Madness Network News

05/07/2023

Today’s action, shutting down the trains— a historic act of resistance🔥

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05/06/2023

Justice for Jordan Neely 🔥✊🏽

[Image Description: the first photo is a photo of Jordan Neely with a banner behind that reads the city has abandoned our people, poverty should not be a death sentence. The next three photos are of protest carrying signs and banners marching through the streets. The signs read housing is a human right, Black Lives Matter, and Justice for Jordan Neely. After that is a close up of an Black activist yelling into at a microphone. Followed by a photo of people marching through the streets At night. The last image is a close up of a sign that reads Justice for Jordan Neely.]

05/04/2023

REST IN POWER Jordan Neely 🔥

CW: murder, anti-Blackness

Jordan Neely an unhoused Black man on a Manhattan subway train was assaulted by being put into a chokehold and murdered. Media outlets are calling him a “mentally ill and unhinged” man. These labels and violence targeting Black, unhoused, mad and disabled people are unacceptable. We demand justice for Jordan along with the many others who are killed by carceral violence everyday, enough is enough.

[Image Description: a black and white photo of Jordan Neely in front of a city skyline.]

03/20/2023

CW: murder, anti-Blackness, restraint
We demand further justice for Irvo Otieno who was murdered by police and psychiatric staff at Central State Hospital south of Richmond, Virginia last week. Black Mad and Disabled people are often criminalized and labeled as deviant so often. When we as Black and Brown Mad people are murdered the public doesn’t go into an uproar because they assume we did something to deserve it. These sanist and ableist narratives need to not prevail. Though some of the people who murdered Irvo are getting murder charges not all of them are being held accountable. Policing in psychiatric institutions is not passive it is violent and we need to stop depicting these institutions as places of ‘treatment’ especially if they are going to continue to drug, restrain, and murder people. We are calling for outrage and . Currently, as states continue to propose the expansion of involuntary commitment, we are demanding that policymakers and people of the United States recognize and stop these involuntary commitment policies and all violence in every institution. Fight for the liberation of Mad people. Fight for the liberation of the silenced and erased.

Read full article about Irvo at the link in bio.

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01/27/2023

The rise in anti-trans and q***r bills in the United States like “Don’t Say Gay.” Reminds us of the Gay Liberation Front’s long fight against the pathology of homosexuality and electroshock in the 1970s. In this interview with trans and non-binary youth in Grant Pass, Oregon we see youth fighting for their rights and access to voluntary non-carceral community mental health supports.

Last spring, Madness Network News met with a group of high school students to talk about their experiences of being q***r, trans and nonbinary at Grants Pass High School. We talked about transphobi…

07/31/2022

Resurfacing some content from the 1980s that is still relevant today.

“Feeling Sad and Depressed? Are you anxious? Worried about your future? Feeling isolated and alone? You might be suffering from CAPITALISM.”

[Image Description: A red graphic with a picture of a nurse writing on a clipboard next to them reads the following text: Feeling Sad and Depressed? Are you anxious? Worried about your future? Feeling isolated and alone? You might be suffering from CAPITALISM.]

07/26/2022

New article on Anti-Psychiatry vs Psychiatric Abolition. Read article here: https://madnessnetworknews.com/2022/07/26/anti-psychiatry-vs-psychiatric-abolition/

[Image Description: a photo of a person with purple hair holding a sign that says “Free the Mad” and a white lab coat with the “Fire to the Psych Wards” painted on the back. Behind that photo is a black background with text that reads Madnesses Network News, New Article, Anti-Psychiatry vs Psychiatric Abolition.]

07/22/2022

Tell Governor Newsom we do not need CARE Court!

The CARE Court proposal ( ) would allow courts to force involuntary medical treatment and deprive people of autonomy over healthcare decisions. This proposal would move us back towards the dark history of institutionalizing Disabled people.

Sign the open letter to the Governor to let him know that we need is adequate allocations of resources for affordable, accessible housing and voluntary community-based services, not coercive mental healthcare treatment.
Learn more and sign the online letter at the link in our bio.

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07/13/2022

Just a reminder of our potential for revolution.

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07/07/2022

If you have not had the chance to read our interview with California Association of Mental Health Peer Run Organizations called Care Not Court, please do so and help in California's fight against CARE Courts!

Read article here: https://madnessnetworknews.com/2022/06/13/care-not-court-an-interview-with-camhpro/

[Image Description: a light pink background with red text that reads: "Anybody can refer someone from a family member to a cop, to a counselor, to a school teacher. Anybody could say, "You know, I think you need to be referred to CARE Court," and then that person has to go through this 12 to 24 month coercive process of taking the medicine and the treatment that is "given" to them - and the housing that is supposedly going to be provided."
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06/13/2022

Please read this recent interview we did with CAMHPRO about the California "Care Court." If you want to join the fight against this oppressive legislation. Join our movement as we organize in Sacramento tomorrow, June 14th, 9:00am Pacific Time.

Article:
https://madnessnetworknews.com/2022/06/13/care-not-court-an-interview-with-camhpro/

Image description: "Care {Not court} Rally. June 14th, 2022. 9am to noon. Westside Capital, Sacramento." There is the logo for Campro (California Association of Mental Health and Peer Run Organizations.) There is an image of someones hands clasping barred windows. "Mental diversity is not a crime. Stand against Forced Treatment. Say no to Newsom's Care court."

06/03/2022

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