The 'Fuck the Man' Option -- Remembering My Buddy Eric Ng
Submitted by scatter on Fri, 12/01/2006 - 2:07pm
December 3, 2006 5:45:39 PM EST
hey friends - i'm sorry that my excuses for being in touch lately have been so sad. when good people die it always makes me appreciate the fuck out of my friends that are still around. take good care of yourselves and watch out for drunk assholes when you're riding on your bicycle. and be grateful for your beating heart. mad love, sascha
http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2006/12/80243.html
The 'Fuck the Man' Option -- Remembering My Buddy Eric Ng
Eric Ng was my wisecracking tour guide and punk rock chaperone though the confusing and frustrating world of NYU student activism and corporate bureaucracy for the entire Fall of 2005. He was my cultural translator and navigator, and earned my respect and admiration for being a solid organizer with a really big heart and lots of love for his friends and community. If it wasn't for Eric Ng I'd probably still be wandering around Washington Square Park, trying to figure out how to get the Icarus Project message to students on campus and pounding at the doors of the administration. Eric Ng, with his organizing experience and vision, helped pave the way for the radical peer-based mental health support services that are slowly and tenaciously taking root at New York University. And I'll always remember him for it and be really grateful.
Eric and I met at an event one late fall evening when his friend Jordan invited me to come speak to a group called Students For Social Equality about mental health on NYU campus. It was an intense and fateful meeting in one of those small, windowless, fluorescent rooms in the Kimmel building. We sat in that little room and talked about social pressure, about the cultural taboos around expressing our fears and insecurities to our friends, and about how hard it is to find supportive community in New York City. We talked about suicide and the transformative power of realizing that we can drastically change our lives if they're not working for us - that as a community we have the power to act out our dreams if we work together. It was a powerful thing, because it was that night that I realized that there were deep and painful things hiding under the surface at NYU, and that the Icarus Project would be a welcome addition to the cultural and political climate.
Eric realized it too. We corresponded over email that winter and discussed the different options for organizing on his campus. I'll never forget finding this detailed email in my inbox with the "three options for organizing a student group on campus:" 1) Starting a new student group and going through traditional university channels, 2) Taking over an already established group that's falling apart, or 3) The "Fuck the Man" option of existing without the permission of the university. After much discussion we opted for Number Two.
Students For Social Equality had been set up during the wave of anti-sweatshop organizing on college campuses at the turn of the 21st century, but by the time I showed up a few years later it had lost most of its steam and was being held together by Eric and his friend Kristen Campbell for the sake of channeling the financial resources from the NYU Student Affairs. Me and Kristen and Eric hatched a plot to bring the Icarus Project into NYU by utilizing their funding and official recognition by the university. And that's exactly what we did.
We had weekly Icarus Project meetings in the Kimmel building starting at the beginning of the fall semester. A dozen different students showed up to those early meetings but no one ever really stuck around and suffered the initial chaos except for Eric and Kristen; they came to every meeting. Towards the end of the semester we threw a pretty awesome event entitled "A Celebration of Dangerous Gifts" and seventy-five people showed up. It was the culmination of a semester of organizing and it was a real success. Behind the scenes Eric took care of all the financial planning and paper signing and hand-shaking and smiling. He knew how to work the system and was psyched to be able to help us get our project off the ground.
And that's how, for a brief period, my life crossed paths with Eric Ng. It wasn't for very long and we didn't have an intimate friendship. We organized together. We sometimes talked about our dreams for a new world together. We cracked jokes together. We checked out each other's tattoos and talked about old hardcore bands together. He made me feel comfortable in a world that was familiar to him and foreign to me. And of course I always figured I'd have the chance to hang out with him some more down the line.
And then this morning I checked my email and found out that Eric was struck and killed by a drunk driver on that bike path by the West Side Highway on Friday night. Just like that. He was 22 years old and was working as a schoolteacher in Brooklyn. Some drunk asshole in a BMW took our friend's life on that same bike path we all ride on all the time. It could have been any of us riding our bicycle on a Friday night.
So let us not forget that Eric Ng was a beautiful, sweet young man. Let us celebrate his life and make sure that his death is not quietly forgotten. He would have wanted it loud and angry, he would have wanted his friends to be good to each other, and he would have wanted some chaos in the streets and some change to come from his untimely death.
