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<blockquote type="cite" cite align="center"><font face="Verdana"
size="+1" color="#FF6600">Addicted to Failure: Exporting the Drug War
Overseas</font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite align="center"><font face="Verdana"
size="-1" color="#669933">Sanho Tree, Director of the Drug Policy
Project<br>
Institute for Policy Studies<br>
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Friday, July 27th at 7:00pm<br>
First Church in Jamaica Plain, Unitarian Universalist<br>
Parish Hall<br>
6 Eliot St (across from the Monument), Jamaica Plain<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite align="center"><font face="Verdana"
size="-1" color="#2D465A">It is no secret that current policy ignores
the effects of racism and poverty that helps drive the illicit drug
economy. In the US, these roots include decaying school systems,
lack of inner city and rural jobs, shortage of affordable housing,
lack of health care, and social alienation. International
challenges include exportation of the "War on Drugs" to
Colombia and Afghanistan, "counternarcotics" aid to
repressive regimes, and environmental destruction caused by our
eradication and fumigation policies. <br>
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Why have these policies not succeeded despite hundreds of billions of
dollars having been thrown at the problem? Are there
alternatives to the current drug war quagmire? Sanho Tree,
Director of the Drug Policy Project at the Institute for Policy
Studies, will dissect the politics behind these failed policies and
suggest avenues for fundamental reform. <br>
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Mr. Tree advocates for systemic reform by reaching out to
non-traditional allies and employing innovative tactics to promote a
sustainable, constitutional, and humane drug control policy. He
encourages replacing the punitive and coercive "social control"
model of drug policy with a public health and economic development
model.<br>
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About our Speaker<br>
Sanho Tree is an international expert on drug policy matters. He
is a Fellow and Director of the Drug Policy Project at the Institute
for Policy Studies in Washington, DC. He has been featured in
the ABC News/John Stossel documentary on the drug war which aired in
July 2002 and has also appeared on Politically Incorrect with Bill
Maher. Mr. Tree is a former military and diplomatic
historian; he has collaborated in the past with Dr. Gar Alperovitz on
The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb and the Architecture of an
American Myth (Knopf, 1995). From 1996-97, he assisted
entertainer Harry Belafonte and continues to work as an occasional
consultant for him on international issues. He was also associate
editor of CovertAction Quarterly, an award-winning magazine of
investigative journalism. In the late 1980s he worked at the
International Human Rights Law Group. Currently, he serves on
the boards of Witness for Peace and the Andean Information
Network.</font><br>
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First Church in Jamaica Plain, Unitarian Universalist<br>
Parish Hall<br>
6 Eliot St. (Across from the Monument)<br>
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts 01230<br>
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Friday, July 27th, 2007<br>
7:00PM<br>
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