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NEWS: Human
Rights & Mental Health 20 May 2007
http://www.MindFreedom.org
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- Three (3) *brief* News alerts for
a nonviolent revolution in the
- mental health system:
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- 1) News & photos of electroshock protest
in Toronto, Montreal, Ireland:
- Brief news reports and photos of the three grassroots
protests
- against electroshock held last week in Toronto, Montreal
& Ireland
- are on the web here:
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http://www.mindfreedom.org/as/act/inter/mfire/mf-ireland-electroshock
- Organizers chose Mother's Day for the protests to
educate the public
- about how electroshock doctors overwhelmingly are
targeting mothers and grandmothers.
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- 2) Urgent: National
Media seek courageous parent of drug-free child labeled
'bipolar':
- A major national media outlet has contacted MindFreedom.
To have both sides of a story, they are urgently searching
for a parent to interview.
- Please read the following criteria. If there is an
*exact* match, e-mail
- details and contact info *soon* to
news@mindfreedom.org
:
- Criteria: The parent must have a child between ages of 6
to 17 who
- has been labeled by a mental health professional as
"bipolar," but
- the family has chosen NOT to use any psychiatric drugs,
or has tried but
- abandoned all psychiatric drugs.
-
- 3) "Creative revolution in healing
" full:
- The MindFreedom conference/retreat in July about
creating
- alternatives to the conventional mental health system
has reached
- capacity for general admission two months before the
event. MFI no
- longer has space for regular registration.
- The conference planning committee is looking into ways
for a few more
- people to attend by staying at a local motel. Watch the
MindFreedom web site for
announcements about that. For those who registered very
recently you will be notified about
your status. See the web MFI site for more
info and updates.
- Info about the MFI conference/retreat is here:
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http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/choice
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- All this and lots more that's new
at the MindFreedom News Web Site:
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http://www.mindfreedom.org
- Don't see an important news item there? Submit it to
-
news@mindfreedom.org
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- And while you're on the web site... click on the button
on the RIGHT to
- join or donate now, or go directly to:
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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.
- Join or donate here:
-
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.
DENDRITE is a public Internet alert system about human
rights in psychiatry, sponsored by Support Coalition
International, sending out notices to thousands of concerned
people, many of whom take ACTION NOW!
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