The Village being the first model of that concept. But, typical of their ineptitude, they didn't even do a good glue job. People have been calling me asking why this was done, and saying it was silly and offensive and easy to pull apart. But the event is not silly. It is censorship.
Few magazines live beyond three years.
I believe it is now dead, and that they, the board of NAMI California have knowingly killed it, for reasons known best to them. In 1989 when, as 1st Vice president of CAMI, I was given carte blanch to create a new publication as long as I raised all the money for it and would not take liquor or tobacco funds, I took the responsibility seriously. What sorry times our family movement has fallen upon, and what a sad excuse for leadership we have now holding power. But national NAMI needs to speak out. The national NAMI board helped remove executive director Laurie Flynn on Jan. 1, 2001.