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National Days of Action - April 2025

The Harm Reduction Action Collective (HRAC) unequivocally supports all mobilization efforts across the country advocating for harm reduction and drug user liberation. Join us in supporting and promoting multiple National Days of Action happening in April 2025 – organized by regional grassroots drug user and harm reduction groups who gather together to #DemandBetter and #DemandJustice.

We encourage others to organize events in their regions on April 7th, 10th, 14th, and April 24th to mark our shared grief and rage, and our united commitment to ending drug prohibition and the further criminalization of people who use, share, and sell drugs. This could include – but is certainly not limited to – organizing protests, rallies, vigils, press conferences, webinars, panel discussions, and any other forms of action.

Need help organizing and promoting your event? Email us at hractioncollective@gmail.com.

Collectively, let’s #RaiseShit and #Organize to support harm reduction and abolish the war on drugs!

#DemandBetter #DemandJustice #WeGrieve #HarmReduction #TotalLiberation

TORONTO – Monday, April 7th

10am ET – 330 University Avenue, Court Room 8-1, Overflow in Rooms 8-5 and 8-6

Hosted by:

Harm Reduction Advocacy Collective (HRAC)
Toronto Overdose Prevention Society (TOPS)
Toronto Indigenous Harm Reduction (TIHR)
HIV Legal Network
Waterloo Region Drug Action Team (WRDAT)
The Neighbourhood Group Community Services (TNG)

GATINEAU – Thursday, April 10th

12:30pm ET – Depart from Montreal (AQPSUD Office, 1555 René-Lévesque East Boulevard)
5pm ET – Gathering at Minotaure (3 Kent Street, Gatineau)
10pm ET – Return to Montreal

Hosted by:

L’Association Québécoise pour la Promotion de la Santé des personnes Utilisatrices de Drogues (AQPSUD)

VANCOUVER – Monday, April 14th

2pm PT – Rally and Lunch at Victory Square (200 West Hastings Street)
3pm PT – March towards Canada Place

Hosted by:

Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU)
Coalition of Peers Dismantling the Drug War (CPDDW)
Police Oversight with Evidence and Research (P.O.W.E.R)

VICTORIA – Monday, April 14th

11:30am PT – BC Legislature Lawn (501 Belleville Street)
12:15pm PT – Speakers begin

Hosted by:

Moms Stop the Harm (MSTH)

MONTREAL – Thursday, April 24th

2pm ET – Rally at Place Émilie-Gamelin (1500 Rue Berri)

Hosted by:

L’Association Québécoise pour la Promotion de la Santé des personnes Utilisatrices de Drogues (AQPSUD)

Virtual Teach-In: How Do We Get Free Together?

On November 19th, 2024, the Harm Reduction Action Collective (HRAC) hosted a virtual teach-in event featuring Spring Up: Liberatory Education. This 1-hour virtual teach-in focused on transformative justice and collective liberation, and what these look like in our everyday lives and practices. It explored what it means to practice everyday consent and liberation within our internal organizer groups, and how we can organize together towards generational knowledge and resource sharing. Watch the recording of the presentation here.

Want to know more?

Featuring: Spring Up: Liberatory Education is a collective of creatives, care workers, liberatory educators, and transformative justice practitioners focused on building a community of practice embodying consent and liberation within their relationships, creative practices, and daily lives. For 10 years, Spring Up has used fiction, art, role play, and community education to popularize the skills and frameworks necessary to be free together. Spring Up hosts liberatory learning spaces through online classes at bluelight academy of the liberatory arts, print materials and curriculum, retreats, and coaching. Their core values are Consent, Accountability, and Transformation. To learn more about the Spring Up collective and explore their resources, visit: https://www.timetospringup.org/.

Host: HRAC is a national, independent, and non-government affiliated grassroots collective of harm reductionists, organizers, activists, and advocates spanning across Canada. HRAC members are committed to breaking down borders, and to building bridges of connection across communities – to harness the collective power of the transformative grassroots organizing efforts happening locally across the country. To learn more about the HRAC, visit: https://www.hractioncollective.com/.

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