2022-07-09T11:26:23Z

Michaelzfreeman: /* What is the problem here ? Why global change is needed */ Added quote as example of current situation in UK and USA.

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== What is the problem here ? Why global change is needed ==

Many countries have already made or are making the change but in many others, especially the UK and USA and other rich, industrialised, technologised nations its as if this human rights issue simply does not exist. It does not have the same "sexy" profile as racism or anti-semetism, womens rights and other human rights campaigns. The person who best explains the problem in clear, truthful terms is [[wikipedia:Franco_Basaglia|Franco Basaglia]] ...<blockquote>''"The microcosm that Basaglia and his colleagues saw in Gorizia was that of the asylum, of the manicomio, as a microsocial architectural space that reproduced perversions in human relationships which were not only countertherapeutic, but iatrogenic, creating an illness specific to itself."''</blockquote>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 11.<blockquote>''The manicomio, wrote Basaglia in this period, was "an enormous shell filled with bodies that cannot experience themselves and who sit there, , waiting for someone to seize them and make them live as they see fit—that is, as schizophrenics, manic-depressives, hysterics, finally trans formed into things."''</blockquote>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press.<blockquote>''“Within its four walls, the pulse of history ceases to beat, the social identity of the individual contained therein is suppressed, and the process of total identification of the individual with its psychic dimensions takes place. The conditions of his life maybe offered as proof of his innate inferiority, his culture disregarded as the expression of his irrational deviation. The silence which sets in, in the asylum, becomes both typical of it and guarantees that, from it, no other message will reach the outside world."''</blockquote>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press.

QED. Problem defined. The modern "asylum" no longer takes place excusively within physical walls but by using modern drugs combined with ECT that essentially seal those people within their "''bodies that cannot experience themselves"'' as Basaglia puts it. Then Basaglia hits the nail on the head ... "''The silence which sets in, in the asylum, becomes both typical of it and guarantees that, from it, no other message will reach the outside world.".'' Hence why this is almost an unknown human rights issue on the world stage, in the media and in every day conversation. This is the problem. The solution ? To create life, knowledge and awareness where there was none in order to produce a completely new but social and human way of dealing with people in distress. For example something like this ...<blockquote>''"A patient who had left the hospital had seriously perturbed the life of the town. He argued with everyone, he would not stop fighting, he went so far as to threaten some people with death. Faced with this situation, the townspeople demanded that he be returned to the hospital, but the psychiatrists refused. With the mayor, they came up with the idea of calling a meeting [assembled], which would be open to everyone, to try to understand, along with the townspeople, what had happened and to search with them for a solution. Given the seriousness of the incidents and their timeliness, a considerable number of people, 1,300, attended . . . their resistances were strong, the discussion rowdy, but eventually the proposition was made that the patient could stay in the village but was to be accompanied by a nurse, at least at first."''</blockquote>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press.

Therefore the psychiatrists role has fundamentally shifted. In the case above the psychiatrists refused to simply get rid of the person. They negotiated and allowed the towns people their right to a say, as well as the right of the patient not to be excluded. It's the exclusion that creates a much worse problem where the patient would have been damaged and the society impoverished by disallowing it having a role of responsibility and humanity.

The Trieste/Italian practice went much further by repairing the relationships the artificial boundaries had damaged, both individually and in the society ... <blockquote>''"But for citizens to come inside [the asylum], there had to be strong inducements: film festivals, shows, plays by traveling repertory companies, or performances by musicians, actors, and artists. Once they mingled among the patients, the townspeople could begin to recognize in the distress and suffering of former inmates some of the same problems in living that had plagued their own lives."'' </blockquote>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press.

In the UK and USA the current situation (albeit with some ongoing positive changes) is probably best exemplified by another quote from ''Psychiatry inside out ...''<blockquote>''"An alternative Basaglian view might lead us to explore how deviance and noncompliance can be forms of resistance and acts of autonomy. Difficult to categorize or treat, these young street people are considered the bane of social workers and psychiatrists alike, for they even "resist the contention that they are mentally ill." Rather than recognizing the legitimacy of many of their complaints, and helping them to channel productively their anger and aggressivity, mental health professionals are simply targeting them as prime candidates for reinstitutionalization in the "new asylum."''</blockquote>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press, p48.

== Paradigm Shift ==
<blockquote>''"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete".''

