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@Lb_Sterling

9 months

Really encourage more people to engaged with the Black Harm Reduction Network. There are things in the works too.

Legal Action Center | Black Harm Reduction Network

Established in Partnership by LAC, the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) and the National Harm Reduction Coalition (HRC)

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5 months

Ben Franklin Statue finally has its keffiyeh.

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5 months

@texan_maga Jesús what is she wearing….🤮

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@Lb_Sterling

4 years

The #CampJTD residents want to speak directly to the @PhillyMayor . The invite you to meet.

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@Lb_Sterling

4 years

A group of people dedicated to a cause can do anything. There is never certainty. You stay together and keep going. #PhillyHousingNow

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2 years

So strange to be so interested in bike lanes and roads... but people's displacement, nothing.

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4 months

This is a jail

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@Lb_Sterling

6 years

Why do we stigmatize drug dealing? Are bar owners criminals for selling alcohol? Alcoholism is deadly. Do we criminalize bakeries and sugary sodas? Diabetes is deadly. Do we criminalize gambling or shop owners?? We regulate, we incentivize, we do not make criminal.

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3 years

“This is not just a protest, this is not just an encampment…. This is a war on the poor people of Philadelphia.” I will never forget this speech…. It gave us hope to keep those encampments going forever. And to continue to keep fighting our f’ed up systems….

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3 years

Drexel party. “Hip Hop party”.

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@Lb_Sterling

2 years

At the harm reduction conference. Having the conversations that need to be had… reproductive justice and harm reduction together.

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@Lb_Sterling

5 years

So many people with disabilities are living on the streets. How can we ensure that people have Housing First options...... and that housing does not come with requirements where people sign away their right to privacy and right to bodily autonomy. #CripTheVote

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@Lb_Sterling

5 months

@CouncilwomanKGR @PhillyMayor @DBHIDS @PhillyPolice @PPD24Dist @PhillyCLIP @PHLCityHomeless @PhilaStreets @SEPTA This is a sad and pathetic day for the City of Philadelphia... show me, show me the people the services...Show the people the 700 housing slots for them... Show them...

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@Lb_Sterling

4 years

Just the typical Tuesday. At 10:30 PM, PHA attempted an illegal eviction of a mother and her child. Told they have 15 minutes to get their stuff and get out! #OccupyPHA stopped the eviction.

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3 years

I love to see older disabled, HIV positive people. We do get older. We do survive.

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6 years

Harm reduction is treatment. Harm reduction is treatment. Harm reduction is treatment. Harm reduction is treatment.

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1 year

My mother passed on Friday. Was glad that I was able to be there when she passed. Really haven’t known grief like this ever. Just need a place to rest and think at this time.

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2 years

Need someone to make a logo for new org... Any takers???

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3 years

37 years old today!!! My goal is just to survive really…let’s help each other survive.

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5 months

We organize because our lives depend on it... it's not a fun side project...

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@Lb_Sterling

4 years

Anybody going to ask the @PhillyMayor why PHA police are evicting a mother and child at 10:30 PM at night??? Told they had 15 minutes to get their stuff and go!!! Where are you??? Silence is complicity. @HelenGymPHL @Mr_4thDistrict @MariaQSanchez @CouncilmemberKJ

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@Lb_Sterling

5 months

@CouncilwomanKGR @PhillyMayor @DBHIDS @PhillyPolice @PPD24Dist @PhillyCLIP @PHLCityHomeless @PhilaStreets @SEPTA People were greeted by Police only. 4th and 8th Constitutional Amendments were mostly likely broken here and you are cheering... demanding people move when there is no space available... Ask now! Call @DBHIDS right now for someone! I dare you!

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@Lb_Sterling

5 years

People always say any treatment is better than nothing. That is false!! Treatment that retraumatizes is not good! - Bethany Lilly #beyondcoercion

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@Lb_Sterling

4 years

Even if a person had died inside of a safe injection site, you should support it. Our interventions don't have to be perfect. Imagine us only having police departments if they never shot an innocent person and they were trying their darndest to keep that record in tact.

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@Lb_Sterling

1 year

Just want people to remember that Josh's last posts were him calling out the cowardice of City Council for banning safe injection sites.... (when one isn't even going to open anytime soon).

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@Lb_Sterling

4 years

. @BarackObama You coming to the Art Museum? We have 200 person homeless encampment. Come by! Housing is a human right.

