Updates: Your Mind & Freedom -  26 March 2007
http://www.MindFreedom.org

Seven (7) brief news updates from MindFreedom International News at

http://www.mindfreedom.org

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(1) Today: New Zealand TV Station Squashes Censorship by Shock Doctor

When a woman who had experienced forced electroshock told her story on a

national New Zealand television news show, the doctor who had given the

involuntary electroshock filed a formal complaint with the TV station,

claiming it was the journalist who had violated the woman's "informed

consent"! Today, TV3 issued its decision. Read all about it:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/mental-health-abuse/electroshock/censor

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(2) Upcoming Guests Announced for Free MindFreedom Internet Radio

Guest this Wednesday, 28 March 2007: John McCarthy helped found

MindFreedom Ireland, and lives in Cork. He's a psychiatric survivor, a

poet, an activist, and now he's running for elected office on a platform

that discloses his experiences on the receiving end of mental health

care. John has taken his brilliant analysis and sense of humor directly

into United Nations meetings to resist psychiatric human rights

violations.

Listen to MindFreedom Radio live and call-in toll free on Wednesdays at 4

pm EST or via archives at http://www.prncomm.net  with host David Oaks.

E-mail any time to radio@mindfreedom.org.

Future guests: 4 April: Whistleblower Jim Gottstein of Alaska returns

with updates on Eli Lilly controversy. 11 April: Author Jay Joseph

exposes the "gene myth" of psychiatry. 18 April: Journalist Bob Whitaker,

author of _Mad in America_, takes on history and current practice of

psychiatry:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/media/mfradio/upcoming

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(3) This Saturday, 31 March 2007, is "Early Bird" Discount Deadline to

Get in Deposit for MindFreedom 2007 Conference Retreat.

"Creative Revolution in Healing: Turning Our Minds Around" gathers in a

beautiful retreat center in Connecticut to help create a choice of

alternatives to the conventional mental health system, 12 to 15 July

2007. You are invited.

For the latest conference info, registration form, travel info,

photos of retreat center and more go to the Event Web Center:

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

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(4) Announcing: MindFreedom Oregon News Center

A new web area at the MindFreedom portal covers news updates about

Oregon activism, including:

* Support Oregon Senate bills SB 363 and 364 written by psychiatric

survivors and mental health consumers to put the principle of self-

determination into Oregon law, and create an office of mental health

consumer affairs, an ombudsman office to handle complaints about Oregon's

mental health system, and support for a mental health consumer advisory

council.

* Oppose Oregon House bills HB 3954 and HB 2995: These "dual

disappointments" target privacy among Oregonians diagnosed with

psychiatric disabilities. If both pass, then medical personnel could give

away private information from our protected medical records about mental

health. And police would create a database for certain individuals with

psychiatric labels.

* E-mail Oregon's Governor! Psychiatric survivor Dave Romprey had a guest

column published in the Salem Statesman Journal calling upon Governor Ted

Kulongoski to weave the principles of recovery and consumer-direction

into Oregon's psychiatric system, especially since the Governor wants to

build new huge institutions. See how you can easily join in contacting

the Governor via the web.

All this and more see:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/as/act/us/or/oregon-news

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(5) Toronto Activism for Mad Pride and to Stop Electroshock!

Toronto Star Covers "Mad Pride" Movement!

The mainstream newspaper Toronto Star in Canada published an article

about the international psychiatric survivors and allies in the "Mad

Pride" movement:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/act/toronto-star-mad-pride

Toronto will have a Mothers Day protest of electroshock on 13 May 2007:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/mental-health-abuse/electroshock/toronto-protest

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(6) New York Times continues to pound Eli Lilly for corruption in

pushing Zyprexa

On 23 March 2007 the NY Times ran an article quoting MindFreedom

member Ben Hansen about how Eli Lilly uses undue influence in US

States to fraudulently promote their psychiatric drug Zyprexa. Read this

and other NY Times articles exposing Eli Lilly corruption:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/as/act/us/psychrights/nytimes-vs-eli-lilly/

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(7) Psychiatric Survivors Spotlighted in Radical Psychology Journal

A special issue of the _Radical Psychology Journal_ gives a voice to the

psychiatric survivors movement, including "Who fancies to have a

Revolution here? The Opal Revisited (1851-1860)" by Lauren J. Tenney and

"A Matter of Definition: Acknowledging Consumer/Survivor Experiences

through Narrative" by Linda Morrison:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/psychiatric-survivors/radical-psychology/

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Plus... we're always adding new items, blog links, resources, etc. to the

expanding MindFreedom Knowledge Base at:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb

And don't miss the MindFreedom blog, including comment on psychiatric

industry censorship:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/mfi-blog

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Be part of the MindFreedom International Spring '07 Drive Today!

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.

Be part of the Spring '07 Member Recruitment & Fundraising Drive TODAY:

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

MindFreedom International Office: 454 Willamette, Suite 216 - POB

11284; Eugene, OR 97440-3484 USA

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

office phone: (541) 345-9106

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Please forward.

"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted." -

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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