Health

Medicare and class struggle

Peoples Health Radio — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 23:05:43 +0000

PHR interviews health activist Maija Kagis on the struggle to create and defend public health insurance in Canada. Followed by a discussion of the class politics of current efforts to dismantle medicare, efforts to defend it, and the need for a broader struggle for a health system that truly puts people's health first.

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

Peoples Health Radio — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 04:23:16 +0000

Part 1 of the show looks at the health consequences of gentrification in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and the powerful community struggle against the Sequel 138 condo development with Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood Council board member Ivan Drury. Part two examines mass incarceration and political imprisonment as an assault on people's health and people's aspirations for healthier, liberated world. It includes part of talk by Angie Ipong, a former political prisoner who spent 6 years in jail in the Philippines for her work organizing with peasants and indigenous people, and an interview with Charlotte Kates of the SAMIDOUN Palestinian Prisoners Support Network about the health consequences of mass incarceration of Palestinians in Israeli occupation jails.

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A plague of prisons

Peoples Health Radio — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:15:51 +0000

People's Health Radio looks again at the health and social impacts of prisons and the mass incarceration agenda in Canada. This week's show features audio from a forum held in the Downtown Eastside with U.S. author Ernie Drucker and activists from the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users.

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

Peoples Health Radio — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:15:08 +0000

To mark Internationl Women's Day 2012, PHR looks at the links between working class women's struggles for liberation and women's health. With the Alliance for People's Health IWD statement read by Martha Roberts at the Vancouver IWD rally; a discussion between grassroots community health organizers Yuly Chan and Jannie Leung; and coverage of the IWD march in Gaza, Palestine.

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Drug prohibition and health

Peoples Health Radio — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:17:03 +0000

People's Health Radio looks at the current prohibition of illicit drugs, its impact on health and alternative approaches to drugs and drug use. Guests include UVic Professor Susan Boyd talking about the the history of drug prohibition in Canada and Dave Murray an "alumni" of the North American Opiate Maintenance Initiative (NAOMI).

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Housing, homelessness and health

Peoples Health Radio — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:29:04 +0000

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 in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. Interviews with organizers Roland Clarke and Ivan Drury of the Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood Council.

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

Peoples Health Radio — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:59:32 +0000

Segment one takes a look at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the global leader in philanthrocapitalism, with People's Health Radio contributors Martha Roberts and Rohith Bhargavan. The second segment is a roundtable on charity vs. justice with Ann Livingston (Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users), Dave Diewert (Streams of Justice) and Paul Taylor (Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House).

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

Peoples Health Radio — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 04:48:27 +0000

Today on People's Health Radio we bring you a lecture on "Ghetto Palestine" delivered by Canadian writer and photojournalist Jon Elmer at UBC on December 2, 2011. Jon's perspective is based on 10 years of reporting from the West Bank and Gaza. His on-the-ground experience of events such as the second intifada and the Fatah-Hamas clashes in Gaza inform an analysis absent from mainstream media narratives.

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

Peoples Health Radio — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 04:05:15 +0000

This week we bring you reports from two recent events in Vancouver: a rally organized by the 'Smile with Dignity' campaign for universal public dental insurance, and a lecture at UBC by Professor James Struthers on trends in health-care delivery.

On October 29, 2011, organizers and supporters of the Smile with Dignity campaign, an initiative of the Vancouver-based Alliance for People's Health, rallied at Premier Christy Clark's constituency office with the message that "the lack of dental coverage in B.C. is scary." The Halloween-themed protest included giant teeth costumes, a play, an open mic session and the delivery of a set of demands to the premier's office.

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Canada's mass incarceration agenda

Peoples Health Radio — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:30:35 +0000

People's Health Radio looks at the mass incarceration agenda in Canada -- from the "ominous" crime bill, to prison construction and privatization in B.C. to targeting of poor people who use illicit drugs in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Interviews with Caleb Chepesiuk of Canadian Students for a Sensible Drug Policy, Stephanie Seaton, a blogger on prison expansion and privatization and Laura Shaver, an activist with the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users on her experience of prison.

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

Peoples Health Radio — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 03:47:42 +0000

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.

Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective is based out of the Southern United States. Founded in 2007, Kindred is conceived by healers and organizers in the South as a response to the crisis of trauma, violence and social conditions in the Southern United States.

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Health and healing among activists and organizers

Peoples Health Radio — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 01:56:11 +0000

Are 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.

Music by Leah Abramson and Smog.

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Social and structural determinants of health: A global perspective

Peoples Health Radio — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 04:07:35 +0000

A further discussion of the social and structural determinants of health. In two presentations recorded at the International League of People's Struggles Fourth International Assembly, Martha Roberts from the Alliance for People's Health and Delen de la Paz from Health Action for Human Rights expose the inadequacy of the World Health Organization's interpretation of a social determinants of health approach and argue that we need to look to socialist models of health care such as in Cuba and post-revolution China for a guide to creating a truly people-centred health-care system.

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Social and structural determinants of health in the Philippines

Peoples Health Radio — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 04:57:47 +0000

Aiyanas and Martha report back on their recent trip to the Philippines where they worked for six weeks with grassroots people's health organizations. Looking at the experience of two communities in the city of Escalante we look at how th people's movement in the Philippines is addressing both the social and structural determinants of health. Includes an interview with a leading human rights advocate from norther Negros.

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Report back from the frontlines of the health-care fight in the U.S.

Peoples Health Radio — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:35:45 +0000

Jennifer interviews fellow collective member Rohith on his summer spent with the Physicians for a National Health Care Program in Chicago. We talked about the status of the fight for universal health care and the health-care apartheid that is so entrenched in the U.S. today.

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