As quoted in Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure (1999), by Daniel Quinn, p. 137</blockquote>[[File:CHM_Revolutionaries_-_An_Evening_with_Elon_Musk-AHHwXUm3iIg.mp4|none|thumb|[https://youtu.be/AHHwXUm3iIg?t=2092 CHM Revolutionaries: An Evening with Elon Musk]]]

Elon Musk: "''I came to the conclusion that my initial premise was wrong, that in fact there is a great deal of will, that there's not such a shortage, but people don't think there's a way, and if people thought there is a way, or at least something that would not break the federal budget, then people would support it [...] it's not a question of will its a question of showing there's a way''".

This is the same in the area of replacing abusive psychiatric practices. There's the will but people often don't think there's a way. However in this case we don't have to start up the equivalent of Tesla or SpaceX to prove there is a way. Extraordinarily the hard work has already been done. It's called the Trieste "model" of mental health (although its more like a practice). The data shows better outcomes and less drain on financial resources. The work has been replicated in completely different projects like Loren Moshers Soteria Houses and similar work done by R D Laing that proved that a drug/ECT approach is simply not needed. The work has been verified by [https://michaelzfreeman.org/yet-another-successful-non-drug-treatment-for-schizophrenia-yet-its-not-being-used/ follow up studies] over [https://www.madinamerica.com/2022/03/thomas-jobe-the-legacy-he-leaves-behind/ decades].
==I have a Dream==
[[File:Mlkihaveadreamcolorizedpubdom1.jpg|right|frameless|Martin Luther King]]
'''''I have a dream that one day this planet will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."'''''

'''''I have a dream that one day on the red hills of psychiatry, the sons of former mental patients and the sons of former psychiatrists will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.'''''

'''''I have a dream that one day even the state of the mental health system, a system sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.'''''

'''''I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by distress but by the content of their character.'''''

'''''I have a dream today!'''''

Possibly inspired, just a little, by MLK's famous "[https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm I have a dream]" speech). Original ...<blockquote>I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a ''dream'' today!

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a ''dream'' today!</blockquote>This is not an idle comparison. It was [[wikipedia:Franco_Basaglia|''Franco Basaglia'']] who was the one who finally laid out the truth. For example see especially the book ''[https://michaelzfreeman.org/psychiatry-inside-out-selected-writings-of-franco-basaglia-pdf/ Psychiatry Inside Out: Selected Writings of Franco Basaglia]'' as well as [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09540261.2018.1436324?scroll=top&needAccess=true one of his papers]. There's also [https://michaelzfreeman.org/a-problem-of-institutional-psychiatry-exclusion-as-a-social-and-psychiatric-category-franco-basaglia-franca-basaglia-ongaro/ a blog post about it here] and the [https://michaelzfreeman.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/A-problem-of-institutional-psychiatry-exclusion-as-a-social-and-psychiatric-category-FULL-PAPER.pdf full PDF of the paper]. This [https://michaelzfreeman.org/breaking-through-the-british-psychiatric-information-blockade-the-real-dope-on-basaglia/ blog post] is also relevant. With this new understanding its possible to see through the "cloak" that obscures what coercive psychiatry and their ideas in the society really are. For example take this random quote from an article about Apartheid ...<blockquote>''"Interviews with relatives and former classmates reveal an upbringing in elite, segregated white communities that were littered with anti-Black government propaganda, and detached from the atrocities that white political leaders inflicted on the Black majority."''

Source: [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/world/africa/elon-musk-south-africa.html Elon Musk Left a South Africa That Was Rife With Misinformation and White Privilege]</blockquote>This can be rewritten as ... "''Interviews with relatives and former classmates reveal an upbringing in elite, segregated communities that were littered with anti-mentally ill government propaganda, and detached from the atrocities that psychiatrists inflicted on the traumatised and distressed."''

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===IMHCN Map Layer===
[[File:Imhcn-logo.jpg|none|thumb|[https://imhcn.org/ IMHCN]]]
The map contains a layer of markers that show the various international groups and organisations that are part of the [https://imhcn.org/ International Mental Health Collaborating Network].

