Cevape! #Urlaub #cro23 #hr23

#Urlaub #Pirovac #cro23 #hr23

HT @NRCHaus @FionaHPatten @AnnFordham @ScottADAC @NicoClark_ @CarrieFowlie @cohealth_au @gideonlasco @codebluenews @INHepSU @LanieHaHa @monicabarratt @NeritaWaight @HRInews
#HR23

ICYMI, this is worth reading. As punitive policies ruin lives, @HelenClarkNZ calls for universal access to harm reduction services https://www.croakey.org/as-punitive-policies-ruin-lives-helen-clark-calls-for-universal-access-to-harm-reduction-services/
Via #HR23

A powerful call to decolonise harm reduction https://www.croakey.org/a-powerful-call-to-decolonise-harm-reduction/
Presentation by @researchjames to #HR23
#DecoloniseDecoloniseDecolonise

If anyone at #hr23 runs into this guy, please tell him to pay his contractors before flying around the world.

OR, ask if calling the cops on his participants if they dared hang outside his spaces = harm reduction

OR, if he still thinks “injectable Narcan” is a “dangerous drug”
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RT @flufftronix
You know what, I think I just need to rip the band-aid off on this:

I’m suing SOSRCO and their “Chief Recovery Officer” John Burns for $3…
https://twitter.com/flufftronix/status/1643344988464463873

Just perusing the #HR23 programme and it already feels like such a different world and headspace from #Singapore, where #HarmReduction measures that recognise the agency of #drug users is seen as enabling and encouraging ‘bad’ behaviour.

This is a piece I wrote about Singapore’s #WarOnDrugs: https://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article/why-singapore-needs-to-shift-the-conversation-around-drugs

Am back in #Melbourne for the second time in two months to attend #HR23. I'll be speaking at the plenary session about challenging systems of oppression on 17 April, and also at the high-level event on the #DeathPenalty for #DrugOffences. This is my first time attending a #HarmReduction International conference so I'm looking forward to learning lots about #DrugPolicy #Reform and all the different things happening outside of #Singapore's bubble.

Stigma, Drugs, and State Control

Anarcotics Anonymous are an informal network of anarchists / activists who use currently illicit substances. We recognise the war on drugs as a fundamental tool of social control, underpinning imperialism and colonialism.

We are opposed to the militarised drug war interventions into our communities that disproportionately impact people of colour, First Nations peoples, sex workers, women and gender diverse people, street-based people, and the under-classes.

Anarcotics Anonymous use a diversity of tactics to highlight and challenge the atrocities of the war on drugs, and undertake actions which demand creative solutions for our communities.

We aim to create autonomous responses to the impacts of the drug war, informed by anarchist principles and praxis.

We invite you to join us in an anarchist deconstruction of the drug war, and to identify innovative actions to confront the war on drug users.

Location: C@talyst Social Center, 144-146 Sydney Road, Coburg (access via 146 Sydney Rd and/ or the rear of 146 Sydney Road (corner of Sydney Rd and The Grove)

Time: doors open 6:30 pm (panel discussion 7pm, facilitated discussion 9pm - 10:30pm)

7:00pm: Anarchist/ radical drug user panel exploring:

*How prohibitionist policies have been used as an instrument of colonial social control and First Nations genocide

*Why and how radical communities can and should challenge the drug war

*How respectability politics inform attitudes towards drug use within radical communities and replicate the systemic prejudices of the State

*Challenging and deconstructing “addiction” and “recovery” narratives

*How the State uses prohibition to inform institutional responses to intersectional communities

*What could a radical response to drug use look like free of State-control?

9:00pm: Join a facilitated discussion to explore:

*Does harm reduction ultimately perpetuate prohibition?

*Is positioning drug use as a “disease” the liberatory framework we’ve been sold?

*Recognising and purging our own self-oppression and internalized shame around substance use

*How do we create autonomous programs and initiatives to care for each other?

*Explore diverse tactics and actions that directly challenge drug war policing and policies

*Create meaningful intersectional radical movements that actively involve solidarity with drug users

Free entry

Vegan food available from 6:30pm onwards

Ground - level accessibility

Public transport: Tram 19 (Stop # 30, corner The Avenue/ Sydney Rd) , Train (Upfield Line, Moreland Station)

Wear warm clothes as the venue can get chilly (if necessary, blankets will be available)

#HR23 #HarmReductionInternationalConference2023

RT @fumikokaneko1
Narrm/Melbourne Australia Monday 17th April.#HR23 #HarmReductionInternationalConference2023 https://www.facebook.com/fumiko.kaneko.94/posts/pfbid02s5TpfXrP4r6oNvq4zSGNJpPe8jitQYiDW6zrB1NexXnAJcfTiHhU6E1Dpd5bjs5ul?__cft__[0]=AZVl6gJwWk5TT7_0FZk6Tic-lbUjVgjhGwHarEQlBXkAYH3ZN5OromwtRwK_voeNBNJyfzHaFsw6EyDvsKOb2g9hrPAn2vLLxwv_szbB-3ZcQkgBnxKi4SgSdxVBeyN6yAM&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R

RT @fumikokaneko1
Melbourne/Narrm, Australia. An Anarchist panel ‘Stigma, Drugs and State Control’ 17 April. #HR23 #HarmReduction @HRV_Aust #Anarchist #drugs @vixenworkers