Dramatic Curving Skybridge Tower in Manhattan
The renowned architecture group BIG is behind the design of two interconnected skyscrapers in Manhattan, featuring an innovative twisting skybridge. Set within a larger development, it features four towers and a central museum characterized by its spiral design.
Known as Freedom Plaza, the 6.7 site will sit across from the United Nations headquarters, and have prime real estate along the East…
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Time, Memory, and Emotion
The relationship between time, memory, and emotion is purposefully ill-defined. Presented with an image, or a smell, or simply the way a September morning’s light strikes the earth, we are taken back to a moment in time…more than a memory, as we feel it all again…let it sink in…the vague chill over our bodies, the ringing in our ears, and the feeling of uncertainty…feeling it all over again, I…
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Hundreds of Jewish anti-war demonstrators have been arrested during a Passover seder that doubled as a protest in New York, as they shut down a major thoroughfare to pray for a ceasefire and urge the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, to end US military aid to Israel.
The 300 or so arrests took place on Tuesday night at Grand Army Plaza, on the doorstep of Schumer’s Brooklyn residence, where thousands of mostly Jewish New Yorkers gathered for the seder, a ritual that marked the second night of the holiday celebrated as a festival of freedom by Jews worldwide.
The seder came just before the US Senate resoundingly passed a military package that includes $26bn for Israel.
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October 9th is Psychiatric Survivor Pride Day
“The problems of the ex-patient are more subtle but no less pressing. Many ex-patients try to cope with what has happened to them by pretending that the experience never occurred. However, because the experience of having once been a mental patient teaches you to think of yourself as less than human, this is not a satisfactory solution. People feel emotions. They are justifiably happy or sad, angry, calm, elated, and so forth. As patients, however, we were taught to think of ourselves as permanently crippled, and we tend to react to the normal ups and downs of life as affirmations of our secret deformity. In addition, society imposes penalties upon ex-patients which affect you whether or not you acknowledge your identity. For the rest of your life, you will lie on applications for jobs, schools, and driver's licenses, and worry about being found out. Your friends and acquaintances will be divided into two groups, those who know and those who don't, and it will always be necessary to watch what you say to the latter. Ex-patients are full of anger at what has been done to them, but alone and unorganized this anger is not expressed and is often turned inward against oneself. Our anger is the fuel of our movement, and when we come together, acknowledging our identity to ourselves and to each other, we will have made the first and largest step in striking back at our oppressors.”
— "Mental Patients' Liberation: Why? How?", originally distributed in the early 1970s by Mental Patients' Resistance of Brooklyn, New York
[image ID] Seven photographs from antipsychiatry demonstrations. They are described below, in order of appearance:
1. a picture taken at the National Association for Rights Protection & Advocacy (NARPA) Conference on November 10, 2000 in Sacramento, California. Fifty to sixty people stand around a red sign with white text that reads: NO FORCED TREATMENT EVER.
2. a picture taken on October 9th, 1999 in Toronto, Ontario during a march for Psychiatric Survivor Pride Day. Several people march in a line, including one man at the start of the march playing bagpipes. Behind him is a hand-painted sign being held up that reads: Psychiatric Survivor Pride Day.
3. pictures taken at a demonstration outside the California State Capitol building in Sacramento on February 28th, 2000. The signs in each of these pictures say: Psychiatric drugs can kill!
4. a picture taken at a demonstration outside the American Psychiatric Association's 156th annual meeting in San Fransisco, California. The activist's sign says: PSYCHIATRY IS NOT A MEDICAL PROFESSION: IT IS A TOOL OF OPPRESSION.
5. a picture taken at a demonstration outside the Jacob Javits Center, hosting the American Psychiatric Association's 167th annual meeting in New York City on May 4th, 2014. The picture features an activist wearing a printed t-shirt and is cropped so as not to feature the face of the wearer. The t-shirt says: TO HELL WITH THEIR PROFITS, STOP FORCED DRUGGING OF PSYCHIATRIC INMATES!
6 and 7. pictures taken at a demonstration outside the California State Capitol building in Sacramento on February 28th, 2000. The signs in each of these pictures say: Psychiatric drugs can kill!, STOP expansion of forced treatment, Mental illness is NOT a CRIME, and FORCED MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT IS INHUMANE.
8. a picture taken at an antipsychiatry demonstration on May 2nd, 1998 in Freedom Plaza, Washington D.C. Two people hold a hand-painted banner-sign that says: BET YOUR ASS WE'RE PARANOID.
9. taken at an antipsychiatry demonstration hosted by the Mental Patients Liberation Alliance during Mad Pride Week in 2000, between July 13th and 16th on the lawn in front of the New York State Capitol Building in Albany. [end of ID]
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USA Protests for Palestine This Weekend
List from the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights
https://uscpr.org/oct-2023-protests/
Thursday, November 2
ST PAUL, MN | Thursday, November 2nd at 12PM at St. Kate’s O’Shaughnessy Auditorium
PORTLAND, OR | Thursday, November 2nd at 3PM at 911 NE 11th Avenue
BOSTON, MA | Thursday, November 2nd at 4PM at Brewer Fountain, Boston Commons
YPSILANTI, MI | Thursday, November 2nd at 4PM at Eastern Michigan University Student Center
CLEVELAND, OH | Thursday, November 2nd at 6:30PM at Beit Hanina Cultural Center
Friday, November 3
ST PAUL, MN | Friday, November 3rd at 4PM at Snelling & Summit Ave
BROOKLYN, NY | Friday, November 3rd at 4:30PM at Brooklyn District 10 Office 340A 9th Street
MENLO PARK, CA | Friday, November 3rd at 5PM at Meta HQ 1 Hacker Way
Saturday, November 4
NATIONAL MARCH ON WASHINGTON | Washington DC, November 4th, 2 PM. Freedom Plaza. Cosponsored by USCPR and other organizations.
OLYMPIA, WA | Saturday, November 4th at 12PM at City Hall
CINCINNATI, OH | Saturday, November 4th at 12PM at Ziegler Park
RICHLAND, WA | Saturday, November 4th at 12PM at John Dam Plaza
ORONO, ME | Saturday, November 4th at 12PM at UMaine Folger Library
NASHVILLE, TN | Saturday, November 4th at 1PM at Centennial Park
SAN FRANCISCO, CA | Saturday, November 4th at 1PM at Civic Center
SACRAMENTO, CA | Saturday, November 4th at 1PM at Arden Fair Mall
BURLINGTON, VT | Saturday, November 4th at 1PM at Battery Park
PROVO, UT | Saturday, November 4th at 1PM at 550 N University Ave
JUNEAU, AK | Saturday, November 4th at 2PM at Marine Park
LAKEWOOD, OH | Saturday, November 4th at 2PM at City Center Park
SEATTLE, WA | Saturday, November 4th at 3PM at 400 Pine St
TUSCON, AZ | Saturday, November 4th at 3PM at Catalina Park
Sunday, November 5
DENVER, CO | Sunday, November 5th at 12PM at 200 E Colfax Ave
DALLAS, TX | Sunday, November 5th at 2PM at 3333 Turtle Creek Blvd
ROCKVILLE, MD | Sunday, November 5th at 2PM at 101 Monroe St
SAN CARLOS, CA | Sunday, November 5th at 6:15PM at Hiller Aviation Museum
poster art by Shreya Shah from a publicly available collection of free art for Palestine
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There will be a national march organized by Palestinian Youth Movement on November 4th at Washington, DC near Freedom Plaza at 2 PM for the largest march for Palestine in U.S's history.
For more information click the link.
If you can not attend, then please consider helping by paying for the buses, supplies, and housing by making a donation here:
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