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Protestant, Catholic and Jewish Clergy Speak Out Against "The War On Drugs." This ad is based on a short documentary produced by Common Sense for Drug Policy for the Interfaith Drug Policy Initiative by award-winning filmmaker, screenwriter, and CSDP Chairman Mike Gray.
This public service advertisement appeared in the National Review, the New Republic, the American Prospect, The Nation, Reason Magazine, and The Progressive in the spring of 2008.
A camera-ready copy of this PSA is available in Portable Document Format (PDF).
This public service advertisement appeared in the National Review, the New Republic, the American Prospect, The Nation, Reason Magazine, and The Progressive in the spring of 2008.
A camera-ready copy of this PSA is available in Portable Document Format (PDF).
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Protestant, Catholic and Jewish Clergy
Speak Out Against The War on Drugs
View this 10-minute video at:
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"One of the reasons that we as religious leaders need to speak out
against it is because we share responsibility for it."
– REV. SCOTT RICHARDSON, Dean, St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral, San Diego |
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"There has to be a complete reconsideration of what law enforcement
represents in our community... I’m convinced that it would be a
totally different world if that adversarial relationship did not exist
between law enforcement and the young people of this country."
– REV. EDWIN SANDERS, Senior Pastor, Metropolitan Interdenominational, Nashville |
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"With the mandatory sentences you don’t need a judge or a jury. All
you need is a clerk to come in and weigh the drugs... [T]he whole
drug policy and those laws need to be repealed."
– SISTER MARION DEFEIS, Catholic prison chaplain (ret.) |
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"We know we have a drug problem [but] war is definitely not the
answer... The reality is... this drug war has put more armaments on
our streets."
– EDDIE LOPEZ, Former United Methodist Pastor, New York |
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"I would say that the war on drugs has caused as much devastation
to communities around this country, particularly low income
communities, as the drugs themselves."
– RABBI MICHAEL FEINBERG, Exec. Dir., Greater New York Labor-Religion Coalition |
The Interfaith Drug Policy Initiative – www.idpi.us
Produced by Common Sense for Drug Policy – www.csdp.org
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