CSDP Director of Research Doug McVay is the guest host for the March 18th, 2008 edition of the Drug Truth Network's Century of Lies program. Doug reports from Vienna, Austria on the 51st annual meeting of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs with guests Boaz Wachtel, executive director of the Green Leaf Party of Israel; Richard Elliott, Executive Director, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network; Eric Carlin, executive director of Mentor UK and a vice chair of the Vienna Non-Governmental Committee on Narcotic Drugs; and Mike Trace, co-founder and co-coordinator of the International Drug Policy Consortium.
A copy of the entire show can be downloaded from here, or listen to it via audio stream through the DrugTruth website.
Century of Lies is a half-hour weekly show produced at station KPFT-fm in Houston, TX and syndicated to 60-70 stations throughout North America. COL and its sister program, Cultural Baggage, are also available for download or as podcasts from the Drug Truth Network website.
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Protestant, Catholic and Jewish Clergy Speak Out Against "The War On Drugs"
Common Sense for Drug Policy Chairman Mike Gray, an author and film maker, has created in cooperation with the Interfaith Drug Policy Initiative a documentary titled "Protestant, Catholic and Jewish Clergy Speak Out Against The War On Drugs."
The reasons for making this video were clear. As Rabbi Michael Feinberg, Executive Director of the Greater NY Labor Religion Coalition, says in the film, "I would say that the war on drugs has caused as much devastation to communities around this country, particularly low income communities, as the drugs themselves." And in the words of The Very Rev. Scott Richardson, Dean at St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral in San Diego, "One of the reasons that we as religious leaders need to speak out against it is because we share responsibility for it."
The clergy video is available online. Due to its length, it has been divided into two parts, both of which are embedded below. Individual copies of the video are also available on DVD by request. Simply send your mailing address to Common Sense for Drug Policy by emailing CSDP Director of Research Doug McVay.
The reasons for making this video were clear. As Rabbi Michael Feinberg, Executive Director of the Greater NY Labor Religion Coalition, says in the film, "I would say that the war on drugs has caused as much devastation to communities around this country, particularly low income communities, as the drugs themselves." And in the words of The Very Rev. Scott Richardson, Dean at St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral in San Diego, "One of the reasons that we as religious leaders need to speak out against it is because we share responsibility for it."
The clergy video is available online. Due to its length, it has been divided into two parts, both of which are embedded below. Individual copies of the video are also available on DVD by request. Simply send your mailing address to Common Sense for Drug Policy by emailing CSDP Director of Research Doug McVay.
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