DULF Legal Aid Fund Update – 09/01/2025
There’s no way anything will change unless we confront what’s happening now.
Yesterday, on International Overdose Awareness Day, we remembered the people we’ve lost and reaffirmed a simple truth: community care saves lives. Today, we are forced to return to fight the coordinated campaign that has turned that lifesaving care into a criminal narrative.
Almost two years ago, enforcement raided our homes, tore through documents, and seized communications. They transformed a model of saving lives into a story of “trafficking.” Headlines read “activists arrested for trafficking” instead of “community saving lives where the state has failed.” Since then, harm reduction work – work that keeps people alive – has been framed as crime. The chilling effect has been immediate: other groups are pulling back, political support for a regulated drug supply is shrinking, and enforcement now uses our work as a cautionary tale against community-led interventions.
This is more than the prosecution of a few individuals. It is a deliberate strategy to:
- Criminalize community responses to the ongoing overdose crisis,
- Weaponize lifesaving programs to delegitimize grassroots solutions, and
- Provide political cover to delay or reverse evidence-based interventions – at the cost of preventable deaths.
They have turned information into a weapon, erased the line between saving lives and committing crimes, generated moral panic, and scapegoated a few individuals to weaken broader political demands. Harm reduction is now framed as recklessness while the carceral system is painted as the guardian of public order.
Criminalizing DULF is not about a few people – it’s about undermining an entire movement. The struggle is about confronting entrenched corruption, prohibition, and violence. The truth of community-led survival work is being buried beneath other narratives.
Fragmentation within our movement only weakens resistance – and strengthens prohibition. But we will not allow lifesaving work to be silenced and criminalized. We are mobilizing mutual aid, legal coordination, and public advocacy – but we cannot do it alone.
We have currently raised less than one third of the $350,000 required for an adequate legal defense. Without the remaining funds, the founders and key organizers of this organization face prison.
We need your help now more than ever. Every dollar supports legal defense, protects community care, and defends the lives of people our society has too often abandoned.
Donate today – because community care saves lives, and we refuse to be silenced.
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How You Can Help:
1. Donate Directly:
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2. Join Our Legal Sustainer Donor Program:
Become a dedicated partner in the fight for harm reduction and legal justice. By contributing regularly, you help fund critical legal costs, policy reform advocacy, and support for those most impacted by discriminatory drug policies.
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