NEWS: Human Rights & Mental Health 06 June 2007
http://www.MindFreedom.org

Live *TODAY* from Dresden, Germany:

MindFreedom Internet Radio Reports Live on Psychiatric Survivors

Speaking Out Inside and Outside World Psychiatric Association Meeting in Germany Today is a special live edition of MindFreedom Internet Radio. Host David Oaks reports live from Dresden, Germany after both protesting and attending the first day of the three-day World Psychiatric Association special conference on coercion in psychiatry.

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

Wednesday, 6 June at 4 pm ET at http://prncomm.net.

Psychiatric survivors from several human rights groups have gained

admission to this World Psychiatric Association, and are speaking up in

symposia, exhibit table, and keynotes, Plus, there are protests outside.

A number of psychiatric survivor groups have relased a united

statement with a vision for the end of coercion in psychiatry. You

may read and download the special "Declaration of Dresden Against

Coerced Psychiatric Treatment" by going here:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/mental-health-global/wpa-dresden/

Host David Oaks will report on happenings here in Dresden, including on some of the psychiatric survivor activists who are here such as Jim &

Mary Maddock, Peter Lehmann, Mary Nettle, Judi Chamberlin and more.

"Nothing About Us Without Us!"

This is radio for a nonviolent revolution in the mental health system.

If you miss the live show this Wednesday at 4 pm ET at http://prncomm.net/ , the MindFreedom News Hour is once more being archived by Progressive Radio Network on an all new web site. Recent shows can be found here:

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And this just in on MindFreedom Web Site!

Live from London, England:

You can see LIVE photo coverage of the launch of Bonkersfest 2007!

That's right, catch a photo by Peter Lindley of the cannon launch.

Organizers of this popular outdoor music, arts, cultural festival to

promote psychiatric survivors start their "Bonkersfest" with a cannon

that launches bananas. Check it out at:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/madpride/bonkersfest-2007

It's all part of Mad Pride 2007, for a list of this year's known

events go here:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/madpride

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