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After graduating from the Community Studies program at the University of California Santa Cruz in 1986, Hall worked for the Santa Cruz Sun newspaper as a staff reporter and for the Resource Center for Nonviolence's Brazil program. In 1988 he became a Co-Director of the Earth Island Institute's Environmental Project on Central America, and traveled to El Salvador and Nicaragua during the civil wars in those countries. |
After graduating from the Community Studies program at the University of California Santa Cruz in 1986, Hall worked for the Santa Cruz Sun newspaper as a staff reporter and for the Resource Center for Nonviolence's Brazil program. In 1988 he became a Co-Director of the Earth Island Institute's Environmental Project on Central America, and traveled to El Salvador and Nicaragua during the civil wars in those countries. |
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In 1990 Hall began to suffer a deterioration of his mental and emotional health and was involuntarily committed to San Francisco General Hospital in 1992. He spent a year in the public mental health system, including more than 2 months in locked wards at Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute |
In 1990 Hall began to suffer a deterioration of his mental and emotional health, and was involuntarily committed to San Francisco General Hospital in 1992. He spent a year in the public mental health system, including restraints, solitary confinement, and more than 2 months in locked wards at Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute. He was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder schizophrenia. |
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After leaving the traditional mental health system in 1993 Hall stopped taking psychiatric medications and began to reestablish his wellbeing using holistic health, spiritual training, and social supports. In 1996 he worked in the planning |
After leaving the traditional mental health system in 1993 Hall stopped taking psychiatric medications and began to reestablish his wellbeing using holistic health, spiritual training, and social supports. In 1996 he worked in the planning department of the advertising agency [[Wieden+Kennedy]], and in 1997 became at student at the [[California Institute of Integral Studies]]. After another crisis in 1999, he left school and spent six months at the alternative residential facility Burch House in New Hampshire. In 2000 Hall moved to Northampton, Massachusetts, where he worked for five years at Broadside Bookshop. In 2001 he began organizing in the [[psychiatric survivor]] movement, and with Oryx Cohen co-founded the Freedom Center. In 2004 he joined the co-coordinator collective of [[The Icarus Project]] and is author of the Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs [[http://theicarusproject.net/HarmReductionGuideComingOffPsychDrugs Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs]]. |
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In 2000 Hall wrote about the pirate radio movement for [[GovWorks.com]], and in 2002 joined activist Ed Russell to initiate a volunteer run low-power FM community radio station in Florence, Massachusetts, Valley Free Radio [[http://www.valleyfreeradio.org Valley Free Radio]].<ref>[http://www.freedom-center.org/pdf/ValleyAdvocateLPFM05-01.pdf Low Power To The People: How Pirate Radio Became Legal and Why Northampton Might Benefit]</ref> |
In 2000 Hall wrote about the pirate radio movement for [[GovWorks.com]], and in 2002 joined activist Ed Russell to initiate a volunteer run low-power FM community radio station in Florence, Massachusetts, Valley Free Radio [[http://www.valleyfreeradio.org Valley Free Radio]].<ref>[http://www.freedom-center.org/pdf/ValleyAdvocateLPFM05-01.pdf Low Power To The People: How Pirate Radio Became Legal and Why Northampton Might Benefit]</ref> |
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Revision as of 12:55, 25 April 2009
Will Hall (born 1966), is a mental health advocate, writer, and counselor. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, he is recognized internationally as a leading organizer with the psychiatric survivor movement. In 2001 he co-founded the Freedom Center and in 2005 became a co-coordinator of The Icarus Project. He has consulted with Mental Disability Rights International, the Family Outreach and Response Program, and the Federal Office on Violence Against Women. Will hosts the weekly FM radio program Madness Radio[Madness Radio], syndicated on the Pacifica Network, and in 2009 co-founded Portland Hearing Voices. He lives in Portland Oregon, where he studies Process Oriented Psychology and has a counseling practice.
Career
After graduating from the Community Studies program at the University of California Santa Cruz in 1986, Hall worked for the Santa Cruz Sun newspaper as a staff reporter and for the Resource Center for Nonviolence's Brazil program. In 1988 he became a Co-Director of the Earth Island Institute's Environmental Project on Central America, and traveled to El Salvador and Nicaragua during the civil wars in those countries.
In 1990 Hall began to suffer a deterioration of his mental and emotional health, and was involuntarily committed to San Francisco General Hospital in 1992. He spent a year in the public mental health system, including restraints, solitary confinement, and more than 2 months in locked wards at Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute. He was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder schizophrenia.
After leaving the traditional mental health system in 1993 Hall stopped taking psychiatric medications and began to reestablish his wellbeing using holistic health, spiritual training, and social supports. In 1996 he worked in the planning department of the advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy, and in 1997 became at student at the California Institute of Integral Studies. After another crisis in 1999, he left school and spent six months at the alternative residential facility Burch House in New Hampshire. In 2000 Hall moved to Northampton, Massachusetts, where he worked for five years at Broadside Bookshop. In 2001 he began organizing in the psychiatric survivor movement, and with Oryx Cohen co-founded the Freedom Center. In 2004 he joined the co-coordinator collective of The Icarus Project and is author of the Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs [Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs].
In 2000 Hall wrote about the pirate radio movement for GovWorks.com, and in 2002 joined activist Ed Russell to initiate a volunteer run low-power FM community radio station in Florence, Massachusetts, Valley Free Radio [Valley Free Radio].[1]