My talk at the Process Work Institute school where I study in Portland Oregon, joined by Mouse from Reed College Icarus and Jason Renaud of the Mental Health Association of Portland. Includes an audio recording of the entire event.

on the subject of self-immolation

Reed College organizer Mouse joined Will Hall, along with Jason Renaud of the Mental Health Association, at an Icarus event with 60+ participants in Portland Oregon March 9... Check out Mouse and Will's presentation (audio + text).

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

Longtime Icarus NYC organizer Jessica Stein at Reading Frenzy in Portland Oregon, reading from her zine Long Walk Back To Myself "the picaresque tale of her three-day, fifty-mile walk from Brooklyn to Croton-on-Hudson. The zine brings together anarchism, alternative transportation, and radical mental health with beautiful hand-drawn maps and illustrations." Check out the photos and audio from this inspiring event.

Last sunday's cd release party performance of the new acoustic album Finding Ground, from Root and Wing -- Eli and Erin Weaver -- was sweet and intimate, heartfelt activist nourishment. Listen to an .mp3 from the cd.

Great poetry show last week in Northampton with Edward Bartok-Baratta at a crowded room in First Churches. Edward's voice calls forth visionary possibility out of the pain of a life torn by violence. mp3 of "Old New York Where I Lay Down My Head."

Short .mp3 audio of Icarus collective staffperson Bonfire Madigan Shive talking about creativity, mental health, and what the Icarus Project means to her at the 12-06 Open House celebration at Fountain House.

An interview with Will Hall on violence and mental illness done by David Oaks on the Mindfreedom radio show. Discusses the murder of prominent psychiatrist Dr. Wayne Fenton by his teen patient, and the importance of rethinking the prison system and the ways we punish and stigmatize people who are violent.