This will go down as one of the most dangerous times to be a college student in our lifetime. The traumatic ramifications of what we’re witnessing universities do to their own will be difficult to quantify.

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WKCR, Columbia U’s station, reports such a surge in listeners tuning in on line to their terrific live coverage that they had to go off air for a sec to switch to lower sound quality to accomodate the demand on the stream. If you can switch to FM signal, they recommend it: 89.9

⁦RIGHT NOW. ⁦Columbia University’s⁩ lockdown & faculty lockout by our administration as NYPD moves in. In this way, no one will be able to see the brutality against our students.

Boston folks! Hope to see you, tomorrow, for Kim Sue, MD, PhD's talk Harvard Medical School - 'The Backlash Against Harm Reduction and People Who Use Drugs: Notes on Failing U.S. Drug Policy from the Frontline Clinic.' Details below.

At blistering and extraordinary letter to Columbia president Minouche Shafik by Robin D. G. Kelley:

bostonreview.net/articles/lette…

This is a very sad day. We lost lives in our community needlessly, owing to an unsafe drug supply fueled by a catastrophic war we’ve been immersed in for decades.

I’ll leave everyone for now with this.

insane that columbia has locked down campus to everyone. no research, no books, no labs. no libraries, no medical services appointments, no studio or practice space. no lectures, no concerts. just the pure administrative university and its disciplinary power.

A generous donor has offered to match donations to my cousin Ahmed’s fundraising campaign. So for every donation you give, they will match it! We only have $2,500 left until we have enough to evacuate him.

Ahmed’s sister, his 2 nieces & his brother in law were killed in an air

Check it out! I’m a novice at podcasts but loved working with Febrile Sara Dong Ayesha Appa Chasity Tuell on this episode featuring our CID review on harm reduction & shared decision making (Shout out to Alysse Wurcel Jacinda Abdul-Mutakabbir (Dr.JAM) PharmD MPH & team ✨)

In the midst of an opioid overdose crisis, methadone - the gold standard life saving treatment for opioid addiction, is far too inaccessible. Thank you Connecticut Mirror Andrew Brown for highlighting our work on travel barriers to methadone clinics in CT - ctmirror.org/2024/04/28/ct-…

My cousin Mohammed sent me a picture of the house that he fled from when the bombs got close. He went back to see what was left of it. And found this. Thankfully he & his little ones fled just before the bombs hit.

Evacuating was hell. They had to walk for 2 hours to Rafah. He

My article “Death by Withdrawal” was just published in UCLA Law Review (UCLA Law Review). Thanks to the brilliant students who helped me take this piece to new levels.

The paper goes into depth about the inhumane practices in jails & prisons in the U.S. in their treatment of

btw, these campus encampment sweeps mirror what happens at encampment sweeps of unhoused folks. Tents trashed, rights violated, violently displaced, & criminalized.

As consciousness shifts re Gaza & state violence, folks ought to also be radicalized against sweeps.

Are you a US-based MSW or MSW student who wants to end the drug war?

One small step is to federally decriminalize marijuana by descheduling it and removing it from the CSA.

If you agree, please sign onto our letter here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Bodies Recovered at Mass Graves in Nasser Hospital Bear Signs of Torture, Mutilation & Execution
democracynow.org/2024/4/25/gaza…

Go Crimson! We did the same in 1986. Built shantytown in Harvard Yard to force university to divest from companies doing business with apartheid South Africa. Harvard University

So proud of the team for pulling this together - looking forward to hearing new ideas, platforming new voices, and focusing in on the people, entities, and CORPORATIONS that pervert our path to healing, health, and safety.

Yet again, Timothy McSweeney nails it. mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-mes…

Shame shame shame Princeton University. Two of our students arrested, evicted, and permanently barred from campus. There is nothing “inherently unsafe” about encampments. The university MAKES them unsafe by criminalizing tents and sending campus police to intimidate protestors.