Fuck that was a good time. Glad I got to spend my 33rd birthday seeing @rent__strike and even happier they played so many songs off NOW. Such a great album
We will continue playing chemical whack-a-mole until all drugs are made legal and the war on people who use drugs is brought to an unequivocal end. Be sure the state will leverage this new fear to crack down harder on people. Be sure that it won’t work to keep anyone safe.
An update from our work, written in response to some concerning developments in the streets (🧵):
CW - IV drugs and death:
For years now it has seemed that the flow of money and awareness into the world of harm reduction and safer injection supplies + practices was working:
'a punk rock song won't ever change the world
but i can tell you about a couple that changed me'
is an appropriately neoliberal misunderstanding of the relation of humanity to the capitalist construction of 'nature', and furthers the extractivist perspective that allows for <1/9>