DWI kills NYU grad on bike, cops say
Originally published on December 2, 2006
BY KERRY BURKE and CARRIE MELAGO DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
A drunken driver barreling down the Hudson River bike path struck and killed an NYU graduate last night, police said.
The victim, 22-year-old Eric Ng, was thrown 50 feet after he was hit head-on by a silver BMW driven by Eugenio Cidron, 27, of the East Village, sources said.
Cidron was allegedly leaving a Canon company party at Chelsea Piers around 9:40 p.m. when he mistakenly turned onto the bike path, the sources said.
He drove about a mile south before striking Ng near Pier 40 with such force that the victim's bicycle and one of his black Converse All Stars flew onto the adjacent West Side Highway.
"This guy wasn't supposed to be here in the first place," a police source said of the driver. "He was drunk, and he was really going."
Cidron was arrested, and charges were pending last night. Ng was pronounced dead at the scene.
A MySpace page for an NYU grad named Eric Ng says he is a New York City Teaching Fellow working as a math instructor at a Brooklyn school.
Noah Budnick, project director of Transportation Alternatives, said his agency has received numerous complaints about drivers speeding along the bike path, a long, unobstructed straightaway.
"It's not uncommon that we get complaints about people driving down it," Budnick said. "There's nothing stopping them."
From: ejn209@nyu.edu
Subject: Re: mo' money, mo' money
Date: February 25, 2005 2:15:31 PM EST
To: scatter@theicarusproject.net
hey sascha,
i'll send the check right away. as for the icarus project at nyu, i
am helping jordan, even though he seems to be the one doing most of
the work. as for starting a new group at a school, every university
and college has a set of guidelines about starting a new student
group, and for nyu (and i'm sure like many other schools) that
involves going to long, boring meetings, drafting a constitution,
getting a petition signed by the group's future executive board, and,
i think, 4 students who would be willing to be members if the group
comes into fruition. this process takes about a year or so, and once
you receive university status as a student club, you are given a
meager budget (or you might not even be given a budget at all. i
think you might have to apply for one that details what specific
events your group plans to hold and how much money is necessary. even
if you are able to do this, nyu will not give you the amount of money
you requested). so finally, once you are an established club, you
face strict scrutinity from the university, and it takes years for
your group to have a substantial budget that would allow you to do
anything. one old activist group at nyu, the radical arts collective,
attempted to jump through these hoops, but were unsuccessful because
they refused to write a constitution or create and exec board because
they were anarchists and did not believe in hierarchy. eventually,
the group just kind of fell apart and was never heard of again, but
before they attempted to become a recognized club, they acted an
underground group that had no funding but still was composed of nyu
students and still threw events with the help of friends in other
groups.
as for advice starting up an icarus project at a university or
college, i think there are three options. one is to do what i stated
above and to go through the university. the perks of going through
the university are that you will receive university funding, which is
awesome and extremely helpful for throwing really kickass events (even
if the university budget offices tend to be a bureaucratic nightmare
which you may well be aware of). also, you will be guaranteed space
for meetings in student, and sometimes academic buildings, a
reasonable stipend for making copies and printing fliers, and a club
advisor who can be really awesome and helpful (actually, being an
officer for sse for 2 years now i have found that the people who work
with students groups are awesome! they are usually former nyu
students who may even still be in grad school, and they are young and
nice and extremely excited to help you out, especially if they like
your event and at nyu, there are some cool lefty advisers who want to
stick it to the man even harder than you do). however, there are many
negative aspects of going through university. if your like me, you
don't trust the university because it is your natural born enemy and
you are too busy trying to dismatle it from the inside. if this is
the case, working with the university may not be something you want to
do. also, as i stated above, it is a long, arduous task that can
really drain you and drive you crazy as you get lost in the notorious
bureaucratic red tape. it can be an alienating experience that takes
months before you see any results. there are shit ton of meetings and
forms and all of that that yu will have to deal with. you will also
have to constantly deal with your school's bull shit, and after a
while, you will begin to wonder what you are even doing and you will
see that you are not just forming a new club, but you are in fact
working for the corporation that is your university. so that sucks,
and i would avoid doing this unless you are really committed and
willing to bend over backwards at points.
