{"id":7468,"date":"2020-08-17T17:16:36","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T21:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=7468"},"modified":"2020-08-18T10:42:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T14:42:39","slug":"drug-war-memorial-march-speeches-and-eulogies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/drug-war-memorial-march-speeches-and-eulogies\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug war memorial march held in the Downtown Eastside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By David P. Ball<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We play excerpts, speeches and eulogies from VANDU\u2019s drug war memorial march on Saturday, <em>We speak their names, we march with rage!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\"The war on the poor and the war on drugs are killing people in our communities at an alarming rate - not only the record high overdose rates, but in all the grinding ways poverty, colonization, police violence, and hateful stigma attack poor people who use drugs everyday.\"<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"wp-image-7474 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/VANDU-Memorial-DavidPBall-1-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"Memorial march: 'We speak their names, we march with rage!'\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/VANDU-Memorial-DavidPBall-1-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/VANDU-Memorial-DavidPBall-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/VANDU-Memorial-DavidPBall-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/VANDU-Memorial-DavidPBall-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/VANDU-Memorial-DavidPBall-1-320x213.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the march, listen to our Aug.12 <a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/we-speak-their-name-we-march-with-rage\/\">interview<\/a> with B.C. Association of People on Opiate Maintenance Vice-President Reija Jean and President Laura Shaver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By David P. Ball We play excerpts, speeches and eulogies from VANDU\u2019s drug war memorial march on Saturday, We speak their names, we march with rage! &#8220;The war on the poor and the war on drugs are killing people in our communities at an alarming rate &#8211; not only the record high overdose rates, but&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":7476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,223,225],"tags":[836,678,837],"radio":[237],"origine":[280,262,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7468"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=7468"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=7468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}