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The Jamaica Plain Forum Presents, "Addicted to Failure: Exporting the
Drug War Overseas"<br>
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Sanho Tree, Director of the Drug Policy Project<br>
Institute for Policy Studies<br>
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Friday, July 27th at 7:00pm
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First Church in Jamaica Plain, Unitarian Universalist Parish Hall<br>
6 Eliot St (across from the Monument), Jamaica Plain, MA<br>
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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.
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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.
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