📢 BREAKING —The UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) recognises ' #HarmReduction ' in a historic *first*.

70%+ of the Commission's 53 members voted to keep the reference, despite Russia's & China's opposition.
#HarmReduction SavesLives
cndblog.org/2024/03/plenar…

Biden using the term 'an illegal' is deeply, deeply upsetting. Sure he talked positively about Dreamers afterwards, but this rightward turn from so many in the Democratic Party in policy and rhetoric on immigration is so disheartening and shows a really awful and quick backslide.

We need you again. Our activism is working but we can't stop now. 

➡ sign in PRO on HB 2065 by 12:30 p.m. on Friday, February 23, and tell Washington lawmakers if a law is unjust going forward, it must also apply retroactively. app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Testifier/…

#WaLeg

But rich people like me are not the true job creators: middle-class consumers are. All empirical economic evidence shows that a thriving middle class is the cause of economic growth, not its consequence.

ACLU of Washington statement on verdict in Tacoma police officers’ trial aclu-wa.org/news/aclu-wash…

How do we build resilient, safe communities?

For decades, we’ve been sold the lie that more enforcement and harsher punishments are the answer. But in reality, by the time the criminal legal system makes contact with a community, someone has already been hurt.

'Nothing in the ordinance expands options for diversion, a process that typically lasts longer than a court case, involves multiple interventions, and often requires a caseworker.'

Seattle Launches Drug War 2.0 thestranger.com/news/2023/09/1… via The Stranger 🗞 Dr Ashley Tan

Those whose public safety solution is to “lock more people up” rarely explain how. Every part of our system, from courts to jails, is stretched beyond capacity. Public defenders are the latest justice system partners to push their breaking points. My oped:
seattletimes.com/opinion/our-pu…

'With elections looming, the Mayor’s Office and councilmembers are rushing to show they’re doing something – anything – about the fentanyl crisis.'

'Doing something does not automatically equate to doing the right thing.'

theurbanist.org/2023/09/18/op-… via @urbanistorg Amy Sundberg

This is spot on. Here in Washington we often vote four times a year, including in odd years. It’s ridiculous and it depresses voter turnout.

Big money tests out how to scare voters. Should print out a mailer to say Ron Davis doesn't care about 'open-air drug markets?' Or that Alex Hudson will align with 'council extremists?'
thestranger.com/elections-2023…

My statement on Mayor Woodward’s participation tonight at a Christian Nationalist rally with Matt Shea.

This has been such a heavy year. I haven’t felt this overwhelmed since starting on the council in 2020 in the depths of a global pandemic. That’s actually what it feels like right now: another pandemic. Except instead of a virus, we're fighting unrelenting gun violence.