a lot of you think I’m doing gatekeeping here, but it’s actually the other way around. By not even saying “this is bad”, while holding so much of the institutional power around “anti racism” what do you think that does to those of us trying to explain how this is very racist?

It’s kind of like if you run the national center for Anti-fire corps, & every single national park was on fire, and the people were out there screaming fire! Help! as the National Center for Anti-fire not only did u not deploy firefighters, you haven’t even acknowledged the fire

Just like that, the CDC-backed Harm Reduction Technical Assistance Center is effectively dead. Why we need to build our own institutions. And why hr needs more ACTUAL COALITIONS, as in groups made up of other groups. This is our work to do, not theirs. theintercept.com/2023/12/16/cdc…

A group of South African lawyers have written to the US President warning his government that they intend instituting proceedings against them for being complicit in ongoing international crimes perpetrated by Israel against the people of Palestine.

"Therefore ... an accomplice to genocide need not necessarily possess the dolus specialis of genocide, namely the specific intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such."

This virtual workshop for which I was a planning committee member is now live for registration! Fairly unprecedented request for this from ONDCP Please register! nationalacademies.org/our-work/harm-… #harmreduction #overdose #addiction National Academies

What is effective drug treatment? A thread. 🧵

Forced treatment will not end public suffering. Treatment is one needed response, and leaders must ensure it’s voluntary, evidence-based, available, affordable, & accessible. Responses should also include outreach, housing, & overdose prevention centers. drugpolicy.org/dpas-principle…

Why is the fight for healthcare justice for Palestinians & Americans connected? Bcoz US govt channels US taxpayer $ to fund ethnic cleansing & medical apartheid of Palestinians by Israel while permitting private insurance industry to wage medical apartheid on Americans at home.

The newly formed Michigan Drug Users Health Alliance would like to present the Community Overdose Survey Results focused on highlighting perspectives of people who use drugs in our communities on high-dose naloxone and non-naloxone opioid overdose reversal drugs like nalmefene. 1

The results are available on this Public Canva Link (canva.com/design/DAF3Wum…). 3

looks really great !

they know that. they're not trying to help the people they're violently disappearing. we all know that. saying "this isn't working" is to miss the point of such a display of government power FFS. rather, ask "for whom is this working and to what purpose?"

Tenured faculty member at Indiana University suspended over a Palestine event. This is outrageous. Read the American Association of University Professors's statement here. aaup.sitehost.iu.edu/reports/ExCom_…

Higher ed journalism really struggling to tell the right stories rn. It’s an academic celebrity reality show mostly. as always, this erases the larger material issues, and the human work happening in response: students, staff & faculty—organizing against harassment and repression