9 months of research, writing, editing, discussing, consulting, planning, designing, sweating, panicking, despairing, freaking out, emailing back and forth, mutual aid, dreaming, community solidarity, and crazy-outta-control mad love later, the much-awaited 40-page book about reducing and coming off psych meds hits the presses...

Writing from Buenos Aries, Argentina, new forums members Agustina and meme_mutation have recently translated the Icarus Project Mission/Vision Statement into Spanish and it reads really beautifully.

Hello everyone, this is Ashley typing from the train on the way back from a marvelous trip to Buffalo, NY. I got invited up there by an awesome Icarus member who works as a peer advocate at one of Buffalo's peer-run mental health agencies. She asked me to come give a workshop to the monthly advocate's assembly and to be one of the featured speakers at Buffalo's first ever Mental Health Empowerment Rally, which was called "Resisting the Myth." It was really inspiring to learn more about the network of mental health peers/consumers/advocates who are working together to try to change the system from the inside, and to get a glimpse into some of the arts and activism going on in Western New York...

Will just had an article on welcoming people with psych labels at meditation retreats published in Turning Wheel magazine, check it out in our articles section.

Icarus San Francisco & organizer Brooklynne Michelle were just profiled in a cover story in the San Francisco Weekly newspaper on people choosing to live without meds. Download it here, or go to: http://www.sfweekly.com/2007-05-23/news/just-say-no/

Will of Icarus and Freedom Center just had a story on the Zyprexa memos scandal published in Adbusters... Check it out. Download PDF of Adbusters Zyprexa article

 

so it was a whirlwind weekend for nyc icarus - it was a great success in a whole bunch of different ways. the first ever nyc anarchist bookfair at the judson memorial church was incredibly well attended by folks from all over the continent and the world.