Learning from Organizers – Tara Ehrcke
September 24th, 2024
Jordan Westfall is co-founder and president of the Canadian Association for Safe Supply (CASS), an organization that aims to reduce the immense harms of the overdose crisis by pushing for an increase in people’s access to a drug supply that … Continue reading
Bryce Koch is a registered nurse based in Winnipeg. He is the founder of Project Safe Audience, a harm reduction initiative based in the city’s after-hours music scene, and he is on the board of directors of the Harm Reduction … Continue reading
Garth Mullins is an activist and organizer who has been part of many different movements, as well as a freelance journalist and an award-winning broadcaster. He has been a drug user for most of his adult life – primarily heroin … Continue reading
On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh speaks with Heather Jarvis, Alice, and Layla about the Safe Harbour Outreach Project (SHOP), an initiative supporting sex workers in Newfoundland and Labrador in their efforts to win full human … Continue reading
[audio:http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/309704183-scott-neigh-talking-radical-trr-ep-97-jan-72015-the-worlds-first-union-for-harm-reduction-workers.mp3] On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, I speak with Zoë Dodd and Peter Leslie, who are harm reduction workers and active members of the world’s first union specifically for such workers: the Toronto Harm Reduction Workers Union. … Continue reading
[audio:http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/309689216-scott-neigh-talking-radical-trr-ep-79-sep-102014-drug-users-mobilizing-for-social-justice-and-harm-reduction-in-vancouver.mp3] On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, Hugh Lampkin talks about efforts in Vancouver among users of illicit drugs to mobilize in the service of social justice and harm reduction. People who use drugs that have been designated … Continue reading