the second option is what jordan and i are doing, and which i have
seen other groups do successfully. basically, it involves taking over
an already established student group that is falling apart. since sse
is basically defunct, we are going to have the icarus project take its
place. now there are 2 ways of going about this (i'm not sure how
we're going to go about it). you can just make the old group the
icarus project, but not tell the university. so, from nyu's point of
view, sse will still exist and keep on doing what it's doing. as a
result, sse will keep its budget and room access and all of that great
stuff, but in reality, sse will be the icarus project and just
function as the icarus project does. this is fun and sneaky but can
have negative consequences. an organization at nyu known as the peace
coalition did this when the campus greens at nyu ceased to exist.
they did it successfully, and continue to do it even though nyu
figured out their scheme. you see, nyu has strict policies about
putting up fliers around campus, and only approved students groups cna
put up fliers. so if the icarus project starts putting up tons of
fliers as the peace coalition did, the school will put 2 and 2
together. nyu began to threaten the peace coalition, telling them
they couldn't be called the nyu peace coalition unless they went
through the new club request process. nyu did not know, however, that
the peace co. actually existed under the campus greens, and they still
dont know, so peace co. just laughed off the threats and nothing
happened since nyu didnt realize that thye were breaking big rules and
should've lost club status. in a nut shell, odds are that your
university is not too quick or savvy, so you should be able to get
away with this if your careful. however, if you want to become a club
by coopting an old group and also be recognized by the university
there is a process (at least at nyu), which is not a lot of work, or
at least not as much work as starting a new group from scratch. from
what i know, you can just speak to an advisor and have the groups name
changed. you will then have to rewrite the constitution, but i think
that's it. once you do that, you should be able to retain the status
the original club had, but now you can just function as the icarus
project. i believe that this is the best, and easiest option, but if
course, it isn't feasible unless you know of a group that is falling
apart and that doesnt give a fuck about their club's future, but are
willing to help you out.
the final option is the fuck the man option where you exist without
the permission of the university. if you do this, you can do whatever
you want and the university cant do anything to stop you. this is
nicebecause you will actually be free and independent from the stress
of the school and such. however, you will have no funding, no room
access, and no support from the university (which is sometimes
necessary). this option may not seem feasible, but it is if you are a
university student with friends from other recognized students groups
(especially student leaders). you can basically mooch off of these
clubs, asking for their help to book you rooms, cosponsor events, and
maybe even throw in some cash (if they have any extra money) for some
cool events. this is an ideal situation for the icarus project
because you can exist with no pressure or responsibility.
unfortunately, you put an unfair amount of work and stress upon your
friends, and you will begin to feel like that unwanted house guest who
doesnt know when his/her welcome is outstayed.
i hope that this is helpful sascha, so if you need anymore info, just
let me know and i'll get back to you right away. love and rage.
eric
From: ejn209@nyu.edu
Subject: Radical Club Fair/Make Out Party Logistics
Date: September 9, 2005 3:48:10 PM EDT
To: vas234@nyu.edu, kategoldwater@gmail.com, dosanyu@gmail.com, scatter@theicarusproject.net, and 12 more...
haha, no make out party you suckers. anyway, i hope you all are well and are excited about the radical club fair this tuesday @ 7pm in kimmel 802. so there are roughly 30 groups/campaigns participating and as a result, we had to double up almost all of the groups. so below is the listings of groups sharing tables. you can pick any table you want when you all show up, but you have to hold hands with your buddy the entire time. and so it goes:
1. amnesty international & aclu@nyu
2. coke campaign/students creating radical change & gsoc
3. sse/icarus project & new world infoshop/free store
4. queer union & the gender project
5. seal & earth matters!
6. womyn's center & dosa
7. voices for choice & oxfam
8. students for a free tibet & students for justice in palestine
9. visual resistance & nyu inc.
