Friend,
Compassion. It’s the crucial word added to our mission statement by Drug Policy Alliance board member Reverend Edwin C. Sanders, II. An early harm reduction advocate and activist as well as an important guiding voice for our work, Rev. Sanders knows compassion.
And Rev. Sanders knows that drug policy isn’t about drugs at all – it’s about people. In the early 1980s, he founded an inter-denominational church in Tennessee just as the HIV/AIDS crisis began. With no resources and encountering great need, they did what they could. They taught people how to bleach needles to sterilize them and reduce the spread of infection. Later, Rev. Sanders’s church set up a life-saving mobile syringe exchange program—the only religious organization in the country to have one at the time.
We’ve made monumental progress this year in the fight for drug policies grounded in compassion. But activists like Rev. Sanders—and fighters like you—know our work isn’t done. It is incumbent on each one of us to keep pushing forward. Can we count on you?
Right now, your tax-deductible year-end gift will be matched THREE TIMES!
Friend, joining us with a gift right now means seizing upon a unique opportunity to triple your power in the fight to end this disastrous drug war, stop the criminalization of drugs and the people who use them, and save lives in 2020.
Will you fight with us for compassionate drug policy? Make your urgent year-end gift today.
Thank you for standing with us in 2020.
With gratitude,
Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno
Executive Director
Drug Policy Alliance
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