[Courtesy of the Harm Reduction Coalition]

By changing San Francisco, we change the world

A major part of addressing the expanding HIV/AIDS and overdose mortality rates in the United States is good public policy. The legacy of democracy is that when elected officials falter on implementing public policies that save lives, the public itself must step forward and urge those officials to take a stand.

We need 200 signatures by December from organizations and individuals living or working in San Francisco on a petition that will be delivered to the desk of Mayor Gavin Newsom, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, and the San Francisco Department of Health Director Mitchell Katz demanding that our city create a legal safer injection facility to reduce the number of deaths by overdose and to curb the transmission of HIV and Hepatitis C.

Your activism does make a difference. With your support we were able to beat back an amendment in Congress by conservative South Carolina senator Jim DeMint that sought to ban all federal funding from any city that chose to slow the spread of HIV/AIDS and save lives through the creation of a safe injection center.

Join our petition to Mayor Newsom and help to save lives. Visit our website and sign our online petition today.

http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizations/HRC/petition.jsp?peti...

Other nations around the world have built 65-safer injection facilities in twenty-seven cities and eight nation, let's make San Francisco the first city in the U.S. to create one and begin a national trend that starts putting lives above politics.

Hilary McQuie, Western Regional Director

Harm Reduction Coalition
www.harmreduction.org
mcquie@harmreduction.org

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