News Coverage of Linkage Center Protest
“At S.F.’s new linkage center, debate intensifies over how best to help drug users”
San Francisco Chronicle - February 5, 2022
“On Saturday morning, six women stood together in front of San Francisco’s Tenderloin Linkage Center near the United Nations Plaza at Civic Center, holding a chain and posters plastered with pictures of young adults.
“We are here because we love the linkage center, and the linkage center needs to be a part of San Francisco,” said Michelle Leopold, one of the organizers of the small protest with Mothers Against Drug Deaths. There’s just one problem, they said — they don’t want drug use to be allowed inside the center.”
"Drug Use Protested at New Linkage Center in San Francisco”
NBC 12 Bay Area - February 5, 2022
“Mothers protest 'open drug use' at SF Linkage Center, say safe space makes addiction worse”
ABC 7 - February 8, 2022
“'What's the End Goal?': Mothers Protest Drug Use at the Tenderloin Linkage Center”
KQED - February 6, 2022
“A group of five mothers staged a protest on Saturday outside the Tenderloin Linkage Center to call for an end to drug use at the site. The center was set up as part of San Francisco Mayor London Breed's emergency declaration to address a rise in drug overdoses. The site is meant to help connect people to drug treatment, housing and other services.”
“Mothers protest San Francisco’s new Linkage Center allowing drug use”
Kron 4 - February 4, 2022
“SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (KRON) — A group of Bay Area mothers whose children suffer from drug addiction is alarmed that San Francisco’s new Linkage Center allows people to openly use drugs.
Mothers Against Drug Deaths will protest outside the center at 8 a.m. Saturday to demand that city officials shut down an area of the center where supervised drug use is taking place.
“It’s like having an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in an open bar,” said mother Michelle Leopold.”
