Eris Nyx, one of the founding members of the Drug User Liberation Front (DULF), spoke about drug user rights, harm reduction, and the criminalization of care on Thursday June 26th 2025 at 5pm in the SSMU Ballroom at McGill University in Montreal. The talk was organized as a fundraiser for the DULF founders’ legal defence fund, and also included a discussion by a panel currently working in harm reduction in Montreal.

DULF is a grassroots harm reduction organization based out of Vancouver BC’s Downtown Eastside that pioneered a radical compassion club model to intervene in the toxic drug supply crisis, which has killed tens of thousands of poor and unhoused drug users across the country. In a fairly dramatic turn of political tides, the organizers of the compassion club, which had been tacitly permitted by the city and local police, were arrested and are now facing severe criminal charges, including the possibility of life in prison. You can read more about their evidence-based intervention and the campaign to support their legal plight on their website (dulf.ca/published-academic-research/).

The event is being co-presented by the Indigenous Support Workers Project and CKUT 90.3 FM, and the space was secured with the generous assistance of Reform and Resettle.

DONATE to the legal defence fund here: dulf.ca/dulf-aid-2/