silly animation has been deleted due to violation of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd rules.
However, I thought I would post a couple songs I recorded today. Both were written a long long time ago.
Someone has been whispering:
and Om Nama Shivaya
Tag Archives: MLBM Radio
MLBM Radio
Mad Liberation
By MOonLight
KBOO Radio 90.7 FM
1- 2 a.m. Late Friday night
(yes, I know that it is technically Saturday morning- relax, it’s just a radio show)
May 31st, 2008
Dedicated to Everyone
who has ever been given a psychiatric label, to anyone who experiences mental health challenges and to anybody who has the misfortune (or good fortune) of being awake at that hour.
You can participate!
Call in at (503) 231-8187
Friday nights from 1 am to 2 am following the full-moon, will be a segment on KBOO radio (90.7 on your fm dial, to the left of NPR), also streamed on the internet on their website, http://www.kboo.fm/index.php will be time for of Mad Lib by Moonlight. The program is part of the usual Friday night show, The Outside World.
Your Radio really is talking to you. Join the conversation.
Flyer:
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Saturday Soup
When I was growing up, when my father was alive, we could count on at least one thing (other than that my parents would be drunk). All of the leftovers from the week’s dinners would go into a pot, be heated to boiling and called Saturday Soup. Because my folks were not particularly creative about what they made for dinner, the soup usually amounted to the same basic ingredients, in varying proportions depending on our appetites for particular meals. The main ingredient was spaghetti and meatballs. This was a meal my dad made that was always made in such quantity that there were leftovers, without fail, even on Saturday (quite a thing really- my brother and I generally ate the leftover spaghetti for breakfast and snacks). Another common ingredient was stew. This was made in smaller amounts because it involved buying “real meat”. Another weekly staple was navy bean soup (cheap to make and my dad was in the navy for 23 years). Some items that made it into the soup less dependably but maybe alternating week-to-week included corned beef and cabbage, pork chops, meatloaf, sloppy joes and sometimes things that my folks brought home in “doggie bags” when they went out to dinner (this could be anything from chop suey to steak.
I always like Saturday Soup.
So, today is kind of a Saturday Soup- odds and ends from the past week. Working my way back through time…
Tadpole/ frog habitat reconnaissance
Yesterday I walked quite a bit along the Springwater Corridor and on Powell Butte (near my home) to check on the status of the annual spawning in marginal habitat. Summary:
- Many wetland/ swampy areas I had identified a few weeks back on the south side of Powell Butte along the Springwater Corridor were already dry, including some spots where I had previously seen plenty of frogs eggs. So much for these guys- there’s always quite a bit of this going on. The frogs don’t seem to have any idea of whether or not the place they spawn will be viable for tadpole maturation. On the other hand, I found several places where the new habitat restoration project in the Johnson/ Kelly Creek watershed had created what look like great spawning places. Some of which has heavy foliage cover for shade and protection from birds. I even saw some baby fish (I was surprised- I thought that it would take many more years for fish to return to this mangled area). For more info on the wetlands restoration project, see my archives or just go to: https://rickpdx.wordpress.com/?s=Kelly+Creek&submit=Search or to
http://www.portlandonline.com/BES/index.cfm?a=106235&c=33213
- On Powell Butte I concentrated on the primary northside drainage system (there is also a pond on the southside that is always healthy and I don’t worry about it). Somebody, I’m thinking the park caretaker or maybe volunteers or just some frog nut like me, had earlier in the spring placed debris and rocks at intervals in the (leaky) concrete lined ditch. A really good idea and I wondered why I hadn’t though of it before. I have been worried about the ditch especially this year because of a less rainy spring and unseasonably hot weather. Even though some of the ditch inflow has dried up, there is still a thriving community of tadpoles, more eggs and algae (for food- before they morph, the babies eat the algae).
We are still, today, having very hot weather for this time of year. I am hoping that we get some rain soon because the ditch will dry up sooner than usual if this keeps up. - There are always a large percentage of the frog babies that don’t make it. Typically, the ditch dries completely by the end of Portland Rose Festival (around the second week of August). At that time I will find almost a solid layer of dried/ dead tadpoles at the bottom of the ditch. My annual effort is to save as many of these as possible before they “croak”. I gather generally a hundred or more at the last possible moment, take them home and grow them in an outdoor tank until they’re mature enough to climb out of the tank and go out into the world. Our current location is close to other wetlands and good basic tree-frog habitat.
