2:00 PM, July 2nd. I'm cycling east along Bloor St., just east of Bathurst in downtown Toronto.

Given the strained and occasionally deadly nature of the overall relationship between psychiatric survivors and law enforcement agencies, it really begs the question: should the police even become involved in situations where someone is experiencing an emotional or mental crisis?

One group of humans get to decide, another is supposed to just follow orders, and trust that the other group will make the right decisions. One group gets heavily funded and carried aloft on the shoulders of the Status Quo and heralded everywhere as heroes, the other gets to remain passive, waiting in silenced trust to be served. One group gets to engage in "reputable" dialogue with each other, the other group gets to  "rant" and "rave" and can only be viewed in a very narrow, paternalistic way. All of these ways have a lot of bigoted assumptions within them and end up tooling all the otherwise beautiful human beings involved. 

i am so F ING tired! we need to stay strong so stay strong! i am weak and tired and not living! empty shell husk!

Here's a video of Sascha at the Anarchist Book Fair in San Francisco April '08

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2152061687257398524

 

On Thursday, February 21 a committee of Toronto City Council heard from numerous deputants regarding the critical loss of shelter beds and other basic services for homeless persons in the downtown. Council opted to do nothing.

This has been a piece-of-shit period in my life if ever there has been one.