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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From Ups and DownsFrom: Fighting Dirty |
This chapter explores about a half-dozen key episodes and dates in this battle. | Poh-Gek Forkert | 4 | 2017 | $0.40 Add |
From A Drug Dealer Finds ActivismFrom: Fighting For Space |
This chapter throws light on the life of Dean Wilson who was dubbed “Canada’s most famous junkie”. Wilson joined the burgeoning team at PHS and worked alongside Livingston and … | Travis Lupick | 22 | 2017 | $0.44 Add |
From NEW! No Police at Overdoses |
In No Police at Overdoses illustrators nicole marie burton and Hugh D. A. Goldring examine the overdose crisis in Canada. The chapter explores how, through the use of police to address overdose … | Hugh D. A. Goldring; nicole marie burton | 7 | 2022 | $0.70 Add |
From Old Testament |
In this essay, the author describes his dissatisfaction with public health campaigns aimed at mitigating the AIDS crisis, since they frame people like him as scary risks from which others must be … | Alexander McClelland | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
From The Making of an ActivistFrom: Fighting Dirty |
This chapter is focused on the activism of Mike Bossio and his advice for community activists. | Poh-Gek Forkert | 7 | 2017 | $0.70 Add |
From Grass RootsFrom: Fighting Dirty |
This chapter follows developments in the fight around the turn of the century. It touches on political fights and journalism. | Poh-Gek Forkert | 12 | 2017 | $1.20 Add |
From Taking the Fight to City HallFrom: Fighting For Space |
The trailblazing activists continued their work in Downtown Eastside. This chapter highlights the demonstration, led by Dean Wilson in 2000, where VANDU confronted Mayor Philip Owen at the City … | Travis Lupick | 31 | 2017 | $0.93 Add |
From NEW! Troubling Police and Social Work Collaborations |
In Troubling Police and Social Work Collaborations the authors examine the limitations of proposed reforms such as ones that argue for collaboration between police and external partners, … | Adrian Guta; Ann De Shalit; Camisha Sibblis | 9 | 2022 | $0.90 Add |
From NEW! Abolishing Carceral Social Work |
In Abolishing Carceral Social Work the authors argue against the idea of professional social work as a desirable alternative to policing and instead use ideas from radical social workers, mental … | Craig Fortier; Edward Hon-Sing Wong; MJ Rwigema; Nicole Penak | 11 | 2022 | $1.10 Add |
From Building AlliesFrom: Fighting For Space |
After repeatedly hitting a wall when it came to better government support for harm reduction, the Downtown Eastside activists strategically started seeking allies. The residents of the affluent … | Travis Lupick | 28 | 2017 | $0.56 Add |
From Mission AccomplishedFrom: Fighting Dirty |
This chapter details the end of the long and hard legal battle. | Poh-Gek Forkert | 6 | 2017 | $0.60 Add |
From Communicate, Communicate . . .From: Fighting Dirty |
The story of Jeff Whan, retired IBM executive and anti-dump activist. | Poh-Gek Forkert | 9 | 2017 | $0.90 Add |
From Rewiring the Brain for AddictionFrom: Fighting For Space |
Marc Lewis, the author of The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction is Not a Disease, visits Downtown Eastside and lays out an argument for addiction as a learned habit. Lewis argues that the choice … | Travis Lupick | 19 | 2017 | $0.19 Add |
From NEW! We Are Like Waves |
In We Are Like Waves author Kikélola Roach contextualizes the challenges we face in Canada as of 2020. The chapter includes a speech Roach delivered in Toronto on July 16, 2020. | Kikélola Roach | 7 | 2022 | $0.70 Add |
From Judgment Days: The Environmental Review TribunalFrom: Fighting Dirty |
This chapter focuses on the environmental review tribunal and its actions, testing after the dump’s closure,legal fights, the author’s research activities and findings, the final … | Poh-Gek Forkert | 11 | 2017 | $1.10 Add |
From NEW! Police Abolition / Black Revolt |
In Police Abolition / Black Revolt author Robyn Maynard reflects on the current shift towards social movements and the renewed surge of energy to defund—and abolish—the police. … | Robyn Maynard | 12 | 2022 | $1.20 Add |