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From: "Andrew Phelps" <starfish@northcoast.com>
Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 15:26:17 -0700
Subject: [xxx] grassroots program
Hi
I'm bringing together the leading "community advocacy" group in Santa Clara Co. - Silicon Valley De-Bug - and the leading "community advocacy" group in our movement in Alameda Co., the Berkeley/Oakland Homeless Action Center, for a program at San Jose City College. That's Tues. the 12th 12:30-2 in room SC-204; [here’s]
the flyer.The importance of the struggle for dignity cannot be underestimated. We've tended to focus on 'freedom' and put 'dignity' to one side, and that's got to change. Each is
very important.The M.H. system is caught in a "learned helplessness" tailspin, between budgetary woes and their stuckness in implementing MHSA. The way to get to "real transformation" involves constructing the "new shoots" of the future, such as HAC and De-Bug.
Andrew Phelps