How Can We Promote Emotional and Mental Well-Being in the Context of Activist Communities and Political Actions?
Submitted on December 18, 2011
By Graeme Bacque - Toronto Media Co-op
It has generally been the state’s practice to respond to extreme mental or emotional states by simply removing the person from public view to a locked place as rapidly as possible, utilizing coercive and at times outright violent measures to accomplish this...Sad to say, the tendency even among many activists has been to rely on conventional means that generally involve leaving it to the ‘professionals’ to address such issues, despite their complete, abject failure to do so in the past with any real compassion or respect for the individual.
