Tag: Drug Wars

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    Fighting for Space

    by Nicholas Olson   Apr 30, 2018   4 min read

    The history of the harm reduction movement is one of direct action and protest – an “act first, ask second” attitude that was the only reasonable response to an outbreak of preventable disease and a crisis of premature deaths. Nicholas Olson reviews Fighting for Space, by Travis Lupick.

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    Drug War Capitalism

    by Dave Oswald Mitchell   Jun 30, 2015   4 min read

    Anyone seeking to understand capitalism’s evolving capacity to consolidate and extend its power must come to terms with the drug war.

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    For Whom is Mexico Safe?

    by Federico Barahona and Tonatiuh Cabello   Nov 12, 2014   7 min read

    Horrific student slayings are only the latest casualties in North America’s drug wars.

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