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@Lb_Sterling

5 years

Listening to @Narcocast Re: “Jail saved my life” You saved your own life, you’re a survivor. How has society failed you to make you think that jail saved your life and how can we change those circumstances. - @DrKimSue Listen to the pod. Jail did not save your life.

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2 years

Do the people freaking out about Philly even live here??? I still pick to live in Philly.

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@Lb_Sterling

6 years

I have 4 years in recovery... The years before that were not wasted. They were all a part of me. They were all years that I still carry with me. I was not born again. I am not a phoenix. I am a just a person and was always a person. Inspired by post by @ZachWritesStuff

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@Lb_Sterling

2 years

Yea, so, we are going to need people to be clear about their stance on sweeps. No sweeps period. Stealing people's and throwing it in the trash is heinous crime. You are not our friend if you defend them.

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@Lb_Sterling

4 years

We are not stockpiling weapons. When @PhillyMayor makes statements like that it incites violence. We will not let him off the hook as he stokes hatred against unhoused people. Provide service to the people. Transfer houses to the people. Those are the answers.

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@Lb_Sterling

4 years

It’s cold out here. We still need donations of blankets and thermals. Just drop off at 22nd and the Ben Franklin Parkway.

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@Lb_Sterling

4 years

Ask the city why they keep returning people to the encampment. Discharging people to the street. Ask the city why they keep sending us into houses that are uninhabitable and have rejected an entire list of houses that are viable and that can be moved into immediately. .

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@Lb_Sterling

5 months

@CouncilwomanKGR @PhillyMayor @DBHIDS @PhillyPolice @PPD24Dist @PhillyCLIP @PHLCityHomeless @PhilaStreets @SEPTA . @DBHIDS didn't get there until 8... Legal observers were pushed out at 6 am.... What are you cheering??? Aren't you asking where the people went to???

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@Lb_Sterling

6 years

I think we gotta call out these abstinence people that are organizing against other pathways to recovery. Recovery saved your life so you think other people should get to die. It's disgusting. Others have to die so you could live. You're not in recovery. You're a narcissist.

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@Lb_Sterling

8 months

39. Two days ago... In my poutine shirt.

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@Lb_Sterling

6 years

Really proud of the Philadelphia harm reduction community. We get shit done. We're not winning your Pulitzers or Genius awards. No fucking trinkets. No Galas. Keep your bullshit. We just do the work. We do Harm reduction every damn day. Support @SafehousePhilly

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@Lb_Sterling

7 years

"It's becoming clear that they believe that a person with an opiate addiction deserves to die." I don't see any other goal for these people.

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@jeff_deeney It's because they believe people with opiate addictions don't deserve to live. If the *only* metric you care about is the number of people addicted to drugs, then every death is one less person living with addiction.

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@Lb_Sterling

4 years

When you say #WalterWallace was on drugs, you reveal yourself!!! You think that Drug users should be executed in the street.

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@Lb_Sterling

3 years

Anyone want my article on recovery and whiteness??? We need a recovery for everyone... I'm not impressed with you reclaiming your white/class privilege. Meet so many people, saying, recover to what?

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@Lb_Sterling

2 years

Philadelphia is selling off public goods... From side lots, to FDR park, to public housing and people have a problem with that...

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@Lb_Sterling

5 years

I don't ever want to hear the word "crackhead" again. It's really offensive and racist and used as a way to discredit a person that is already being oppressed.

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@Lb_Sterling

4 years

How does the Housing Authority turn North Philly from a place for families to a place for only Temple University students. @PhilaHsgAuthPHA future has no poor black families in North Philly, only Temple Students. We reject that future and we will fight it. See below:

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@Lb_Sterling

3 years

Calling addiction a disease is the first step to taking away people's autonomy.

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@Lb_Sterling

6 years

. @JOEL9ONE good work in Tanzania... but there are many problems at home. In Philly 1200 people died of overdose in 2017, 1100 in 2018. More and more homelessness. You been to Kensington? No bathrooms, people exp. homelessness. Trip to Kilamanjaro is fun, but there's work here.

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@Lb_Sterling

5 years

I've spent time in a hospital. I was suicidal. I sometimes feel suicidal today. But I am here and proud of myself. It is not a crime to have a mental health condition. I am enough and have a mental health condition. #StigmaFree

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@Lb_Sterling

4 years

Drug policy is land policy. The police aren't arresting people deep in the wealthy enclaves or deep in the neighborhoods. They arrest people at the edge of gentrification.

