Dear Newshawks: Already press releases have been sent by many
organizations to various media about the ‘GLOBAL DAYS AGAINST THE DRUG
WAR’, JUNE 5-10. With 90 reform organizations involved and events in 40
cities worldwide we hope to gain press coverage. Details about the events
are at:

http://www.stopthedrugwar.org/globalcoalition/

The Global Days are a response to the occasion of the United Nations
Special Session of the General Assembly on Drugs, UNGASS, which starts
Monday June 8th.

As one report on the UN event noted: 'It is clear from the Special
Session's stated objectives, that it will not, as was originally hoped,
produce an overall evaluation of the efficiency and viability of present
anti-drugs strategies. Instead, the stage is set for a validation of
existing policies with little room for substantive change.'

The UN's web page for the special session appears to be:

http://www.undcp.org/undcp/ga/index.htm

We encourage all newshawks to send us any and all published news stories on
both events as they appear over the next few weeks. It is important to
document the media coverage. But it is also important to provide the
newspaper articles which may be the targets of our many writers of Letters
to the Editor.

Send your articles to editor@mapinc.org

Details on how to newshawk are at:

http://www.mapinc.org/hawk.htm

Thank you, newshawks, for all that you do!

Richard Lake
Senior Editor; MAPnews, MAPnews-Digest and DrugNews-Digest
email: rlake@MAPinc.org
http://www.DrugSense.org/drugnews/
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Checked-by: Richard Lake