Part Two: DULF: the Drug User Liberation Front and the Fight For a Safe Supply
Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
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🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Margaret continues her talk 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 IHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.0 | Cool Zone Media. |
| 0:09.2 | Hello, and welcome to cool people who did cool stuff. |
| 0:12.0 | Your weekly reminder that when there's bad things happening, there's people fighting tooth |
| 0:16.3 | and nail and often going to jail, but maybe not, depending on how the peels go to make the world a better place. |
| 0:22.9 | I am your host, Margaret Kiljoy, and my guest today is Miriam. |
| 0:27.2 | Hi, Miriam. |
| 0:28.2 | Hi. |
| 0:30.1 | Miriam, you worked at a place related to organized crime, and it's really fun if I just call it that. |
| 0:39.0 | Yeah, let's just say I worked in organized crime. |
| 0:42.6 | In the organized crime field. |
| 0:47.6 | I think everyone listened to part one, but if you didn't listen to part one, |
| 0:52.0 | Miriam is my friend and guest who knows at least as much |
| 0:54.4 | about history as I do, and also worked at the... It was a museum. It was a museum about organized crime. Yeah. And it was mostly focused on prohibition. Yeah. Just because that's the most interesting era in American organized crime for a lot of people. And when people would come, you'd be like, oh, where do you work? |
| 1:10.3 | And then you'd be like, oh, you all got insurance? |
| 1:13.3 | And they'll be like, what? Yeah, we got insurance. I'm like, no, do you have like museum of the American gangster insurance? And they're like, no, I don't have that. And you're like, we promise you your windows aren't going to get broken. By museum workers. Yeah. Yeah, if there's one thing museum workers do, it's break glass. |
| 1:30.3 | Oh, yeah, you're right. |
| 1:30.3 | Never mind. workers. Yeah. If there's one thing museum workers do, it's break glass. Oh yeah, you're right. |
| 1:36.8 | Never mind. No, no, that's not their thing. If there was a revolution led by museum workers, |
| 1:42.0 | it would do such a better job than almost every other revolution at like not destroying all of the stuff that like relates to history. |
| 1:45.0 | You know? |
| 1:46.0 | Oh, the record keeping would be impeccable. |
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