==The Story of Liberation Map ==
[[File:JTP-world-map-1024x729.png|thumb|Joshi Project Map]]
Back in 2019 I started putting together a map based on [[commons:File:BlankMap-World.svg|a world map SVG]] on Mediakwiki Commons. In the UK I'd noticed the most appalling ignorance and literal information blockade when it comes to this area. It's assumed (although this is changing) that psychiatry's unnatural and frankly bizarre way of treating people in distress is "the only" way of doing things. No one knew about the major discoveries since the 1970's; Soteria Houses, Loren Mosher, R D Laing, John Weir Perry and of course Franco Basaglia. They did not and still don't know, although more are catching on, that there is a literal liberation movement ''WINNING'' across the globe ([https://liberation-map.michaelzfreeman.org/ as you can see by clicking on the various countries]). This is incredibly positive and such a contrast to the endless deary horror stories from perverted psychiatry that just depress and grind us all down. Those stories are very important and its important that victims are heard. But there's another side to this. Perverted psychiatry is falling across the globe. For example [[Argentina]] passed a law in 2010 to prevent the illegal coercion, torture and incarceration of the distressed. Perverted psychiatry are losing, and they are losing ''BIG,'' and rightly so. They have destroyed and hurt millions upon millions over the years and their lack of humanity has returned to bite them in the ass ! So, back to the map. The SVG map turned out to be unwieldy and difficult to manage. It's very difficult to add user interactions and popups directly to the SVG. I was then inspired by a map put together by the [https://joshiproject.org/ Joshi Project] but was becoming increasingly frustrated with the SVG. I eventually remembered that I'd used [https://qgis.org/ QGIS] before when I did some Mars mapping. [https://qgis.org/ QGIS] is a big [[wikipedia:Geographic_information_system|Geographic Information System]] application. Much of my excitement about GIS undoubtedly goes back to a very enthusiastic geography teacher that I had at secondary school. He got us involved in mapping third world problems and eventually something "clicked" about what he was teaching us. So QGIS is quite a complex and intimidating piece of software. However eventually I found I could just [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4z7s93zlSQ type "world"] into the coordinates box to get a world map, then it was a case of using qgis2web to make the links and popup's into a web page. So there you go. Mapping liberation.

[https://files.michaelzfreeman.org/Liberation%20Map%201.qgz Here is an example QGS project file] (not up to date).

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2022-07-08T13:03:34Z

Michaelzfreeman: /* What is the problem here ? Why global change is needed */ Added part about opening asylums to public

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== What is the problem here ? Why global change is needed ==

Many countries have already made or are making the change but in many others, especially the UK and USA and other rich, industrialised, technologised nations its as if this human rights issue simply does not exist. It does not have the same "sexy" profile as racism or anti-semetism, womens rights and other human rights campaigns. The person who best explains the problem in clear, truthful terms is [[wikipedia:Franco_Basaglia|Franco Basaglia]] ...<blockquote>''"The microcosm that Basaglia and his colleagues saw in Gorizia was that of the asylum, of the manicomio, as a microsocial architectural space that reproduced perversions in human relationships which were not only countertherapeutic, but iatrogenic, creating an illness specific to itself."''</blockquote>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 11.<blockquote>''The manicomio, wrote Basaglia in this period, was "an enormous shell filled with bodies that cannot experience themselves and who sit there, , waiting for someone to seize them and make them live as they see fit—that is, as schizophrenics, manic-depressives, hysterics, finally trans formed into things."''</blockquote>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press.<blockquote>''“Within its four walls, the pulse of history ceases to beat, the social identity of the individual contained therein is suppressed, and the process of total identification of the individual with its psychic dimensions takes place. The conditions of his life maybe offered as proof of his innate inferiority, his culture disregarded as the expression of his irrational deviation. The silence which sets in, in the asylum, becomes both typical of it and guarantees that, from it, no other message will reach the outside world."''</blockquote>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press.

QED. Problem defined. The modern "asylum" no longer takes place excusively within physical walls but by using modern drugs combined with ECT that essentially seal those people within their "''bodies that cannot experience themselves"'' as Basaglia puts it. Then Basaglia hits the nail on the head ... "''The silence which sets in, in the asylum, becomes both typical of it and guarantees that, from it, no other message will reach the outside world.".'' Hence why this is almost an unknown human rights issue on the world stage, in the media and in every day conversation. This is the problem. The solution ? To create life, knowledge and awareness where there was none in order to produce a completely new but social and human way of dealing with people in distress. For example something like this ...<blockquote>''"A patient who had left the hospital had seriously perturbed the life of the town. He argued with everyone, he would not stop fighting, he went so far as to threaten some people with death. Faced with this situation, the townspeople demanded that he be returned to the hospital, but the psychiatrists refused. With the mayor, they came up with the idea of calling a meeting [assembled], which would be open to everyone, to try to understand, along with the townspeople, what had happened and to search with them for a solution. Given the seriousness of the incidents and their timeliness, a considerable number of people, 1,300, attended . . . their resistances were strong, the discussion rowdy, but eventually the proposition was made that the patient could stay in the village but was to be accompanied by a nurse, at least at first."''</blockquote>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press.

