USERS UNIONS INTERNATIONAL
THE ACTION
"Sacklers Lie, People Die" Action at the Guggenheim
Drug User Organizers from the Rhode Island Users Union and Vocal NY working with Sackler PAIN and Nan Goldin staged a die-in at the Guggenheim Museum in NYC. Demands arose outside the Met, after organizers effectively blockaded 5th avenue in downtown Manhattan, calling for all institutions to refuse Sackler money. 400,000 prescriptions were dropped from the balcony of the Guggenheim that day, This was to symbolize the number of prescriptions for OxyContin that were written each year. In an email from CEO Richard Sackler, 'OxyContin would be a blizzard of prescriptions, that would bury the competition.' Since, museums all over the world including the Guggenheim, Tate, and the Louvre have distanced themselves from the Sackler name.
