Wingnuts Liberation Project

The Wingnuts Liberation Project (WLP) has now been in construction (piece by piece) since October of 2006. Nobody is claiming any credentials or is claiming any "professionalism" here. Just another average working class Joe/Jane that suffers from depression (without giving it a conventionally institutionalized label) and has years under their belt fighting addiction(s)/substance abuse(s).

What is a wingnut? It is "a slang term for anyone perceived as odd or eccentric." Calling a human a "wingnut" is usually labeled at someone who brings attention to themselves, by talking to themselves out-loud or something of this nature. I first noticed people calling other people "wingnuts", when I lived in Berkeley Cal. around '97/'98. I'm reclaiming the word for this project. Wingnuts Unite!

I guess you could say that the D.I.Y. (Do It Yourself) culture and autonomous practicing communities is what sparked the desire to create this endeavor. Trust in mainstream psychiatry and drug and alcohol programs has been swept under the rug, (so to speak). It's time for us to wake up, stop compromising our integrity, and use D.I.Y./autonomous practices to develop and organically reclaim our minds and bodies.

This project is in solidarity with anti-psychiatry, radical mental health, and all others in the struggle against this capitalist system that only serves one purpose: to destroy us!

Future efforts & wish List:
Stencils, Stickers, Shirts, Zines/ Pamphlets, a Website, Teach-ins/Workshops & literature on Anti-Psychiatry, Radical Mental Health/Radical (Autonomous) Recovery, Alternative Substance Abuse Programs (or De-Programs!), and Awareness.

Benefit's to raise money are pretty easy to do. One could set up live bands somewhere to raise funds that would go right into production to make shirts, copies for Zines, Stickers (of course I'd help). Donations of blank shirts of any kind are accepted (preferably white or light colored shirts). If you or someone you know would like to help raise funds for this project.

Email me at: thrashbastards [at] yahoo.com
http://www.myspace.com/209Wingnut



In Struggle & Loco Liberation,
W L P !