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@Lb_Sterling

4 years

Philadelphia doesn't need anymore money. @PhillyMayor , @Darrell_Clarke don't know how to act. @OpenSociety @macfound . A disabled black person was killed by the police and now they want to give the police more money. What is this!!?!?!?!?!

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5 months

@SenBobCasey You are disgusting...

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1 year

Wow fuck Jabari jones

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2 years

@JoshuaPotash @msolurin I mean the cruelty is the point... We understand that right?

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@Lb_Sterling

4 years

The services are person resistant. The people aren't service resistant.

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@Lb_Sterling

4 years

Don’t pretend you are better bc you get your drugs from a government pharmacist rather than a friend or a person on the corner. #PhillyHousingNow

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7 months

My Mother's birthday today! Wow.. Always thinking of her...

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@Lb_Sterling

4 years

Last night, a resident was badly hurt. We are supporting that person through this situation and am asking for prayers and well wishes for a full recovery. Interpersonal Violence is a fact of life in philly. The solutions are housing, healthcare and education. #phillyhousingnow

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@Lb_Sterling

4 years

Just find it really racist to only cover opioid epidemic... when there are intriguing stories around K2, crack, and pcp... why? why? why? why is there an opioid beat, but these other stories are not as interesting.... It's fucked up.

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@Lb_Sterling

3 years

Excited to get into these two books and talk about with others!!! @prisonculture @drcarlhart

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@Lb_Sterling

6 years

This is the last year I will celebrate my recovery date. Harm reduction celebrates any positive change. #anypositivechange #stoptheapplause #Alternatives2018

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@Lb_Sterling

3 years

Really need to lift up organizations like @national_pain fighting for the right to pain medications. Andrew Kolodny and other pushers of this false narrative based in colonialism and white innocence has been very harmful to people across the world. #constellationsfest

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@Lb_Sterling

2 years

When everyone laughs at what I get paid at Temple... UPenn is paying 38 next year... They have got to be joking... there is not time enough in the day for all I have to do...

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@Lb_Sterling

1 year

@LondonBreed Yea, is this negotiating in good faith... you have lied so much... why believe you now??? You closed down the Tenderloin Center and killed so many people.... look what you have done!

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@Lb_Sterling

3 years

Just my perspective on displacement in South Philly. How environmental stewardship was an excuse to displace thousands of residents. TY @edgeeffectsmag !! @ValerieRoss14 @venisew @andersonatlarge @AkiraDrake @CouncilmemberKJ @VrainBK @ACTUPPhilly

Green Gentrification in South Philly - Edge Effects

"South Philly had Black history but no Black people." Sterling Johnson follows a century of green gentrification along the Schuylkill River.

edgeeffects.net

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@Lb_Sterling

5 years

Safe consumption space will be opening up in my neighborhood.... Feels good. A few blocks from some of our fiercest advocates....

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@Lb_Sterling

4 years

Invite to @PhillyMayor

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@Lb_Sterling

4 years

The time together and connections at CampJTD and Camp Teddy over the last two months will be the stuff that will fuel this movement for years. Y'all better be ready.

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@Lb_Sterling

6 years

Are you against the drug war?? Then, you should be for harm reduction. Are you against mass incarceration?? Then, you should be for harm reduction and safe injection. Are you for decarceration? Then, show me the employment and affordable housing for people coming out!

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@Lb_Sterling

4 years

. @ByClaudiaVargas I am an organizer and negotiator with encampment. They have not helped "130 campers". @PhillyMayor lies. I know every single person at the encampment. They will not show me the list. We know people have been kicked out and they are back at the encampment.

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@Lb_Sterling

4 years

Anyone going to do a story on the thin blue line flag as a mask??? So many Philly cops wear them.... It's a clear sign of white supremacy. right???

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@Lb_Sterling

2 years

All these yimbys talking and no one concerned about preserving subsidized housing… or supporting people that are being displaced.

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@Lb_Sterling

5 years

Recovery for many white males is just reclaiming their place in white supremacy and patriarchy... support them ..... but their version of recovery is not available to many... Recovery might be just staying alive. Love the queer people I know that showed that to me.

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@Lb_Sterling

3 years

Just voted for Krasner. Don’t forget to vote. Lots of people depend on Vega not winning. It would be disastrous.

