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BL
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853046
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Boyd, Susan C.,1953-
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| Title & Author
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Raise shit! : : social action saving lives /\ Susan Boyd, Donald MacPherson, Bud Osborn.
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| Publication Statement
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Halifax, N.S. :: Fernwood,, c2009.
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192 p. :: ill., ports. ;; 23 cm.
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| ISBN
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1552663272
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: 9781552663271
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| Contents
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Preface: Collective Activism -- 1. In the Beginning -- 2. Killing Fields, 1997: 1000 Crosses -- 3. Local Resistance: Back Alley on Powell Street -- 4. Epidemic: Overdose Deaths and HIV -- 5. Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) Emerges -- 6. Why Don't You Just Kill Us -- 7. Speaking Out Against Opponents -- 8. Local and Global War on Drugs: The Harms of Prohibition -- 9. Vancouver's Public Health Emergency Continues -- 10. Carrall Street and Insite: Safe Injection Sites -- 11. In the end ... Resistance and Hope.
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| Abstract
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"This book tells a story about community activism in Vancouver's Downtown East Side (DTES) that culminated in a social justice movement to open the first official safe injection site. This story is unique: it is told from the point of view of drug users -- those most affected by drug policy, political decisions and policing. It provides a montage of poetry, photos, early Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) meetings, journal entries from the Back Alley, the "unofficial" safe injection site, and excerpts from significant health and media reports. The harms of prohibition, and resistance, hope, kindness, awakening and collective action are chronicled in these pages."--pub. website.
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Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users.
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Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users.
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Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users.
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Intravenous drug abusers-- Services for-- British Columbia-- Vancouver.
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Intravenous drug abusers-- British Columbia-- Vancouver.
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Needle exchange programs-- British Columbia-- Vancouver.
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Social action-- British Columbia-- Vancouver.
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Action sociale-- Colombie-Britannique-- Vancouver.
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Échange de seringues-- Colombie-Britannique-- Vancouver.
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Toxicomanes par injection-- Colombie-Britannique-- Vancouver.
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Toxicomanes par injection, Services aux-- Colombie-Britannique-- Vancouver.
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Intravenous drug abusers.
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Needle exchange programs.
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Social action.
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Social conditions.
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Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.), Social conditions.
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Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, C.-B.), Conditions sociales.
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British Columbia, Vancouver, Downtown-Eastside.
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British Columbia, Vancouver.
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| Dewey Classification
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362.29/380971133
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| LC Classification
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HV5840.C32V36 2009
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cci1icclacc
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| Added Entry
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MacPherson, Donald,1952-
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Osborn, Bud.
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