Welcome to the The Icarus Project journals. On this page you can find blogs by our members, co-coordinators, and local groups.
If you want to see all recent journal/blog entries by everyone, click here. Use the search box at right to search for a specific username or topic.
Icarus Member Journals
Click here on the main site and here on the forums to check out blogs by members of The Icarus Project's online community. Every registered Icarus member can create their own blog with the "my blog" link on the right hand navigation menu and starting to type! (Just make sure you're logged in first.) To find a member's blog, use the search box on the right.
Icarus Intergalactic Co-Coordinator Collective Journal
This blog, below, is the place to find organizational writing from Icarus Project collective as a whole. We'll keep you updated about what's happening with the project on a national level. Scroll down on this page to take a look at our blog entries, and feel free to post comments and feedback!
It's Aries birthday! Party at the Bmad HQ in Redhook... 
Will of Icarus and Freedom Center just had a story on the Zyprexa memos scandal published in Adbusters... Check it out. 
Icarus San Francisco & organizer Brooklynne Michelle were just profiled in a cover story in the San Francisco Weekly newspaper on people choosing to live without meds. Download it here, or go to: 
Will just had an article on welcoming people with psych labels at meditation retreats published in Turning Wheel magazine, 
9 months of research, writing, editing, discussing, consulting, planning, designing, sweating, panicking, despairing, freaking out, emailing back and forth, mutual aid, dreaming, community solidarity, and crazy-outta-control mad love later, the much-awaited 40-page book about reducing and coming off psych meds hits the presses...
Rolling across the east coast and up to the Mid-West, the Icarus Mad Gifts Week tour brings Madigan, Sascha, and Will to a community near you, with a stop at the film Blade Runner and a dreamtime materialization of a new red-and-black pharmaceutical. 
Icarus organizers Madigan Shive, Neil Gong, Sascha Scatter, Molly from Asheville, and Will Hall were invited to Virginia Tech to facilitate a dialog on mental health with students and other community members in the wake of the violent tragedy there... Includes photos and audio. 
The Icarus tour continues through Indianapolis, in the backyard of Eli-Lilly corporate headquarters...
Minneapolis MN USA Icarus organizers who are part of the North Star Health Collective are teaming up with Icaristas from NY and St. Louis to organize a jointly sponsored Wellness Center at the upcoming Republican National Convention Sept 1-4! Read more about the plan...
The Icarus Tour continues with stops in Chicago Illinois and Winona (as in Ryder) Minnesota... 
The Icarus flock swarms on Minneapolis Minnesota, for a delerious Samhain romp through darkness and puppets, visits with old friends, and facilitating a group discussion on radical mental health at the Arise collective bookstore. 
NPR's Weekend America did a 6 minute program on the Icarus Project tour visit to Virginia Tech. Audio and link to transcript. 
