Disability rights

Hands off the Drug User Liberation Front!

On Oct. 25, 2023, the revolutionary group Drug User Liberation Front experienced severe repression from the Canadian state. This group,…

January 22, 2024

Fighting for disability rights behind bars

By Billy Rinick and Joe Piette “The disproportionate incarceration of people with disabilities in the United States is a serious…

January 15, 2024

Reject ‘War on Drugs’ rhetoric

Philadelphia Another mayor, another effort to “clean up” Kensington. Except this time, the new mayor, Cherelle Parker, wasted no time…

January 11, 2024

Commentary: No place for old men

Quite recently, during the height of the ravaging COVID-19 crisis, an American health care agency announced a series of projects…

December 1, 2023

Treatment of severe mental illness in the U.S. and Cuba – a comparison

Sue Harris is a psychologist who has worked in psychiatric hospitals and group homes and has been in private practice…

September 26, 2023

Protesters demand an end to prison deaths and torture in Rhode Island

Providence, Rhode Island “What we did yesterday taught us that nothing is impossible. After all, what seemed impossible yesterday, was…

September 22, 2023

Disability Justice and Neurodivergent community rocks Boston Common to ‘Stop the Shock’

Stop the Shock – a coalition of more than 30 organizations in the Disability Justice and Neurodivergent community – organized…

September 21, 2023

Filadelfia: ¡Justicia para Junito (Eddie Irizarry Jr.)!

Sólo pasaron cinco segundos entre el momento en que el agente de policía Mark Dial salió de su coche y…

September 11, 2023

Philadelphia: Drug crisis in Kensington calls for reparations

Philadelphia From around the East Coast, a flock of drug users gather in the Kensington section of Philadelphia. From as…

July 10, 2023

‘Compromise and consensus’ − but for whom?

President Joe Biden averted a default on the federal debt June 3 when he signed the Fiscal Responsibility Act. Biden…

June 6, 2023