- The trick will be knowing when to gather them. I don’t want to do it too soon because it’s best for them to grow up in the place where they were born. If I’m too late, though, the little guys won’t make it.
- If you are up at Powell Butte and you see some guy capturing tadpoles (against park regulations), don’t report me or throw rocks. I’m a friend to amphibians.
Mad Liberation Radio
Last night was supposed to be the monthly Mad Liberation by Moonlight show on KBOO but I opted towait 2 more weeks because I had forgotten to publicize it. So, the show will be the last friday night in May, 1 a.m. I will post more info at some later date. I hope to have a dynamite show with several guests.
I’m still looking for work
Enough said. Let me know if you have any leads.
Interactive Theater
We did a presentation this past Tuesday at the First Unitarian Church Downtown and it went well. This Spring’s production is mental Health, Family and Work and is called “A Day at the Office”. There are some more performances but I don’t have a flyer handy so I’ll post them at another time. I believe the next one is June 1st at PSU but I could be wrong.
If you are unfamiliar with Interactive Theater/ Theater of the Oppressed, it is based on the work of Augusto Boal who developed the concept in Brazil as a way of getting urban dwellers and peasants to work together to solve social problems. The way it works is that we present a short play that consists of a series of conflicts that have increasingly bad outcomes. After one performance where we just follow the script, in the second time through the audience is invited to stop the play at any point and take the place of one of the actors to see if they can change the outcome. They are encouraged to avoid taking the place of the “oppressor” in the scene (because in real life you don’t just have that person suddenly have a change of heart and solve the issue as if by magic). They are encouraged to take the place of potential allies (who are present in each scene but who don’t act in a way that helps). We let them take any part they wish, though, because there are always things to learn. The challenge to the actors is to ad lib based on their understanding of their character. (We spend a lot of time in the rehearsal phase doing things to develop the underlying aspects of each character, to understand their thinking and their unspoken reactions to events.
It’s loads of fun for the actors and the audience. And it really does help educate the public and generate creative responses to situations of oppression. Our little group is called From the Inside Out and we are running on a shoestring with individual donations. The actors/ director etc. are all people with a mental health diagnosis and are volunteers. (We’d love to get some money for our expenses, travel and time but we don’t have enough financial support yet.)
Short article: Self-help and recovery by Joann Lutz
My experience with spiritual emergency and recovery has taught me the need to grow beyond cultural conditioning, beyond other’s expectations, to discover what ideas and behaviors are truly life-affirming and growthful for me. My recovery was based around the practice of yoga. It gave me validation for the profound changes which I experienced which were pathologized in the mental health system, such as early morning awakening, fasting, and vegetarianism, which lowered my anxiety level; self-esteem which I cultivated through the slow mastery of the yoga postures; peace of mind from the calming effects of the breathing practices; and an expanded view of who I really am, separate from my personality and its constant ups and downs.
I also experienced the healing power of dance; re-experiencing myself moving through the developmental stages as an infant, toddler, playful child; accelerating my feelings of aliveness; feeling energy moving through my body which was more compelling than the thought patterns which I had falsely identified as myself.
I learned about the value of regular exercise, of a daily spiritual practice, wholesome eating, positive relationships, solid emotional support, inspiring thoughts, connection to the natural world, awareness of body sensations and deep relaxation, in building health.
What I was doing, essentially, was creating my own world, keeping what was positive and staying away from what was not. My yoga teacher, Swami Satchidananda, talks about thinking of our body and mind as a country protected by border guards which will not let anything harmful in. For me, that meant staying away from violent movies, from watching TV. indiscriminately, from overeating, from cigarette smoke, and from negative-thinking people. As time went on, it became easier and easier to build this positive world. I began to see my spiritual emergency as an opportunity for transforming my life rather than as a disability and my feelings of inferiority dropped away.
Joann Lutz, L.I.C.S.W., is a psychiatric survivor currently working as a licensed, holistically-trained psychotherapist and stress-reduction teacher in Northampton, MA and Brattleboro Vt. She can be reached at 413-586-6384.
This is great! Olberman rant on MSNBC re Bush: “Shut up!”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/14/olbermann-to-bush-this-wa_n_101831.html
I love it. You can almost feel the spit hit you from the monitor listening to this.
Miscellaneous items for your amusement
Pictures, animation, whatever.
This is me above…
Below, some songs I recorded, wrote many years ago:
I didn’t write this. Yoko Ono. Suprisingly melodic, enjoyable. Don’t be afraid, just listen-
yoko-ono-i-felt-like-smashing-my-face-in-a-clear-glass-window
First in a series: The Great Love- Listen to the rest at http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/talks/details?num=OM690&c=p
That’s enough for now.
