As another month wraps up and the excitement of a new year wears off, there's still a lot to look forward to for activists. Some important campaigns for students are starting soon, workshops are getting back on their regular pre-holiday schedules and resolutions are getting off the ground. This week's roundup on the toolkit will keep you motivated with feminist, anti-oppression, action-based tools.

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From the Raw Opium blog: "A major story-thread in the film focuses on Derek, an IV drug user on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and the InSite clinic which has been so central to his life. So we expect a major topic of the chat will relate to last week's Supreme Court decision ordering the Conservative government to allow Insite to stay open."

Please join us!

Where: http://TVO.org/Rawopium
When: Oct. 5, 9 -10 p.m. EST

(Part 2: Oct. 12, 9 -10 p.m. EST)

In the feature documentary, Raw Opium: Pain, Pleasure, Profits premiering at DOXA documentary festival on May 7, we meet people from around the world whose lives are caught in the grasp of opium and the heroin that's made from it -- farmers, users and law enforcement officers. One of them is Derek -- a heroin user who's able to get clean needles and access to rehabilitation services at the Insite Clinic in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

The street nurses featured in the film Bevel Up: Drugs, Users and Outreach Nursing are calling on the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games to dedicate former Olympic cars to fight AIDS. So many agencies in the Downtown Eastside could use outreach vans for their work. Whether delivering a meal to a man with AIDS in a SRO in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, or providing a means to get an HIV positive woman to a doctor’s appointment or for an agency to provide services for sex workers – no Buick need be wasted!

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I'm fascinated by how the mephedrone hysteria is playing out in the UK, not only because I like taking plant food and don't want it to be banned, but also because the UK government's rushed banning of the new drug exposes just how non-evidence-based their drug policies are.