Finding new  housing seems to be about outsmarting the landlords, they want their money and that is all they are concerned about.  I wish I knew better how to navigate these terrible two's l- lords.  They make your life so difficult it isn't worth it! When you're all done you're so stressed from trying to get into the place you'd think you were getting a palace out of it!! No, it's worse than I thought!! So I've been trying to get a response from the Management company that manages an apartment on North Broadway.  It's been months and I still haven't spoken to any body!! I finally got them to send me the application which took some serious doing, and then I waited at the door and met the Super who told me that there is availability in the building, it is just a matter of getting the okay from the management company.  That is another impossibility!! They refuse to respond to me at all.  I have left messages, posted on their form on their web page, nothing doing!! What do I have to go through to get through to somebody??!!!  It is despicable what kind of power they wield here!!   No I am not playing games, I need a roof over my head or I'm going to lose my section 8 voucher people!! This is literally the move the mountain train, I just can't do it!!

  Dealing with bad landlords is like living in a place you don't want to be or wish for your worst enemy!! I cannot deal with another bad landlord.  Two days ago I had no heat or hot water!! I have put up with so much since i left my home.  Every landlord I've had as some kind of quirk and especially big time arrogance!   I would never treat a tenant the way they have treated me!! I wish things were different but it is a landlord's market and it seems that the politicians want to keep it that way!! We suffer at their hands and no one cares or tries to do anything about the situation!!   All the good things I have missed in my life because of constraints being put on it!! I feel like I barely made a decision about myself in my life!! Things always go the way others seem to push on me, but I have barely any control on my own life!! I don't like living this way and when I try to make the effort to make big changes, it is very difficult to move the heavy mountains surrounding me!!  I have seen so many people commit suicide in my life, not that I watched it, but they were my friends or acquaintances and I suffered their loss!!
   Life can get really scary when someone close to you is really suffering and watching someone come close to death, as my mother did this past year while in the hospital for a month, was a big stress for me and for my children as well.  But she pulled through it ans so did we.    However, I don't want to go back there, it was very push and go there for a while.  So now I'm looking forward to moving into a new place but it seems that there are no places to be found here in Yonkers.   The landlords have the foot up on us as we don't have a choice and they can ask anything and get it!! It is so frustrating to go through this; having the door slammed in my face at every turn.  It just keeps proving to me that others try to make things seem so simple, but why don't they go and find a place for me to live.   Oh you have all the resources in place, so just go and find a place...it's not that easy!!   If it was, I'd be there already, but the rents here in Westchester are astronomical and I have a section 8 voucher, that immediately puts a black mark on my chest!! I don't know where all those programs are who are fighting for fair housing, they don't actually help us down here in the trenches!! Where are they when you really need them??!!!

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Hx0nsfhBqNQ6Kd9Od9n6XcuHLpe6XeyEJLsYurN-nAk

   I am always battling for something, in life that never seems to end.  For  now I am battling to hold onto my housing.  Things are looking better but at the same time I have to give up for every little thing I receive!!  My rights to what little income I had are being taken over and meanwhile my landlord gets his druthers!!! That is what irks me no end!!  They can claim all kinds of money that I owe them but when it comes to me, I do not get what I need on all fronts!!  When the agencies who say they will help you barely come through you know you've hit a low point!!   Everyone likes to talk big, but passing out the bucks is another story!! I feel like I've been mowed down by the system.  It really looms out of control!

Run away actions

   Well things are getting tight, with all the economic hardships around today you can't wink.  My wallet was stolen , my phone was stolen, and I had my email hacked.  People must think you're crazy when you tell them things like that.  They seem to not know how or not want to help you under those circumstances.  I wish that the world was a friendlier place.  But there is a big dichotomy between the haves and the have not's today.  The divide only seems to be getting wider not narrower, and when they say that the employment picture is getting better, I just wonder whose angle are they viewing it from any way.  Life goes on with me or without me. and sometimes I feel very separated through the big divide.  I feel as though I don't have much to show for my time and that things could be  a lot better.  People talk of hope and change but I want to see it in action, not just a feat of the imagination.     Too many people are being put under attack and the freedom of the good old days feels like a thing of the past.  I want to see change just as much as anyone else does.   I thought when Obama came into office we had real change in store but since then I think we have all be a little disillusioned.  We don't have ways that can lead us to rectify the situation, and I think that the big thinkers should be called onto get things done for our country and I hope that the violence surrounding us doesn't draw in this country to take more adverse reactions to the foothold we do have, and run us amok to war again.  We have got to keep our heads attached and our shirts on.  

  I don't suppose that most people see things from the underside, however when you're down there, it's hard to visualize yourself on the upside.  Like landlords, they think they own the world.  They don't, they don't own you or me, they just think they are all powerful and keep people down while they rack in the money.  I hate that!!!   My landlord is a total pisser, I hate them, whenever I have an issue, they see me as a pain in the butt.  I see their crap as a real pain in the butt.  They take forever to come around when you have an issue and then when they do, they do a poor job.  When my toilet seat recently cracked in two, he came three or so days later and then complained that if I hadn't broken it, no one was near it when it broke,  it would have lasted 20 years.  I think he was a little off the cuff.  So when he put it back on he didn't secure it tightly so now it slides all over the place.  And you know he's not coming back.Now my living room light is completely out, and is he showing up to change that?  NO he's not!!!  Well my rasp disappeared, I know who's got that....  We really need to retain some rights here.  Now what are they doing?  They upped the rent by $50 as if it wasn't already too damn high!! Now I'm in court and I have got to go through some shenanigans!!  When this all blows over, I'm out!!!! OUT! OUT! OUT!.  .

