Judi Chamberlin on WANA and Real Alternatives

Submitted by will on Fri, 08/24/2007 - 9:06pm
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Pioneering psych survivor leader Judi Chamberlin writes about real peer-controlled alternatives to the mainstream system in this chapter from her book On Our Own, including the history of WANA -- We Are Not Alone -- and the creation of Fountain House.

Alternatives Conf. St. Louis - Coming Off Meds wkshp

Submitted by will on Fri, 08/24/2007 - 1:25pm
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Will offers a Coming Off Meds workshop at the big consumer-survivor annual conference in St. Louis, MO: http://www.alternatives2007.org/

Study On How "It's An Illness Like Any Other" Approach Increases Stigma and Discrimination

Submitted by Icarus Project on Thu, 08/23/2007 - 10:18am
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A definitive article from a mainstream psychiatric journal revealing research that shows promoting the 'mental illness is a disease like any other' message, popular with Big Pharma, actually increases stigma and discrimination, not reduces it.

My Anti-Airport Action to Alleviate Climate Change

Submitted by weallpoo_2 on Sun, 08/19/2007 - 6:14pm
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How to blag (cheat) 2 fulfil an activist pledge

I-Hate-Yahoo @ yahoo.suckerz!

Submitted by weallpoo_2 on Tue, 08/14/2007 - 9:07pm
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Fancy seeing my attempt at making a fool of my "host"?

'07 Chiapas Zapatista Encuentro w/ slideshow

Submitted by will on Sun, 08/12/2007 - 5:15pm
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Chiapas '07 trip the Zapatista encuentro -- Proyecto Icarus presente! w/slideshow...

An EcoPsych Mashup

Submitted by gasparin on Fri, 07/06/2007 - 9:32pm
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Obviously I'm not the first to feel that much of the rest of the world is crazy for calling me crazy... That I'm disabled by others' assumptions about reality... that the entire world is being categorized and commodified and homogenized and sterilized via some bizarre eugenic compulsion. I've seen some great posts here touching on things like shamanism and permaculture as a sort of radical and horizontal eco-psycho-social therapy... as a way we can sort of begin to put our lives in order with 'nature'... and I wanted to contribute to that with this short ecopsychology primer from Theodore Roszak. (Along with a few choice quotes from my ever-growing list.)
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