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With one in 100 American adults behind bars, more and more juries across the country are handing down sentences of life without parole.

At the same time as the UN High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS, please join us for a rally against the Thai Drug War and for humane treatment of drug users, including harm reduction. Speakers will include: * representatives of Thai civil society participating in the UN High Level Meeting * US and international drug-user activists * others, to be determined In 2003, the Thai government escalated their drug war, and it led to the extrajudicial killing of almost 3,000 Thai citizens, half of whom were never found to have any connection to drugs. On April 2, 2008, the drug war was escalated again. The interior minister of Thailand was quoted as saying, "...for drug dealers, if they do not want to die, they had better quit staying on that road. Drugs suppression in my time as interior minister will follow the approach of Thaksin [former Thai Prime Minister]. If that will lead to 3,000-4,000 deaths of those who break the law, then so be it. That has to be done." Additionally, 50% of injection drug users in Thailand are HIV+, and are being denied access to lifesaving treatment and comprehensive harm reduction services, including clean needles. UN member countries have committed time and again to Universal Access to HIV treatment. The escalation of the drug war will help fuel the HIV epidemic by driving drug users away from lifesaving care while doing little to stem drug use. No death as a result of the Thai drug war is acceptable. The Thai government must stop the murder of Thai drug users and immediately prosecute state criminals responsible for past violations! *This action is sponsored by: African Services Committee, Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (CHAMP), Harm Reduction Coaltion, Health GAP, NYC AIDS Housing Network/VOCAL User¹s Union, Physicians for Human Rights, and the Thai AIDS Treatment Action Group More information: Kaytee Riek, Health GAP ([email protected] or 215-397-4326).

Join the campaign to repeal the Rockefeller Drug Laws! The Rockefeller Drug Laws: Ineffective, Unjust, Wasteful, Marked by Racial Bias.

Te invitamos a la marcha del Día Mundial por la Liberación de la Cannabis 2008. La cita es en el quiosco de la Alameda Central a las 12:00 hrs., donde presentaremos diversas actividades informativas y artísticas.

This free public seminar will present the latest data from the BC Alcohol and Other Drug Monitoring System, a multi-site and multi-component collaborative project which reports patterns of substance use (alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs) and related harms across BC.

Join Congressional Members, staff, and more than 200 organizations composed of a broad spectrum of leaders representing state and local government, law enforcement, corrections, and courts to celebrate this momentous occasion.

Please join us for this special event featuring Yamile Salinas Abdala of the Fundación INDEPAZ (Institute for Development and Peace Studies) in Bogotá, Colombia and William Byrd, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Advisor at The World Bank.

Break the Chains is actively involved in the campaign to equalize federal sentences for cocaine offenses.

Hosted by the NYU Wagner Criminal Justice Student Group, the Students of African Descent Alliance, and the Correctional Association of NY. Join leading academicians, activists, political figures and lawyers in a discussion on a critical, oft neglected, public policy issue of the day: how police, prosecutorial and prison related practices lead to the dramatically disproportionate confinement of poor people of color.

This show will feature the comedic talents FreddyLockhart, Ngaio, Darwin Hines, Tere Joyce, Tasty Jeff (Jeff Richards of SNL fame) and more! There is also rumor of an appearance by Russell Peters himself.