The text from a speech by Sparkling Fast River Rising Woman (Mona Woodward) from the Surrey Union of Drug Users bringing attention to the settler colonial underpinnings of displacement and BC’s drug laws
Thousands of people have died & the people who seek to profit off the crisis appear fearful of any accountability.
Harm reduction advocates and concerned community members from across the Lower Mainland gathered at Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre to speak out against the PROSPER Conference, an event organized by the US-based Foundation for Drug Policy Solutions. The Foundation changed the event’s venue to Richmond’s Westin Wall Centre at the last minute.
Yesterday, Simon Fraser University students took over the school’s downtown library during the institution’s Board of Governors meeting to demand divestment from complicity in Israel’s genocide.