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"This is not treatment, it is trauma."
Involuntary treatment is "convenient cover for the BC government to avoid confronting the ongoing housing and toxic supply crises in BC by invisibilizing those disproportionately impacted."
#BritishColumbia #Canada #Drugs #Healthcare #Housing #Incarceration
Involuntary treatment is "convenient cover for the BC government to avoid confronting the ongoing housing and toxic supply crises in BC by invisibilizing those disproportionately impacted."
#BritishColumbia #Canada #Drugs #Healthcare #Housing #Incarceration
BC NDP aims to side-step another legal challenge to broaden the criminalization of mental health, substance use
The politics of the Mental Health Act amendments in Bill 32 reflect a trend of the BC NDP circumventing court rulings under Premier Eby's leadership.
themainlander.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
"This is not treatment, it is trauma."
Involuntary treatment is "convenient cover for the BC government to avoid confronting the ongoing housing and toxic supply crises in BC by invisibilizing those disproportionately impacted."
#BritishColumbia #Canada #Drugs #Healthcare #Housing #Incarceration
Involuntary treatment is "convenient cover for the BC government to avoid confronting the ongoing housing and toxic supply crises in BC by invisibilizing those disproportionately impacted."
#BritishColumbia #Canada #Drugs #Healthcare #Housing #Incarceration
So many people wanna help me :•)
November 30, 2025 at 2:05 AM
So many people wanna help me :•)
A 20-something said “sending you softness” to me during conflict
November 27, 2025 at 1:03 AM
A 20-something said “sending you softness” to me during conflict
Saturday :•)
NYC: DR*G USER DEFENSE COLLECTIVE is hosting a mask non-optional HARM REDUCTION ZINE FOLDING hang at Come Forever on November 29th from 2-5pm! DM me or email [email protected] to volunteer :) please come hang out!
November 26, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Saturday :•)
“fashioning abolition” 🫨🫨🫨
November 19, 2025 at 8:27 PM
“fashioning abolition” 🫨🫨🫨
NYC: DR*G USER DEFENSE COLLECTIVE is hosting a mask non-optional HARM REDUCTION ZINE FOLDING hang at Come Forever on November 29th from 2-5pm! DM me or email [email protected] to volunteer :) please come hang out!
November 7, 2025 at 10:15 PM
NYC: DR*G USER DEFENSE COLLECTIVE is hosting a mask non-optional HARM REDUCTION ZINE FOLDING hang at Come Forever on November 29th from 2-5pm! DM me or email [email protected] to volunteer :) please come hang out!
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This is a comprehensive overview and analysis of the DULF guilty verdict and case. Charter battle starts November 24. Best wishes and kudos to all involved in this critical litigation.
Court finds DULF guilty for compassion club "heralded as success"
Convictions are on hold as the compassion club founders prepare for a Charter challenge to begin on November 24.
drugdatadecoded.ca/court-finds-...
Convictions are on hold as the compassion club founders prepare for a Charter challenge to begin on November 24.
drugdatadecoded.ca/court-finds-...
Court finds DULF guilty for compassion club "heralded as success"
Convictions are on hold as the compassion club founders prepare for a Charter challenge to begin on November 24.
drugdatadecoded.ca
November 7, 2025 at 9:10 PM
This is a comprehensive overview and analysis of the DULF guilty verdict and case. Charter battle starts November 24. Best wishes and kudos to all involved in this critical litigation.
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"There were forty-seven members in the compassion club, and zero deaths occurred among members during the year that the site operated. Since the site was raided and shut down by Vancouver police, at least two members have reportedly died."
BREAKING: DULF organizers found guilty of trafficking. More to come w/ @tsk.bsky.social in the courtroom today.
Legal fund linked below ⬇️ please give what you can. This is just getting started.
Legal fund linked below ⬇️ please give what you can. This is just getting started.
Huge decision this Friday from the BC Supreme Court on whether the DULF compassion club organizers, Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx, walk free. 1/
drugdatadecoded.ca/everyone-kne...
drugdatadecoded.ca/everyone-kne...
November 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM
"There were forty-seven members in the compassion club, and zero deaths occurred among members during the year that the site operated. Since the site was raided and shut down by Vancouver police, at least two members have reportedly died."
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These are prisons.
The criminalization of homelessness and push towards mandated, coerced medical interventions and civil commitment—a bipartisan project—was always going to lead us here.
This is why when we talk about, strategize and organize around abolition, we must include ALL carceral spaces.
The criminalization of homelessness and push towards mandated, coerced medical interventions and civil commitment—a bipartisan project—was always going to lead us here.
This is why when we talk about, strategize and organize around abolition, we must include ALL carceral spaces.
Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.
Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
These are prisons.
The criminalization of homelessness and push towards mandated, coerced medical interventions and civil commitment—a bipartisan project—was always going to lead us here.
This is why when we talk about, strategize and organize around abolition, we must include ALL carceral spaces.
