You can now download a free .pdf format version of the wildly successful Icarus zine "Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness: A Reader of Bipolar Worlds," edited by Ashley and Sascha. Check it out in our Resources section, and feel free to spread it around and link to it on other sites:

http://theicarusproject.net/publications/navigating-the-space-reader

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 work full time and loose my dignity everyday. Here is a quote from Phoenix Rising in the early 1980's. "If you thought school was bad welcome to work a "prison of measured time"..

The recent horrifying death of Robert Dziekanski at Vancouver Airport has provoked an international outcry over the indiscriminate police use of Tasers.

Is left right on consumer survivor issues...?

Bipolar author goes from Rock Bottom to Rock ON! In "Lipstick and Thong in the Loony Bin" Courtney A. Walsh offers a survival story of hope healing and humor about the taboo subject of suicide. Pandora's Box?...is OPEN....

"The problem with children, and with working class children in particualr, was that they refused to be integrated smoothly into an oppressive society. ...The child savers turned political problems into adjustment problems. Instead of seeking political solutions to the problems of young people, they chose therapeutic remedies, thereby deflecting criticisms of capitalism onto its victims."