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Welcome to the The Icarus Project journals. On this page you can find blogs by our members, staff, and local groups.

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Member Journals

 

Click here to check out blogs by members of The Icarus Project's online community. Every registered Icarus member can create their own blog with the "my blog" link on the right hand navigation menu and starting to type! (Just make sure you're logged in first.) To find a member's blog, use the search box on the right.

 

Icarus Staff Personal Journals

 

Read entries from the personal blogs of our staff: Sascha, Will, Ashley, & Madigan.

 

National Icarus Organization Journal

 

This blog, below, is the place to find organizational writing from Icarus Project staff collective as a whole. We'll keep you updated about what's happening with the project on a national level. Scroll down on this page to take a look at our blog entries, and feel free to post comments and feedback!

 

Video - Sascha at Anarchist Book Fair April '08

Submitted by Icarus Project on Tue, 04/08/2008 - 12:20pm.
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Here's a video of Sascha at the Anarchist Book Fair in San Francisco April '08

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

 

Mouse from Reed Icarus At Portland Event

Submitted by Icarus Project on Wed, 03/12/2008 - 7:50pm.
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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).

Mad Love -- Jessica Max Stein's 'Zine

Submitted by Icarus Project on Fri, 03/07/2008 - 7:23pm.
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Jessica Max Stein has a new zine, available for download on the Icarus site.

Icarus Women's Encuentro

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Submitted by Icarus Project on Fri, 02/22/2008 - 4:54pm.
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A group of women who have been centrally involved in organizing with The Icarus Project over the last 5 years have been meeting (by conference call) to discuss the ways that gendered power imbalances (sexism, patriarchy) have affected working relationships in the project...

Crooked Beauty Film Project

Submitted by Icarus Project on Fri, 02/08/2008 - 10:27am.
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Filmmaker Ken Paul Rosenthal is creating a film featuring Icarus co-founder Ashley McNamara. Check out the awesome trailer at http://www.crookedbeauty.com

Ikarus-Projekt Mission Statement

Submitted by Icarus Project on Wed, 01/30/2008 - 12:37am.
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A German version of our mission statement, translated by our awesome Anarchist friend Gabriel. He says: "here is a german translation of the mission statement. i had a radical psychologist friend who runs a project providing psychotherapy for refugees in austria proofread it. she's a hard critic but gave a green light, so i assume this should work."

Will Speaking In Toronto

Submitted by Icarus Project on Sat, 11/24/2007 - 4:28pm.
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Icarus Staff Will Hall was invited to speak at a 150 year-old psychiatric hospital in Toronto Canada with a group of family members about how to help their relatives going through mental health crisis, at a seminar sponsored by the innovative Family Outreach and Respose agency. Check out Will's Blog.

Mad Gifts Week '07 Tour Slideshow

Submitted by Icarus Project on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 4:57pm.
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A slideshow of the Icarus 2007 Mad Gifts Week tour...

Icarus On NPR

Submitted by Icarus Project on Tue, 11/13/2007 - 12:03pm.
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NPR's Weekend America did a 6 minute program on the Icarus Project tour visit to Virginia Tech. Audio and link to transcript.

Icarus Tour Minneapolis: Samhain, Frida Kahlo, and Worker Owned Coffee

Submitted by Icarus Project on Tue, 11/13/2007 - 9:24am.
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The Icarus flock swarms on Minneapolis Minnesota, for a delerious Samhain romp through darkness and puppets, visits with old friends, and facilitating a group discussion on radical mental health at the Arise collective bookstore.

Mad Gifts Tour Winds Up at Trumbullplex In Detroit

Submitted by Icarus Project on Sun, 11/11/2007 - 1:00am.
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Audra and Jhon organized the last Icarus Mad Gifts week Tour event at the famous collective space Trumbullplex in Detroit, Sun Nov 4th 2007.

Rocky Horror and Old Miss': Icarus Tour Continues in Chicago and Winona

Submitted by Icarus Project on Fri, 11/09/2007 - 10:18pm.
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The Icarus Tour continues with stops in Chicago Illinois and Winona (as in Ryder) Minnesota...

Icarus in Indianapolis, HQ of Eli-Lilly...

Submitted by Icarus Project on Tue, 10/30/2007 - 2:33pm.
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The Icarus tour continues through Indianapolis, in the backyard of Eli-Lilly corporate headquarters...

Gravel Angels and the Social Freak Brigade: The Icarus Project Comes to Virginia Tech

Submitted by Icarus Project on Mon, 10/29/2007 - 12:26pm.
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Icarus organizers Madigan Shive, Neil Gong, Sascha Scatter, Molly from Asheville, and Will Hall were invited to Virginia Tech to facilitate a dialog on mental health with students and other community members in the wake of the violent tragedy there... Includes photos and audio.

Icarus Launches Mad Gifts Week Tour!

Submitted by Icarus Project on Fri, 10/26/2007 - 5:01pm.
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Rolling across the east coast and up to the Mid-West, the Icarus Mad Gifts Week tour brings Madigan, Sascha, and Will to a community near you, with a stop at the film Blade Runner and a dreamtime materialization of a new red-and-black pharmaceutical.

Herbal Convergence Reportback

Submitted by Icarus Project on Wed, 10/10/2007 - 9:34pm.
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Jessica Max Stein talks about the Icarus workshop she gave at the Northeast Herbal Convergence

Herding Mad Cats: ‘Mental Health Consumers in an Intergenerational Dialog’

Submitted by Icarus Project on Fri, 10/05/2007 - 5:02pm.
As Marvin Alexander, a young man organizing in Miami with Youth MOVE International, said at some point in the weekend: “Why do we keep talking about ‘Consumers’? We’re not eating mental health services...”

The Making of the Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs

Submitted by Icarus Project on Sat, 09/29/2007 - 10:32pm.
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9 months of research, writing, editing, discussing, consulting, planning, designing, sweating, panicking, despairing, freaking out, emailing back and forth, mutual aid, dreaming, community solidarity, and crazy-outta-control mad love later, the much-awaited 40-page book about reducing and coming off psych meds hits the presses...

Proyecto Icaro

Submitted by Icarus Project on Tue, 07/17/2007 - 10:27am.
Writing from Buenos Aries, Argentina, new forums members Agustina and meme_mutation have recently translated the Icarus Project Mission/Vision Statement into Spanish and it reads really beautifully.

Reportback from Buffalo, Mental Health Empowerment Rally, and more

Submitted by Icarus Project on Mon, 07/16/2007 - 9:18pm.
Hello everyone, this is Ashley typing from the train on the way back from a marvelous trip to Buffalo, NY. I got invited up there by an awesome Icarus member who works as a peer advocate at one of Buffalo's peer-run mental health agencies. She asked me to come give a workshop to the monthly advocate's assembly and to be one of the featured speakers at Buffalo's first ever Mental Health Empowerment Rally, which was called "Resisting the Myth." It was really inspiring to learn more about the network of mental health peers/consumers/advocates who are working together to try to change the system from the inside, and to get a glimpse into some of the arts and activism going on in Western New York...
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