INPUD invites : N-American INPUD meeting during IDPR Conference in New Orleans (USA)

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Dear fellow Drug User Activists,

I'm pleased to announce that INPUD holds a N-American INPUD meeting during the International Drug Policy Reform Conference in New Orleans (USA), 5-8 December 2007.

The IDPR Conference organizers provide us with the opportunity to come together with international and North American drug user activists. Many people who use drugs attending the conference will not be familiar with international drug user activism, so it's up to us – the core group of U.S./international activists - to attract DU activists to our meeting, inform them on what's cooking at the international level, and to express our willingness to have more U.S. DU activists to be involved in the development of international drug user activism and INPUD.

The meeting will be held at Saturday December 8, 1:30P - 3:00P , in the Astor Crowne Plaza Hotel.

Here below you can read the program for the meeting. It was put together by International/N-American INPUD Activists in cooperation with our supportive allies Drug Policy Alliance (host), International Harm Reduction Development Network and the Harm Reduction Coalition.

Apart from the INPUD meeting there also is a lot of DU Activists participation in the many sessions during the IDPR Conference.

I hope to meet as many as possible Activist Peers in New Orleans!

All the best,

Stijn Goossens

Executive Director

International Network Of People Who Use Drugs

INPUD

AGENDA DECEMBER 8, 2007

DPA Conference: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA – Astor Crowne Plaza

1:30P - 3:00P

1:30 OPENING REMARKS

Beck Brooks

(INPUD board – North American)

Opening welcome

1.35

DPA

Ethan Nadelmann

DU Activism/DP Activism

1.45

VOCAL, NY

Louis Jones (VOCAL NY),

DU Activism in New York

1.55

HRC – NYC, NY

Allan Clear

Harm Reduction and Advocacy in the US

2.05

INPUD Asia/Indonesia

Yvonne Sibuea

INPUD in Asia/Indonesia

2.15

Q&A on INPUD and American DU Activism, moderated by Matt Curtis (IHRD)

2.30

Moderator Stijn Goossens

Open Discussion: INTERNATIONAL ACTIVISM/ADVOCACY

Action plans, barrier assessment

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