Legal Aid

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    • Become a dedicated partner in the fight for harm reduction and legal justice. By contributing regularly through DULF’s Sustainer Donor Program, you help fund critical legal costs, policy reform advocacy, and support for those most impacted by discriminatory drug policies.
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  5. Stay Engaged: We are providing biweekly updates on our website below, and to our mailing list. These updates will track our fundraising progress and any case developments.

Fundraising Updates

  • December 15, 2025
    DULF Legal Aid Fund Update – 11/14/2025 The Half-Million and the Battle Ahead We have breached the half-million mark. A desperate gamblelaunched into a collapsing system, an act of improvised defiance against the procedural machinery that seeks to annihilate us. The numbers are not just figures – they are energy, agency, vectors of resistance against juridical entropy. For a moment, we glimpsed victory – not in comfort, but in the violent clarity of necessity met. To those who contributed – time, money, land, mind, spirit, and infrastructure – you have interfaced with the network of resistance. Every fundraiser, every quiet… Read more: December 15, 2025
  • November 14, 2025
    DULF Legal Aid Fund Update – 11/14/2025 $332,954.94 of $350,000. Almost there, yet always impossibly far. The theatre of it all unfolds with cruel precision – lives slipping like sand through trembling fingers while the so-called solution demands proof, across oceans and crowns, that a non-medicalized compassion club cannot exist on the “balance of probabilities,” and would never receive consent from hearts that will never beat in our presence. Far away, bureaucracy laughs, and Mr. Bones guides this wild ride, his grin a blade poised above the neck. Numbers sneer. Law sneers. And still, every human cost is ours to… Read more: November 14, 2025
  • November 4, 2025
    DULF Legal Aid Fund Update – 11/04/2025 So what.The total rests at $330,163.98 of $350,000.The numbers no longer stir anything – just the faint sense of motion continuing after the meaning has gone. Each update feels like a ritual emptied of prayer.The words arrive automatically: thank you, support, solidarity.But the pulse beneath them weakens; the purpose frays.What once felt urgent now feels distant, almost theatrical,a play performed long after the audience has gone home. So what if they stand behind us, over us.They always have.Their power is quiet now, almost tender in its inevitability.We resisted, yes, but resistance too becomes… Read more: November 4, 2025
  • October 13, 2025
    DULF Legal Aid Fund Update – 10/13/2025 We Are Exhausted. $294,216 of $350,000 raised.Close to enough, yet still not enough. This week — from Tuesday, October 10 to Friday, October 14, between 10AM and 4PM — we stand before the Supreme Court of British Columbia (800 Smithe Street, 6th Floor, Room 66).The Crown delivers its argument against us; we answer with our defense – an appeal to reason, to mercy, to the right to survive. Should we fall in this battle, we will return again and again:November 24–28. December 1–5. December 8–12.To lay bare the evidence of our constitutional challenge.And… Read more: October 13, 2025
  • October 7, 2025
    DULF Legal Aid Fund Update – 10/07/2025 DULF’s criminal court proceedings continue from 10AM – 4PM each day at the Court of Appeal for British Columbia (800 Smithe Street – Floor 6, Room 66) from Wednesday, October 8 to Friday, October 10. We are also likely to return Tuesday, October 14 and Wednesday, October 15, at the same time. Thanks to our incredible supporters, we’ve raised $279,000 toward our legal defense, but we still need $71,000 more as of October 7, 2025 to fully fund the fight. Every dollar helps us defend drug user rights and challenge the criminalization of… Read more: October 7, 2025
  • October 4, 2025
    DULF Legal Aid Fund Update – 10/04/2025 🚨 OUR FUNDRAISING JUST HIT A WALL 🚨 In February we named a sum – $350,000 – and put it before the ledger. The ledger accepted $200,000. Now two days remain and $150,000 is still a locked page. We keep hitting the same thin ceiling: the bank lets only $50,000 through each day. Transfers queue like obedient papers at a shuttered window. Our Instagram was taken down – a quiet administrative erasure – and for a moment the room smelled of ink and no answers. We came back anyway: quieter, sharpened, relentless. With… Read more: October 4, 2025