Have a great weekend.
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MLBM, tonight’s Rumi
Mad Liberation
By MOonLight
KBOO Radio 90.7 FM
1- 2 a.m. Late Friday night
(yes, I know that it is technically Saturday morning– relax, it’s just a radio show)
February 22, 2008
Dedicated to Everyone
who has ever been given a psychiatric label, to anyone who
experiences mental health challenges and to anybody who
has the misfortune (or good fortune) of being awake at that
hour.
You can participate!
Call in at (503) 231-8187
Friday nights from 1 am to 2 am following the full-moon, will be a
segment on KBOO radio (90.7 on your fm dial, to the left of NPR),
also streamed on the internet on their website,
http://www.kboo.fm/index.php will be time for of Mad Lib by
Moonlight. The program is part of the usual Friday night show, The
Outside World.
Your Radio really is talking to
you. Join the conversation.
Rumi: Birdwings
Your grief for what you’ve lost lifts a mirror
Up to where you are bravely working
Expecting the worst, you look, and instead
Here’s the joyful face you’ve been wanting to see.
Your hand opens and closes.
If it were always a fist or always stretched open,
You would be paralyzed.
Your deepest presence is in every small contracting
and expanding,
The two as beautifully balanced and coordinated
As birdwings
and a silly animated gif (dalerwalkenshoes):
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Various and Sundry
I would have to say that the last couple weeks have not been the best I’ve had. They have probably been the most unpleasant by far for quite a while. It’s not all bad, even so. It’s just that much of the time lately I am confronted with visceral, ugly feelings in myself. I want to push them away but also know they are here to reach me something(s).
One thing about pain, especially the animal level of pain, even emotional, it presents a kind of clarity that cuts through other things that would otherwise seem important. It doesn’t necessarily provide a clear view- it can obscure the the things that you most need to understand. I see the image of Manjushri- the Buddha depicted with a sword, who cuts away delusion. The problem is that if you cling to the delusion, you feel like you are dying.
I cling and let go alternately, back and forth, sometimes see some balance as it swings by.
I am finding challenges in both my personal life and my work that seem to work together to make me feel confused. So, what is there to do with hard feelings? With gut level pain? With uncertainty?
Here is my image that I am cultivating. Instead of pushing away the thing that hurts or causes stress, I try to touch it- feel it in my body and heart, and hold it up to the light. By holding it up to the light I mean that I try to see it’s origins, purpose, meaning. Much of the time I find that it has at it’s roots a kind of lie- or at least a clinging to that which is untrue. It may represent the dying of an act of grasping that has no basis in reality. At the same time, I try to see it with some tenderness- grasping and clinging to things is human and a basis for our grief. Knowing this doesn’t make it less painful. Tenderness may even make it more painful- if I’m really open to the experience.
Then, after holding it tenderly in the light, I try to put it down gently. And let go.
It’s a process that happens many times through my day. It is like the directions on the shampoo bottle- Rinse, repeat. It often provides a few moments of near-joy (I haven’t mastered it enough to get that last part very well but I am inching toward it).
I’m working on a new song. I haven’t written a song in years. I don’t know much about it yet but I feel it coming.
Today my work was satisfying mostly but ended on an overwhelmed note. Then I went to an Interactive Theater workshop (From the Inside Out/ Theater for all). I went because I knew I’d benefit from being around people. Part of me was reluctant- like it was maybe some bad tasting medicine. Like I’m a social misfit and I need to get out and be around people as some kind of treatment. Two odd things happened (or three).
First I got a call from the workshop organizer asking me to pick up someone who couldn’t get to the workshop by herself. The address where she lives is far on the other side of being on my way. I was told that I could say no; I was told that if I didn’t pick her up she would miss the workshop and it was important to her. I agreed. It meant that I had to leave an hour earlier than I would have otherwise. It meant that I would not see my wife when she got home. I went.
About halfway there I got another call saying that I didn’t have to pick her up after all. That someone who lived closer to her could do it. I was already well on my way and I went ahead- driving to the address I was given. When I got there it was familiar. Then I realized that the person I was picking up was someone who I had met and worked with years ago. Someone I had helped. I felt a very positive sense of synchronicity/ congruence talking with her on the way.
