News: Your Mind & Freedom -  30 Jan. 2007
http://www.MindFreedom.org

Two brief news updates about uniting to win human rights and

alternatives in the mental health system:

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*** MindFreedom Radio Show ***

The next two guests on the MindFreedom Internet Radio Show will be

psychiatrists who are leaders in reforming the mental health system:

31 January 2007 - Peter Breggin, MD - Author and courageous hero of many

psychiatric survivors.

7 February 2007 - Peter Stastny, MD

Tune in each Wednesday, 4 pm EST, at http://www.theprn.org

You can call in live with your questions and comments. For more info &

brief bio's see:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/media/mfradio/show/guest

or: http://tinyurl.com/36p7hm

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*** More media on Eli Lilly's Formerly-Secret Files About Zyprexa ***

The Eugene Register-Guard ran two articles yesterday about the

Zyprexa controversy.

The first focused on Zyprexa survivor Tracey Dumas, with photo:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/know/psych-drug-corp/eli-lilly-secrets/reconsidering-psychiatric-drugs

or: http://tinyurl.com/ysnmqc

The same issue also had a follow-up on the court battle over the

public right to know about secret Eli Lilly files about Zyprexa.

MindFreedom -- Eugene-based human rights group -- was named by Eli

Lilly in an attempt to get a permanent gag order on how to obtain

these documents:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/know/psych-drug-corp/eli-lilly-secrets/advocates-seek-access

or: http://tinyurl.com/2yxp2z

For more info and media coverage on the controversy, including a

background overview, see:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/know/psych-drug-corp/eli-lilly-secrets/

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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?

You are not alone! 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.

http://www.mindfreedom.org

MindFreedom International Office: 454 Willamette, Suite 216 - POB

11284; Eugene, OR 97440-3484 USA

web site: http://www.mindfreedom.org

e-mail: office(at)mindfreedom(dot)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.

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