On Mar 19, 2008, at 9:04 AM, Doyle Saylor wrote:
Greetings Economists,
Oakland Print Artist, Casper Banjo, was shot to death last week by
the Oakland Police. Casper had been on Pushing Limits, the
disability rights program of KPFA radio in Berkeley, and was a
friend of our collective.
Doyle,
Thanks for posting this. I'll pass it on to Joan Buffington at KVMR in
Nevada City CA. She still does a community radio program on mental
health (and indigenous) issues called Who Cares? that we began a dozen
or so years ago with a Sound Partners for Community Health Grant.
There is a fairly strong Stamp Out Stigma effort here to establish
community awareness of the unnecessary travails of people with mental
health issues. Through the efforts of a Mental Health Peer Empowerment
Center called Spirit, we've included the police and courts in this
stigma eradication efforts. They sit on our steering committees, etc.
I remember an event back in 1984 or so when a Los Angeles policeman
shot and killed a mentally unstable person who was simply standing on
a street corner clicking a television remote control at passing cars.
It's very sad when two convoluted world views come into contact.
If Joan wishes to pursue this topic on her radio show, what's the best
contact number? We can work on this off-line.
Dan Scanlan
Grass Valley CA
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