Therefore the psychiatrists role has fundamentally shifted. In the case above the psychiatrists refused to simply get rid of the person. They negotiated and allowed the towns people their right to a say, as well as the right of the patient not to be excluded. It's the exclusion that creates a much worse problem where the patient would have been damaged and the society impoverished by disallowing it having a role of responsibility and humanity.

The Trieste/Italian practice went much further by repairing the relationships the artificial boundaries had damaged, both individually and in the society ... <blockquote>''"But for citizens to come inside [the asylum], there had to be strong inducements: film festivals, shows, plays by traveling repertory companies, or performances by musicians, actors, and artists. Once they mingled among the patients, the townspeople could begin to recognize in the distress and suffering of former inmates some of the same problems in living that had plagued their own lives."'' </blockquote>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press.

== Paradigm Shift ==
<blockquote>''"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete".''

As quoted in Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure (1999), by Daniel Quinn, p. 137</blockquote>[[File:CHM_Revolutionaries_-_An_Evening_with_Elon_Musk-AHHwXUm3iIg.mp4|none|thumb|[https://youtu.be/AHHwXUm3iIg?t=2092 CHM Revolutionaries: An Evening with Elon Musk]]]

Elon Musk: "''I came to the conclusion that my initial premise was wrong, that in fact there is a great deal of will, that there's not such a shortage, but people don't think there's a way, and if people thought there is a way, or at least something that would not break the federal budget, then people would support it [...] it's not a question of will its a question of showing there's a way''".

This is the same in the area of replacing abusive psychiatric practices. There's the will but people often don't think there's a way. However in this case we don't have to start up the equivalent of Tesla or SpaceX to prove there is a way. Extraordinarily the hard work has already been done. It's called the Trieste "model" of mental health (although its more like a practice). The data shows better outcomes and less drain on financial resources. The work has been replicated in completely different projects like Loren Moshers Soteria Houses and similar work done by R D Laing that proved that a drug/ECT approach is simply not needed. The work has been verified by [https://michaelzfreeman.org/yet-another-successful-non-drug-treatment-for-schizophrenia-yet-its-not-being-used/ follow up studies] over [https://www.madinamerica.com/2022/03/thomas-jobe-the-legacy-he-leaves-behind/ decades].
==I have a Dream==
[[File:Mlkihaveadreamcolorizedpubdom1.jpg|right|frameless|Martin Luther King]]
'''''I have a dream that one day this planet will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."'''''

'''''I have a dream that one day on the red hills of psychiatry, the sons of former mental patients and the sons of former psychiatrists will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.'''''

'''''I have a dream that one day even the state of the mental health system, a system sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.'''''

'''''I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by distress but by the content of their character.'''''

'''''I have a dream today!'''''

Possibly inspired, just a little, by MLK's famous "[https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm I have a dream]" speech). Original ...<blockquote>I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a ''dream'' today!

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a ''dream'' today!</blockquote>This is not an idle comparison. It was [[wikipedia:Franco_Basaglia|''Franco Basaglia'']] who was the one who finally laid out the truth. For example see especially the book ''[https://michaelzfreeman.org/psychiatry-inside-out-selected-writings-of-franco-basaglia-pdf/ Psychiatry Inside Out: Selected Writings of Franco Basaglia]'' as well as [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09540261.2018.1436324?scroll=top&needAccess=true one of his papers]. There's also [https://michaelzfreeman.org/a-problem-of-institutional-psychiatry-exclusion-as-a-social-and-psychiatric-category-franco-basaglia-franca-basaglia-ongaro/ a blog post about it here] and the [https://michaelzfreeman.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/A-problem-of-institutional-psychiatry-exclusion-as-a-social-and-psychiatric-category-FULL-PAPER.pdf full PDF of the paper]. This [https://michaelzfreeman.org/breaking-through-the-british-psychiatric-information-blockade-the-real-dope-on-basaglia/ blog post] is also relevant. With this new understanding its possible to see through the "cloak" that obscures what coercive psychiatry and their ideas in the society really are. For example take this random quote from an article about Apartheid ...<blockquote>''"Interviews with relatives and former classmates reveal an upbringing in elite, segregated white communities that were littered with anti-Black government propaganda, and detached from the atrocities that white political leaders inflicted on the Black majority."''

