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graphic with "Mental Patients Association" on top, "Founded 1971" on bottom and graphic of clenched fist with "free" written on it and scars on wrist
MPA logo from the masthead of their newspaper In A Nutshell

Vancouver’s MPA was an early activist response to deinstitutionalization and tragic gaps in community mental health. Inverting traditional mental health hierarchies, the group put former patients and sympathetic lay supporters in charge. MPA graphic which reflects the identity politics of the group.