10. middel eastern dialogue & tuition hike campaign
11. i-n-i & katie's labor project thingy (i don't know the exact name)
12. bluestocking book store
13. united for peace and justice (tentative)
14. left turn magazine
15. abc no rio
so it's a pretty raucous line up. you should all be excited. spread the word. bring all the lit you want. but
mostly, bring the ruckus. if you have anymore questions, email me. love and rage.
eric
Sascha Altman DuBrul The Icarus Project Organizing Collective
scatter@theicarusproject.net https://site.icarusprojectarchive.org germantowncommunityfarm.blogspot.com
Building Radical Community-Based Mental Health Support Systems in a World Gone Mad
hey friends - i'm sorry that my excuses for being in touch lately have been so sad. when good people die it always makes me appreciate the fuck out of my friends that are still around. take good care of yourselves and watch out for drunk assholes when you're riding on your bicycle. and be grateful for your beating heart. mad love, sascha
http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2006/12/80243.html
The 'Fuck the Man' Option -- Remembering My Buddy Eric Ng
Eric Ng was my wisecracking tour guide and punk rock chaperone though the confusing and frustrating world of NYU student activism and corporate bureaucracy for the entire Fall of 2005. He was my cultural translator and navigator, and earned my respect and admiration for being a solid organizer with a really big heart and lots of love for his friends and community. If it wasn't for Eric Ng I'd probably still be wandering around Washington Square Park, trying to figure out how to get the Icarus Project message to students on campus and pounding at the doors of the administration. Eric Ng, with his organizing experience and vision, helped pave the way for the radical peer-based mental health support services that are slowly and tenaciously taking root at New York University. And I'll always remember him for it and be really grateful.
Eric and I met at an event one late fall evening when his friend Jordan invited me to come speak to a group called Students For Social Equality about mental health on NYU campus. It was an intense and fateful meeting in one of those small, windowless, fluorescent rooms in the Kimmel building. We sat in that little room and talked about social pressure, about the cultural taboos around expressing our fears and insecurities to our friends, and about how hard it is to find supportive community in New York City. We talked about suicide and the transformative power of realizing that we can drastically change our lives if they're not working for us - that as a community we have the power to act out our dreams if we work together. It was a powerful thing, because it was that night that I realized that there were deep and painful things hiding under the surface at NYU, and that the Icarus Project would be a welcome addition to the cultural and political climate.
Eric realized it too. We corresponded over email that winter and discussed the different options for organizing on his campus. I'll never forget finding this detailed email in my inbox with the "three options for organizing a student group on campus:" 1) Starting a new student group and going through traditional university channels, 2) Taking over an already established group that's falling apart, or 3) The "Fuck the Man" option of existing without the permission of the university. After much discussion we opted for Number Two.
Students For Social Equality had been set up during the wave of anti-sweatshop organizing on college campuses at the turn of the 21st century, but by the time I showed up a few years later it had lost most of its steam and was being held together by Eric and his friend Kristen Campbell for the sake of channeling the financial resources from the NYU Student Affairs. Me and Kristen and Eric hatched a plot to bring the Icarus Project into NYU by utilizing their funding and official recognition by the university. And that's exactly what we did.
We had weekly Icarus Project meetings in the Kimmel building starting at the beginning of the fall semester. A dozen different students showed up to those early meetings but no one ever really stuck around and suffered the initial chaos except for Eric and Kristen; they came to every meeting. Towards the end of the semester we threw a pretty awesome event entitled "A Celebration of Dangerous Gifts" and seventy-five people showed up. It was the culmination of a semester of organizing and it was a real success. Behind the scenes Eric took care of all the financial planning and paper signing and hand-shaking and smiling. He knew how to work the system and was psyched to be able to help us get our project off the ground.
And that's how, for a brief period, my life crossed paths with Eric Ng. It wasn't for very long and we didn't have an intimate friendship. We organized together. We sometimes talked about our dreams for a new world together. We cracked jokes together. We checked out each other's tattoos and talked about old hardcore bands together. He made me feel comfortable in a world that was familiar to him and foreign to me. And of course I always figured I'd have the chance to hang out with him some more down the line.
And then this morning I checked my email and found out that Eric was struck and killed by a drunk driver on that bike path by the West Side Highway on Friday night. Just like that. He was 22 years old and was working as a schoolteacher in Brooklyn. Some drunk asshole in a BMW took our friend's life on that same bike path we all ride on all the time. It could have been any of us riding our bicycle on a Friday night.
So let us not forget that Eric Ng was a beautiful, sweet young man. Let us celebrate his life and make sure that his death is not quietly forgotten. He would have wanted it loud and angry, he would have wanted his friends to be good to each other, and he would have wanted some chaos in the streets and some change to come from his untimely death.
