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This is not in order of what I like best of all, it's just things I'm thinking about. and I'll add more and more.

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end of June

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Robosapien dance every day to this band and you will fall inlove with everything around you.

2. July 8, Berkeley CAThe Bay Area`Radical Mental Health Collective Presents: A workshop on Complex Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome with author Pete Walker. pete walker Sunday July 8th Dinner at 6pm Workshop will start promptly at 7pm ends at 10pm (please be on time)
Location The Long Haul 3124 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley Ca. (2 blocks from Ashby BART, Across from La Pena Cultural Center) Please call 510-594-2450 ask for Jamie You will learn about Stress, Trauma, and Responses to Trauma and how to understand and manage these experiences. Workshop Description: FLASHBACK MANAGEMENT IN THE TREATMENT OF COMPLX PTSD

People extensively abused or neglected in childhood frequently suffer from Complex PTSD and its recurring, life-spoiling emotional flashbacks. Emotional flashbacks are intensely disturbing regressions to the overwhelming feeling-states of childhood abandonment typically a bewildering malange of fear, shame, helplessness, hopelessness and depression. This workshop presents an eclectic blend of CBT, Psychodynamic, Somatic, and Relational approaches to obviate peoples unnecessary and pain-exacerbating reactions to flashbacks. When flashbacks are treated on cognitive, emotional, somatic and behavioral levels, their frequency, intensity and duration is greatly reduced. A trauma typology is also presented to differentially diagnose four key instinctual defensive structures: Fight [narcissistic], Flight [obsessive-compulsive], Freeze [dissociative], and Fawn [codependent]. The developmental arrest of self-nurturing and self-protective functions characteristic of complex PTSD is also addressed. I hope you can make it!!

Please Fwd to Your friends and lists. Sascha Altman DuBrul The Icarus Project Organizing Collective scatter@theicarusproject.net the icarus project germantown community farm Building Radical Community-Based Mental Health Support Systems in a World Gone Mad

mid June

please read this link - about a trans woman who was murdered, and a campaign to bring her murderer to justice. link to petition

