Part One: DULF: the Drug User Liberation Front and the Fight For a Safe Supply
Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
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🗓️ 1 June 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Margaret talks with Miriam about the people fighting tooth and nail to save lives right now in Vancouver, Canada
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Previous episodes of this show
Personal correspondence
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.0 | CoolZone Media. |
| 0:09.3 | Hello, and welcome to cool people who did cool stuff. |
| 0:12.8 | I am your host, Margaret Kiljoy, and this week, a more fitting name for this show, might be cool people who are currently doing and facing charges for cool stuff. |
| 0:23.3 | I am taking a rare excursion into what you might call future history, aka current events. |
| 0:30.7 | But I am not alone on this time travel journey. |
| 0:34.3 | With me is my guest, Miriam. Miriam, how are you? |
| 0:37.7 | Hello, I'm here to be your guide to 2026. I hear you are a time traveler. How are you doing? |
| 0:45.7 | It's rough here. Welcome. Yeah, no, I'm much more comfortable when I spend all of my time |
| 0:51.3 | imagining I'm in the 19th century dying of tuberculosis while fighting |
| 0:54.6 | the state there. You know what you're not doing when you're dying of tuberculosis in the 19th century? |
| 0:59.5 | Being online and that's great actually. I mean, not the dying part, but... I know. You're also working |
| 1:06.1 | 16-hour days, six days a week, but you know, we can still romanticize the past. And I'm hoping you |
| 1:13.2 | appreciated the time travel joke because when I first met you, Miriam. Oh, yeah. I was time traveling then |
| 1:19.7 | too. Yeah, you were at a nerd labor rally in which you were dressed up as and giving a speech as |
| 1:24.9 | a time traveling Emma Goldman. Yes, I was. And it was actually, |
| 1:29.4 | I was not yet at the rally. I remember this very well, because I had planned the rally. |
| 1:34.4 | I had organized the rally. And I was dressed up as Emma Goldman and I was on my way |
| 1:39.3 | across the parking lot to the nerd convention. And I was thinking to myself, oh, my God, there is no way anyone is going to know who the |
| 1:48.6 | fuck I am supposed to be. |
| 1:50.0 | This is going to be so embarrassing. |
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