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garthmullins.bsky.social
New VANDU member joined up.
Crow perched on banister
August 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
garthmullins.bsky.social
VANDU Christmas tree
A green sits between two couches. The tree has lit twinkle lights on it, and a star on the top.
December 5, 2024 at 1:45 AM
vitorfelx.bsky.social
bom dia nação vandu é 📍front já sabem
brota.bsky.social brota @brota.bsky.social · Sep 12
Essa dupla vai te fazer se acabar de dançar na SODA do jeito mais chic possível ✨🍋
September 12, 2024 at 4:26 PM
garthmullins.bsky.social
After waiting in 2hr lines to vote, Vancouver chose to elect a socialist to city council. And the head of the police union lost. Huge congratulations to @seanorr.bsky.social from VANDU, BCAPOM and @crackdownpod.bsky.social. We know you got our six.
April 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
janofule.bsky.social
Laktačnú konzultantku a Vandu Hricovú dnes v @dennikn.bsky.social predbehli len nejaký Trump a Zelenskyj.
#couz
April 24, 2025 at 5:08 AM
garthmullins.bsky.social
We never heard of that DTES Czar. VANDU woulda told him the solutions are already known: safe supply, decrim, defund VPD & reallocate to community, build public housing. But he never called. Now he’s sacked.
May 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
kwardvancouver.bsky.social
this is Hugh Lampkin of VANDU explaining the economics of fentanyl and why it saturated the unregulated market and brilliantly animated in this clip from the 2017 documentary Frontline Fentanyl.

#drugsky

youtu.be/LgW2pGno1us?...
the economics of fentanyl.
YouTube video by Karen Ward
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November 29, 2024 at 3:34 AM
andreawoo.bsky.social
In Vancouver, drug user advocacy groups (VANDU, SUDU, CPPDW, P.O.W.E.R.) will rally at Victory Square at 2 p.m. and march toward Canada Place to grieve loved ones and mark the grim anniversary.
April 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM
kwardvancouver.bsky.social
you can love people who use drugs while we're alive

don't wait until we die

#10years

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Vancouver drug users' rally calls for an 'end to this farce' 10 years into state of emergency | CBC News
A rally organized by the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) on Tuesday commemorated those lost to the toxic drug crisis 10 years after a public health emergency was declared in B.C. over a s...
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April 15, 2026 at 7:51 AM
isabellazavarise.bsky.social
VANDU is holding a press conference today calling on province to stop the expansion of involuntary care. Instead, they want detox services expanded and a peer led sobering centre in the DTES.
March 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
kwardvancouver.bsky.social
when the BCNDP formed a minority government in July 2017, I was at VANDU doing the Tuesday Education & Action group so my first question I asked was, “what’s needed to improve your housing situation?”

And this guy Gary growls, “I need some fucken duct tape to fix the cardboard house I live in.”
January 21, 2026 at 2:46 AM
cvik.eurosky.social
Navijam za Vandu
February 28, 2025 at 8:09 PM
garthmullins.bsky.social
We're holding a memorial for Shelda Kastor at 2pm tomorrow, April 2 at VANDU 380 E Hastings. Bring your Shelda stories
Indigenous woman smoking a cigarette, smiling sitting on stairs against cinder block wall
April 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
garthmullins.bsky.social
We are very sad to say good bye to Shelda Kastor. She died Tuesday. Shelda was from the Ochapowace Nation in Saskatchewan. She was part of @crackdownpod.bsky.social from day 1 and active in BCAPOM, WHARS & VANDU for many years. She was always happy to see you and had a hug for everyone. 💔 RiP
indigenous woman with long black hair smiles in front of a blue cinderblock wall
March 27, 2025 at 10:30 PM
kwardvancouver.bsky.social
“We want safe supply and end of prohibition,” said Samona Marsh, the president of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU). “Respect us. Respect the agency of the individual, [the] collective agency of the community.”

