Here's a video of Sascha at the Anarchist Book Fair in San Francisco April '08

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

 

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).

Jessica Max Stein has a new zine, available for download on the Icarus site.

Filmmaker Ken Paul Rosenthal is creating a film featuring Icarus co-founder Ashley McNamara. Check out the awesome trailer at http://www.crookedbeauty.com

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."

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.

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

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.

The Icarus Tour continues with stops in Chicago Illinois and Winona (as in Ryder) Minnesota...

The Icarus tour continues through Indianapolis, in the backyard of Eli-Lilly corporate headquarters...

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.

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.

Jessica Max Stein talks about the Icarus workshop she gave at the Northeast Herbal Convergence

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...”

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...

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.

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...

Will just had an article on welcoming people with psych labels at meditation retreats published in Turning Wheel magazine, check it out in our articles section.

Icarus San Francisco & organizer Brooklynne Michelle were just profiled in a cover story in the San Francisco Weekly newspaper on people choosing to live without meds. Download it here, or go to: http://www.sfweekly.com/2007-05-23/news/just-say-no/

Will Hall of Icarus and Freedom Center just had a story on the Zyprexa memos scandal published in Adbusters... Check it out. Download PDF of Adbusters Zyprexa article

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so it was a whirlwind weekend for nyc icarus - it was a great success in a whole bunch of different ways. the first ever nyc anarchist bookfair at the judson memorial church was incredibly well attended by folks from all over the continent and the world.

It's Aries birthday! Party at the Bmad HQ in Redhook...