DWI kills NYU grad on bike, cops say
Originally published on December 2, 2006
BY KERRY BURKE and CARRIE MELAGO DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
A drunken driver barreling down the Hudson River bike path struck and killed an NYU graduate last night, police said.
The victim, 22-year-old Eric Ng, was thrown 50 feet after he was hit head-on by a silver BMW driven by Eugenio Cidron, 27, of the East Village, sources said.
Cidron was allegedly leaving a Canon company party at Chelsea Piers around 9:40 p.m. when he mistakenly turned onto the bike path, the sources said.
He drove about a mile south before striking Ng near Pier 40 with such force that the victim's bicycle and one of his black Converse All Stars flew onto the adjacent West Side Highway.
"This guy wasn't supposed to be here in the first place," a police source said of the driver. "He was drunk, and he was really going."
Cidron was arrested, and charges were pending last night. Ng was pronounced dead at the scene.
A MySpace page for an NYU grad named Eric Ng says he is a New York City Teaching Fellow working as a math instructor at a Brooklyn school.
Noah Budnick, project director of Transportation Alternatives, said his agency has received numerous complaints about drivers speeding along the bike path, a long, unobstructed straightaway.
"It's not uncommon that we get complaints about people driving down it," Budnick said. "There's nothing stopping them."
From: ejn209@nyu.edu
Subject: Re: mo' money, mo' money
Date: February 25, 2005 2:15:31 PM EST
To: scatter@theicarusproject.net
hey sascha,
i'll send the check right away. as for the icarus project at nyu, i
am helping jordan, even though he seems to be the one doing most of
the work. as for starting a new group at a school, every university
and college has a set of guidelines about starting a new student
group, and for nyu (and i'm sure like many other schools) that
involves going to long, boring meetings, drafting a constitution,
getting a petition signed by the group's future executive board, and,
i think, 4 students who would be willing to be members if the group
comes into fruition. this process takes about a year or so, and once
you receive university status as a student club, you are given a
meager budget (or you might not even be given a budget at all. i
think you might have to apply for one that details what specific
events your group plans to hold and how much money is necessary. even
if you are able to do this, nyu will not give you the amount of money
you requested). so finally, once you are an established club, you
face strict scrutinity from the university, and it takes years for
your group to have a substantial budget that would allow you to do
anything. one old activist group at nyu, the radical arts collective,
attempted to jump through these hoops, but were unsuccessful because
they refused to write a constitution or create and exec board because
they were anarchists and did not believe in hierarchy. eventually,
the group just kind of fell apart and was never heard of again, but
before they attempted to become a recognized club, they acted an
underground group that had no funding but still was composed of nyu
students and still threw events with the help of friends in other
groups.
as for advice starting up an icarus project at a university or
college, i think there are three options. one is to do what i stated
above and to go through the university. the perks of going through
the university are that you will receive university funding, which is
awesome and extremely helpful for throwing really kickass events (even
if the university budget offices tend to be a bureaucratic nightmare
which you may well be aware of). also, you will be guaranteed space
for meetings in student, and sometimes academic buildings, a
reasonable stipend for making copies and printing fliers, and a club
advisor who can be really awesome and helpful (actually, being an
officer for sse for 2 years now i have found that the people who work
with students groups are awesome! they are usually former nyu
students who may even still be in grad school, and they are young and
nice and extremely excited to help you out, especially if they like
your event and at nyu, there are some cool lefty advisers who want to
stick it to the man even harder than you do). however, there are many
negative aspects of going through university. if your like me, you
don't trust the university because it is your natural born enemy and
you are too busy trying to dismatle it from the inside. if this is
the case, working with the university may not be something you want to
do. also, as i stated above, it is a long, arduous task that can
really drain you and drive you crazy as you get lost in the notorious
bureaucratic red tape. it can be an alienating experience that takes
months before you see any results. there are shit ton of meetings and
forms and all of that that yu will have to deal with. you will also
have to constantly deal with your school's bull shit, and after a
while, you will begin to wonder what you are even doing and you will
see that you are not just forming a new club, but you are in fact
working for the corporation that is your university. so that sucks,
and i would avoid doing this unless you are really committed and
willing to bend over backwards at points.
