VA Tech Social Freak Brigade Tour

FROM THE NEWSWIRE: Recently, a group of radical mental health activists visited Blacksburg, VA to facilitate a community conversation about mental health on the Virginia Tech campus. The Icarus Project, The Asheville Radical Mental Health Collective, and other mutual aid societies around the globe continue to challenge people to consider what it means to be labeled "crazy" in a culture which is obviously insane.

It’s the year 2007 and I’m traveling with a couple carloads of fellow radical mental health activists that have come to Blacksburg to facilitate a discussion about mental health on the Virginia Tech campus. We’re all very excited and nervous, we’ve been talking about it for days, unsure of the situation we’re walking into. Ever since the infamous massacre on April 16th, when 23 year old English student Seung-Hui Cho murdered 32 people before killing himself in a spectacular display of mass media inspired brutality, this campus has become, among other things. a dramatic symbol to many of everything that’s wrong with college mental health services in the United States. Of course the really scary part is that what happened at Virginia Tech could have happened at any number of big universities and the odds are likely that it will happen again. There are a lot of alienated and disturbed kids out there that have fallen through the cracks in a fragmented, traumatized society, and a there are also a lot of guns.