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26 May, 7 tweets, 3 min read
Please join @JacquiBerlinn & me at 11:30 am today in SF to protest fentanyl dealers & demand action from @GavinNewsom & other politicians

- 700+ OD deaths/year in SF & rising, 90k in US

- Addiction behind 31% increase in Calif. homelessness 2010-2020

- Corey’s life is at stake
For more info

stopfentanyldeaths.org
I’m happy to confirm that all major Bay Area media are covering the protest, with commitments to appear from Supervisors @MattHaneySF @Ahsha_Safai schedules permitting with @LondonBreed & all other Supes warmly invited to attend & say a few words
We will hear from @JacquiBerlinn & me & we want to hear from all who want to speak from the heart re:
- why you care
- the obstacles we face
- how we will turn them into opportunities to overcome the addiction/OD crisis

I’m really excited to meet all of you who are coming!

🙏🏻❤️
We are in an addiction-OD Emergency, and overcoming it will require a whole-of-society effort

We need to break up the open air drug markets, mandate treatment, and restore the rule of law

We need to demand action from our elected officials or get new ones if they won’t act.
I am struck by the very raw, angry, and cynical feelings people who agree with our protest are expressing

I get it. I'm upset too. Imagine how it's been for @JacquiBerlinn

But we must not let anger to cloud our judgements

We must not let our sadness become cynicism
We are on our way! Hang tight everyone!

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27 May
Because the homeless crisis is not about spending too little money on housing, it's about spending too much money incentivizing self-destructive behaviors

When we change the incentives we will change the behaviors:

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Blackouts, higher energy prices, China-made "slavery" solar panels, foreign dependence, and conflicts-of-interest more than politics are behind the failure of the Democrats' climate legislation in Congress

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27 May
Jacqui Berlinn, whose son is at risk of dying from fentanyl, is taking her historic StopFentanylDeaths.org protest to Skid Row, Los Angeles, next Wed. A.M., June 2 (time & location TBD)

I will again join her

We can't do this alone

Please read & RT this THREAD
Today we urged @GavinNewsom & @LondonBreed to break up California's open air drug scenes, enforce the law, and restore mandatory drug treatment/psych. care as an alternative to incarceration

Article by @TrishaThadani @sfchronicle

sfchronicle.com/politics/artic…
It was an extremely emotional day, with a lot of sadness, anger, and frustration

I am struck by how much inchoate anger we saw, including from people expressing both gratitude toward us for organizing the protest & anger that we hadn't done so earlier

stopfentanyldeaths.org
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You, a person who lied, stole, and forged documents are trying censor an ethical scientist because he disagrees with you

latimes.com/nation/la-xpm-…

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You’re trying to replace our last nuclear plant with wind even though

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