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1npw0rLts4jZiGk6N4hkmYG9AHMgjK4XTVJbnbiu0bNw/edit#slide=id.p

http://lifereimagined.aarp.org/page/both/22581-The-Hidden-Power-of-the-Experienced-Mind

Powerpoint on the national debt and the U.S. Budget

https://drive.google.com/drive/#my-drive

Barnes Foundation

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Hx0nsfhBqNQ6Kd9Od9n6XcuHLpe6XeyEJLsYurN-nAk/edit#slide=id.g10ee09be_1_0

This is my presentation on the Barnes Foundation

Winding Down

So my mother finally is back in her apartment, but I'm minus my pot top.  People never cease to amaze me, I cannot hold onto a thing.  Life can be serious bumps for sure.  Stress kicks in and you are left without much recourse for things to get better.  I am winding down.

Wilhelm Reich Film Documentary

Wilhelm Reich Documentary Film Project

by Kevin Hinchey

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Factual story of psychiatrist, research physician & scientist Wilhelm Reich whose books were burned by the U.S. gov't in 1956 and 1960.

Austrian born Wilhelm Reich, M.D. (1897-1957) was a brilliant psychoanalytic student of Sigmund Freud and a neuro-psychiatric student of Nobel laureate Julius Wagner-Jauregg. 

Reich's wide-ranging social, medical and scientific work included promoting sexual health, standardizing and advancing therapeutic techniques, analyzing the psychology of fascism as manifested in both Nazism and Communism, conducting cellular research, investigating the origin of cancer and other diseases, developing experimental treatments for terminal cancer patients, and carrying out innovative climate research.

Tragically his books and published research journals were banned and burned by the United States government in 1956 and 1960, and Reich died in a Federal penitentiary in 1957.

How could such a thing have happened in America, the country to which Reich--an outspoken antifascist—had emigrated just four days before the outbreak of World War Two?  What was in Reich's publications that so threatened people in power that they felt they must destroy them to keep people from reading them?

For decades Reich’s ideas and work have been carelessly and dishonestly misrepresented in the academic, medical and scientific communities, as well as in the media and on the Internet—including Wikipedia—by those whose knowledge of Reich is not based on accurate information.

Finally, a factually accurate, full-length documentary film about Reich has been meticulously researched and written, and a serious effort is now underway to fund this film.  This documentary will not only correct the distorted narratives about Reich, but will also educate viewers about the potential benefits of Reich’s work for today's medicine and science.

Please, this film project needs your help!  Your contribution to this Kickstarter fundraising campaign will help ensure that Reich’s pioneering insights into psychological and physical heath, and the health of the planet, will be presented factually and compellingly to a wide variety of audiences.

KICKSTARTER FUNDRAISING IS “ALL OR NOTHING” 

Kickstarter fundraising for all projects works this way: 

• Project creators establish a financial goal and a specific time-frame to reach that goal.
• If the financial goal is reached within that time-frame, the creators collect all donor pledges minus 5% which is Kickstarter’s fee. 
• All donations exceeding the financial goal go to the project creators to add to their project budget (which would be terrific for this film!). 
• But if the financial goal is not reached within that time-frame, no money is collected and the project receives nothing.

OUR FINANCIAL GOAL:  $168,500 FOR PHASE ONE

$168,500 is our financial goal for "Phase 1:  Pre-production and Production" of this 100-110 minute documentary.  5% of that for Kickstarter is $8,425, which leaves us $160,075 for pre-production, production, and to fulfill rewards for donors.   

We're actually hoping to achieve an amount closer to $200,000 which would provide a substantial financial comfort level for this phase of the project.   And at a later date we’ll seek another $168,500 for "Phase 2:  Post-Production" which will allow us to complete the film.

HOW WE WILL SPEND THIS MONEY

The research and written storyline for this documentary are complete, a process that took nearly four years of “connecting the dots” from over 7000 pages of Reich’s publications, thousands of unpublished pages in Reich’s archives, all U.S. government files on Reich (many obtained through Freedom of Information requests), and numerous other historic primary resources.

We are now fully prepared to turn this factually accurate storyline into a feature-length documentary film: 

PHASE 1:  PRE-PRODUCTION & PRODUCTION - $168,500

Gathering Historic and Archival Materials (United States & Europe):

• Hiring researchers in the United States and Europe to locate relevant photographs, newsreels, newspaper/magazine articles, etc.
• Selecting, scanning and filming material from Reich’s archives at the Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard Medical School: photographs and key pages from diaries, laboratory notebooks, correspondence, unpublished manuscripts, legal documents, etc.
• Selecting and scanning key pages from State Department, FBI, FDA, and Immigration & Naturalization Service (INS) files. 
• Selecting and digitizing excerpts of Reich’s personal and scientific films. 
• Selecting/audio enhancing/digitizing excerpts from Reich’s voice recordings.
• Translating key newspaper articles, letters, laboratory notebook pages, etc.

