Tag Archives: war on drugs
New report shows how the principle of “personhood” is already criminalizing pregnancy in the US
Tweet Regina McKnight was charged with homicide by child abuse after the state said her cocaine use caused her to have a stillbirth. It was later determined that the stillbirth was due to an infection, and her conviction was overturned–after she’d already served eight years in prison. Laura Pemberton wanted to have a vaginal birth after having had a [...]
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Watch this new documentary on the racist, ineffective war on drugs
TweetDespite recent legalization successes in the Northwest, the U.S. war on drugs is still going strong–and new documentary Breaking the Taboo makes the urgent case for ending the racist, ineffective battle in under an hour. The film, directed by Cosmo Feilding Mellen and Fernando Grostein Andrade (and gloriously narrated by God Morgan Freeman), traces the [...]
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“The war on drugs has become a war on women”
Tweet Jody Williams and Rigoberta Menchu. Pic via CNN. Violence against women in Latin America is on the rise–and it’s partly thanks to the US’s ineffective drug policies. A delegation of women, led by Nobel Laureates Jody Williams and Rigoberta Menchu, released a report yesterday on the horrifying levels of gender-based violence in Mexico, Honduras, [...]
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Videos from the non-violent war against the violent drug wars
TweetProstitutes and secret service and Latin America, oh my. This year’s Summit of the Americas was reduced to a scandal about secret service agents too dumb or too cheap to pay the money they owed the sex workers they solicited in Cartagena. But the real story is that Latin American leaders are coming out of [...]
Also tagged drug wars, javier sicilia, Latin America, movement for peace with justice and dignity, secret service prostitutes, secret service prostitution, summit of the americas Comments closed
The war on drugs, fetal personhood, and the criminalization of pregnant women