Hero.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
International Overdose Awareness Day commemorated in B.C. as hundreds continue to die of toxic drugs | CBC News
The day is being marked with ceremonies across B.C. on Sunday, as the province continues to lose more than 100 people each month due to unregulated drugs, amid a public health emergency declared nine ...
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September 2, 2025 at 2:11 AM
msthpetra.bsky.social
Honoured and privileged to join the @crackdownpod.bsky.social editorial board today as they put final touches on the #AB episode.
You will want to listen when it drops later today.
six members of the Crackdown editorial board and I, to women, and for men, stand or sit in a semicircle holding Garth Mullins book crackdown, inside the VANDU boardroom.
June 3, 2025 at 11:31 PM
garthmullins.bsky.social
There is a lot of love at VANDU. My birthday was this week and Hannah made me this card, filled with really moving words from many great comrades. I've organized in a lot of movements, but I've never felt the love like in the drug user movement.
Man in a hoodie & sunglasses holding a coffee cup. giving the finger
November 16, 2024 at 6:29 PM
garthmullins.bsky.social
Forget Love Actually. 🎬It’s a VANDU / BCAPOM tradition to watch William S Burroughs’ “Junky’s Christmas” on Dec 25. Make it one of your seasonal favs too. www.dailymotion.com/video/x3jxtgh
William S Burroughs - The.Junky's Christmas. Full Version.
Dailymotion video by The ZZone
www.dailymotion.com
December 20, 2024 at 10:46 PM
beardedrogue.bsky.social
That Spinning Back Elbow killed DK Vandu & then Andrade hit the DM on his corpse. Taking a selfie with the ring side hottie took longer than the match. #AEW
June 4, 2026 at 1:04 AM
wpgpoliceharm.bsky.social
VANDU and DULF are indispensable and need our solidarity
drugdatadecoded.ca Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · Oct 27
Statement from VANDU on the criminalization of the Drug User Liberation Front, the organization running Vancouver's heroin / cocaine / methamphetamine compassion club, by Vancouver Police following the sudden cut of their provincial funding.
October 26 2023 – The Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) affirms its solidarity with the Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) following the October 25th arrest of co-founders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum. The repressive actions of the Vancouver Police Department are part and parcel with a coordinated campaign to discredit and dismantle harm reduction in British Columbia and Canada at large.1 This is a dangerous political strategy that stokes and preys upon stigma against drug users and the poor. 2023 alone has seen overdose prevention sites closed or prevented from opening across the province2 , the de-prescribing of medical safer supply3 , and Bill 34: proposed legislation that will criminalize people who use drugs in public spaces.4 We condemn this brutal escalation of the war on our community and stand with DULF at this critical juncture in drug policy history. DULF saves lives. VANDU has long advocated for access to a regulated, safer alternative to the increas In one year of operation, DULF’s Compassion Club has proven to have vastly benefitted the health and safety of people who use drugs in our community. A rigorous evaluation of DULF’s Compassion Club found that enrolment (n=43) was associated with a 35% reduction in overdoses, while overdoses requiring Naloxone were reduced by 32%. There have been no deaths related to substances procured through DULF. Club members had fewer hospitalizations (-50%), experiences of violence (-39%), and police interactions after joining (-48%). Compassion Club enrollment also improved overall health, reduced reliance on the unregulated drug supply, and supported many to reduce their drug use.9 DULF’s findings are consistent with an extensive body of research and community testimony supporting the scaling of non-medicalized safe supply to reduce drug-related harm and death.10 By any reasonable scientific or moral standard, DULF’s life-saving work should be praised for its success and recognized as... Laws are made and remade through social action. The Downtown Eastside’s activist history and the continued struggle of drug user movements worldwide prove that drug laws can and must be challenged to save the lives of those abandoned by society. Public health professionals have always relied on drug user knowledge to create policy. Across North America, life-saving harm reduction measures originated from the courageous actions of drug users fighting against the routine persecution and abandonment of their peers. DULF continues in this tradition of civil disobedience against a barbaric regime of drug prohibition. Like generations of freedom fighters before them, DULF strives to fulfill humanity’s moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws, especially those which cause provable harm. We will continue to defend the survival of our peers and honor those taken too soon by the drug war. With thousands of lives on the line, the drug user liberation movement will not be intimidated...
October 27, 2023 at 2:24 AM
garthmullins.bsky.social
"To whom are you accountable?" A question almost never put to me in good faith. But, it's nonetheless important to me. As Exec Producer of @crackdownpod.bsky.social I'm accountable to the Editorial Board. As a drug user activist I'm accountable to VANDU members & the drug user movement.
March 10, 2026 at 3:06 AM
beardedrogue.bsky.social
Tunnel Watch #AEW Dynamite

Face
Briscoe
Blackheart
Speedball
WINZAH
Ospreay

Heel
RUSH
MJF
Andrade
Callis
Doyle 1st
The Jet
Moné
Dunkzilla

Non-tunnel/off-screen
OC
KOR
Roddy
Ishii
ToM
DK Vandu
Trent?
El Clon
Garcia
Yuta
Archer
Claudio
Cage
PAC
Doyle 2nd
Marina
MOX
Fletcher
Takeshita
June 4, 2026 at 2:22 AM
garthmullins.bsky.social
The coming attacks from the right are going to be un-precidented in living memory. This has got to be the #1 concern of your union, community group, organization, etc. I have been arguing this at VANDU for 2 yrs. Wherever you are in Canadian society, you will be affected.
November 21, 2024 at 5:51 PM
kateytomatey.bsky.social
Thank you always to @momsstoptheharm.bsky.social, @garthmullins.bsky.social & the folks at VANDU for all you do to care for and fight for community. The unbearable pain and loss of 50,000 people dying + so many others living in danger is because out government actively chooses policies of death.
March 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM
harmscommitted.com
"Charter challenge begins today at the BC Supreme Court, brought forward by the Drug User Liberation Front."

"Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users [..] stands in firm solidarity."

"DULF's compassion club worked. DULF saves lives."
#BritishColumbia #Canada #Drugs #Policing #Healthcare #Courts
VANDU Education Group Stands with DULF Compassion Club
A historic Charter challenge begins today at the BC Supreme Court, brought forward by the Drug User Liberation Front (DULF).
themainlander.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM