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DESCRIPTION:On June 2nd, from 6-8 at The Holdout, Rad Brains is going to facilitate a 
 discussion about repression, oppression, and mental health. We're not 
 looking for speakers, necessarily, but we're reaching out to people who 
 have experience with repression and oppression, either through lived 
 experience or working on these issues in some capacity, to be involved in 
 the conversation. \n\nAs an anti-capitalist group examining the 
 intersections of what goes on in our heads with what goes on everywhere 
 else, especially as it relates to the effects of white supremacy, 
 patriarchy and capitalist class war, we think it's important to think 
 through together how we experience repression and oppression on the 
 individual, relational and community level and how we respond. \n\nWe have 
 some questions to guide the conversation:\n\nHow do we experience 
 repression? How do we experience oppression? What's the difference?\n\nHow 
 do these things work on us and work on our communities 
 psychologically?\n\nHow do we process paranoia? How do we determine what's 
 anxiety and what's fear? What is a "real threat"?\n\nHow are our responses 
 to oppression and repression used against us?\n\nWhat tools do we have to 
 fight repression/oppression and how do they work? How can we make them work 
 better?\n\nRad Brains, a mental health collective that's part of the Bread 
 & Roses Mutual Aid collective, is an anti-capitalist collective interested 
 in broadening political analysis by removing mental health from the medical 
 and personal contexts and addressing it as a community and social issue 
 that intersects with struggles against white supremacy, patriarchy, 
 colonialism, and other forms of oppression. We want to open a regular space 
 for conversations about mental health that deepen our understanding of 
 these intersections, address the ways our community might replicate 
 oppressive structures, and develop skills to be with one another in our 
 daily lives and in the streets as a strategy to attack the state and resist 
 oppression. Strong communities build strong resistance. \n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/05/24/18737309.php
SUMMARY:Mental Health, Oppression, and Repression: A Community Discussion
LOCATION:The Holdout, 2313 San Pablo, Oakland
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/05/24/18737309.php
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