NEWS:
MindFreedom International News 26 June 2007
http://www.MindFreedom.org
- Mad Pride '07 is well underway!
- by Krista Erickson, chair, MFI Mad Pride Chair
- July is Mad Pride month! Join in! Celebrate the right to
be different and
- the psychiatric survivor movement.
- A link to a complete, updated listing of Mad Pride 2007
events known to
- us is online at:
- www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/madpride
- A few highlights of events include:
- -- BonkersFest was celebrated in June in England with Mad
Pride
- events planned from now until early October. A cannon
launch of
- bananas kicked off Mad Pride 2007 at this popular music
event! See
- the photo.
- -- The Great Escape Bed Push. For the third year,
activists in
- England will symbolically escape psychiatric institutions,
dressed in
- pajamas and 'hot tail' it with a psychiatric bed to a
place of safety and
- celebration while raising awareness about the over-use of
forced
- treatments in mental health services and the need for
holistic choice
- based services.
- -- This year the Great Escape Bed Push goes international
with bed
- pushes scheduled in Canada and the US to celebrate Mad
Pride. Next
- year? How about your home town?
- -- The first-ever Mad Pride parade in Belgium.
- -- Another great street march and other Mad Pride events
in Accra,
- Ghana.
- -- Several events in Toronto and Vancouver Canada.
- -- A vigil in Albany, New York and a rally in Buffalo, NY.
- -- Mad Pride celebration at MindFreedom's Creative
Revolution
- conference.
- And more! For more news on Mad Pride 2007 and links to
background and
- news about Mad Pride events see:
- www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/madpride/
- Mad Pride events can be small or big, and can be
inexpensive. Watch a
- free, brief online video of a Mad Pride event on our web
site. If you are
- planning a Mad Pride celebration, please let us know at
pride@mindfreedom.org
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MAD PRIDE ON MFI LIVE INTERNET RADIO TOMORROW!
Listen and phone in LIVE on MFI free Internet radio when
Krista
Erickson, Martin Rafferty and other Mad Pride activists
are guests,
tomorrow, Wednesday, 27 June 2007, at 4 pm ET.
At that day and time just click on
http://prncomm.net
-- Then listen
free, and phone in live!
Hear about activities all over the world to celebrate
being different the
psychiatric survivor movement. Host is MFI director David
Oaks. Note
because of other programming we sometimes start a few
minutes late. If
you miss it you can hear the archives later.
For more info on the LIVE Mad Pride 2007 radio show go to:
http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/media/mfradio/next
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Special News Preview: IAACM!
With support from MindFreedom International, Mad Pride
2007 will
launch a vision of Martin Luther King, Jr.! In ten
speeches over five
years and in his writings, Dr. King said the world was in
dire need of
new organization, the "International Association for the
Advancement of
Creative Maladjustment," or the IAACM.
It has taken psychiatric survivors to help make this dream
come true.
During July -- Mad Pride Month 2007 -- watch for news of
the launch of
the IAACM. All who follow Dr. King's nonviolence
guidelines may call
themselves an IAACM leader! We hope that's YOU!
"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively
maladjusted." -
Martin Luther King, Jr.
For background on the IAACM see:
http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/mental-health-global/iaacm
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Please forward this Mad Pride News to all appropriate
places on and off
the Internet!
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Site:
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