WHO WE ARE

We are a national, independent, and non-government affiliated grassroots collective of harm reductionists, organizers, activists, and advocates spanning across Canada. We envision a future world free of criminalization and oppression.

We 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. As an independent collective, we understand the importance of aligning with other intersectional and allied social justice movements across Canada, Turtle Island, and around the world. We are dedicated to supporting transformative justice and liberatory philosophies, approaches, and practices of harm reduction rooted in anti-oppression, abolition, and liberation. We support education and advocacy work that aims to dismantle and transform policies that disproportionately stigmatize, target, criminalize, incarcerate, and murder oppressed communities.

Now more than ever, connecting the dots between harm reduction and intersectional social justice movements is imperative. This means supporting intersectional social justice issues that actively resist and dismantle racism, colonialism, capitalism, imperialism, corporatization, privatization, militarization, war, genocide, and state violence in all its lethal forms. In the spirit of reciprocity, we support, raise awareness, and amplify harm reduction information, education, news and media, regional harm reduction service updates, calls for mutual aid, support for legal challenges, direct actions, events, and other intersectional social justice struggles – for example: labour rights, anti-war and anti-poverty activism, racial justice movement-building, Indigenous rights, sovereignty, and land defense, 2SLGBTQIA+ rights and gender-affirming care, disability rights, climate justice, and the rights of youth and young people.