Philadelphia Drug Users' Union

12/11/2020

Philadelphia Drug Users’ Union is in solidarity with everyone who has been harmed by Sterling Johnson, a serial abuser who has used violent tactics against various individuals and movements including but not limited to sexual harassment, verbal threats, sabotage of jobs & funding, etc. We are in awe of the patience and love continually shown to him by members of the Black & Brown Workers Co-op despite his repeated behaviors. PDUU members have experienced similar, if not the same behaviors at the hands of Sterling. Had BBWC not stepped forward to expose these truths, more egregious behaviors could and probably would have followed. Therefore, we express our immense gratitude that our comrades, in their pursuit of accountability, showed strength through vulnerability by exposing Sterling's true self. Seeking nothing other than justice for those that are truly dedicated to the work, BBWC refused to allow intimidation and malice to silence them. We fully support these long overdue calls for accountability. It is our hope that the power and platform Sterling has stolen is no longer acknowledged to prevent him from committing more atrocities against individuals, the community, like-minded organizations, and collective movements so that those of us that have been harmed can continue to focus on the work and build a stronger path forward for collective liberation.

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06/13/2020

Share widely. If you can get there for support. Need people

06/11/2020

Here is today’s list of supplies. This encampment is led by the residents of the camp. We support initiatives led by people with lived/living experience. Any support is helpful

06/10/2020

Out here supporting efforts of Occupy PHA Workers Cooperative. Abolish the racist, broken, traumatizing, oppressive, stigmatizing city housing system.

05/26/2020

One of the members recently had surgery. He is in need of a left walking boot, astromg antibiotics and items to clean wounds. Msg the page if you can help.

03/18/2020

I witnessed something this week that baffled me and also annoyed the hell outta me. In two medical institutions I seen people get threatened with the use of Narcan because they were nodding out. There are a couple things wrong with that in my eyes anyway. 1.) As an RN (medical professional)....you should have enough sense to know that you u should only narcan someone when they are not breathing. 2.) Narcan should not be used as a punishment! It is a tool to save someone's life, not a punishment because someone else is uncomfortable with the fact that your nodding and obviously very high! People wonder why there is such a big debate about the use of narcan because 70% of the people in posession of it is using it wrong! That's why the PDUU is on the streets everyday teaching people how to use this life saving tool correctly.....

03/18/2020

02/16/2020

This is stigma, hatred and fear bundled with too much power. No one should let this slide. DRUG USERS ARE PEOPLE TOO! We have the same right to breathe as the next.

Inspector Sekou Kinebrew said Friday the footage was a key part of the ongoing investigation into the incident. The 28-year-old man who was punched died a few minutes later en route to a hospital.

01/31/2020

If silence and compliance is our only way to avoid police brutality and oppression, how can we ever subvert norms and move the status quo in the direction of favoring the marginal, overlooked, underrepresented and underestimated.

01/26/2020

How can one be expected to understand what gives one human being the right to approach another human being equal - in all actual ways - demand that they stop altering their consciousness, which is in the right of every human who lives in the United States according to the founding documents? If they do not comply that equal human can exert a nonexistent power onto the other person and forcibly make them stop. As if that is not consequence enough, the human who perceives they have more power will proceed to change every single aspect of the other person’s life in a very real physical way for moments to potentially years, or even the remainder of that person’s
existence. This is the most far fetched idea of justice one could have ever conceived of. It is our duty as people who use drugs to demand a discontinuance of such egregious treatment of people based on actions that are merely misunderstood just like golf to someone not from the United States, or using water not toilet paper. This is the essence of cultural relativism. It’s not something that should destroy one’s life but be discussed as light conversation, because truthfully almost everyone does it.

11/26/2019

Abstinence-based treatment is death to drug users.
We demand SAFE SUPPLY!