  • October 1, 2025
    DULF Legal Aid Fund Update – 10/01/2025 DULF AID: THE COUNTDOWN CONTINUES Hi-ho, everybody! Hi-ho! The hour is upon us, and it’s a doozy! On October 5, 2025, at Red Gate Arts Society, the Drug User Liberation Front, and the flustered, flapping, slightly panicked “Jim from Red Gate”, are throwing DULF AID, a telethon, a concert, a wild, wacky, last-ditch extravaganza! The numbers, friends, the numbers! $350,000 by midnight! What have we raised so far? $181,644! Still needed: $168,356! GASP! That’s $33,671.20 per day – yikes! Every second counts! Every dollar counts! And if we don’t get there… oh, the… Read more: October 1, 2025
  • September 15, 2025
    DULF Legal Aid Fund Update – 09/15/2025 We are hopeless. We are shipwrecked. In 21 days, we must raise $218,180 – roughly $11,000 a day. Fail to meet that goal and our lawyers cannot – will not – represent our case with the force it deserves. Yes. Money makes the world go around. This much is clear. Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose. Right now, we are very close to losing. This is not hyperbole. This is a countdown. Donate. Rally. Share. Watch the telethon if you can. Every dollar buys time, buys argument, buys a fighting chance. If you… Read more: September 15, 2025
  • September 1, 2025
    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… Read more: September 1, 2025
  • August 15, 2025
    DULF Legal Aid Fund Update – 08/15/2025 ⚠️ SIGNALS OF COLLAPSE AND URGENT INTERVENTION ⚠️ $100,421 of $350,000 The counter ticks like a Geiger meter in a meltdown chamber – measuring not progress, but exposure. Blood-metal ozone tang in our mouths. Skin prickling. Streets sedated. Dossiers sealed. Citizens reduced to meat in the bleachers while scaffolds go up. Tongues chewed to ribbons to dam the scream as the skyline peels open into fire. We were already dead. Pre-executed. Condemned before we were named. Their muteness is their currency. Their docility their ritual. The structure that holds them is not a… Read more: August 15, 2025
  • July 31, 2025
    DULF Legal Aid Fund Update – 07/31/2025 All flags are flying fully dressed on the government buildings.The sun is shining. Court begins in two months.We have raised $88,000 of $350,000. We screamed! O how we screamed!Into the feedback void,Into the scream-eater that turns agony into betrayal.We became indistinguishable from noise,And still they called us “brave”, “tragic”, “important”,And still we will be flushed down history’s monetized sewer with the rest of the unprofitable ghosts;and still the spectacle will absorb us whole;and there is no blood on the floor, just metrics on a screen. Some of us will die – but it… Read more: July 31, 2025
  • July 15, 2025
    DULF Legal Aid Fund Update – 07/15/2025 We are exhausted – psychically gutted, metabolically scorched, chemically ruined. This is no longer fatigue in any human sense but a kind of infrastructural depletion: the slow collapse of nervous systems stretched too long across too many fronts. As of today, we have managed to extract $85,320 from the dying husk of social goodwill, toward a necessary $350,000 that may or may not arrive before the system finishes digesting us. Every cent raised is a scream against oblivion. Every day we operate is borrowed time torn from a machinery designed to grind us… Read more: July 15, 2025
  • July 8, 2025
    DULF Legal Aid Fund Update – 07/08/2025 $80,000 Raised – But Must We Beg to Stay Alive? We’ve raised $80,000. We need $350,000 by October 6th – or we risk losing everything. Must we scrape and crawl just to fund the right to exist? Must we appeal, hat in hand, to the same institutions that criminalize compassion and engineer silence? We don’t ask for charity – we demand justice. This isn’t about defending individuals; this is about defending the act of refusing to let people die quietly. Why should we accept the criminalization of care?Why should we accept policy that… Read more: July 8, 2025
  • June 15, 2025
