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Join us to #StopBeingComplicit in Musk's misuse of power and its harmful effects. Everything we post on Twitter/X is now also on #BlueSky. More on our website:
Joined February 2009
We’re thinking about X… Musk’s power lies in the tweets we exclusively we post here. We sustain it every time we post here without sharing elsewhere. Join us to #StopBeingComplicit. Everything we post on Twitter/X will now also be on #Bluesky. RT if you agree (link in bio).
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📌Coca Talks: Futuro Coca Arrives in London Join the @ColombianEmbUK and Futuro Coca, alongside @SOAS and The International Coalition for Drug Policy Reform & Environmental Justice (@HealthPoverty), for a talk on the alternative uses of coca leaves. Join activists, scholars,
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JOIN OUR WEBINAR: The Legal Regulation of Drugs: A Call to the Development Sector. 10th September, 6pm BST / 12pm CT Join HPA and @theprogressive to discuss why drug policy reform matters for Development. Info & reg: https://t.co/XVvt8UWxeO
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There are many opportunities, but also risks, for #TradeJustice in the emerging legal drug market. The trade justice sector must engage with legal #DrugRegulation to shape fairer futures. Read the papers. Join the conversation. Get in touch. https://t.co/l63Gtd1pqX
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📢It is only possible with deliberate development of new markets to rectify the injustices of prohibition and global trade 📢The trade justice sector MUST enter the conversation on emerging legal drug markets 📢Advocacy for a #TradeJustice approach to #DrugReforms must happen NOW
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How could the legal regulation of drugs deliver #TradeJustice? A legally regulated market, if rooted in principles of transitional justice, could give people the opportunity to produce and trade drugs without fear, earn decent wages, and support sustainable economic growth. 🧵
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These new papers highlight the opportunities and risks through facts, figures, quotes and case studies from around the world to show how #DrugReforms must deliver #GlobalJustice. #CND68
https://t.co/EMOn4m0Zmy
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We are currently witnessing the beginning of the end of drug prohibition, with alternatives such as harm reduction, decriminalization, and legal regulation of cannabis, cocaine, psychedelics,...
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#DrugProhibition failed. Reforms are happening now. The question is: who will shape what comes next? What will emerging drug regulation promote? Profit? Corporations? OR #GlobalJustice? https://t.co/8VQAklf4XJ
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For the first time ever, key principles for drug reform have been set out across 9 key issues of global justice.
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📢OUT NOW: The Legal Regulation of Drugs: The Potential to Deliver Global Justice ❗ 9 NEW briefings on how drug reform can deliver #GlobalJustice ❗ Facts & case studies from around the world ❗ A call to action for the global justice sector to engage in shaping #DrugRegulation
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🔊"It is alarming that the UK is now following in the US’s footsteps and has accepted the false choice of cutting the already diminished UK aid to fund defence." 🔊Together with 137 INGOs in the UK, we have written an open letter to the PM and Treasury.
Move to cut UK aid will “destroy Labour’s legacy on international development” say 138 NGO leaders in letter to PM and Treasury. Find out more:
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We are stunned at Keir Starmer's 40% cut to ODA. Our CEO Martin Drewry responds below: @cabinetofficeuk @AnnelieseDodds @DavidLammy @Keir_Starmer
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I'm doing a talk this evening at UCL with Clemmie James from @HealthPoverty / https://t.co/TCxrcRK660 and the Coalition for Drug policy Reform and Environmental Justice. Please join us if you're in town. 1/
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Our "Don't be a Harold" mockumentary has been nominated for a Smiley Charity Film Award. You can help us get in front of the judging panel by voting! It takes only a couple of clicks. Help us win....and amplify our call to support drug reform! https://t.co/bsYvWUisRd
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Meet Harold, the leader of his local Community Watch, whose views on drugs are rooted in moralising and ignorance just like the UK’s drug policy. “Don’t…
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1/5 We are extremely concerned over the fate & wellbeing of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan hospital who was detained by Israeli forces along with others during a raid on the hospital on 27 December. He must be released immediately and unconditionally.
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"UK drug policy is not based on evidence. It is based on ignorance and prejudice," Chris Daw KC @crimlawuk Don't be a Harold: Support Drug Reform now
🚨NEW🚨 Meet Harold! Our new mockumentary puts a spotlight on the damaging misconceptions that allow the UK’s failing drug laws to persist. Thanks to @cjalliance, @Media_Trust, the Crucible Foundation & our amazing team Support Drug Reform! https://t.co/6VBIywlyhV
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