Jules Netherland

Dec 17, 2023 | nydailynews.com | Jules Netherland

At the height of the 2019 holiday season — on Christmas Eve — I received news no one wants to hear. My oncologist informed me that the lump I had found in my right breast was Stage 3 cancer, which had spread into the surrounding lymph nodes. Treatment was swift and debilitating, starting with chemotherapy and eventually, in April 2020, a mastectomy. This was followed by 25 rounds of radiation and six months of oral chemo.

Sep 1, 2023 | thenation.com | Sasha Abramsky |Gregg Gonsalves |Katha Pollitt |Jules Netherland

Politics / California shows that unless the left acknowledges the need to make communities safe while maintaining support for criminal justice reform, right-wing demagogues will latch onto the issue. Ad PolicyThree years ago, with racial justice protests taking place across the nation in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, the Los Angeles City Council cut the Los Angeles Police Department’s budget by $150 million.

Aug 28, 2023 | thenation.com | Jon Wiener |Helena Hansen |Jules Netherland |David Herzberg

Jon Wiener: I’ve read a lot of memoirs written by sixties people and virtually all trace the origins of their activism to the same moment: the sit-in movement in the spring of 1960. But your epiphany, as you call it, the shock of recognition that spurred you to take your first political act, came well before 1960, although it did involve the Civil Rights Movement. Tell us about your epiphany, and how old you were at the time. Drew Faust: I was nine.

Aug 28, 2023 | thenation.com | Helena Hansen |Jules Netherland |David Herzberg |Amanda Moore

In America today, while the “opioid crisis” is still commonly associated with white people, overdose deaths are increasing the fastest in Black and brown communities. As the overdose rate climbs, government at all levels has been far slow to implement strategies that we already know can reduce harms. It raises a haunting historical specter: Will overdoses be one more white crisis that ultimately delivers the worst harms to Black and brown people?

Apr 6, 2023 | journals.sagepub.com | Kellen Russoniello |Sheila P. Vakharia |Jules Netherland |Theshia Naidoo

Lessons from OregonIt has only been two years since Oregon voters approved Measure 110 and implementation remains ongoing, but there are several lessons to learn from Oregon's trailblazing approach to drug policy. First, voters are ready to endorse alternatives to criminalization, and this message can resonate in other jurisdictions across the U.S. and globally. Strong majority support for Measure 110 remains in Oregon nearly two years after passing (Dandekar and Fairclough, 2022).