Welcome to the The Icarus Project journals. On this page you can find blogs by our members, co-coordinators, and local groups.

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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!


 

Aries Party '07 at Redhook...

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It's Aries birthday! Party at the Bmad HQ in Redhook...

reportback on nyc anarchist bookfair weekend!

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.

Icarus in Adbusters Magazine

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

 


Wax and Feathers: Materials For the Dangerously Gifted, A Call To Submit Writing and Art

Unpublished

Are you down with the icarus vision of dangerous gifts and feel some inspiration deep in your heart and soul to make art and write words for our next round of outreach and organizing materials? Oh, my friend, we could really use the help right now.  

Icarus & Brooklynne in San Francisco Weekly Newspaper

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/

Reportback from Buffalo, Mental Health Empowerment Rally, and more

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...

Meditation or Discrimination? Icarus in Buddhist Journal

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.

Proyecto Icaro

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.

The Making of the Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs

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...

Herding Mad Cats: ‘Mental Health Consumers in an Intergenerational Dialog’

As Marvin Alexander, a young man organizing in Miami with Youth MOVE International, said at some point in the weekend: “Why do we keep talking about ‘Consumers’? We’re not eating mental health services...”

Herbal Convergence Reportback

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Jessica Max Stein talks about the Icarus workshop she gave at the Northeast Herbal Convergence

E-mail forwarders for local organizers

If you are involved in organizing for the Icarus Project in your area, we can set up an official Icarus Project e-mail address for you (such as your-town@ theicarusproject.net or something along those lines).

Icarus Launches Mad Gifts Week Tour!

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Rolling across the east coast and up to the Mid-West, the Icarus Mad Gifts Week tour brings Madigan, Sascha, and Will to a community near you, with a stop at the film Blade Runner and a dreamtime materialization of a new red-and-black pharmaceutical.

Gravel Angels and the Social Freak Brigade: The Icarus Project Comes to Virginia Tech

Icarus organizers Madigan Shive, Neil Gong, Sascha Scatter, Molly from Asheville, and Will Hall were invited to Virginia Tech to facilitate a dialog on mental health with students and other community members in the wake of the violent tragedy there... Includes photos and audio.

Icarus in Indianapolis, HQ of Eli-Lilly...

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The Icarus tour continues through Indianapolis, in the backyard of Eli-Lilly corporate headquarters...

Icarus Collaborates On Wellness Center at Republican Convention Protest

Minneapolis MN USA Icarus organizers who are part of the North Star Health Collective are teaming up with Icaristas from NY and St. Louis to organize a jointly sponsored Wellness Center at the upcoming Republican National Convention Sept 1-4! Read more about the plan...

Rocky Horror and Old Miss': Icarus Tour Continues in Chicago and Winona

The Icarus Tour continues with stops in Chicago Illinois and Winona (as in Ryder) Minnesota...

Icarus Tour Minneapolis: Samhain, Frida Kahlo, and Worker Owned Coffee

The Icarus flock swarms on Minneapolis Minnesota, for a delerious Samhain romp through darkness and puppets, visits with old friends, and facilitating a group discussion on radical mental health at the Arise collective bookstore.

Icarus On NPR

NPR's Weekend America did a 6 minute program on the Icarus Project tour visit to Virginia Tech. Audio and link to transcript.

Mad Gifts Week '07 Tour Slideshow

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A slideshow of the Icarus 2007 Mad Gifts Week tour...