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“I got sick and tired of being treated like crap”
by Jane Edgett - Hundreds of thousands of Canadian families have been plunged into poverty by a workers compensation system that denies them support.
Continue reading...Hungry for Solutions
10. January 2011
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Gabor Maté’s books are commercially successful because they tap into popular awareness of social problems while avoiding the uncomfortable conclusion that social revolution is required to solve them.
Continue reading...Madness, Power and the Media
3. January 2011
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Author Stephen Harper explains how media images of madness and mental distress reflect and reinforce the unequal social relations of capitalism.
Continue reading...Should Physicians be Activists?
20. September 2010
Dr. Roland Wong is under threat of losing his license to practice medicine. He helped people on social assistance get extra money for food.
Continue reading...One Million Kids on Anti-Psychotics
20. September 2010
Corporate America is awash in cash it stole from working-class families, whose distressed children are being labeled with mental disorders and drugged into submission.
Continue reading...Mental Illness or Social Sickness?
18. May 2008
A society based on exploitation and oppression must portray its victims and rebels as sick or deviant. Instead of correcting the social sources of sickness, psychiatry extracts the individual from society, splits the brain from the body, severs the mind from the brain and drugs the brain.
Continue reading...Where’s the Justice?
1. September 2007
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Those who want to “crack down on crime” ignore the root cause of crime; the capitalist system of organized thievery.
Continue reading...The Secret: Snake Oil for the Soul
22. February 2007
The Secret assumes that we live in a just world where those who suffer must be doing something wrong.
Continue reading...Anger is the Emotion of Injustice
17. February 2007
Anger is an instinctive, automatic response to unfairness.
Continue reading...Tookie Was Right. They Want You to Blame Yourself
8. November 2006
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The labor movement has a slogan, An Injury to One is an Injury to All. Capitalism has a different slogan, It’s All Your Fault.
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