Drugs & Addiction Pt. 2: Organizing Toward Harm Reduction

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🗓️ 10 February 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Nate from the Person-First Harm Reduction Coalition (PSHRC) joins Breht to discuss their organizing strategies and goals in addressing the issues that surround drug abuse, addiction, and overdoses. They discuss the drug war, the panic around fentanyl, advice for other organizations, how this organizing is a form of base-building, and much, much more!

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio. I'm your host Anne Conrad
0:10.2	Redo-Shea and today we have on Nate from Person First Harm Reduction Coalition to talk
0:15.9	about some of the work that organization has done regarding organizing around overdose
0:20.7	and drug addiction issues in their community. Before we get into the show, a couple things
0:24.9	up top. I want to mention that my friend and Conrad over at OnMash who we've had on this
0:31.9	show as well, released a new episode. It's been a couple of months since he released his
0:35.9	last episode and I guess when he's trying to promote it on Facebook, they're being
0:40.2	weird with it so they're not really letting him get his reach that he usually gets and
0:45.0	obviously people know that I've been kicked off Facebook as well. So there's probably
0:48.9	a bigger part of the algorithm sort of de-emphasizing radical left-wing pages and counts.
0:57.1	So he released a new episode on Venezuela. I really encourage people if you like this
1:01.4	show, if you love on MASH, go check out that that later show on Venezuela and we'll have
1:05.8	our own show on Venezuela coming out very soon. At the very end of this episode, you
1:10.3	will hear our friends from across the pond, QELD and their new song Popper Pit, want to
1:15.5	give them a shout out. And also we finally have some red left to merge. It's at teasily.com
1:22.1	forward slash stores, forward slash red left radio. Just a couple of designs that we have,
1:26.8	we kept the cost as low as we can. I think you can get a shirt for $9.99. So if you're
1:30.8	interested in that, we'll link to that in the show notes. And having said all that,
1:34.4	this episode, I want people to think of as kind of part two to our drugs and addiction
1:39.1	episodes, right? In that episode, me and my friend Mel talked about the issues surrounding
1:45.0	drug overdoses and addiction in our society and sort of diagnosed a big part of the problem.
1:49.8	And in this episode, we have ComraZon who actually organized their community around this
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