Is voting really "harm reduction"?
People who're involved with efforts to reduce the harm suffered by people who use drugs - which is where the term harm reduction comes from - may have their own things to say about the idea. Since I don't know much about drugs and harm reduction, I won't say more about this. Instead o...
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| Published in: | Briar patch 2019-07, Vol.48 (4), p.42-42 |
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| Format: | Magazinearticle |
| Language: | eng |
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| Summary: | People who're involved with efforts to reduce the harm suffered by people who use drugs - which is where the term harm reduction comes from - may have their own things to say about the idea. Since I don't know much about drugs and harm reduction, I won't say more about this. Instead of encouraging us to think about how we can take advantage of the election season to further our projects - by challenging racist dogwhistling by politicians, doing political education like the kind the Migrant Rights Network is promoting, injecting our vision into all-candidates meetings, and mobilizing for a just transition away from fossil fuels under the banner of a Green New Deal - VIHR often sends the message that all we can do is settle for one of the options presented to us. In spite of the leadership's loyalty to existing state institutions and distance from grassroots struggles, the NDP still has links with unions and retains traces of working-class politics (unlike the Greens, who generally dream of making capitalism ecologically sustainable). |
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| ISSN: | 0703-8968 |