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B.C.’s auditor general released two reports on the province’s harm reduction and safe supply efforts - CBC Interview with SUDU - March 20, 2024
In Canada, The Fight for Compassion Clubs Rages On in Court - Talking Drugs - Skyler Curtis et al. - March 20, 2024
In Canada, The Fight for Compassion Clubs Rages On in Court - Talking Drugs - Skyler Curtis et al. - March 20, 2024
Minor Drug Seizures By Vancouver Police Increased After ‘Decriminalization,’ Data Indicates - Tyson Singh ਟਾਈਸਨ ਸਿੰਘ & Liam Michaud - Feb. 14, 2024
Supervised consumption site faces opposition in Richmond - CBC Radio - Interview with Anmol Swaich, SUDU - Feb 13, 2024
BC Today with Michelle Eliot - B.C.'s poisoned drug supply and confronting mental health stigma within family and friends - Nov. 6, 2023
Media Coverage of DULF Rally:
There were also solidarity actions organized in Toronto & Victoria showing our strength and unity as a movement across the country. Big thanks to organizers and all that showed up there!
- CTV News (including clip that played on cable): 'DULF saves lives': Hundreds rally in support of Vancouver compassion club
- “How is it possible that people continue to die because we don't have a safe supply for drugs?” she said. “I’m from Columbia. I know what it means to criminalize drugs. That means deaths, so we need to prevent that.”
- “How is it possible that people continue to die because we don't have a safe supply for drugs?” she said. “I’m from Columbia. I know what it means to criminalize drugs. That means deaths, so we need to prevent that.”
- CBC BC: B.C. minister, Opposition critic reject calls to expand non-medical safer drug supply
- Garth Mullins said the scale of the crisis justifies the organization's actions. "Just like every other time in history, when marginalized people are faced with a law that leads to their further marginalization or even death, you've got to disobey that law."
- Garth Mullins said the scale of the crisis justifies the organization's actions. "Just like every other time in history, when marginalized people are faced with a law that leads to their further marginalization or even death, you've got to disobey that law."
- Global News (by Simon Little): Protest held after raid, arrests at Vancouver drug ‘compassion club’
- “We come here today to show this unjust government that unjust laws must be disobeyed four our people to live,” Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users organizer Vince Tao said, before leading protesters in chants of “DULF saves lives.”
- “We come here today to show this unjust government that unjust laws must be disobeyed four our people to live,” Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users organizer Vince Tao said, before leading protesters in chants of “DULF saves lives.”
- City News: Rally condemning DULF arrests, raids takes place in Vancouver
- “Their crime? Saving lives abandoned by the government in a toxic drug poisoning crisis,” organizers of the Friday rally said.
- “Their crime? Saving lives abandoned by the government in a toxic drug poisoning crisis,” organizers of the Friday rally said.
- Radio Canada: Des militants se mobilisent en soutien à un club compassion de drogues illicites
- Le besoin de clubs compassion n’existe pas qu’à Vancouver, comme le précise Alexandra Holtom. On a besoin de ça dans chaque communauté [...] partout au Canada, surtout les communautés qui sont éloignées [...] parce que ça sauve vraiment les vies.
- There is a need for compassion clubs in communities beyond Vancouver, says Alexandra Holtom. "We need one in every community, all over Canada, because they really save lives."
- Le besoin de clubs compassion n’existe pas qu’à Vancouver, comme le précise Alexandra Holtom. On a besoin de ça dans chaque communauté [...] partout au Canada, surtout les communautés qui sont éloignées [...] parce que ça sauve vraiment les vies.
- PressProgress: Expert Panel Warns People Will ‘Die At Unprecedented Rates’ Unless BC Government Changes Approach on Drug Policies
- "When I read the report of the Coroners Death Review panel on Wednesday I got a chill down my spine,” Jean Swanson, former Vancouver City Councillor and member of the Order of Canada said in a release.
- "When I read the report of the Coroners Death Review panel on Wednesday I got a chill down my spine,” Jean Swanson, former Vancouver City Councillor and member of the Order of Canada said in a release.
- Drug Data Decoded: Letter from five members of DULF's compassion club
- "Drug users are being scapegoated for all the failures of our broken system. We’re low hanging fruit. It’s easy, you can always blame the drug user. Vilify, criminalize, stigmatize: Makes it so you want to crawl away and hide. These are lies. The public is being let down. We are a part of society - we work, we rent, we walk these streets, we love, we are everyone."
- "Drug users are being scapegoated for all the failures of our broken system. We’re low hanging fruit. It’s easy, you can always blame the drug user. Vilify, criminalize, stigmatize: Makes it so you want to crawl away and hide. These are lies. The public is being let down. We are a part of society - we work, we rent, we walk these streets, we love, we are everyone."
- Canadian Press (first published by Globe and Mail): Safer supply supporters march after arrests of Vancouver drug activists
- This CP wire story was also picked up by:
- This CP wire story was also picked up by:
- The Province ; Victoria Times Colonist; CFJC Kamloops ; Castanet Kamloops ; Vancouver is Awesome ; Fort Saint John's Energetic City & Fraser Valley Today
- Global News Hour story (by Paul Johnson....yes the person who "disguised" himself to buy drugs in the DTES and give them to the cops): Global News at 6
- Defund604Network: Statement of support for Palestine from the #DULF solidarity committee.
- A large nonprofit said something! In 2023! PHS Community Services Society joined 200 other organizations in signing a national letter (still active) condemning the criminalization of compassion clubs, including the arrest of DULF founders Jeremy & Eris.
- The SFU-based union TSSU showed up & released a statement of support! This is a worker's issue - yet labour has been relatively silent on the toxic drug supply. Big thanks to Workers for Ethical Substance Use for helping boost the event on social media and for Each+Every's Euan Thomson for publishing the powerful statement of five former DULF Compassion Club participants read out at the rally by VANDU Board members Scotty & Martin.
- Surrey Newton Union of Drug Users at the rally - United we stand!!
There were also solidarity actions organized in Toronto & Victoria showing our strength and unity as a movement across the country. Big thanks to organizers and all that showed up there!
Police raid drug activists' office on Downtown Eastside - CBC News Video - Oct. 26, 2023