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From: "Andrew Phelps" <starfish@northcoast.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 15:22:40 -0700
Subject: RE: [s-acc] re: CNMHC
Uvw:
What you came up with in 1998, of accountability, how I see it is a new history and movement away from CNHMC, not of the true history the movement that came from NAPA and Madness News, oh yes by 1986 there was the breaking of the way, as I said, but as for torture denial, those who went the way of the Network never left the thought of treatment torture, we just carried it in are hearts, and shared it when the time was right, I know I did, it's just since MHSA, that I can't get my story of torture and survivial to people today, this is torture denial.
We are talking here about the history of the "client/survivor" movement, not of a small group that got together and formed NAPA and then excluded many activists such as myself from participating. This "privileged elite" today is finally losing its hold on our movement, and the CNMHC is in 'meltdown' phase.
It's about time you take notice that the Social Accountability is a judgment about how to work towards and nurture the development of a "second wave" of our human rights movement. And that some individuals have used every form of negativity they can contrive to keep our movement from challenging "torture denial." This isn't about me and it's not about NAPA. It's about getting past the "Games People Play" coalition that NAPA formed and that was re-instituted by DMH's notion of "partnership" and then by the "learned helplessness" meltdown resulting from the MHSA.
To grasp the history of our movement as a "blame game" directed at me and Maria Maceira or at the leaders of NAPA is a wrong understanding of how human rights struggles work. The issues have to do with freedom and dignity not with "good persons" and "bad persons." NAPA made a disastrous political choice when they voted
not to make "opposition to the 'medical model'" a principle of unity. Now their INTENTIONAL COP-OUT (as people like Leonard Frank have described it to me) is "coming home to roost," as the question of "torture denial" is now on the table in clinical psychology.I wish we had Madness News back, so people can read the truth.
I believe that Bbb's suggestion earlier today speaks to what amounts to an "MNN upgrade."
Yesterday was the 80th birthday of Thomas Scheff, the sociologist who invented "labeling theory" 1966 and brought us a defense for our argumentation for "lived experience." I wish you'd stop denying my "lived experience," speaking personally. Tom doesn't; he invited me to the birthday party, and if I weren't so busy working on this APA question, I'd have gone. :-)
Andrew Phelps