the second option is what jordan and i are doing, and which i have
seen other groups do successfully. basically, it involves taking over
an already established student group that is falling apart. since sse
is basically defunct, we are going to have the icarus project take its
place. now there are 2 ways of going about this (i'm not sure how
we're going to go about it). you can just make the old group the
icarus project, but not tell the university. so, from nyu's point of
view, sse will still exist and keep on doing what it's doing. as a
result, sse will keep its budget and room access and all of that great
stuff, but in reality, sse will be the icarus project and just
function as the icarus project does. this is fun and sneaky but can
have negative consequences. an organization at nyu known as the peace
coalition did this when the campus greens at nyu ceased to exist.
they did it successfully, and continue to do it even though nyu
figured out their scheme. you see, nyu has strict policies about
putting up fliers around campus, and only approved students groups cna
put up fliers. so if the icarus project starts putting up tons of
fliers as the peace coalition did, the school will put 2 and 2
together. nyu began to threaten the peace coalition, telling them
they couldn't be called the nyu peace coalition unless they went
through the new club request process. nyu did not know, however, that
the peace co. actually existed under the campus greens, and they still
dont know, so peace co. just laughed off the threats and nothing
happened since nyu didnt realize that thye were breaking big rules and
should've lost club status. in a nut shell, odds are that your
university is not too quick or savvy, so you should be able to get
away with this if your careful. however, if you want to become a club
by coopting an old group and also be recognized by the university
there is a process (at least at nyu), which is not a lot of work, or
at least not as much work as starting a new group from scratch. from
what i know, you can just speak to an advisor and have the groups name
changed. you will then have to rewrite the constitution, but i think
that's it. once you do that, you should be able to retain the status
the original club had, but now you can just function as the icarus
project. i believe that this is the best, and easiest option, but if
course, it isn't feasible unless you know of a group that is falling
apart and that doesnt give a fuck about their club's future, but are
willing to help you out.
the final option is the fuck the man option where you exist without
the permission of the university. if you do this, you can do whatever
you want and the university cant do anything to stop you. this is
nicebecause you will actually be free and independent from the stress
of the school and such. however, you will have no funding, no room
access, and no support from the university (which is sometimes
necessary). this option may not seem feasible, but it is if you are a
university student with friends from other recognized students groups
(especially student leaders). you can basically mooch off of these
clubs, asking for their help to book you rooms, cosponsor events, and
maybe even throw in some cash (if they have any extra money) for some
cool events. this is an ideal situation for the icarus project
because you can exist with no pressure or responsibility.
unfortunately, you put an unfair amount of work and stress upon your
friends, and you will begin to feel like that unwanted house guest who
doesnt know when his/her welcome is outstayed.
i hope that this is helpful sascha, so if you need anymore info, just
let me know and i'll get back to you right away. love and rage.
eric
From: ejn209@nyu.edu
Subject: Radical Club Fair/Make Out Party Logistics
Date: September 9, 2005 3:48:10 PM EDT
To: vas234@nyu.edu, kategoldwater@gmail.com, dosanyu@gmail.com, scatter@theicarusproject.net, and 12 more...
haha, no make out party you suckers. anyway, i hope you all are well and are excited about the radical club fair this tuesday @ 7pm in kimmel 802. so there are roughly 30 groups/campaigns participating and as a result, we had to double up almost all of the groups. so below is the listings of groups sharing tables. you can pick any table you want when you all show up, but you have to hold hands with your buddy the entire time. and so it goes:
1. amnesty international & aclu@nyu
2. coke campaign/students creating radical change & gsoc
3. sse/icarus project & new world infoshop/free store
4. queer union & the gender project
5. seal & earth matters!
6. womyn's center & dosa
7. voices for choice & oxfam
8. students for a free tibet & students for justice in palestine
9. visual resistance & nyu inc.
10. middel eastern dialogue & tuition hike campaign
11. i-n-i & katie's labor project thingy (i don't know the exact name)
12. bluestocking book store
13. united for peace and justice (tentative)
14. left turn magazine
15. abc no rio
so it's a pretty raucous line up. you should all be excited. spread the word. bring all the lit you want. but
mostly, bring the ruckus. if you have anymore questions, email me. love and rage.
eric
Sascha Altman DuBrul The Icarus Project Organizing Collective
scatter@theicarusproject.net https://site.icarusprojectarchive.org germantowncommunityfarm.blogspot.com
Building Radical Community-Based Mental Health Support Systems in a World Gone Mad
