The Anyone’s Child project received some great mainstream media coverage on Sunday night, as Channel 4 News followed the family members involved in the campaign on their trip to Downing Street last week.
The piece featured individual interviews with several of the members, who told their stories of how they and their families had been impacted by the war on drugs. Anne-Marie took the news team to the park where her daughter, Martha, tragically lost her life following an ecstasy overdose; Cara explained why her partner, Jake, might still be alive if he’d been able to access a legal, controlled supply of heroin; and Katrina described the injustice she felt that her brother had been murdered as a result of his involvement with the illegal drug trade.
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I have recently, mostly via YouTube, been taking a big interest in the rise of the organisation Law enforcement against prohibition. It’s good to see so many in global law enforcement coming to see the war on drugs is now unwinnable, and is destroying the lives of millions of people across the planet.
It is also obvious that there are many people in the United Nations who have a selfish interest in keeping this pointless conflict on the boil, and what your organisation needs is some good publicity, so allow me to make the following suggestion.
Why not take a lead from the Russell tribunal in Stockholm in 1967, brought about by US policy in the Vietnam War. With mounting evidence that the present zero tolerance policy on narcotics is beginning to destroy the fabric whole nation states, and I think it’s now safe to say that there are some serious human rights issues that need to be examined here. I’ve recently finished reading the New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, and find myself haunted by the mass incarceration of African American men is the US.
So I make the following suggestion. Get some eminent people together, and start to draw up human rights violations. Then issue a statement saying that any future failures to listen to new evidence will be viewed as tantamount to deliberately wanting to prolong the suffering of millions of people around the world, and should be seen as an attack on these people’s human rights. You are responsible for your own actions in this world, and even employees of the UN are not above international law.
I would appreciate a short reply to this mail.
Thank you.
Sean. D. Bell.