PsychOUT Conference
May 7-8, 2010

Proceedings of the PsychOUT Conference

 

ABSTRACT: Griffin Epstein, Syrus, Liisa & Mac from No One Is Illegal, Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, DAMN2025 and the Prison Abolition Movement, Ayshia Musleh

Anti-Psychiatry and Community Organizing

(no paper is attached to this panel)

At borders, in social assistance offices, at work, with police, and in many other places, psychiatrized people are targeted, discriminated against and marginalized. This panel was a discussion created by a radical cross-disability activist organization engaged in political action around disability and anti-psychiatry. The panel presented a discussion about anti-psychiatry organizing in the day-to-day work of grassroots community organizations in Toronto. Members of organizations within the anti-poverty, status for all and anti-racist movements in the city spoke about their work and how psychiatric survivors and an anti-psychiatry analysis are incorporated in their organizing. The panel helped develop a shared radical disability analysis to help foster better communication between grassroots organizations in Toronto and beyond. It will engaged anti-psychiatry activists who are involved solely or primarily in anti-psychiatry organizing about how these issues are integral to anti-psychiatry organizing as a whole and the necessity of supporting these movements.