It’s first on the list. I think it’s really important to do. It forstalls that feeling of being sucked under by an unseen machine. It’s beyond a machine of course. It’s a force and just the act of fighting it and standing up for rights is a cure for malaise and giving up.
~ Pauli Gray
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Chandra Nalaani
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Eliza Wheeler
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Pauli Gray
Thanks for being the first to post, Pauli! You’re all set up – keep at it.
Thanks for setting this up Chandra. I hope other people chime in. My thought today is about movement. Not “the Movement” but taking action. Just doing something everyday to push this cause forward. Just taking an action. Like writing something…
Hope everybody is having a sweet weekend. Glad to have Ms. Terry Morris on board. Gotta tell ya…she’s a bloody hero of mine
Am sending info about this to Punk Globe Online Zine. It covers Punk Rawk and politics as well. Check it out next Month!
:RE: POST NEEDLE EXCHANGES BEING TAKEN AWAY. PEOPLE ARE NOT DISPENSABLE. Hey, I agree with you. Nobody is dispensable and needle exchanges are a part of the physical health treatment that can lead to recovery from addiction. This is so not a moral issue. Addiction is a physical and emotional illness and needs to viewed this way. People and governments need to see the person not the addiction so that they can begin to view this as an illness. Who says to their mother, “Gee, I guess I’ll be an addict when I grow up.” No one. Just as no one plans to get cancer, be crippled in a car crash, or fall ill from some other disease. Let’s keep the needle exchanges, the one strand that reaches out to the person. The one strand. That’s it. Pretty much. Again if a person get’s ill with anything else, there are countless doctors, treatments, hospitalization and recovery plans. The needle exchange is the one strand….that is offered to a practising addict. Don’t take this away. And please, begin to find space for detoxification and recovery. We need this now. Let’s save these lives not dismiss them as hopeless. There is always hope as long as the heart is beating. Something comes to the edge of my mind about the Hippocratic Oath that doctors take. I believe this oath is to help anyone, anywhere, suffering from anything to recover from their afflictions. Let’s just begin and honour these VERY REAL PEOPLE, now.
Yer sooo right. Treatment availability is so fucked. How could anyone, even the most conservative of folks not get behind that. Am really you spoke up! Thank you!
It’s coming this Thursday y’all. We Will Rock.