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Care Not Criminalization — Support. Don’t Punish 2025

In collaboration with harm reduction groups and allied organizations from across the country, the Harm Reduction Action Collective (HRAC) is hosting a national virtual event on June 26th, 2025 – marking the Global Day of Action as part of the international Support. Don’t Punish campaign. The Global Day of Action is a moment of transnational solidarity – bringing us together to oppose stigma and injustice, while fostering change in laws, policies, and practices that undermine our communities’ wellbeing.

Date: Thursday, June 26, 2025

Time: 1pm PT · 2pm MT · 3pm CT · 4pm ET · 5pm AT · 5:30pm NT

Location: Online [Zoom] - registration starts on June 2nd

Speakers from across the country will join us to address a variety of intersecting themes, topics, and communities, including (but certainly not limited to): harm reduction; drug policy; drug user rights; involuntary treatment; mental health care; HIV non-disclosure; encampments and use of public space; sex worker rights; immigrant rights; youth, young people, and students; disability justice; and queer, trans, and gender-expansive communities.

Speakers from the following groups and organizations will be joining us:

  • 4B Harm Reduction

  • Association Québécoise pour la promotion de la santé des personnes utilisatrices de drogues (AQPSUD)

  • Canadian Alliance for Sex Work Law Reform

  • Canadian Drug Policy Coalition

  • Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy

  • Doctors for Safer Drug Policy

  • Frontline Baddies

  • HIV Legal Network

  • Hummingbird Outreach

  • Migrant Workers Alliance for Change

  • Moms Stop the Harm

  • No Pride in Policing Coalition (Toronto)

  • Prairie Harm Reduction

  • Ryan's Hope

  • Students for Harm Reduction

  • Substance Overdose Prevention & Education Network (SOPEN)

Tickets are available on a pay-what-you-can (PYWC) sliding scale ($0 - $50). HRAC is committed to wealth redistribution among attendees and encourages folks who identify as having extra disposable income to contribute equitably. All donations collected will be distributed equally among all speakers who participate in the event. For full transparency and accountability, anonymized screenshots of all financial transactions will be shared with all participants who donate. After purchasing your ticket, you will receive a Zoom link via email. Closed captions will be available in English only.

Want to know more?

Global Day of Action – June 26th: Support. Don’t Punish is a global grassroots-centred initiative in support of harm reduction and drug policies that prioritize public health and human rights. The campaign seeks to put harm reduction on the political agenda by strengthening the mobilization capacity of communities targeted by the “war on drugs” and their allies, opening dialogue with policymakers, and raising awareness among the media and the public. The campaign’s yearly high point is the Global Day of Action, which takes place on, or around, 26th June (the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking). Historically, this date has been used by governments to showcase their drug control “achievements” in coercive terms. The campaign’s Global Day of Action seeks to reclaim and shift that day’s narrative. To learn more about Support. Don’t Punish, visit: https://supportdontpunish.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/.

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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