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November Coalition Mission Statement
Working to end drug war injustice
Founded in 1997, the November Coalition is a growing body
of citizens whose lives have been gravely affected by our government's
present drug policy. We are prisoners, parents of those incarcerated,
wives, sisters, brothers, children, aunts, uncles and cousins.
Some of us are loving friends and concerned citizens, each of
us alarmed that drug war casualties are rising in absolutely
horrific proportions.
The November Coalition is a non-profit organization of grassroots
volunteers educating the public about the destructive increase
in prison population in the United States due to our current
drug laws. We alert our fellow citizens, particularly those who
are complacent or naive, about the present and impending dangers
of an overly powerful federal authority acting far beyond its
constitutional constraints. The drug war is an assault and steady
erosion of our civil rights and freedoms by federal and state
governments.
The drug war does not reduce drug use. Choosing to wage a
'war' on drugs stimulates a violent, underground economy, an
economy which would collapse if drug prohibition ended. Our country,
our world should be safer, not simply less free.
| "Love
and honor all people who suffer under repression. Know one's
deeper motives for doing this work, and continue to study history
from diverse views. Be prepared for sacrifice of old ways of
thinking and doing, and stay flexible ideologically. Identify
white superiority as a dynamic feature of racist repression driving
foreign and domestic policy. Act as if there will be no tomorrow,
as if humanity hangs in the balance, and be scrupulously honest
and scientific in consideration of developing new support for
the human rights movement. Wherever you may live, be involved
in your government." -- Nora Callahan, quoted from Light
Among Shadows: A Celebration of Orlando Letelier, Ronni Karpen
Moffitt, and Heroes of the Human Rights Movement (The Letelier-Moffitt
Human Rights Awards) |
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