At the workshop I ran into another person who I had met at previous events. It’s someone who every time I see him I find out more stuff that we have in common. His name is Tom Widdick and he is sort of famous in the mental health consumer movement as one of the founders of possibly the first modern psychiatric rights group- the Insane Liberation Front, back in 1969 or so. I just met him a few months back but I have since found that we went to the same high school (one that no longer exists), used to sell the same underground newspaper, both have diabetes, both have mental problems, know a bunch of the same people. Tonight I learned that he attends the Bridge City Friends Meeting- a sister community to the Multnomah Monthly Meeting of which I am a member. Wild. “Am I going to the family retreat this month?” he asked. “I’m not sure we can afford to go,” I said.
Oh, yes, this Friday night is MLBM- Mad Liberation by Moonlight. 1 a.m. on KBOO 90.7 or streamed at KBOO.org
All that aside- my latest favorite Rumi poem (I’ve left out the last lines because I am too tired to type it all):
No Room for Form
On the night when you cross the street
from your shop and your house
to the cemetery,
you’ll hear me hailing you from inside
the open grave, and you’ll realize
how we’ve always been together.
I am the clear consciousness-core
of your being, the same in
ecstasy as in self-hating fatigue.
That night, when you escape the fear of snakebite
and all irritation with ants, you’ll hear
my familiar voice, see the candle being lit,
smell the incense, the suprise meal fixed
by the lover inside all your other lovers.
This heart tumult is my signal
to you igniting in the tomb.
So don’t fuss about the shroud
and the graveyard road dust.
Those get ripped open and washed away
in the music of our final meeting.
And don’t look for me in a human shape. I am inside your looking. No room
for form with love this strong.
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PSA from Mind Freedom
WHAT: Live interview on KBOO-FM radio about an Oregon state-wide
coalition of Mental Health Consumer & Psychiatric Survivor groups.
WHO: David Oaks, Director, MindFreedom will be interviewed by KBOO-
FM radio journalist Marliese Franklin.
WHEN: This Wed., 13 February 2008, at 10:30 am PST
WHERE: KBOO-FM Radio
HOW: Listen in Portland 90.7 fm; Corvallis 100.7 fm; Columbia Gorge
91.9 fm
*or* listen anywhere live online at http://www.kboo.fm
WHY: Support the state-wide voice of people on receiving end of
mental health care in Oregon!
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It’s almost time
for Mad Liberation by Moonlight. There are times (like tonight) when I am really dragging to get myself to showtime. But Daniel says, “the show must go on” or some such rot. Tonight I am hoping to get some calls from my friends at the Interactive Theater project- From the Inside Out.
On the other hand, I am very excited about getting my 3rd (third) comment since starting this blog. Woot! And I’m not sure but I think that only the first one was from someone I know.
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Post MLK Day post
This in from David Oaks:
Repeatedly, in the last two decades of his life, Rev. King said in
speeches and essays that he was proud to be “psychologically
maladjusted” to oppression, war and poverty.MLK said the “salvation of the world lies in the hands of the
maladjusted!”More than 10 times MLK said the world desperately needed a new
organization, the International Association for the Advancement of
Creative Maladjustment (IAACM)!As far we know, the IAACM never officially formed. Time Magazine
called it a “half joke.”
But last year, in 2007, MindFreedom International helped launch the
IAACM at its international conference as part of the “Mad Pride”
movement that celebrates the right to be nonviolently different, odd,
crazy, nuts, strange, weird, or whatever term society would like to
toss our way.
Who else could have intentionally and consciously formed the IAACM,
in reality, other than psychiatric survivors?
The Mad Pride movement asks you a simple question:
By MLK’s 80th birthday in 2009, what action will you take to show
your “creative maladjustment”?
For a decade “Mad Pride” celebrates each and every human being’s
creative uniqueness and right to be nonviolently different, including
we people who have survived the psychiatric system. Like Gay Pride,
Mad Pride events have included parades, theater, “bed pushes,”
concerts and more.
From the Inside Out:
In Portland we are fortunate to have a group called “From the Inside Out”. Led by Cathy Clemens, FTIO provides workshops and produces community events using interactive theater to explore issues and solutions related to mental health and it’s accompanying stigmatization. Based on the techniques of Theater of the Oppressed as developed by Augusto Boal, Interactive Theater participants create small plays that engage the audience in creatively changing the outcomes through active involvement with people who have mental health issues.
I will try to keep FTIO events posted as they come up. The group is currently working on planning for the coming year.
