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Minneapolis: Mad Gifts Week: Mad Masks & THX 1138

Submitted by sealux on Wed, 10/17/2007 - 1:39pm

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Across, Towards, From, and Beyond America, 2007

Submitted by will on Sun, 10/07/2007 - 1:13pm

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Photos of my cross-country trip Sept. 2007...

Mad Gifts Week

Submitted by Icarus Project on Mon, 09/24/2007 - 1:15pm

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Mad Gifts Week: A Celebration of Diversibility 2007 October 29th - November 4th For anyone and everyone who takes pride in being different, in a world where what's considered 'normal' is killing us! Celebrate Your Mad Gifts with a week of diversibility awareness, skills-share, discussion and activism! Show your mad pride to the world in the form of outreach workshops, language swaps, movie night, speak out or skills-share. Make the journey a personal rite of transformation by creating a mad map, writing a poem or a song about mad pride, draw your mad map persona, or make a madness first aid kit. Build community by discussing language, stigma, social and environmental factors influencing madness, trade alternative healing methods, or form local groups around areas of mad activism, such as the medication of youth.

Come support activists protesting the RNC in Minneapolis in 2008!

Submitted by sealux on Thu, 09/06/2007 - 4:24pm

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Icarus Minneapolis is looking for additional help from other people coming from different places to support the activists involved in protesting the 2008 Republican National Convention.

An empowering Community

Submitted by Joan on Wed, 08/22/2007 - 2:51pm

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Hallo there, I am a new'Icarista'. I am a survivor worker with bipolar experience and I like learning about alternative realities - so much better than talking about paranoia, etc. I work in a great Centre which empowers people. Built on the Clubhouse model, Survivors here own the Centre and make the decisions there. they are called members(none of your 'client' nonsense! Members can just come for a cup of tea and a chat with thir friends if that is all they feel comfortable with - or they can take part in activities of their choice, including advocacy groups. The staff attend our monthly Group Meeting in order to faciltate the decisions we make there. All the volunteers (me included) have once been members: it is our opportunity to give something back to the centre. I feel I belong and it is a good life there, based on choice. We get mainstram training in computers, facilitation, presentations, etc - NOT special training for Users only! I have been working hear for nearly six years: they really value Survivors here.