URGENT: Stop the cruel austerity of Mainline
On October 21, State Secretary Karremans announced a package of cutbacks. This includes the complete reduction of the subsidy that Mainline receives from the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport. Out of the blue. Without substantive argumentation. Where other institutions are cut by 4 to 15%, Mainline will be completely on its own in three years. In the long term, this means the end of our organization.
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You can help us in our attempt to reverse this decision.
fight with us
We call on all members of parliament, friends from the field and all people who care about us to help us. In a time of growing homelessness, increasing drug use in public spaces, the introduction of new, strong substances – such as synthetic opiates (fentanyl, nitazenes) or strong stimulants such as flakka – Mainline is needed more than ever.
Knowledge about harm reduction, drugs, complex, combined issues: all of this can be lost. Our Mainline magazine – with which we reach almost all marginalized people who use drugs in the Netherlands with information: disappears. 34 years of passion, knowledge and expertise. 34 years of work experience in more than 56 countries in the world. A last bit of activism and critical voice in the drug field. All gone. And worst of all: with Mainline, a bit of humanity also disappears. A warm gesture to people who survive at the very bottom of our society: gone.
we can’t let mainline disappear
Are you also furious about this? Then send an email to the members of the VWS committee. Call on them to stop this cold and cruel cutback, which is not based on any substantive argument, during the budget debate on Thursday 24 October. Share this message with everyone you know in the field. We cannot turn this political storm around on our own. All help is welcome!
email the ministerial commission
You can help us in our attempt to reverse this decision by sending an email to the MPs working on health. Here is a concept email and the addresses you can send this to:
Dear members of the Parliamentary Committee on Health, Welfare and Sport,
I would like to urge you to reverse the proposed cutbacks on the Mainline Foundation. In a time of growing homelessness, increasing drug use in public spaces, the introduction of new, powerful substances – such as synthetic opiates (fentanyl, nitazenes) or strong stimulants such as flakka – Mainline is needed more than ever. If Mainline disappears, not only will a unique expertise on drugs, health, drug policy and harm reduction disappear, but also a final piece of humanity towards marginalized people who use drugs. I call on you to stop these cuts during the budget debate of the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport on Thursday 24 October.
Sincerely,
[first name, last name]
Email addresses
j.tielen@tweedekamer.nl
m.mohandis@tweedekamer.nl
r.jetten@tweedekamer.nl
m.bikker@tweedekamer.nl
w.paulusma@tweedekamer.nl
p.vhouwelingen@tweedekamer.nl
j.vdhil@tweedekamer.nl
m.koekkoek@tweedekamer.nl
h.bevers@tweedekamer.nl
j.bushoff@tweedekamer.nl
h.krul@tweedekamer.nl
j.dijk@tweedekamer.nl
r.claassen@tweedekamer.nl
e.esser@tweedekamer.nl
r.blaauw@tweedekamer.nl
p.crijns@tweedekamer.nl
e.slagt-tichelman@tweedekamer.nl
c.vdwal-zeggelink@tweedekamer.nl
r.hertzberger@tweedekamer.nl
d.e.m.c.jansen@tweedekamer.nl
a.joseph@tweedekamer.nl
i.eabassi@tweedekamer.nl
ines.kostic@tweedekamer.nl
d.j.h.vdijk@tweedekamer.nl
f.thiadens@tweedekamer.nl
m.rikkers-oosterkamp@tweedekamer.nl
i.saris@tweedekamer.nl