Checkins -- everyone checked in --
micro loans for mad entrepreneurs/worker owned projects
become a clearing house for alt resources -- the go to place for radical mental health info -- books, website, podcasts, etc -- as well acts as a publisher fopr others in the movement - get zines out stories out etc
ends psych abuse and uses lawsuits pay for creation of alternatives; levarages ADA for mental/temotionally accessible public spaces
Give people easy access to resources/info/each other
project proposals reviewed by community committee and resources are given for specific projects-- new org can act as umbrella and incubator for emerging alternatives - support logistically, financially - seed grants ?? - once successful orgs can "pay it back"
Actual cultural diversity within the leadership and working groups, but not mistaking simple diversity for an anti-oppression/equity/justice analysis
Larger budget - more people paid living wage for work, clearer hiring/firing mechanisms, recognition that by de facto giving lots of decision making power to people that can "do the most for the least" you can perpetuate privilege -- Who can afford to volunteer, who can't?
Submitted by silverelf on Tue, 02/23/2010 - 1:03am
TODO : Annie - going to check in with person doing "Icarus Project project for thesis" -- Yes we want! let's brainstorm what that could look like - US Social Forum is an idea - invite to next all community Sunday call??
Check-in re: Molly stipend -- fine not getting stipend for Fevb -- on calls for next 2 weeks then entering database stuff (quietly), prepared to be off the calls, ready to transition, focus back on face 2 face rad mad organizing
Headline Brainstorm:
* Global Postal Service announces Bonfire Madigan Commemorative Stamp
* Icarus Statue and Autonomous healing Zone on moon
* Reparations given to psych survivors
* Declared Mad Pride century
* witchcraft and paganism flourish
* millionth member joins iCarus forums
* k-12 curriculum incorporates mad maps thanks to campus icarus
* Madlands named 52nd state
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Brainstorm: organization that makes Icarus obsolete
RED (things new organization has - intra-org structure, focus, skills, board, values, etc)
BLUE (viable alternative - actual concrete healing resources)
PURPLE (education, outreach, training, putting info out there)
ORANGE (networking and nurturing functions - umbrella projects, seed grants, social networking - etc)
- MST (landless rural movement in Brazil) and Zapatistas
- Connections w/ global anti poverty and housing
- multilingual website w/ facebook functionality and video chat
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- autonomous living zones
- does skillshares
- global advisory council
- national mad pride encuentros
- focus on mind body evolution w/ strong mystical component
- connected to flows seasons and earth
- doesn't use gregorian calendar
- animals on advisory council
- "madical radness"
-"nation of imagination the only nation we need"
"madlanders"
funding: bank robbery, no funding, membership fee, merchandising,
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Group II:
New org creates and supports creation of actual accessible alternatives via financial + technical assistance + resources + creative collaborations:
various alternatives to hospitalization/incarceration: safe houses/respites/guest houses, autonomous healing zones, coops instead of group homes, listening spaces, conflict resolution spaces, free health clinics, etc
Clear commitment to collective liberation and recognition of connections between radical mental health movement and other historically oppressed people
Leadership development: both intra-organization and inter-organization -- anti-oppression trainings that incorporate radical mental health into other anti-opprssion work around race class sexuality gender ability privilege
Clearer misson, clear projects, sharp focus, accountablilty mechanisms.
Advisory board
Working group spokescouncil instead of permanent coordinators
Website like the Huffington Post/Indymedia/Alternet or something similar -- the go to blog for radical mental health info and writings about madness and liberation, current events, opinion pieces, a destination site along with the forums and social networking features -- more function like indymedia, encourage all members to write pieces, promote them to front page
Runs trainings, orgs that want to become better around mental health issues come to ne org - can you help show us how to do this>? consultants for cultural change
molly adds: connection to people on the inside -- incarcerated folks, prisons, hospitals
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Open questions:
What are three things we could do really well?
What is the difference between mad pride movement and TIP (or organization replacing TIP)? We can't be whole movement -- what are our movement-based goals, and what part do we want this organization to play in that movement?
If we have model organizations doing work in other area, who are they?
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Possible concrete project: Project around prison work - Will thinks would be good for sharpening our focus around race/class issues, possible allies critical resistance, political prisoner groups, green scare groups, etc however no one focusing on mental health and no one focusing on how mental health and incarceration linked (and how hospitalization can be a form of incarceration) - "incarcerated for being yoo visibly mad"
Rad Mad Asheville currently doing some work around this -- letter writing, through connections with Asheville Homeless Network
Lots of our design goals for new organization very airy - what do very specific and practical things look like - org structure? name? mission statement? what are they doing? etc
Horizontal Governing Principals
-- 3 months to make decisions (working group)
-- funding allows specific tasks to be fully funded
-- radical mental health network -- more coalition work --
-- like what other sorts of organizations??? --
-- clearer mission
-- clearer projects with clear timeframes
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Homework before next call -- focus on top priorities - come up with 5 on our own, meet with partner and whittle down to 4 total as a pair
priorities can be internal or external
focus on 2 year time frame (???)
partners:
bmad - eric
will - angel
molly - annie
Groups: