A University of Florida student from the African country of Ghana, Kofi Adu-Brempong, allegedly 'psychotic' for a year or so, was shot in the face by a police officer last Wednesday here in Gainesville, Florida. In the hospital, Kofi's condition was recently upgraded from critical to serious. Kofi was said to have had polio as a child, and moved around with the aid of a cane. Charges of police brutality have been leveled against the officers involved in the shooting and arrest. A press conference was held about this shooting Saturday, and a protest has been planned a couple of weeks from now.

Communication should be a required subject in grade schools, the history of language styles, and the history of wars. We need to eliminate war completely because we cannot afford the consequences; we never could; Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Pearl Harbour and the horrible underwater testing and underground testing events are self destructive because the impact on the environment is so devastating. Farmers of any culture know immediately the effects of war not just the disruption but the poor contaminated soil, the contaminated water, and the air that doesn't return to normal if ever.

Hello World,

Today I start a Journal about my work in Kenya as a Human rights activists pushing for legislative reforms in the mental health system in Kenya.

I came back to Kenya after many years living in the US (in January of 2007) to establish an organization-MindFreedom Kenya, for the past two years much was accomplished in creating awareness about the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities(UN CRPD) however the fight still continues.

Vulnerable people need defenders of their rights. It is not unusual for families to become burdened with the extra stress and work involved in caring for an older person or handicapped person so since the creation of institutions, people have been dumped with idealistic hopes on the part of their families into classically run institutions. Working families in particular have found the demands of modern upwardly mobile lifestyles require someone to deal with breakdown of idealism through incarceration in homes for the mentally handicapped/(old term mentally retarded), homes for the aged/(old term: for the elderly), transition houses for those caught in addiction or youth rejected for rebellion.

Isn't it funny how some statements draw an absolute blank from people reading those statements? I'm wondering sometimes, how to get a skin reaction, but I figure if I just keep at it eventually it will come. Somebody is going to wake up, blink their eyes, and go, "What? Am I actually reading what I'm reading. This can't be right. I must do something about this."