Network Against Prohibition (NAP) - NT Chapter

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This page is provided by the Darwin-based chapter of the Network Against Prohibition (NAP) as a resource for people who want to help free the prisoners of the War on Drugs and bring an end to this madness. Your feedback and support is appreciated.

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Background

Petrol sniffing resources

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What can I do?

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Background

CLP policy is to make the sniffing of petrol and other toxic substances illegal.

According to their policy document: "It is the view of the CLP that Police must be given the power to act before sniffers graduate to violence and property crime - not once it is too late.

"Equally important, Police and other authorities must have the power to protect young petrol sniffers from themselves and this deadly habit."

CLP Senator Nigel Scullion has called for mandatory prison sentences for anyone caught trafficking petrol in the Northern Territory.

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Petrol sniffing resources

Articles published by Menzies School of Health Research

NT Country Liberal Party policy on petrol sniffing

NT DHCS Bush Book on petrol sniffing

NT DHCS Strategy on Petrol and other  Inhalant Substance Abuse

NT Justice Department FAQ Information sheet

Opal: BP's non-sniffable fuel

Search for "petrol sniffing" on napnt.org with Yahoo!

Search the web for "petrol sniffing" with Yahoo!

Ten things you should know about petrol sniffing (html version)

Ten things you should know about petrol sniffing (pdf version)
The Vaults of Erowid on Inhalants

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What can I do?

If you think it's time you did something about the situation faced by the Bali Nine, Schapelle Corby, Nguyen Tuong Van, Michelle Leslie or the faceless thousands of people who are currently in prison, facing prison or even the death penalty for drug offences, or you have had enough of drug prohibition or the death penalty in general, there is heaps you can do.

The following are some suggestions for people who want to help with the campaign. This is not an exhaustive list and we welcome feedback if you have other ideas. Things you can do include:

• start a NAP chapter in your community. Contact us to find out how;
• download and distribute our Save the Bali Nine posters;
• tell your friends, family members, schoolmates and work colleagues about the Bali Nine and the War on Drugs in general;
  
• if you are in Australia you can email, write or phone your local member of the Commonwealth Parliament. Northern Territory residents should also engage with the Northern Territory Parliament. If they ignore you, find a better way to get your message across to them (if you are overseas consider writing to your own politicians);
• express your concerns about the Bali Nine and the War on Drugs on talkback radio;
• write letters to the editors of newspapers and other publications;
• graffiti your local neighbourhood with slogans like "Save the Bali Nine", "Free Schapelle", "End military ties with Indonesia" and "End the War on Drugs";
• support NAP community smoke-ins and other events;
• help organise civil disobedience activities;
• if you are in the Top End of Australia, come along to NAP court cases to show your support for the Napatistas;
  
• if you are in Alice Springs, you may want to establish a Central Australian chapter of the NAP (If you live in Palmerston you will be pleased to know that a NAP collective is forming in your area!);
  
• join our email list so you can keep up to date with any developments in the Bali Nine case and the War on Drugs (once you sign up as a member of our email list you can join us in our chatroom);
  
• inform the NAP about your efforts;
• tell your story… if you are the victim of the War on Drugs, write it up and publish the story where you can (send it to the NAP so we can put it on our website);
• if you are a member of an Australian trade union, express your concerns about the Bali Nine and the War on Drugs to your union executive and fellow members... demand that your union take some action;
  
• if you have a website, link to http://www.napnt.org;
  
• make a donation to NAP to help us keep this website online and maintain our activities on the ground in the Northern Territory and beyond. We receive no government or corporate funding and rely entirely on raising funds from within our own community. Many NAP members are permanent part-time volunteers engaging in a wide variety of activities; 
• help us with our newshawking efforts by sending us any media clippings on the Bali Nine; and
• write to the Bali Nine and other drug war prisoners.

If you want to get involved in the NAP campaign to save the Bali Nine, please email us or call 0415 16 2525 (+61 415 16 2525 from overseas).

We encourage anyone with an interest in drug law-reform and human rights to join us at one of our regular NAP meetings. Our meetings are on every second Wednesday at 7pm in Nightcliff. Click here for the date of our next meeting.


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More handy links

Links on napnt.org

Aboriginal people and marijuana

Injecting drug use by urban indigenous communities - a literature review by NAP member Gary Meyerhoff (2000)

NAP Free Margot Laughton page


External links

European Network for Indigenous Human Rights

Indigenous Social Justice Association

The Koori History Project

Kooriweb

Menzies School of Health Research

National Indigenous Times



Redfern-Waterloo Community Action

What is causing despair in Indigenous communities? Petrol, Cannabis or Apartheid?


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This page is provided by the Darwin-based chapter of the Network Against Prohibition (NAP) as a resource for people who want to help free the prisoners of the War on Drugs and bring an end to this madness. Your feedback and support is appreciated.

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