A Harvard Study has concluded that nearly 5,000 people were likely killed by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico last year – a massive jump from the official death toll of 64. On our show today we’ll share a recent speech by former political prisoner and Puerto Rican independence activist Oscar Lopez Rivera, discussing the history of Puerto Rico and the aftermath of the hurricane. Then, Travis Lupick, an award winning journalist, joins us to discuss his new book Fighting for Space: How a Group Of Drug Users Transformed One City’s Struggle With Addiction. Lupick’s book shares the inspiring history of how grassroots activists transformed an area of the Canadian city Vancouver to be a safe space for drug users, and thereby actually began to solve the problems of addiction.
Hosted by Sonali Kolhatkar.