The criminalization of homelessness and push towards mandated, coerced medical interventions and civil commitment—a bipartisan project—was always going to lead us here.
This is why when we talk about, strategize and organize around abolition, we must include ALL carceral spaces.
Burning Question, by Mopar Stars
6 track album
moparstars.bandcamp.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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"When BC authorities declared these mounting deaths a public health emergency, mainly exploiting the situation to push the same, tired teetotal interventions that created this mess, it was just too much to stomach" #drugsky
www.thenation.com/article/soci... @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci... @thenation.com
On Trial for a Radical Approach to Reducing Drug Overdoses in British Columbia
The Vancouver duo behind the Drug User Liberation Front faces 40 years behind bars for drug trafficking. But this is no ordinary case.
www.thenation.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
"When BC authorities declared these mounting deaths a public health emergency, mainly exploiting the situation to push the same, tired teetotal interventions that created this mess, it was just too much to stomach" #drugsky
www.thenation.com/article/soci... @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci... @thenation.com
NYC friends: DR*G USER DEFENSE COLLECTIVE is hosting a few harm reduction zine foldings at Come Forever, a mask nonoptional space, this fall/winter. DM me if you want to come by and hang! truthout.org/audio/making...
Making Things Together: Zines, Strategy, and Survival
“We’re going to need a lot more in-person opportunities for us to expand our humanity,” says organizer Mariame Kaba.
truthout.org
October 30, 2025 at 7:23 PM
NYC friends: DR*G USER DEFENSE COLLECTIVE is hosting a few harm reduction zine foldings at Come Forever, a mask nonoptional space, this fall/winter. DM me if you want to come by and hang! truthout.org/audio/making...
billorcutt.bandcamp.com/album/how-to... obsessed with this in the morning lately :•*
How to Rescue Things, by Bill Orcutt
7 track album
billorcutt.bandcamp.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:06 PM
billorcutt.bandcamp.com/album/how-to... obsessed with this in the morning lately :•*
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A new resource from us @interruptcrim.bsky.social that focuses on Organization Building and Sustainability. Free to use and to share. It's part of a new series "So You Started An Experiment:"
open.substack.com/pub/millione...
open.substack.com/pub/millione...
#8: "So you started an experiment..." + S3 Zine
Welcome Back to the One Million Experiments Newsletter.
open.substack.com
October 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
A new resource from us @interruptcrim.bsky.social that focuses on Organization Building and Sustainability. Free to use and to share. It's part of a new series "So You Started An Experiment:"
open.substack.com/pub/millione...
open.substack.com/pub/millione...
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"Mike Lawler (R-NY) introduced the Fentanyl Kills Act in the House on August 22."
The act "would allow federal prosecutors to pursue attempted murder charges for any form of fentanyl distribution—even with no overdose linked to the case."
#USA #Policing #Drugs #Incarceration
The act "would allow federal prosecutors to pursue attempted murder charges for any form of fentanyl distribution—even with no overdose linked to the case."
#USA #Policing #Drugs #Incarceration
“Fentanyl Kills Act” Would Prosecute All Distribution as Attempted Murder
Lawmakers have introduced legislation that would allow federal prosecutors to pursue attempted murder charges for any form of fentanyl distribution—even ...
filtermag.org
August 26, 2025 at 10:59 PM
"Mike Lawler (R-NY) introduced the Fentanyl Kills Act in the House on August 22."
The act "would allow federal prosecutors to pursue attempted murder charges for any form of fentanyl distribution—even with no overdose linked to the case."
#USA #Policing #Drugs #Incarceration
The act "would allow federal prosecutors to pursue attempted murder charges for any form of fentanyl distribution—even with no overdose linked to the case."
#USA #Policing #Drugs #Incarceration
sukpatchlitehits.bandcamp.com/track/mexico... ♡⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝♡
Mexico City Big Vacation, by Sukpatch
from the album Lite Hits
sukpatchlitehits.bandcamp.com
August 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
sukpatchlitehits.bandcamp.com/track/mexico... ♡⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝♡
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forced treatment, prescribing experiments/coerced de-prescribing, expansion of law enforcement scope and resources—the violence of these interventions are not 'unintended,' they are purposefully cruel and enabled by those who benefit economically, politically & socially
bsky.app/profile/nurs...
bsky.app/profile/nurs...
We need to stop saying “these interventions don’t work”.
These are harm-producing interventions enabled by policies that frame certain individuals as undeserving of health and safety.
They function as designed.
End.
These are harm-producing interventions enabled by policies that frame certain individuals as undeserving of health and safety.
They function as designed.
End.
May 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
forced treatment, prescribing experiments/coerced de-prescribing, expansion of law enforcement scope and resources—the violence of these interventions are not 'unintended,' they are purposefully cruel and enabled by those who benefit economically, politically & socially
bsky.app/profile/nurs...
bsky.app/profile/nurs...
