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Baltimore's mass overdose protocol is a consequence of its failure to end the drug war
Studies show that this exact brand of drug enforcement can increase overdose death rates by disrupting the drug supply and pushing drug users toward riskier sources, a phenomenon known as the "Iron Law of Prohibition."
The Green Transition and Environmental Injustice in the South
While the green transition is touted as a job creator, many of those roles created by the green transition development are temporary, non-unionized, and inaccessible to local workers without advanced technical training. Meanwhile, decision-making remains centralized in faraway boardrooms and state agencies.
Your disdain for the South is just anti-Blackness
I understand western imperialism and colonialism as the everlasting greatest threat to the climate through the continued exploitation of the worker, the ongoing enslavement and subjugation of the Black, and the destruction of Indigenous lands.
A frigid Baltimore storm highlights the cold shoulder from those in power
Not all drug users are unhoused, and not all unhoused people are drug users. Although a whopping 77 percent of unhoused residents reported being addicted to a substance last year, the groups are more united by the fact that they are heavily stigmatized and at increased risk of death during the winter.
ICE OUT: A Scalawag Reading List
There is nothing else left for the masses to do except escalate our resistance to this genocidal entanglement.
Zohran Mamdani and the Sorcery of Soft Rebellion
Mamdani may appear to occupy the office, but the office actually occupies him.