From NOW Toronto: A tribute by Don WeitzĀ to his friend Mel Starkman, who was active in the Toronto-area Coalition Against Psychiatric Assault, was a major organizer of the 10thĀ Annual International Conference on Human Rights and Psychiatric Oppression,Ā co-founded theĀ Psychiatric Survivor Archives of Toronto,Ā and spoke out against electroshock treatment.
“Mel was a mensch. He lived his life like the words of the great Welsh poet Dylan Thomas: ‘Do not go gentle into that good night…Ā rage rage against the dying of the light.'”
