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Thank you for what you’ve been doing for our nation, our conscientious mental health professionals. With gratitude for your courage and perseverance in these challenging and dangerous times.

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Thank you for continuing your work to educate our leaders and citizens. The selling out of the APA to lobbyists is a prime example of the damage that looms over our future. Stay strong and keep going!

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Thank you. I am a minority and have a lot of firsthand experiences about exclusion. The APA should be ashamed of their actions. But it is also a reflection how money has changed the entire university system. I am currentky boycotting the NCAA amd will do the same with the APA.

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It's duty of every intellectual to stand up against tyranny even when odds are stacked against one's self. Unfortunately, APA & other institutions cowed to tyranny in America either due to fear or corruption.

Here in India where Political climate is much worse. A reminder of some fallen Heroes.

Gauri Lankesh - Journalist and fierce critic of Hindutva Fascism - Shot dead outside her home by Fascists

Sanjiv Bhatt - Police officer & whistleblower who gave testimony about Modi's role in 2002 religious massacre in Gujarat - Framed on false charges and given life imprisonment by Kangaroo court

Brijgopal Loya - A courageous Magistrate - was presiding over high profile case which involved top Fascist (Amit Shah) who is Modi's right hand man - Magistrate died in mysterious circumstances (heart attack) and case was closed

Father Stan Swamy - Catholic Priest & social worker - Worked for welfare and rights of minorities. Falsely incriminated as terrorist, kept in prison in inhuman conditions for years where he fell ill & died pending his trial (posthumously awarded Geneva human rights defender award in 2022)

Umar Khalid - Student activist - peacefully protested against new draconian citizenship law meant to target Muslims - imprisoned on false charges of sedition even without conviction, in jail since 2020

Hany Baby - Professor & Civil rights activist - falsely imprisoned on charges of terrorism based on planted evidence, in jail in inhuman conditions

There are many such people of all stripes in India that risk their life, families, career & everything in service of humanity and fighting Fascism. We wish them very well. My best regards to every activist & whistleblower in America and every other part of the world who fights to make this world a better place.

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Excellent summary.

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