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Icarus Member Journals

 

Click here on the main site and here on the forums to check out blogs by members of The Icarus Project's online community. Every registered Icarus member can create their own blog with the "my blog" link on the right hand navigation menu and starting to type! (Just make sure you're logged in first.) To find a member's blog, use the search box on the right.

 

 

Icarus Intergalactic Co-Coordinator Collective Journal

 

This blog, below, is the place to find organizational writing from Icarus Project collective as a whole. We'll keep you updated about what's happening with the project on a national level. Scroll down on this page to take a look at our blog entries, and feel free to post comments and feedback!

 

Icarus Happenings and Madness

Submitted by Icarus Project on Thu, 11/09/2006 - 2:00am

(this is an e-mail from Sascha)

 

Judge Lifts Gag Order Against Icarus Staff Will Hall

Submitted by Icarus Project on Fri, 02/16/2007 - 5:24pm
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The Brooklyn Court has ruled that the gag order on Will Hall and other advocates who received copies of leaked documents is lifted! Advocates who did not return the documents had their injunctions made permanent, however, and the ruling has put atttorney Jim Gottstein, who subpoenaed the files and gave them to the New York Times, in very hot water.

Making a Space, Recruiting New Icaristas, Watching the Icarus Project Grow

Submitted by Icarus Project on Fri, 11/10/2006 - 4:41pm
Our first update from the purple Icarus Office in NYC!!!

Icarus Winter Solstice '05 Update

Submitted by Icarus Project on Sat, 08/19/2006 - 1:00am
Solstice for the national Icarus organizing collective was a raucous party at Sascha and Ashley's farm in upstate New York with much dancing, singing, and music playing. The past year has been a time of tremendous growth and success, exciting and scary, joyful and difficult.

New Website Launched!

Submitted by Icarus Project on Fri, 11/17/2006 - 6:27pm
We launched our new website! After months of hard work by a team of mostly volunteers (including one from Mexico!) we now are on a more solid, open source software platform with theicarusproject.net...

Wish List for National Icarus Office in New York City

Submitted by Icarus Project on Fri, 02/09/2007 - 5:33pm
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There are several items that we are seeking for our office, in order to make it homier and more functional/permanent-feeling. If you have any of these things laying around, we'd love to have them! Please feel free to forward this list as well.

Audio of Madigan at Fountain House Holiday Celebration

Submitted by Icarus Project on Fri, 12/08/2006 - 1:19am
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Short .mp3 audio of Icarus collective staffperson Bonfire Madigan Shive talking about creativity, mental health, and what the Icarus Project means to her at the 12-06 Open House celebration at Fountain House.

2006 Year End Communique and Appeal for Donations

Submitted by Icarus Project on Wed, 12/27/2006 - 12:07pm
Winter solstice has passed and the new year is upon us! Thanks and congratulations to all our collaborators and supporters for an amazing 2006, and here's a toast to radical dreams and soaring flights in 2007. Take a look at our year end communique and appeal for donations -- if you have it, anything helps keep us aloft.

Left Turn Article About Icarus

Submitted by Icarus Project on Tue, 01/09/2007 - 3:17am
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Will's article on the Icarus Project just got published in the activist magazine Left Turn. Download a copy of the published article here.

We're going to England next week! Geeking out on planning...

Submitted by Icarus Project on Wed, 01/10/2007 - 5:29pm
Anyway. Right before the holidays we got invited to send some Icarista staff to speak at a Feminist Health Gathering in Leeds, England (http://www.feministhealth.org.uk/) on January 19th-21st. In a rapid last-minute organizing spree, some of our consistent funders generously agreed to sponsor the trip, we got in touch with UK allies and activists about the possibility of visiting and doing talks, submitted a workshop proposal to the conference, and got the ball rolling on an unexpected visit to cross-pollinate with folks in Europe!

Collaborating With Madness - ISPS Newsletter

Submitted by Icarus Project on Fri, 01/12/2007 - 3:39pm
A short article about how to relate to extreme states of consciousness by Will Hall, recently appeared in the newsletter of the International Society for the Psychological Study of Psychosis and Schizophrenia.

Pharma Giant Eli-Lilly Tries To Gag Icarus Staff Will Hall

Submitted by Icarus Project on Mon, 01/15/2007 - 12:05pm
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Icarus staff Will Hall is on a gag order list filed in court by pharmaceutical giant Eli-Lilly, in an effort to stop the spread of leaked documents showing criminal fraud in marketing its blockbuster schizophrenia drug Zyprexa. Read the New York Times story about the growing free speech issue, and also the local Northampton, MA front-page story.

Leaving for England in 10 minutes!

Submitted by Icarus Project on Mon, 01/15/2007 - 4:09pm
I wish you could see this scene: I am kneeling on a blue meditation cushion on my friend's floor in her apartment in Manhattan, checking my e-mail for the last time, typing away on my little laptop. Suddenly I notice something nudging my knee. I look up, expecting a cat; a TURTLE is crawling into my lap.

Jessica Stein's Portland Oregon Zine Tour Reading w/ Audio

Submitted by Icarus Project on Thu, 01/25/2007 - 12:42am
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Longtime Icarus NYC organizer Jessica Stein at Reading Frenzy in Portland Oregon, reading from her zine Long Walk Back To Myself "the picaresque tale of her three-day, fifty-mile walk from Brooklyn to Croton-on-Hudson. The zine brings together anarchism, alternative transportation, and radical mental health with beautiful hand-drawn maps and illustrations." Check out the photos and audio from this inspiring event.

The Big Icarus in England Report: Pictures, Stories, Details

Submitted by Icarus Project on Fri, 02/02/2007 - 7:31pm
On Monday, January 15th Sarah and I found each other at the Delta ticket counter at JFK.

50+ People at Trauma Awareness Training and Skillshare in Berkeley

Submitted by Icarus Project on Mon, 02/19/2007 - 5:44pm
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50+ people crowded into the Long Haul infoshop in Berkeley CA Feb. 18th for a training and skillshare on Trauma Awareness with Icarus staff Will Hall.

Aspiration Nonprofit Tech Development Conference 2-07

Submitted by Icarus Project on Fri, 02/23/2007 - 4:35pm
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Geekaristas Jonah and Will hang out with anarchist software developers and open source gurus at an international gathering on computers and nonprofit activist groups.

Icarista Discussion with Clinical Psych Students in Bay Area

Submitted by Icarus Project on Wed, 03/07/2007 - 9:43pm
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Icaristas Jonah Bossewitch, Madigan Shive, and Will Hall were hosted by a local Icarus website member at the Bay Area John F. Kennedy University forum with clinical psychology graduate students. 2-07

NCOR Workshops in DC Gather 250+ People

Submitted by Icarus Project on Wed, 03/14/2007 - 1:54pm
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Will Hall joined Mollie Hurter of Freedom Center and Leah Harris to offer two workshops at the National Conference on Organized Resistance in Washington DC to more than 250 people.

Icarus Member Banned from Meditation Retreat: Please Join Protest

Submitted by Icarus Project on Thu, 03/22/2007 - 6:33pm
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A member of the Icarus Project in California recently received a rejection letter from the Goenka Vipassana Meditation Center for no other reason than they had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder years ago. Join a campaign to protest this discrimination.