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the Mental Health Act was already being weaponized outside of its terms 'on paper' before this expansion, just as many forms of carceral discretion are in BC and beyond. Eby was the head of the BCCLA and of course knows this. He just doesn't care.
bsky.app/profile/mehl...
bsky.app/profile/mehl...
I missed this: BC is holding involuntarily hospitalized people - by definition among the most vulnerable - in solitary confinenent. This runs counter to Mandela Rules and, going by prior court rulings, Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms. www.mapleridgenews.com/home2/bcs-fi...
B.C.'s first involuntary care beds for incarcerated men open in Surrey
Ten beds are only for men being held in the custody at the Surrey pretrial centre
www.mapleridgenews.com
May 18, 2025 at 1:01 AM
the Mental Health Act was already being weaponized outside of its terms 'on paper' before this expansion, just as many forms of carceral discretion are in BC and beyond. Eby was the head of the BCCLA and of course knows this. He just doesn't care.
bsky.app/profile/mehl...
bsky.app/profile/mehl...
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"secure care" is a BC NDP public relations label/obscuring of indefinite detention under the Mental Health Act—getting semantic & describing something as categorically different when it's a label without regulatory or legislative backing is just selective and a dog whistle
clasbc.net/operating-in...
clasbc.net/operating-in...
Operating in Darkness: BC's Mental Health Act Detention System - CLAS
For Immediate Release
Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories
New report finds disturbing rights violations in BC’s mental health detention system
BC is violating the rights of people in mental health ...
clasbc.net
May 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
"secure care" is a BC NDP public relations label/obscuring of indefinite detention under the Mental Health Act—getting semantic & describing something as categorically different when it's a label without regulatory or legislative backing is just selective and a dog whistle
clasbc.net/operating-in...
clasbc.net/operating-in...
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The sixth issue of Hammer & Hope is now live. It’s morning again in America. Federal agents snatch students off the streets. The White House boasts of banishing hundreds of people to a Salvadoran prison. Head Start and domestic violence shelters await the chopping block. hammerandhope.org
April 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The sixth issue of Hammer & Hope is now live. It’s morning again in America. Federal agents snatch students off the streets. The White House boasts of banishing hundreds of people to a Salvadoran prison. Head Start and domestic violence shelters await the chopping block. hammerandhope.org
Michael Hurley forever!!! Here is a farewell mix from The Clear Spot www.mixcloud.com/TheClearSpot...
The Clear Spot 1036: April 12, 2025: Fair Sailing Michael Hurley
Episode 1036: Bryan does his level best to celebrate the miraculous, luminous soul of Doc Snock. Michael Hurley's music is ineffable, it transcends time, and is frequently hilarious. We love you Snock...
www.mixcloud.com
April 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Michael Hurley forever!!! Here is a farewell mix from The Clear Spot www.mixcloud.com/TheClearSpot...
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Just Practice and Creative Interventions did a PODCAST interviewing people involved in "the last 25 years of building community accountability, transformative justice and abolitionist practice, including yours truly. Trailer w transcript: www.creative-interventions.org/sfp/trailer/ v excited!
Stories for Power Podcast Trailer | STOP
What does transformative justice look like and where did it come from? Join us for a journey across local communities as we explore the last 25 years of building community accountability…
www.creative-interventions.org
April 9, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Just Practice and Creative Interventions did a PODCAST interviewing people involved in "the last 25 years of building community accountability, transformative justice and abolitionist practice, including yours truly. Trailer w transcript: www.creative-interventions.org/sfp/trailer/ v excited!
Statement read at Trans Rights Queer Joy, Sept. 20, 2024 in Vancouver, BC, from Molly Beatrice, Zoe Kaur & Tyson Singh as part of DULF Solidarity Committee themainlander.com/2024/09/20/t...
Trans Liberation & No More Drug War: Statement
None of us are free until all of us are free. At the core of our vision is a world built on mutual care and inclusion of all people – and specific to today, we bring attention to the struggle for l…
themainlander.com
March 31, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Statement read at Trans Rights Queer Joy, Sept. 20, 2024 in Vancouver, BC, from Molly Beatrice, Zoe Kaur & Tyson Singh as part of DULF Solidarity Committee themainlander.com/2024/09/20/t...
Relationships are at the beginning of harm reduction and the first principle lost in its co-optation by the state!! The very first thing listed in the Philadephia Principles: www.madecologies.com/philadelphia...
Full zine on madecologies.com and in the replies
Full zine on madecologies.com and in the replies
Philadelphia Principles — Mad Ecologies
www.madecologies.com
March 23, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Relationships are at the beginning of harm reduction and the first principle lost in its co-optation by the state!! The very first thing listed in the Philadephia Principles: www.madecologies.com/philadelphia...
Full zine on madecologies.com and in the replies
Full zine on madecologies.com and in the replies