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Editorial Board — Crackdown Podcast:

Drug User Activism

Crackdown comes from the tradition of organized drug user activism.

In the ‘90s—activists in Vancouver, some who used drugs and some who didn’t, had an idea: they were going to start a union of drug users. The Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) was created in 1997.

Eventually VANDU got a couple of small grants. They used the money to rent a storefront. They spread the word that this space was going to be a kind of drop-in centre for drug users. They held revolutionary political reading groups there. They planned rallies. And they took care of people who needed help.

Crackdown’s Editorial Board consists of some of Vancouver’s most tenacious drug user activists, including members of VANDU, the BC Association of People on Opiate Maintenance (BCAPOM), and the Western Aboriginal Harm Reduction Society (WAHRS).

We have experience with heroin, crack and speed; homelessness and jail; of the Sixties Scoop, where Indigenous kids got taken away from their parents - which is still happening. But we also have experience testifying before parliamentary committees, or at the Supreme Court. We’ve lobbied prime ministers and international dignitaries.

No one else is coming to save us. We have to save ourselves.

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I watched the whole Hague hearing from start to finish and a lot of really egregious things were said on behalf of Israel. Lies of such outrageous proportion. But I would like to draw attention to this little line by Co-Agent of Israel, Tal Becker's Opening statement in defense of Israel:

7. We live at a time when words are cheap. In an age of social media and identity politics, the temptation to reach for the most outrageous term, to vilify and demonize, has become for many irresistible. But if there is a place where words should still matter, where truth should still matter, it is surely a court of law.

How can anyone take this seriously. Who is still complaining about identity politics in 2024. At the fucking hague.

I feel like this guy was sort of there to draw heat because he was so strikingly obnoxious everything he said was flippant as fuck and made it difficult to continue watching.

Source: Transcript of Israel's submissions regarding provisional measures

(I feel compelled to also include this link Transcript of South Africa's submissions regarding provisional measures)

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My friend gave me their old laptop before they left town. I was going to install linux on it and use it for a server.

I have basically given up doing anything because the BIOS is locked with a Secure Boot supervisor password which I guess they forgot about being there.

I've sent a message asking if they happen to remember it and would feel comfortable sharing it if it is not one they use for anything else. But the odds of both those things being the case are slim and I don't feel good about trying to get someone to share any password. Especially since it was so kind to just give me the machine in the first place. It's not practical to physically get the device and the person together in the near future.

It's impossible (or past my skill level) to install linux on this thing without the freaking password. I did manage to install windows. Last time I did that it was win2k. It will boot OK but I can't use that to circumvent the lock. But Ubuntu and a couple other distros are no gos.

It is so fucked that computers can be rendered bricks like this. Obviously yet another way to design in obsolescence disguised as a security feature. Encryption is one thing; this is independent of any data.

Gaaaaaah I spent most of the weekend trying to install linux on this otherwise perfectly functional machine. I think it's toast though.