| Hans-Günter Meyer-Thompson | International
USA. Philadelphia Cracks Down on Drug-User Camp, Creates More Suffering
USA. Philadelphia Cracks Down on Drug-User Camp, Creates More Suffering
Just after 5 am on January 31, a small army of police, city officials and outreach workers descended on the East Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia. Its goal was to remove “Emerald City” (pictured above), the last of four drug-user camps that popped up in the wake of the 2017 closure of “El Campamento”—a sizable, largely hidden drug-user site in West Kensington that became a subject of sensationalized media reports. (Filter Magazine, USA, 01.02.2019)
https://filtermag.org/2019/02/01/philadelphia-cracks-down-on-drug-user-camp-creates-more-suffering/