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News: Your Mind & Freedom - 06 May 2007
http://www.MindFreedom.org

Next MindFreedom International Free Internet Radio -- Listen and Call

In LIVE!

Neil Gong on "Madness, College & Asian Americans: Create

Community in Response to the Virginia Tech Tragedy."

[PLUS at BOTTOM: News about MindFreedom Virginia... Electroshock

protest in Montreal, Toronto, Ireland... Oregon activism...]

Neil Gong has important insights on what our society can learn from the

Virginia Tech tragedy. Neil is a community organizer on college campuses

supporting students who are diagnosed with psychiatric disabilities.

Neil's studies include how mental health issues impact Asian American

communities.

You may listen and phone in LIVE to this Internet radio show *this*

Wednesday, 9 May at 4 pm ET at http://prncomm.net. Host is David Oaks.

Neil is an intern with the Icarus Project's New York University on-

campus organizing team. The Icarus Project is a radical, community

based mental health support network that is a sponsor group of

MindFreedom. The NYU chapter has worked to create mental health

support alternatives to the conventional college counseling center.

The college campus networks Neil works with seek to create community by

providing a space for open discussion of madness and difference. Neil is

studying cultural theory and critical approaches to psychiatry, with a

particular interest in how mental health is understood in Asian American

communities.

"The tragedy at Virginia Tech has unfortunately been exploited to

promote policies like the President's New Freedom Commission on

Mental Health," said Neil. "The President's Commission recommends

that most of the USA population, including students of all ages, be

screened for 'mental illness.'"

Neil would like society to learn from the tragedy at Virginia Tech.

without a backlash against people labeled with psychiatric problems.

Said Neil, "Everyone wants to prevent another college shooting. We

need to remember that positive social support and mental health

support can create community, open dialogue, and prevent violence.

However, stigmatization, exclusion, and forced treatment contribute to

the alienation troubled students already feel."

This is radio for a nonviolent revolution in the mental health

system, hosted by psychiatric rights activist David Oaks, director of

MindFreedom.

If you listen LIVE to the MindFreedom News Hour jot down the toll

free call-in number for the USA or the special call-in number for

outside the USA as it is given during the show. Please keep trying,

sometimes it takes more than once to get through.

You may e-mail at any time before or during the show to

radio@mindfreedom.org. Your comment or question may be read on the air.

If you miss the live show this Wednesday at 4 pm ET at http://prncomm.net

the recent shows of the MindFreedom News Hour are

archived by Progressive Radio Network on an all new web site:

http://oaks.progressiveradionetwork.org/

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Upcoming MindFreedom Internet Radio Show:

16 May 2007 - Jim Gottstein: Psychiatric survivor. Crusading

attorney. Harvard Law School graduate. Founder of PsychRights.org.

Hero. Jim is back by popular demand, LIVE! Hear the latest about

Jim's ongoing fight to hold Eli Lilly accountable for their criminal

cover-up and mis-marketing of the psychiatric drug Zyprexa. Jim will also

keep us up to date on his numerous other projects, campaigns and

lawsuits.

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Other MindFreedom online news related to Virginia Tech tragedy:

* On 2 May 2007, MindFreedom Virginia filed an official Freedom of

Information Act Request with the Virginia Medical Examiner in order to

obtain any toxicology or autopsy reports, in the public interest. A copy

of the FOIA letter along with an MFI public statement are now online.

* Link to a new _National Journal_ article, quoting MindFreedom point of

view, about debate over forced psychiatric drugging emerging from

Virginia Tech tragedy.

* Link to and text quotes from the National Public Radio interview of

MindFreedom director David Oaks.

* 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.

Go to:

-- 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

Also:

-- 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

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Mother's Day Protest of Electroshock Grows!

Now Montreal and Ireland will join Toronto in protesting the use of

electroshock on women. They're this Mothers Day, Sunday, 13 May 2007. For

this and other electroshock protest news go to:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/mental-health-abuse/electroshock

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Do you live in Oregon?

Check out the activity, networking, videoconferencing, bills and

other news in a special Oregon news folder. If you live in Lane

County, see the special Lane folder about a new Opal Network and

arrival of Road to Freedom national disability bus tour!

http://www.mindfreedom.org/as/act/us/or/

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All this and lots more that's new at the MindFreedom News Web Site:

http://www.mindfreedom.org

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join or donate now, or go directly to:

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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:

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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