Southwest Recovery Harm Reduction Alliance

06/02/2026

On June 2nd, 1975, approximately 100 s*x workers began an 8-day occupation at the Saint-Nizier Church in Lyon, France. The workers demanded an end to police harassment, fines, stigma, and the release of 10 s*x workers who had been imprisoned a few days earlier for soliciting. After 8 days of occupation, the police forcibly removed the workers from the church, but their impact sparked the start of an international movement.

We celebrate s*x workers today (and every day) and bring awareness to the stigma, discrimination, and bad laws that harm s*x workers. S*x workers should not have to fear or experience physical violence, state violence, and/or structural violence for their choice of labor.

Destigmatize and decriminalize s3x work. S*x workers play a vital role in our communities and economies. S*x work is an industry that generates income and sustains livelihoods for many people. Thus, by recognizing s*x workers' contributions, we acknowledge their economic agency and demand rights, not rescue.

Support s3x workers. End the whorearchy. Decrim s*x work. No bad whores just bad laws. Stop arresting hoes. Rights not rescue.

05/20/2026

05/19/2026

May 19th is National Hepatitis Testing Day.

We out here rain or shine (and mostly shine in Arizona) because data continues to emphasize the importance of routine hepatitis C testing, particularly alongside a syringe service program. When paired, these services play a critical role in reducing both hepatitis C and HIV and are essential prevention and diagnosis pillars of public health.

Hepatitis C is both preventable and curable. Stop by our site today, get tested for Hep C, and pick up the supplies you need!

We also out here because everyone deserves access to overdose and disease prevention. We love you, period.

05/07/2026

05/06/2026

🗣There is still time to act. Make your voice heard -Phx City Council meeting tomorrow May 6th. Leave public comment or request to speak (in person or virtually -at least two hours prior to city council meeting). Use link below:
linktr.ee/rejectandrepeal

05/04/2026

🗣There is no version of the “Safe Medical Treatment and Food Distribution in Parks” ordinance G-7467 that can be implemented without causing preventable harm, suffering, and death. Phoenix deserves better. CARING FOR PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE A CRIME.

While the Safe Medical Treatment and Food Distribution in Parks is under the guise of creating safety, it will have the opposite effect.

Removing access to care in parks will not remove the need. Instead, it will dismantle critical low-barrier infrastructure that enables people to access care, prevention services, and support. By restricting and criminalizing access to care, the ordinance undermines proven life-supporting, lifesaving, and life-affirming services, pushes people further away from care, and overburdens an already strained emergency response system. Our community is safer and more supported when everyone has access to more services, not fewer.

Alarmingly, the revised ordinance explicitly bans and criminalizes the distribution of intramuscular naloxone (FDA-approved overdose reversal medication) in parks, all while AZ had a 20% increase in overdose deaths in 2025. We need to expand access to life-saving services, not create more barriers by criminalizing care. Syringe services programs save lives. Harm reduction saves lives.

Take action: The message to the Phoenix City Council is clear: Reject the revised ordinance and repeal the original.

Use linktr.ee/rejectandrepeal or scan the QR code for more information and ways to make your voice heard.

04/29/2026

The city of Phoenix Park ordinace is being pushed under the guise of making our parks safer.

We don't create safer communities by restricting access to life-saving and life-affirming care. We don't create safer communities by criminalizing the distribution of intramuscular naloxone in parks. We don't create safer communities by banning and criminalizing those providing syringe service programs.

There is no version of this ordinance that does not compound and increase suffering and death. We no longer just oppose this ordinance; we now demand its rejection and repeal. Learn more about the ordinance, hear from those of us who are fighting against it, and learn ways to make your voice heard. Sign up for any of the upcoming trainings at linktr.ee/sitdaz

At this virtual formation building event, you will have an opportunity to meet and learn more about the providers leading these advocacy efforts and how their programming is vital to the health, safety, and wellness of our community. We will provide direction on different ways to engage with City of Phoenix leaders, as well as provide guidance as how to make the most of your engagement, as well as sample comments you can follow when composing your own. Everyone who wants to join in this important advocacy is welcome to come learn and join in the formation of wider advocacy efforts.

04/20/2026

Still time to make your voice heard. Fill out the City of Phoenix survey and/or attend tomorrow's stakeholder meetings.

This park ordinance will have a deadly impact. Let city officials know you refuse to be complicit in the preventable death and suffering as a result of the ordinance.

04/16/2026

CALL TO ACTION!!

We thought the City of Phoenix's revised park ordinance would be less harmful. We thought they were listening at the stakeholder meetings. Well, the new revised park ordinance doesn’t solve anything; it creates more barriers, and STILL criminalizes people providing syringe service programs in parks, and now includes food distribution along with medical treatment as a prohibited activity.

When overdose deaths rise, a city's response should be to expand services that save lives, not criminalize its workers and create more barriers to care. That is not evidence-based. This is not public health. This is direct harm. This is social murder.

Limiting food distribution and medical care to a handful of permitted days each month doesn’t reduce the need. It pushes care out of reach. The need will still be there. Fewer services will be available. And people will suffer because of it, people will die because of it. This is PREVENTABLE suffering and death.

This ordinance restricts where and when life-saving care can happen, requires permits with little transparency and unrealistic timelines, and criminalizes caring for a neighbor with a Class 1 misdemeanor.

Feeding people, providing care, should never be a crime.

Here are the ways to make your voice heard:

Use the QR Code to visit the City of Phoenix website (link in below) to complete a feedback survey, and find community meetings near you to attend happening April 15th & 16th and read more about the ordinance.

Attend .phx Anna Hernandez park ordinance stakeholder meeting on April 21st.

Contact your city of Phoenix council member and tell them why you oppose this ordinance.
https://www.phoenix.gov/administration/departments/parks/about-us/medical-treatment-and-food-distribution-in-parks.html -proposed-ordinance

12/17/2025

December 17th is International Day to End Violence Against S*x Workers. Today, we remember those we've lost and who have been harmed by criminalization, stigma, and all forms of violence, physical, s*xual, structural, and systemic. S*x work is not inherently dangerous, but bad laws and stigma make it so.

International Day to End Violence Against S*x Workers was first recognized in 2003 as a memorial and vigil for the victims of the Green River Killer in Seattle, Washington. Since 2003, Inte friends at  are hostirnational Day to End Violence Against S*x Workers has empowered people from cities around the world to come together and organize against discrimination and remember victims of violence.

In 2023, The United Nations Working Group on Discrimination against women and girls released a landmark report calling for the full decriminalization of voluntary adult s*x work globally. S*x work is work - decrim now.

Support s*x workers. Advocate for s*x workers. Challenge stigma. Ask s*x workers what they need and want. Invite s*x workers to the table when creating anti-trafficking interventions. Get educated on how to be a s*x worker ally. 
 
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