Reminder:
Mad Liberation by Moonlight is coming this Friday night, 1:00 a.m. PST on KBOO radio, 90.7 on your FM dial (to the left of NPR). Also streamed live on KBOO.org- set your alarm. This time your radio really is talking to you.
Martin Luther King on “Normalcy”:
“The only normalcy that we will settle for is the normalcy that
recognizes the dignity and worth of all of God’s children.
“The only normalcy that we will settle for is the normalcy that
allows judgment to run down like waters, and righteousness like a
mighty stream.
“The only normalcy that we will settle for is the normalcy of
brotherhood, the normalcy of true peace, the normalcy of justice…
“We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with
itself, a society that can live with its conscience. And that will be
a day not of the white man, not of the black man. That will be the
day of [hu]man as [hu]man.”
-from MLK’s 25 March 1965 speech in Montgomery, Ala.
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I almost forgot
This coming Friday night will be another episode of Mad Liberation by Moonlight on KBOO radio. See post below for more information. I will post an update/ reminder before the end of the week.
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Mostly Mad News
I received this information from David Oaks at MindFreedom International:
Hi MindFreedom Oregon TALK list,
We got a call from an individual locked up in a Salem psychiatric
facility who is pretty frustrated about getting any advocacy from
anyone.
I talked with her for a while, gave her some leads.
If someone is inspired to network with her, she could use the call.
She understands a volunteer doesn’t necessarily represent us, but
sounds like she could use any support.
Her name is JANIE.
She is locked up in Salem Hospital in Oregon where she’s been locked
up for a while.
She was FORCIBLY DRUGGED.
Her focus is mainly on the legal aspects of her case, to appeal, but
she doesn’t have an attorney or money to hire her own so that can be
tricky.
If anyone reading this would want to get involved in helping this individual or perhaps being in contact as a supporter, email me at
I will help serious and trustworthy folks who want to be active in assisting Janie in her cause.
PBS show investigates the drugging of children
From: Senior Editor
Ken Dornstein, PBS, FRONTLINE
This Week: “The Medicated Child”
*THIS* Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2008 at 9pm on PBS (check local listings)
Live Discussion: Chat with producer Marcela Gaviria, Jan. 9, 2008, 11am ET
This summer, FRONTLINE producer Marcela Gaviria set out to answer a question that has been troubling parents, doctors, and government regulators: Why are millions of American children being prescribed increasingly powerful, behavior-modifying drugs that have not been adequately tested in kids?
In “The Medicated Child,” airing Tuesday night, Gaviria takes us deep inside the world of child psychiatry where a debate is growing about how early to diagnose mental illness in children, and which drugs are safe for treatment. At the heart of the story is the dramatic rise of a controversial new diagnosis–bipolar disorder–which, until recently was thought only to exist in adults, but now has been found in over one million children, including a growing number of toddlers.
Watch a preview at
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/medicatedchild/
Gaviria finds many who challenge the validity of child bipolar disorder, and others who charge it’s being overdiagnosed. But, ultimately, it’s parents who are stuck with the hard choices about whether to treat their children with the potent psychiatric drugs prescribed for the disorder.
Meet Jacob Solomon, for instance. A preschool teacher urged his parents to medicate him for hyperactivity, but the diagnosis progressed to bipolar disorder and Jacob soon found himself on a cocktail of prescription drugs that came with serious side effects his doctors don’t yet fully understand. “It all started to feel out of control,” Jacob’s father tells FRONTLINE. “Nobody ever said we can work with this through therapy and things like that. Everywhere we looked it was, ‘Take meds, take meds, take meds.'”
Then there’s four-year-old DJ whose parents reluctantly agreed to treat him with a new “anti-psychotic” drug for his extreme mood swings. “If he didn’t take [the medicine], I don’t know if we could function as a family,” his mother tells FRONTLINE. “It’s almost a do-or-die situation over here.” DJ’s doctor explains: “It’s really to some extent an experiment, trying medications in children of this age. It’s a gamble. And I tell parents there’s no way to know what’s going to work.”
So who’s monitoring this experiment on our children?
How do doctors decide when a toddler’s tantrums cross the line into mental illness?
What are scientists learning about genetics and brain development that might one day remake the entire field of child psychiatry?
Gaviria talks to a broad range of child psychiatrists and researchers, then heads to Washington where she learns something that’s sure to give any parent pause at the pharmacy: The Food and Drug Administration knows shockingly little about the effects of most prescription drugs on children.