Source: [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/world/africa/elon-musk-south-africa.html Elon Musk Left a South Africa That Was Rife With Misinformation and White Privilege]</blockquote>This can be rewritten as ... "''Interviews with relatives and former classmates reveal an upbringing in elite, segregated communities that were littered with anti-mentally ill government propaganda, and detached from the atrocities that psychiatrists inflicted on the traumatised and distressed."''

==About==
[[File:Web-capture 9-6-2022 191240 liberation-map-michaelzfreeman-org.jpg|thumb]]
This wiki will hold pages linked from the map at [https://liberation-map.michaelzfreeman.org/#2/0.0/-20.2 liberation-map.michaelzfreeman.org]

This wiki is intended to allow public editing of pages as long as you register an account (there will not be anonymous editing), however this will not be enabled until there are more people who are willing to volunteer as moderators. Please email me at michael@michaelzfreeman.org if you are interested.

Have a great day !

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===MIA Global Map Layer===
[[File:MIA-Global-Map-2-sized.jpg|thumb|[https://www.madinamerica.com/mia-global-news/ MIA Global]|none]]
The map contains a layer of markers that show the various international groups that are part of [https://www.madinamerica.com/mia-global-news/ MIA Global].

===IMHCN Map Layer===
[[File:Imhcn-logo.jpg|none|thumb|[https://imhcn.org/ IMHCN]]]
The map contains a layer of markers that show the various international groups and organisations that are part of the [https://imhcn.org/ International Mental Health Collaborating Network].

==The Story of Liberation Map ==
[[File:JTP-world-map-1024x729.png|thumb|Joshi Project Map]]
Back in 2019 I started putting together a map based on [[commons:File:BlankMap-World.svg|a world map SVG]] on Mediakwiki Commons. In the UK I'd noticed the most appalling ignorance and literal information blockade when it comes to this area. It's assumed (although this is changing) that psychiatry's unnatural and frankly bizarre way of treating people in distress is "the only" way of doing things. No one knew about the major discoveries since the 1970's; Soteria Houses, Loren Mosher, R D Laing, John Weir Perry and of course Franco Basaglia. They did not and still don't know, although more are catching on, that there is a literal liberation movement ''WINNING'' across the globe ([https://liberation-map.michaelzfreeman.org/ as you can see by clicking on the various countries]). This is incredibly positive and such a contrast to the endless deary horror stories from perverted psychiatry that just depress and grind us all down. Those stories are very important and its important that victims are heard. But there's another side to this. Perverted psychiatry is falling across the globe. For example [[Argentina]] passed a law in 2010 to prevent the illegal coercion, torture and incarceration of the distressed. Perverted psychiatry are losing, and they are losing ''BIG,'' and rightly so. They have destroyed and hurt millions upon millions over the years and their lack of humanity has returned to bite them in the ass ! So, back to the map. The SVG map turned out to be unwieldy and difficult to manage. It's very difficult to add user interactions and popups directly to the SVG. I was then inspired by a map put together by the [https://joshiproject.org/ Joshi Project] but was becoming increasingly frustrated with the SVG. I eventually remembered that I'd used [https://qgis.org/ QGIS] before when I did some Mars mapping. [https://qgis.org/ QGIS] is a big [[wikipedia:Geographic_information_system|Geographic Information System]] application. Much of my excitement about GIS undoubtedly goes back to a very enthusiastic geography teacher that I had at secondary school. He got us involved in mapping third world problems and eventually something "clicked" about what he was teaching us. So QGIS is quite a complex and intimidating piece of software. However eventually I found I could just [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4z7s93zlSQ type "world"] into the coordinates box to get a world map, then it was a case of using qgis2web to make the links and popup's into a web page. So there you go. Mapping liberation.

[https://files.michaelzfreeman.org/Liberation%20Map%201.qgz Here is an example QGS project file] (not up to date).

==Getting started==
Please not the Blockquote is somewhat broken in the Visual Editor as it does not show indented in the editor itself. However when saved it should show indented. This is due to [https://github.com/ProfessionalWiki/chameleon/issues/222 an issue] with the Chameleon skin.

Please note that video's can be uploaded and embedded, however the Visual Editor interface is somewhat difficult to use (missing thumbnail and formatting problem) with the current plugin. However the video should appear once the page is saved.
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