to read more about what happened, link to story

JIGSAW YOUTH - Kathleen Hannah We live in a world that tells us we must choose an identity, a career, a relationship, and commit.. to these situations..as if we know what's gonna happen tomorrow, as if we aren't ever gonna change, as if we don't live in a world of constant flux... which we do. Don't freak out cuz the jigsaw is laying on the floor and it's not all the way done and has been laying there for 4 whole hours now, reisist the freak out. You will get to it.... it's all part of the process. To be a striper who is also a feminist, to be an abused child holding a microphone screaming all those things that were promised, in one way or another, "I Won't tell." These are contradictions I have lived. They exist, these contradictions cuz I exist. Every fucking 'feminist' is not the same, every fucking girl is not the same, okay??? Because I live in a world that hates woman and I am one... who is struggling desparately not to hate myself and my best girlfriends, my whole life is constantly felt by me as a contradiction. In order for me to exist I must believe that two contradictory things can exist in the same space. This is not a choice I make, it just is. JIGSAW, a puzzle made up of all different weird shaped pieces. It seems like it will never come together, it makes no sense, but it can and it does and it will. Jigsaw, pieces like where you grew up and in what kind of fucked up culutre and do you have a penis or not and didn your parentes have money and did you get teased for weraing the same coat four winters in a row and are you Thai-american or Black or Mulatto? And what do all these things mean when you are trying to resist, do something, have a good time??? I see Jigsaw, fuzzin in my head as everything else, sometimes clear. The fact that he grew up in a working class family has everything to do with how he is gonna express sexism, what kind of music he is gonna like, how I am gonna treat him. Jigsaw girl, she got fucked by her father, 8 years, people say she's flakey and inconsistent, lays in her bed eating donuts, reisisting going outside where the silence will engulf her, rather sit there eating than always be eaten up... her experience has everything to do with how the pieces are fitting together (or not) for her, judge her from your place without wondering what's going on in that there Jigsaw mind of hers, and you have pushed her further away from clicking, her hand wants so bad to feel, one edge against another, together, one piece next to another, locking into place... you have to ba able to see the puzzle before you start putting it together. Resistence is everywhere, it always has been and always will be. Just because someone is not resisting in the same way you are (being vegan, an 'out' lesbian, a political organizer) does not mean they are not resisting. Being told you are a worthless piece of shit and not believing it is a form of resistence. One girl calling another girl to warn her about a guy who date raped her, is another. And while she may look like a gib haired makeup girld who goes out with jocks, she is a soldier along with every other girl, and even though she may not be fighteing in the same loud way that some of us can (and do) it is the fact that she is resisting and that connects us, puts a piece together. Jigsaw Youth, I don't know what this means anymore than anyone... only what it means to me. Standing proud and saying "I don't know who I am, I wanna know more, I am not afraid to say things matter to me." Assuming that people are either "part of the problem or part of the solution" disincludes a lot of people, who, at this moment, do not feel (and therfore ARE NOT) safe enough, emotionally, physically, and/or financially to resist in the same ways you might be. By judging people according to your standards of resistence or whatever... it makes it harder for people to recognize what they're doing as being important and political etc.... it makes it harder for them to get into safe enought situations where they can resist in more outward, community oriented ways if they want to. Jigsaw Youth, the island of lost and broken toys, feminists who wear lipstick, people who envision 'the land of do as you please', whose lives are not simple and they are sick of trying to make themselves cohesive enough to fit into a box. Jigsaw Youth, listening, strategizing, tolerating, sc reaming, confronting, fearless, girl soldiers, boy lovers, boofy haired teen girls scraping out the eyes on a photo of Rick Astley, Jigsaw Youth, the misunderstood seekiing to understand other people's reality. Making mistakes... making mistakes.... making mistakes... making mistakes... feeling something. Knowing you will never see the puzzle put all together but trying anyways cuz each fucking piece really matters and being with friends matters. Jigsaw Youth... inventing and reinventing what these worlds mean. spoken word 1991- ps. the guy interupting is part of the performance

a call to all men One of the things punks and anarchists are famous for is pushing the edges of society - taking issues that liberals might be working on and making them 100 times more radical.

So I want to know where are the men writing zines and doing workshops and putting out info and writing songs and doing activism and educational work to reinvent what it means to be a man. I mean, I know there are lots of trans people doing fucking amazing work, but what about the rest of you.

If the liberals are doing this simple work, you should be doing it even more.

10 Things Men Can Do To End Men's Violence Against Women

1. Acknowledge and understand how sexism, male dominance and male privilege lay the foundation for all forms of violence against women.

2. Examine and challenge our individual sexism and the role that we play in supporting men who are abusive.

3. Recognize and stop colluding with other men by getting out of our socially defined roles, and take a stance to end violence against women.

4. Remember that our silence is affirming. When we choose not to speak out against men’s violence, we are supporting it.

5. Educate and re-educate our sons and other young men about our responsibility in ending men’s violence against women.

6."Break out of the man box"- Challenge traditional images of manhood that stop us from actively taking a stand to end violence against women.

7. Accept and own our responsibility that violence against women will not end until men become part of the solution to end it. We must take an active role in creating a cultural and social shift that no longer tolerates violence against women.

8. Stop supporting the notion that men’s violence against women can end by providing treatment for individual men. Mental illness, lack of anger management skills, chemical dependency, stress, etc… are only excuses for men’s behavior. Violence against women is rooted in the historic oppression of women and the outgrowth of the socialization of men.

9. Take responsibility for creating appropriate and effective ways to develop systems to educate and hold men accountable.

10. Create systems of accountability to women in your community. Violence against women will end only when we take direction from those who understand it most, women.