June 20-26 you’ll find members of the BARMH collective presenting workshops at the
Women and Trans Action Camp in Cascadia check it out at http://twac.wordpress.com/

July 24,25,26 Portland Zine Symposium. The best place to submit and purchase our zines.
Plus workshops on mental health and body image. This is an awesome event check it out at
http://www.pdxzines.com/

lunAcy Distro will be having a table again at the Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair for One Day only:

Saturday March 14th, 2009

Due to rising shipping and printing costs, this is the BEST place to get the zines and books of
your choice.

If you have zines in pdf format please send them to lunacydistro@riseup.net

If you have access to making free copies we could really use your help…..

Hope you are well and look for new web updates soon… xo lunAcy

Radical Relationship Workshop
Sunday, June 8th at 7PM
Long Haul Infoshop
3124 Shattuck Ave. (2 blocks from Ashby BART)
Berkeley, CA, Tel: (510) 540-0751
$20, sliding scale, Everyone Welcome
http://www.thelonghaul.org/

RADICAL RELATIONSHIPS WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
At a time when our nation is determined to keep us on the warpath, what better time to raise our voices against intolerance, hatred, and violence? At a time when our government propels us into a new dark age of fascism, what better time to talk about radical love, or the right to love who we want, how we want, and as many as we want? Loving openly and freely in these times, whether you are straight or queer, is a brave political act. We have been conditioned by outdated social norms that limit our perceptions and shackle us to unhealthy cycles of dissatisfying relationships. Yet we also live in a time when we can choose our gender and redefine our sexual identities. Don¹t we then have the right to decide what kind of relationship best suits our lifestyle? Declare yourself a revolutionary of the heart. Find out how you can expand your potential to love, transform your lifestyle, and together we can threaten the social forces of patriarchy!

Summer Time Summer Time
So this winter the Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair proved to be an Awesome experience where we
made some amazing connections. I want to thank everyone for all of the work that they are doing!!
You are not alone.

I would 1st like to
invite people to check out my two new favorite books:

1. Aftershock: Confronting Trauma in a Violent World,
A guide for Activist and Their Allies.
by Pattrice Jones
http://aftershock.pattricejones.info/

2. Trauma Stewardship. An everyday guide to caring for self while caring for others
by Laura Van Dernoot with Connie Burk
http://www.traumastewardship.com/

Secondly, Check out our events page for new things going on in the Bay Area and Elsewhere.

lunAcy Distro is running slow as usual so please have patience.

Submit Zines for the distro to lunAcy Distro 484 44th st Oakland CA 94609

We have no new meeting set up but if your are interested in getting involved email
lunacydistro@riseup.net

- xoxo lunAcy

Firstly if you’ve tried to order between January-March and have not had a response from us. Please contact us again. Our email server was down and lost some of our messages.

Secondly, B.A.R.M.H.C will be tabling at the following events:
 Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair March 22 in SF
http://sfbookfair.wordpress.com/

Finding Our Roots Anarchist Conference in Chicago April 18-21, 2008
http://mayfirst.wordpress.com/

Soma is a series of sessions/experiences using body games to create a group dynamic, inspired by principles of self-organisation and solidarity. When Roberto Freire created ‘Soma – an anarchist therapy’ in Brazil, more than thirty years ago, he was looking for therapeutic methodologies that could help people emotionally who were fighting against the military dictatorship. Changing therapy into experiment, we have turned the Soma (which means ‘totality of being’ in Greek) approach away from an emphasis on neurosis (we have something wrong) towards the gaining of skills (we can learn something new).

This approach breaks with the traditional rational way to develop skills, where the mind is split from the body, the individual removed from its surroundings. Soma games are proposals to play in a group - sharing experiences of collaboration, trust and responsibility. It’s this group dynamic created by Soma games that stimulate the whole being to engage with the world. After the games, the participants will process their experience, talking about their perceptions and behavior playing together.

The body is the material to work with: movement, perception and contact with each other to dare to be creative in everyday life. Play is a way to rediscover the body, just as collaboration helps to rediscover relationships.

Traditionally, the series of Soma sessions extends over a year’s time, and involves the martial art, Capoeira Angola. These two workshops will be an introduction to the process and kinds of games used in a Soma group. They will be led by Arthur Swindells, who has been involved with Soma activities in London for three years, with Jorge Goia.

FIRST WORKSHOP: at the Suigetsukan Dojo, 103 International Blvd, right by Lake Merrit in Oakland. 7PM-10PM, Sunday, Jan. 27

SECOND WORKSHOP: at Station 40, 3030b 16th st. (at Mission) in SF. 7PM-10PM, Tuesday, Jan. 29

Suggested Donation: $3-$5. No one turned away for lack of funds.

will be….

Monday January 7th, 2008
2231 Ashby Ave
Berkeley CA

…………………………

e-mail with ?’s
lunacydistro@riseup.net

Next Radical Mental Health Meeting
starts at 5pm

See you then….
All are welcome

NEXT MEETING:
Hello - we will be having a get together
Thursday December 20th where we will be
reading mental health zines and re-viewing them for the
web site and zine distro. If you have a zine or book
you would like to see added to the distro please
bring that as well.

www.radicalmentalhealth.net

5pm - 7pm sharp
bring a laptop if you have one
bring dinner sorrta stuff if you can (theres a trader joes across the street)
bring a friend
being a story
ok well just bring you…. thats great by itself.

E_MAIL: lunacydistro@riseup.net for directions

bus lines take you right there www.511.org
also a quick bike ride from 19th street or lake merritt bart’s

see you then - BARHM

Have questions about life, love, sex, work. Tired of boring advice columns from people who couldn’t possibly understand you.

Check out our new site here

Sunday December 9th
4pm
2231 Ashby Avenue - You’ll see a wooden fence with Cell Phones on it.

As you all may have noticed, the Bay Area Radical Mental Health
Collective has been on a bit of a hiatus for the last few months. But
inspirations has struck once again, and we’re ready to regroup, and
figure out what we want to do next, and what is sustainable for all
involved. To that end the collective will be meeting on Sunday,
December 9th, from 4-6pm, in Berkeley, and we’d love to meet others in
the community who would like to work with us. If you are interested in
participating, please get in touch for the location.

In Solidarity,
Isis