Location Filming & On-camera Interviews (United States & Europe):

• Securing insurance coverage for interviews and location filming.

Filming locations include:

• Rangeley, Maine: Orgonon (Reich’s laboratory and research center, now the Wilhelm Reich Museum) and other locations in the Rangeley Lakes region.
• Graham Lake & Hancock, Maine: sites of Reich’s weather experiments to alleviate drought.
• Portland, Maine: U.S. Federal Courthouse, site of Reich’s 1956 trial.
• New York City: New School for Social Research in Manhattan where Reich taught for 3 semesters (1940-41) and Forest Hills in Queens   where Reich lived from 1939 to 1950.
• Tucson, Arizona: Magee Road, Oracle Junction, and Catalina Mountain where Reich carried out weather experiments to alleviate drought. (1954-55).
• Europe: select locations in Vienna, Berlin, Copenhagen, Malmö, and Oslo relevant to Reich’s life and work.
• Interview locations will vary.  To reduce travel costs of film crews, some interview subjects will be brought to the Wilhelm Reich Museum for filming.
• Hiring transcribers to prepare transcriptions of all on-camera interviews.

Assembling a “Sample Reel” to Seek Grants:

• Once filming is complete, we will assemble a 10-15 minute sample reel of the documentary to apply for grants and private funding for the “Post-Production” phase, while also moving ahead with a second Kickstarter effort to help secure the monies needed to finish this film.

PHASE 2:  POST-PRODUCTION - $168,500:

• Hiring medical illustrators and computer animators for animated sequences, based on Reich’s drawings and diagrams, that will visualize aspects of his work. 
• Editing the film (the most time consuming, labor-intensive part of   this project): assembling photographs, film footage (old and new), interview clips, scanned materials, animated sequences, and Reich's voice recordings into a coherent film story.
• Finalizing the script for the film’s voice-over narration.
• Casting a professional actor/actress or voiceover talent to record the final narration.
• Creating and recording a music score. 
• Final color correction and final audio mix for the entire film.

COMPLETION DATE FOR THIS FILM

November 2016 is our targeted date for finishing this film and having its premiere.  But there are so many variables involved—especially funding and production and post-production scheduling—that we cannot promise the film’s completion by this date.

WHY SHOULD YOU DONATE TO THIS FILM PROJECT? 

OF WHAT INTEREST IS WILHELM REICH TO YOU?

Reich’s social, medical and scientific innovations spanned four decades and two continents:  Vienna (1919-30), Berlin (1930-33), Copenhagen (1933-34), Malmö (1934), Oslo (1934-39), New York City (1939-50), Rangeley, Maine (1940-57), Tucson, Arizona (1954-55). 

And whether you’re already familiar with Reich or learning about him for the first time, there is undoubtedly something about his life and work and the issues he confronted that might resonate for you:

• Revolutionizes psychoanalytic techniques (1920s).
• Opens clinics which provide access to birth control (1920s-30s).
• Publishes The Mass Psychology of Fascism after fleeing from Nazi Germany (1933).
• Develops the first psychosomatic therapeutic techniques (1930s-40s).
• Conducts laboratory research on the development of cancer cells (1930s-50s).
• Discovers a biological radiation in specific micro-organisms that can kill bacteria and cancer cells (1939).
• Discovers this same radiation in the atmosphere (1940).
• Conducts experimental treatment of patients with terminal cancer, early cancer and other diseases (1941-50s).
• Fights the investigative abuses of the State Department, the FBI, the FDA, and the Immigration & Naturalization Service (1940-57).
• Struggles against the collusion of the FDA and the medical profession (1947-50s).
• Warns of pharmaceutical influence on the medical profession (1950s).
• Conducts weather experiments in Maine and Arizona to alleviate drought conditions (1953-56).
• Confronts censorship and First Amendment issues when a Federal court seeks to ban his publications from interstate commerce (1954).
• Challenges the right of a court of law to judge scientific research (1954).
• Witnesses the FDA’s burning of his publications at his laboratory in Rangeley, Maine (1956).

A FINAL NOTE IF YOU WISH TO SUPPORT THIS PROJECT

If you wish to donate with the generosity of foregoing any reward so that your contribution goes entirely for the production of the film, that's always an option for which we would be deeply appreciative. 

Wilhelm Reich in the Student Laboratory at Orgonon

 

 

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Our greatest challenge will be gaining funding for Phase 2 of this project, an endeavor that focuses on post-production of the film--i.e., hiring medical illustrators and computer animators for animated sequences, editing the film, finalizing the script for the film’s voice-over narration, casting a professional actor/actress or voiceover talent to record the final narration, creating and recording a music score, and final color correction and final audio mix for the entire film. We hope to raise these funds via a follow-up Kickstarter campaign.

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