Greek vase showing Euripides’ Medea

Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 22:39:22 -0700 (PDT) To: "MHOCCA" <mhocca@egroups.com> From: "Client Activist" <accountability_caucus@yahoo.com> Subject: [MHOCCA] meeting with Medea Cc: Phil Winn, George Vizvary

This afternoon Saturday July 15th Medea Benjamin, Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate, spoke at the Active-Fest 2000 event in Boonville. Following this, a group of mental health clients met with Medea for about an hour. This group included Sharon Clausen, Alison Mills, Andrew Phelps, and four Santa Clara clients — Tom Jurgensen, Jose Rangel, Almalicia Castillo, and Barry Fultonberg. Some local (Mendocino) clients also joined the discussion. We talked from the heart and at length about the issues which move us, from IOC/AB 1800 to client-driven activities and self-help. Tom explained how saying “that’s crazy” when you mean “that’s a mistake” has a discriminatory overtone. Medea heard him, and she heard us. She emerged with not only a newfound sense of what we are about but with a determination to connect with our issues in the course of her campaign. Medea is running against incumbent Senator Dianne Feinstein and also a Republican challenger Tom Campbell. We wish her the very best and it must be said she made the kind of human contact with us that wins votes.