health and human rights in the PhilippinesWe revisit the story of the Morong 43, a group of 43 community health workers detained by the Philippine government from February to December of 2010. |
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Jun 23, 2011 Nine Month Blues: A look at women's reproductive rights in CanadaFrom birth control, to abortion, to access to information and education, what's happening with sexual health for women in Canada? |
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Jun 16, 2011 Health care for sale? The health impacts of privatizationJust how public is our public health-care system? We look at the trend of increasing health-care privatization in Canada and B.C., and the health impacts on patients and health-care workers. |
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Jun 9, 2011 Suffer for your art: A look at musician health and safetyOn this show we take a look at the state of musician health and safety. What are the hazards? What protection do musicians have from injury and strain? |
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Jun 7, 2011 Dr. Julian Tudor Hart: A socialist lifePeople's Health Radio spoke to Dr. Julian Tudor Hart about his life as a socialist general practitioner, and the values we need to assert for a more just and humane world. |
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May 26, 2011 Poverty, criminalization and healthPeople's Health Radio explores the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users campaign against the ticketing of poor people for vending, jaywalking and public urination. |
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May 18, 2011 Globalization and HealthAn exploration of the impacts of 'globalization' on people's health and community based responses, the case of the Philippines is highlighted. |