DULF Legal Aid Fund Update – 05/30/2025
📖 The Parable of the Ledger and the Labyrinth 🌀
In a crumbling office lit by flickering fluorescence, we thumb through a ledger on our desk. The ledger, heavy as guilt, does not explain why it was placed it there. It merely states:
$40,493.30 — gathered from strangers and believers.
$350,000 — owed to a machine that does not explain itself.
The difference, a hollow of $310,000, echoes like footsteps in an empty corridor.
We are told, by whispers through grates, by notes slid under doors, that without this sum, a fragile defense will disintegrate, and the walls enclosing us will no longer be metaphor. They will become bricks. Bars. Statutes.
We are told this defense belongs not just to a group, but to an idea:
- That distributing safe, tested substances can be an act of compassion.
- That policy, when stripped of pretense, should prevent death, not prosecute care.
- That a dangerous precedent is being laid, like the first stone in a path to erasure.
But none of this is written in the ledger. Only numbers.
Only absence.
We consider possible solutions.
Perhaps 310 citizens might deliver $1,000 each.
Perhaps 62 communities might unearth $5,000 apiece.
But the we are familiar with bureaucracies.
We know such dreams are not admissible.
Instead, we issue a call.
Not to reason.
To solidarity.
“If the weight is shared, the floor may hold. If we each carry a fragment, the structure might remain intact.”
We sign this message not with a name, but with a tour.
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HELP HELP HELP: A Speaking Tour
One of the Accused, a figure named Eris Nyx, sets out from the edge of the continent, heading east, not for refuge, but to confess.
She will travel to eight cities, and at each stop she will recount the strange tale:
- Of a group that distributed tested heroin, cocaine, and meth — not for profit, but to prevent death.
- Of a system that interprets this act as sedition.
- Of how mercy, misfiled, becomes crime.
- Of how organizing is not an option, but a necessity for survival when the rules are unreadable and the game is fixed.
The audiences will listen. Some will ask questions. Others will take notes.
No one will be certain what they are witnessing.
But all will leave with something lodged in their throat.
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Tour Itinerary
🗓 June 23 – Halifax @ Dalhousie University
🗓 June 26 – Montreal @ McGill University
🗓 June 27 – Ottawa @ Venue TBA
🗓 June 28 – Hamilton @ McMaster University
🗓 June 29 – Toronto @ Venue TBA
🗓 July 2 – Winnipeg @ Public Domain
🗓 July 4 – Edmonton @ 99Ten
🗓 July 5 – Calgary @ Venue TBA
Venues updated June 15 via DULF’s Instagram and website.
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You, Reader, Are Already In the Story
This is not a parable about others.
This is about you – discovering the ledger in your own hands.
Will you carry a part of the weight?
In the end, we are never alone.
But we won’t know that until someone answered the call.
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