Nobel Representatives Visit Chicago Mental Health Protest, Urge Mayor To Keep Clinics Open

Thursday, April 26, 2012

As Chicago's Mental Health Movement continues to speak out against the city's decision to close six mental health clinics, those in the city for the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates visited the ongoing protest Thursday morning to express their solidarity with activists.

Ingeborg Breines, co-director of the Nobel Prize-winning International Peace Bureau, and Shan Cretin, chair of the Nobel Prize-winning American Friends Service Committee, stopped by the Woodlawn Mental Health Clinic at 63rd Street and Woodlawn Avenue where workers and patients shared their view that six clinics recently closed by the city should be reopened and that mental health care relates to the visitors' human rights work.

"Mayor Rahm Emanuel drew on the support of many Chicago businesses, foundations and educational institutions to present his vision of Chicago as a world-class city to the Nobel laureates," Cretin told The Huffington Post on Thursday. "Yet the decision to close six community mental health centers withdraws much needed support from some of the most vulnerable citizens."

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