“Parents need to be aware that all products haven’t been studied in children,” one top doctor at the FDA tells FRONTLINE. “As a matter of fact, I’d say too high a percentage of time we don’t know what we’re doing, and we need to study it in kids and get the dosing right and know whether it works in them.”
I hope you’ll watch this important and timely program Tuesday night, and then visit online to watch it again, explore the extended interviews with experts, read a parents’ guide on psychiatric medications for children, or get answers to some “frequently asked questions.” And, join the discussion at:
http://pbs.org/frontline/medicatedchild/
Mad and Non-Mad Radio: Some Different — Very Different — Radio Shows
submitted by David W. Oaks — last modified 2007-11-06 10:32
Here are several Mad radio shows and one Non-Mad radio show you may listen to about changing the mental health system, all hosted by MindFreedom members who are psychiatric survivors! All may be heard on the web.
Mad and Non-Mad Radio: Some Different — Very Different — Radio Shows
Oryx and Will at the madness radio controls.
MINDFREEDOM NEWS HOUR:
Of course!
MindFreedom’s own show each Wednesday at 4 pm ET for more info click here.
That’s one… here are three more!
NORTHAMPTON, Massachusetts, USA:
Listen to Madness Radio: Voices and Visions from Outside Mental Health, produced by Freedom Center and the Icarus Project. Madness Radio is broadcast weekly on Pacifica affiliate WXOJ-LP FM Wednesdays at 6 to 7 pm Eastern Standard Time in Northampton Massachusetts.
Their podcast can be heard at:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/madnessradio
Listen live and to archived shows and podcasts at madnessradio.net.
COLORADO:
Mary Van Pelt has done a number of radio productions… For info about the link to her web site, click here.
PORTLAND, Oregon, USA:
Talking about “being nuts” on Portland, Oregon radio- Mad Liberation by Moonlight
By Rick Snook and Daniel Flessas
History:
It all started when I was in the 5th grade and Dan Flessas was my best friend. Our favorite activity was to get on the radio by making prank calls to talk radio stations, usually with the intent (and some success) of getting some racy language or crude joke past the 3 second bleeper. Time flies and years later Daniel became a host of a regular Friday night program on KBOO- The Outside World. He has been doing the show for at least 23 years.
In the fall of 2006 I suggested to him that we start having a monthly feature on his show where we would discuss mental health related topics and request callers to join in with their stories of struggle with the system. He said- “great”- so we did it.
So, on the Friday following the full-moon the lunatics take over KBOO and talk about being nuts. I usually bring some news items to read, sometimes some poetry related to the subject or a personal story. We often have guests. The show is from 1 am to 2 am (approximately- sometimes longer and we rarely start right on time). We are gradually gathering steam; more callers each month. KBOO is streamed on the internet so we can get some calls from far away places.
We play some music that seems appropriate. We sometimes have live music in the background (folks who stop by the station after their club sets).
For more information see
Or contact me, Rick Snook-
NON-MAD Radio
The following radio show host, who is a psychiatric survivor, prefers that his show not be called “mad” radio… Host Don Weitz is a and legend in Toronto and internationally for his decades of work against psychiatric human rights violations, so his preference is fine with us.
Says Don, “Antipsychiatry should not be confused or conflated with madness!” Don’s biography describes some of his writing to newspapers as “angry,” so duly noted, Don can be angry, but not mad!
TORONTO, Ontario, Canada:
by Don Weitz
Antpsychiatry Radio is a unique and powerful program on CKLN (88.1FM, http://www.ckln.fm, an independent community radio station in Toronto.
It airs on the last Friday every month at 6:30-7pm (EST).
Hosted and produced by antipsychiatry activist and psychiatric survivor Don Weitz, the program features interviews with psychiatric survivors re their personal stories of psychiatric abuses including electroshock, forced drugging and involuntary committal; victories over human rights violations in the psychiatric system; grassroots resistance, and movement news.
Don can be contacted at:
Peer Operated Recovery Treatment and Support (PORTS)
A Mental Health Recovery Model Developed by Michael Hlebechuk
PORTS is a mental health self-directed care model that combines mental health brokerage services with a peer counseling/advocacy education program and a couple of evidence based practices that actually work. There are no outcome studies to demonstrate the efficacy of PORTS. It has never been implemented. I drafted it up in response to a question for a job interview. I firmly believe, however, that if implemented this model would help people along the road to recovery in ways we haven’t seen yet through a formal program. The 2 page draft that outlines PORTS is located at:
http://www.oregon.gov/DHS/mentalhealth/consumers-families/ports.pdf
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moon soup 