Weekly action items and updates from GHC #FairShare4Harlem
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| STRIVING FOR A HARLEM WHERE ALL PEOPLE CAN THRIVE
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| MEDIA REPORT Blue Cities Rethink Their Embrace of Progressive Drug Policies |
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| Axios has a report on the shifts - big and small - in west and east coast cities that are struggling with the overdose crisis. After listening to people on the street, city officials, law enforcement, and others, the following themes bubbled up: |
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| It's not that people hate people who use drugs, but they want to be able to just walk their kids to school and to park their cars and not be robbed |
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| - Republicans frequently — and inaccurately — tie fentanyl's proliferation to the country's migration crisis.
- Mainstream voters see this problem and they just don't want to see it. Maybe they've given up on it being solved, but they definitely don't want to see it unfold in public.
- It is much easier to blame specific drugs or efforts to address or help people for the problems rather than thinking about the structural drivers, the root causes of what's behind homelessness and the overdose crisis
- Ten years ago, you didn't hear police chiefs and sheriffs saying things like, 'We can't arrest our way out of the problem.' And they do say those things these days.
- The things that generate a lot of pushback from the public are the acceptance of open-air drug scenes - accepting public drug use and public drug dealing
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| PUBLIC ADVOCATE JUMAANE WILLIAMS' Continued Support for OnPoint |
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| During a WBLS Openline interview, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams reiterated his support for OnPoint while erroneously claimed that overdose deaths have decreased since OnPoint began operation in East Harlem. The data, tragically, shows exactly the opposite. Since OnPoint opened its doors, overdose deaths have increase in both number and in rate, in both Harlem and East Harlem. |
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| AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO SMALL BUSINESSES Open Air Drug Dealing and Commercial Survival in East Harlem |
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