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News: Your Mind & Freedom - 01 May 2007
http://www.MindFreedom.org

- Youth psychiatric survivors speak out on MindFreedom Internet

Radio... how you can phone in LIVE...

- Latest updates on Virginia Tech, including call for full

disclosure...

- It's not too late to register for "Creative Revolution in

Healing" event!

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(1) Youth Psychiatric Survivors Speak Out on MFI Free Internet Radio!

The next two MindFreedom Internet Radio Shows -- broadcast live and free

on the web -- will feature youth psychiatric survivors reflecting on the

Virginia Tech tragedy. You may phone in live with your questions and

comments.

Tomorrow, Wednesday, 2 May 2007, at 4 pm ET, you may hear Martin

Rafferty, a 20 year old psychiatric survivor activist and MindFreedom

Youth Outreach Coordinator, as a guest on the show. Host is David Oaks.

The next week, Wednesday, 9 May 2007, guest will be Neil Gong of the

Icarus Project. Neil is a psychiatric survivor college campus organizer

at New York University. Hear from the point of view of a college student

who is working to raise these issues with other students.

As always, you may call in LIVE with your comments and questions.

HOW TO HEAR SHOW LIVE: Just click on http://prncomm.net/ to hear the show

live, Wednesdays at 4 pm ET. To call in, listen for the toll free number

in the USA or a special number for outside the USA. Or e- mail at any time

to radio@mindfreedom.org and your comment may be read on the air.

TO HEAR RECENT ARCHIVE: Once more you can hear archives of recent

MindFreedom Radio Shows, now at a new web site from Progressive Radio

Network:

http://oaks.progressiveradionetwork.org/

Archives include the recent popular show with journalist Bob

Whitaker, author of Mad in America.

COMING UP on 16 May 2007: Jim Gottstein -- hero, attorney,

psychiatric survivor, activist and founder of PsychRights -- returns for

an update about his many campaigns, including taking on criminal fraud

and corruption at psychiatric drug manufacturer Eli Lilly.

For more info on the MindFreedom Radio Show, including a photo of

guest Martin Rafferty and a link to his essay about the Virginia Tech

tragedy, go to:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/media/mfradio/next

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2. Latest updates about Virginia Tech & Mental Health Issues:

* May is supposed to be "mental health month." Will it instead be

"cover-up month"? MindFreedom issues statement calling for "full

disclosure" about Cho, including a toxicology examination that is

supposed to be completed in May, but which the Virginia Medical

Examiner said he will refuse to make public.

* Activist Judi Chamberlin challenges bias at 60 Minutes on coverage of

mental health issues in wake of Virginia Tech.

* Read statements by Bazelon Center, Peter Breggin, MD and National

Coalition of Mental Health Consumer/Survivor Organizations about the

Virginia Tech tragedy.

* You may now listen or read quotes from David Oaks segment on

National Public Radio "Talk of the Nation" about forced psychiatric

drugging controversy.

* And more.

-- Media Center on Virginia Tech & Mental Health is here:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/youth-mental-health/virginia-tech/media-seung-hui-cho

or use this web address:

http://tinyurl.com/2v6lb5

-- MFI Info Center on Virginia Tech is here:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/youth-mental-health/virginia-tech

or use this web address:

http://tinyurl.com/yrbkzv

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(3) Not too late! "Creative Revolution in Healing: Turning Our Minds

Around"

The announced deadline to reserve your space at the MindFreedom

conference/retreat was yesterday, 30 April.

But slots are still available so register soon. The gathering is in a

beautiful retreat center in rural Connecticut to help create a choice of

alternatives to the conventional mental health system, 12 to 15 July

2007.

See: http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/choice/

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All this and more at the MindFreedom News Web Site:

http://www.mindfreedom.org

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And while you're on the web site... click on the button on the RIGHT to

join or donate now, or go directly to:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/join-donate

Be a member now, or renew your membership! Build united strength in

numbers!

Do you want to...

* Win human rights campaigns in mental health?

* End abuse by the psychiatric drug industry?

* Support self-determination of psychiatric survivors?

* Promote safe, humane, effective options in mental health?

MindFreedom is for people who care about human rights who want to unite!

MindFreedom is a nonprofit human rights group that unites 100 sponsor and

affiliate groups with individual members, and is accredited by the United

Nations as a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) with Consultative Roster

Status.

MindFreedom is one of the very few totally independent groups in the

mental health field with no funding from governments, drug companies,

religions, corporations, or the mental health system. While most of

MindFreedom's members are psychiatric survivors, *all* who support human

rights are invited to join and become active leaders.

Be part of the Spring '07 Member Recruitment & Fundraising Drive TODAY:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/join-donate

For hard-to-find books and gear go to:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/mad-market

MindFreedom International Office: 454 Willamette, Suite 216 - POB

11284; Eugene, OR 97440-3484 USA

web site: http://www.mindfreedom.org

e-mail: office@mindfreedom.org

office phone: (541) 345-9106

toll free: 1-877-MAD-PRIDe or 1-877-623-7743

fax: (541) 345-3737

Please forward.

"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted." -

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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