New Short Documentary Airs About Me: Diagnosed-Psychotic Quad Activist Global Revolutionary! You Can Watch Now, Free
Wednesday, 26 August 2015 Today a documentary about 10 ½ minutes long, by my good friend David Zupan, airs on statewide TV and you can see it online for free, details below. You can see: Me tear up my psychiatric label “psychotic” Martin Luther King call for us all to be “creatively maladjusted” A re-creation of my big fall that broke my neck What screwing up your vocal chords can sound like Support from my amazing wife and community Us protest for global revolution because of climate crisis Yes, making revolution visible now...
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Make Your Climate Crisis Revolution Visible! A Free, Easy Poster You Can Download & Post in Your Home, Today A radio personality distorted and verbally attacked the work of Associate Professor Kari Norgaard, a world-acclaimed expert on global warming denial, then kept a transcript of this falsehood-filled show on his website for the past three years, where it still lingers to this day. His show called Kari a “Wacko.” Rather than dwell on his incivility, here’s something fun, free, and positive we did and you can do,...
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read morePlease Tell Everyone in Oregon: My Awesome Brother is Looking for a Job!
Update 28 July 2015: Tony is open to even doing a good volunteer job, such as a bike coordinator in Eugene. Plus, while I do not want to take up his busy time, even a one-time note of encouragement to him would be great. His email address is below. Do you know anyone in Oregon? Maybe you live in Portland or Eugene or in between? My brother, Tony, who has an amazing range of talents, is looking for a job here and if he finds one, he will relocate from Texas! I sure am glad the economy is stronger here than it has been in years, because that...
read moreFor a Well Mind, Try Revolution? Creative Maladjustment Week 2015
Your mental wellness requires a global revolution. In fact, your physical wellness requires one, too. For many years, I have noticed that there are people doing good social change work for mild reform. That is nice, but during my work in what we affectionately call the “mad movement,” I have often called for revolution, because the change we need is so big! Please do not misunderstand me, we need to attempt a peaceful revolution, which I do not think has been adequately tried; however, I am not a pacifist. How do you know that a...
read moreElectroshock Survivors Taught Me 8 Lessons in International Protests
Update 6/20/2015: * This blog is re-broadcast by Mad In America re-broadcast of below blog entry, a lively discussion has already started, and the editors added this: Another example is Cork, Ireland’s Slidely slideshow accompanied by music which you can view here: http://slide.ly/view/4e64a11a8bd9e7c15cfba4724e6e91f3. * Also, the editors helpfully added this: Many photos and videos were posted on the Stop Shock Twitter account here: https://twitter.com/stopshocknow/media. * The original blog entry by me is as follows: Last...
read moreEugene Protest of Electroshock Was One of Many Internationally
Update May 17, 2015: Local TV news covered the below event briefly and you can read / watch the video here. News Report May 16, 2015 Reviving the spirit of Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest! Today, Saturday, 16 May 2015, a protest was held in Eugene against human rights violations caused by the use of electroshock, a psychiatric procedure involving the running of electricity through the brain. The protest today was one of about two dozen held in about eight countries. The speakers included: Fred Abbe, 68, of Reedsport, OR...
read moreFree Your Mind! These Online Documentaries About Festivals Give Me Hope
For decades, I have been volunteering at the huge Oregon Country Fair. Started in 1969, OCF now brings together about 40,000 people over three days in July on about 300 acres that several thousand of us volunteer to run. We all own the land, and the Fair has about 50 food booths and 700 artisans, along with a bunch of stages and wandering ambient performers. Over the decades, many of these counter-culture leaders have utilized the Fair as a kind of reunion for an extended family and what is often called “hippy” culture. The land,...
read moreEugene Protest of Electroshock Will Be One of Many Internationally
Update 13 May 2015: *Our Eugene event will be rain or shine. * The Free Speech Plaza is kind of big, so please find us in the Northeast corner up the stairs by the entrance doors to the county, which is also away from the drumming, though it will be noisy so keep your remarks loud and brief! By David Oaks On May 16, 2015 there will be several dozen grass roots protest against electroshock, mainly in the US but also in about eight other countries. Below is info about our local protest here in Eugene, Oregon, USA: You may download a PDF of this...
read morePsychoQuad & Friends Visit Eugene Area Chamber of Silence About Climate Crisis
My friend, activist David Zupan, wrote the below about our protest inside the Eugene area Chamber of Commerce, or the “Chamber of Silence” as our banner calls them. For several years we have asked our local chamber to say that the US Chamber does not speak for any of us about the denial of climate crisis. Unfortunately, Eugene’s Chamber has refused to say anything about global warming. So, a few of us showed up inside the office for the Eugene Chamber when they held one of their regular luncheon meetings to try to get new...
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