INVITATION TO JOIN DOG JUSTICE FOR MENTALLY ILL BLOG
AS A CONTRIBUTING MEMBER
POST YOUR STORIES AND PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS
POST YOUR STORIES AND PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS
Dogged out mentally ill people and their families are invited to join DOG JUSTICE blog and post your stories for free. You will have three months to tell your stories, whether positive or negative. If you do not feel comfortable writing yourself, we will do it for you and launch a petition for you, if desired. You will be responsible for your own content regarding validity, etc. Every member can post as many blogs as desired during the three months of membership. By rotating members who contribute to the blog every quarter, we hope to give 400 dogged out mentally ill people and their families an opportunity to use this service every year. Three months of high visibility online may turn your situation around. Many people will know and care about you and want to help.
ADVERTISERS - It seems a good idea for everyone needing health care or legal services for mentally ill and/or drug addicted people to know where they can find a variety of services at a single website. At DOG JUSTICE FOR MENTALLY ILL blog, advertisers will be able to post lengthy or short public service announcements (including photos and videos), rather than just a small ad. Ideally, DOG JUSTICE blog will bring together mentally challenged and addicted people and their partners with health care professionals and attorneys who can help them. Advertisers may renew their memberships quarterly and post two public service announcements per quarter. No members' posts or ads will ever be removed by the blog's administrator without a request, so your content should have a permanent presence online at DOG JUSTICE FOR MENTALLY ILL blog and continue to be accessed by members and the general public indefinitely.
HIGH VISIBILITY - My sites usually enjoy good traffic on the web, and members seeking help zealously promote the blog among their friends and social networks. Members will recognize that sharng our DOG JUSTICE link brings more attention to their issues and signatures for their petitions, therefore a greater chance of satisfactory resolution. Every time members share a link to DOG JUSTICE, we necessarily publish the advertisers goods and services. Promoting services by psychiatrists, counselors, drug treatment centers, attorneys, etc., will decrease the number of people incarcerated for mental illness and remove barriers to timely treatment. I will promote DOG JUSTICE blog diligently, as it is our goal to help the mentally ill resolve legal issues and ultimately replace incarceration with inpatient and outpatient care. Ideally, 400 different members every year will be introducing your treatment or legal services to their networks in perpetuum, even if you only join the blog for one quarter.
Members work together for DOG JUSTICE for the mentally ill.
Decriminalize mental illness.
Individuals and families impacted by mental illness who want a permanent affiliation with Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill (AIMI) are invited to join us at Care2 Network: http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/aimi - Care2 memberships are free, but no sales are allowed. AIMI expects to start a Google+ group by March 1, 2012, and you are invited to join and publish there at no cost. (I have never been able to get the Facebook AIMI group page to act right. Their loss.)
Talking about mental illness helps to remove the stigma attached to that common, treatable health disorder. Reaching out for help is the wise course. TRY to email me at MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com or call me at (678)531-0262 to arrange membership. If you fail to get a response within two(2) days, it means your attempt to communicate with me failed. Leave a comment with your email address, website and/or phone number in the comments section at DOG JUSTICE FOR MENTALLY ILL blog or one of my other Blogger blogs - FreeSpeakBlog, MaryLovesJustice, or JusticeGagged. Unfortunately, work to decriminalize mental illness has opponents, and communicating with me can be difficult. Interference is probably because full prisons are profitable to prison investors. Human rights work has always suffered opposition, including slavery abolition, women's suffrage, the labor movement, and the civil rights movement. However, God is on our side. Use DOG JUSTICE blog link today: http://dogjusticeformentallyill.blogspot.com/ - See the "Dog Justice" poem below. It was used by "Stolen Lives Project" and is republished by prison activists everywhere who realize that the mentally ill comprise over half of America's massive prison rolls. The mentally ill usually stay in prison longer (no good time), have a higher rate of recidivism, and endure harsher living conditions as inmates, including solitary confinement, brutality, and in my brother's case, death. DOG JUSTICE poem tells my story. With DOG JUSTICE blog, let's tell yours.
DOG JUSTICE
by Mary Neal (all rights reserved)
Too bad you weren't a dog, my brother
In my heart, I cried
Many more people would care about you
And wonder why you died
You had no spots or floppy ears
You never fetched a ball
Instead, you were a human being
But poor, black, and flawed
You died in jail for mental illness
I know down in my heart
Your death would be investigated
If only you could bark
Dog deaths get swift justice
Their abusers are sent to jail
Poor Mama would have closure now
If you'd had a wagging tail
But you were made in God's image
And some day, I have no doubt
The mentally ill and American dogs
Will have at least equal clout
Blessings!
This is a great cause, and a heartfelt poem.
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