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2 years

Picture says it all.... This is their position @PhillyMayor @PHLPlanDevelop

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@Lb_Sterling

5 years

Tell me again how recovery narratives break down the stigma against drug users... It's akin to saying ex-gays break down the stigma against the LGBT community. Drug use is not the problem. The discrimination is the issue. Stop the discrimination against people who use drugs.

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@Lb_Sterling

4 years

. @MeekMill support the encampment at 22nd and the Parkway. #DefundThePolice

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@Lb_Sterling

1 year

Looking forward to getting back to Philly. Got my haircut 💇‍♀️

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@Lb_Sterling

5 years

Safe consumption sites in Pennsylvania. Sign on now!

Support Safe Consumption Spaces in Pennsylvania

On October 2nd, a federal judge ruled that the operation of Safehouse does not violate federal law. On October 3rd, Senator Anthony Williams released a memo stating his plans to introduce a bill that...

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@Lb_Sterling

5 years

We need white people to be talking about their own privilege and talking about racial justice. Follow @billkinkle and @BrookeM_Feldman .... They will show you an example. We need more people to discuss their experiences. Racial justice is not a black and latinx issue to discuss.

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@Lb_Sterling

5 years

@KamalaHarris It's also when people put on an identity to distract from the harm that they have done. See... putting parents of truant kids in criminal justice system....and shutting down backpage....now trying to pretend that you represent black people. I am not a POC. Stop saying POC.

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@Lb_Sterling

6 years

I care about marijuana legalization a lot. Decriminalization of drugs is a top priority. But how we do it is of prime importance. It cannot be a cash grab for people with capital. And we cannot sit on the sidelines. We have to fully reject it even if we are against prohibition.

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2 years

@KellanWhite Philadelphia Bells. (Liberty Bell, Patti Labelle) Philadelphia Riot.

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@Lb_Sterling

5 years

I don't know who needs to hear this... but raising the voices of those with lived experience does not mean outsourcing labor on to those people. If they are providing necessary labor, then they need to be paid. We must refuse to work and not allow this exploitation.

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@Lb_Sterling

3 years

There's a lot of research on harm reduction, but why aren't things moving forward?

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@Lb_Sterling

4 years

#CampTeddy survived another night.

Fellow Worker Gritty, Wearing Ⓐ Mask

@FellowGritty

4 years

morning pancakes at Camp Teddy ☀⛅ c/o @PhlHousing

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3 years

You are not safer in prison….your family member is not going to get “clean” in prison.

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6 years

I picked up Naloxone while in Montreal at the Pharma Prix on Rene Levesque Blvd. Any picture ID - 15 minutes wait $0 Non-citizen No hassle. Just smiles. Naloxone is clearly helping people stay alive. We've got to get here America, @GovernorTomWolf , @PhillyMayor

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1 year

They want you to die quietly. Don't.

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@Lb_Sterling

10 months

Philly?

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BREAKING: The Atlanta City Council has just joined the call for a #CeasefireNOW .

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@Lb_Sterling

10 months

30 years at the U.S. Department of State.

Quds News Network

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#BREAKING | Former Obama administration adviser, Stuart Seldowitz, has been taken into police custody following hate assaults against a halal cart in Manhattan that were caught on camera caused outrage. #US

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6 years

@SenSanders Single payer. No healthcare for profit.

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2 months

@vinivinidogo @safecampdore It’ll just happen again.. what now???

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@Lb_Sterling

5 years

. @talilalewis shut it down! Reframing oppression in the language of medicine does not make it better. #beyondcoercion

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@Lb_Sterling

5 years

The hatred of drug users knows no bounds...

Sean Walsh

@sbcmw

5 years

Here’s the language in @DavidOhPhilly ⁩‘s bill making supervised injection sites a “nuisance health establishment” under city law if they don’t follow these rules for community input

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2 years

This fight against big developers and universities taking over West Philly neighborhoods continues even as residents face imminent eviction. Rasheda and Sheldon (pictured) and so many others. They have been doing the bulk of the organizing. ❤️❤️❤️ ?

Support Residents of the UC Townhomes!, organized by Rasheda Alexander

The intention of this GoFundMe is to raise funds that will be dispersed among… Rasheda Alexander needs your support for Support Residents of the UC Townhomes!

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what an amazing tweet