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    Apr 16

    Mainers: sign our petition! Show lawmakers you support changing our drug laws to save lives. We'll submit the petition to the legislature in support of LD 967, our bill to end criminal penalties for minor drug possession & offer people a path to treatment

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    Apr 27

    During this week in 1996, Congress passed a pair of laws that severely restrict incarcerated people's ability to fight abuses in court. The consequences have been deadly.

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  3. Apr 27

    Mainers interested in supporting DC statehood? There's a virtual teach-in tomorrow. Details 👇

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  4. Apr 27

    People in prisons and jails live in congregate settings vulnerable to COVID-19 outbreaks. Yet 5 months since the first COVID shot in Maine, ed board writes, this vulnerable group has barely been reached by the state's vaccine program.

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  5. Apr 26

    Last week to sign our petition. Don't wait, Mainers. Do it today. Show your lawmakers you support changing our drug laws to save lives. Support LD 967.

    Mainers: sign our petition! Show lawmakers you support changing our drug laws to save lives. We'll submit the petition to the legislature in support of LD 967, our bill to end criminal penalties for minor drug possession & offer people a path to treatment
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  6. Apr 26

    Paying teachers adequately; keeping student-to-teacher ratios low; funding sufficient counselors rather than school resource officers; and providing the appropriate, legally required special education services to those who qualify.

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  7. Apr 26

    Maine must turn away from the use of suspensions and expulsions whenever possible. We must instead divert our resources away from punitive models and into what schools need to ensure their students are healthy:

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  8. Apr 26

    We all wish for school environments that keep every student safe and allow every student the room to learn and grow.

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  9. Apr 26

    Children of color and children with disabilities are especially vulnerable to the inappropriate use of suspensions and expulsions, and it is even worse for students of color with disabilities.

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  10. Apr 26

    Suspending or expelling young children dramatically increases the likelihood that those students will drop out before graduating from high school.

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  11. Apr 26

    We're offering testimony in support of LD 474, which would roll back the kind if disciplinary measures schools can take against young children & interrupt the school-to-prison pipeline.

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  12. Apr 23

    We can't arrest and punish our way out of substance use and overdose deaths. We need to change our drug laws to save lives.

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  13. Apr 21

    Say it with us folks: unanimous 👏 public 👏 support 👏

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  14. Apr 21

    That's the end of the hearing. Rep. Warren notes: unanimous public support for LD 994.

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  15. Apr 21

    Yet our laws make harm reduction practices, life saving public health measures, crimes. Criminalizing drug use is cruel. It disconnects people from their health care, families and place in the community—the very things they need to lead healthy lives.

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  16. Apr 21

    Meagan Sway, ACLU: the laws criminalizing safe supplies were created 25 years ago. 25 years later we know better: criminalizing safe supplies has not made our communities safer. What does work? Harm reduction.

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  17. Apr 21

    Cathleen London, physician in Downeast: this approach that emphasizes punishment is just a failure. Until we move to harm reduction, we are going to see more deaths. The opposite of addiction is connection.

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  18. Apr 21

    Marshall Mercer, MERAP: substance use disorder is a public health issue, not a criminal issue. Safe supplies does not encourage drug use, but keep people alive until they are ready to seek recovery.

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  19. Apr 21

    Notes that people who participate in syringe service programs have better health outcomes and are more likely to seek recovery.

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  20. Apr 21

    Craig Cardamone, counselor, notes people he's worked with who have gone to jail because of their drug use have had worse outcomes.

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  21. Apr 21

    Anna notes participants of syringe service providers increase their likelihood of seeking treatment by 5x.

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