    DULF Legal Aid Fund Update – 06/15/2025 ☣ THE DRUG USER LIBERATION FRONT: TERMINAL PHARMAKON Summer Transmissions Toward Autonomous Pharmacopolitics8 Cities · 1 Objective · Zero Permission — Dear allies, accomplices, defectors, and dissenters, This summer, the Drug User Liberation Front is initiating a live disassembly of state power through a cross-country series of transmission events. We are not “raising awareness.” We are disseminating strategic contamination. This is not outreach. This is escape velocity. — THE SITUATION The Canadian state manufactures death through delay, audit, and engineered scarcity. Liberalism launders this through policy and pity. Harm reduction has been rendered… Read more: June 15, 2025
  • May 30, 2025
    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… Read more: May 30, 2025
  • May 15, 2025
    DULF Legal Aid Fund Update – 05/15/2025 🌀 DULF UPDATE: GOOD BOY JIMMY GET THE SPAGHETTI, THE MACHINE IS HUNGRY 🌀March is over. February too. Coroner says only 275 people died from toxic drugs. Only. Good job, province. Good spaghetti. Fewer than 160 dead per month for six months straight. That’s a success, says the machine. A drop, a dip, a slow exhale of numbers. But more people died in the first quarter of 2025 than in all of 2014. That’s okay, says the machine. That’s progress. That’s spaghetti arithmetic. 143 deaths in March. 132 in February. 56 in Vancouver.… Read more: May 15, 2025
  • May 1, 2025
    DULF Legal Aid Fund Update – 05/01/2025 🚨 “Raise Funds. Prepare Defense. Avoid Erasure.” 🚨 The Drug User Liberation Front (DULF), a body still warm with purpose, has moved relentlessly over the past two months – through motions, applications, letters, and strategic compliance. In that time, we’ve raised $35,995.29 toward a $350,000 goal for our legal defense. The charges against us are real. So is the work that led to them. For years, we distributed tested heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine – not in secrecy, but in service to our community. Lives were saved. Overdoses fell. The data is clear. But… Read more: May 1, 2025
  • April 14, 2025
    DULF Legal Aid Fund Update – 04/14/2025 Today marks the start of the ninth year of a declared public health crisis driven by the deregulated drug supply, a crisis that, since 2016, has claimed over 16,000 lives in BC alone. Behind every statistic lies a name, a face, a deeply cherished story: our friends, our family, our community members. Let’s be clear: not everyone who uses drugs is ready, or even able, to quit immediately. Until there exists a full continuum of care, including a predictable, regulated supply, stable housing, trauma-informed support, and voluntary treatment, we are letting the most… Read more: April 14, 2025
  • March 31, 2025
    DULF Legal Aid Fund Update – 03/31/2025 The clock advances, cold and indifferent. Twenty-six weeks remain. The sum: $330,000. Divided evenly, that is $12,692 per week, a price for survival, a ransom for dignity. A society that measures life in dollars has set the terms: pay, or perish. DULF fights for liberation, for a world where living is not a crime but a right. The cost of inaction is counted in obituaries, the price of justice is $12,692 a week. 26 weeks. 330,000 dollars. The abyss awaits, but we are not resigned. Donate. Share. Refuse to look away. Donate Now:… Read more: March 31, 2025
  • March 14, 2025
    DULF Legal Aid Fund Update – 03/14/2025 We have now raised $18,119 of our $150,000 goal to support our ongoing legal fight. Thank you to everyone who has contributed—we still have a long way to go, and your support is more critical than ever. 📢 NEW PUBLICATION!On March 10, 2025, a new peer-reviewed paper examining the impacts of North America’s first compassion club was published: Kalicum J, Nyx E, Kennedy M C, Kerr T. Perceived impacts of North America’s First Compassion Club. Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy. Read it here. We encourage everyone to share this research and continue… Read more: March 14, 2025
  • March 3, 2025
    An Open Letter to Our Supporters: Join Us in the Fight for Harm Reduction March 3, 2025 Dear Friends, Allies, and Advocates, Between August 2022 and October 2023, the Drug User Liberation Front’s Compassion Club and Fulfillment Centre (DULF CC&FC) made history. As the first initiative of its kind, we offered a groundbreaking approach amidst an escalating overdose crisis in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES). Operating as a non-profit, low-barrier, and non-medicalized model, we built on decades of harm reduction strategies by providing rigorously tested heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine, at cost, paired with a supervised consumption space. We proved that a… Read more: March 3, 2025