MindFreedom International News - 23 September 2007
http://www.mindfreedom.org

Six (6) **brief** news items:

1 - Next on MF Free Live Web Radio: Two Mad Pride Activists from

Toronto Canada.

2 - Watch Web Video of 21 Sept. Protest of East Europe Psychiatric

Conference in Greece.

3 - MindFreedom Protest Against Electroshock at Kitty Dukakis Speech in

Boston.

4 - BonkersFest in UK has a 2008 Mad Pride Announcement.

5 - New Book "Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry" is Popular!

6 - Volunteer Opportunities for D.C. Residents & Attendees of

Alternatives 2007.

MindFreedom Fall Membership Drive Starts Today!

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(1) Next on MindFreedom Free Live Web Radio:

Canadian Mad Pride on MindFreedom Free Live Web Radio

This Wednesday, 26 September 2007, at 4 pm ET, click, listen and call in

to a free live Internet interview on MindFreedom Radio with two Mad Pride

activists from Toronto Canada:

http://prncomm.net/

Ruth Ruth is a community theatre director with The Friendly Spike

Theatre Band a community theatre for psychiatric survivors and people

with disabilities. Jeremiah Bach is an activist in the Mad and Disability

movement in Canada. Host is David Oaks.

You can phone in from anywhere in the world live with your comments and

questions. Call toll free from USA.

Upcoming guests: 3 Oct. Activist Dorothy Washburn Dundas, survivor of

insulin coma shock. 10 Oct. re-run. 17 Oct. Al Galves, author of Darking

with Your Dark Side (re-scheduled).

More info on the MindFreedom Mad Radio Show:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/media/mfradio/canada-mad-pride

or go here: http://tinyurl.com/2e42og

New feature -- Selected past shows are archived for download here:

www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/media/mfradio/archived-shows

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(2) Online Video of 21 September 2007 Protest of East Europe

Psychiatric Conference

You can watch a nonviolent protest using banners and guerilla theater

that was held in and outside of the "First Eastern European Psychiatric

Congress" in Thessaloniki, Greece on 21 September 2007. The protest was

by the Pan-Hellenic Coalition for Psychiatric Reform.

To watch a brief video of the protest:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/act/eastern-europe/greek-protest-video

or go to: http://tinyurl.com/2wptpd

To read a declaration from the protesters go here:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/act/eastern-europe/greek-protest-declaration

or go to: http://tinyurl.com/3xtcc6

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(3) MindFreedom Peaceful Protest at Kitty Dukakis Speech in Boston

A pro-electroshock book, "Shock," will be promoted in a speech on 15

October 2007 at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. The

book by authors Kitty Dukakis and Larry Tye is one-sided. You could help

by attending the event with a sign promoting "no forced shock," humane

alternatives to electroshock, etc.

Please help remember those who have been harmed and killed by human

rights violations involving electroshock, which is also known as

"electroconvulsive therapy" or ECT. This book, and mainstream media,

tends to tell the public about those who support electroshock, instead of

the many who are harmed.

More info:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/as/act/us/maine/kitty-dukakis-shock

or go to: http://tinyurl.com/2f7tkl

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(4) Mad Pride 2008 Announcement in UK

BonkersFest in UK has put out an announcement about their 2008

activities. For info go here:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/madpride/mp2008/bonkersfest-2008

or go here: http://tinyurl.com/2b7u39

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(5) New Book "Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry" is Popular

Copies are flying out of the office. Sixty-one authors from five

continents explain humane options beyond the current mental health

system in this new book co-edited by psychiatric survivor activist

Peter Lehmann and psychiatrist Peter Stastny.

More info, cover photo and how to buy your copy from the MadMarket to

benefit human rights in mental health go here:

http://mindfreedom.org/mad-market/alternatives-beyond/

or go to: http://tinyurl.com/yrrljv

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(6) Volunteer Opportunities: Are You In Washington, D.C. Area? Or

Are You Attending Alternatives?

If you support a nonviolent revolution in human rights and

alternatives in the mental health system, and live in the general

Washington, D.C. area, you are invited to e-mail to

news@mindfreedom.org  to inquire about several volunteer opportunities for

networking, strategizing and nonviolent activism in early October.

Also, wherever you live, if you are attending Alternatives 2007 in

St. Louis in October and would like to volunteer with MindFreedom

activists, please also e-mail to news@mindfreedom.org

For more info on events in these areas see:

http://mindfreedom.org/campaign/madpride/mlk-iaacm/mlk

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More news at the MindFreedom News Web Site:

http://www.mindfreedom.org

Don't see a news item? Submit it to news@mindfreedom.org

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MINDFREEDOM FALL MEMBERSHIP & RENEWAL DRIVE!

Join or renew your membership today as part of the Fall Membership &

Renewal Drive!

Go to:

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

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

numbers!

* 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 supported united activism!

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

affiliate groups with individual members.

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.

All human rights supporters are invited!

Join or donate here:

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For hard-to-find books and gear (including the new book Alternatives

Beyond Psychiatry) go to:

http://www.madmarket.org

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