News Update: Your Mind & Freedom -  03 April 2007
http://www.MindFreedom.org  

Conference Speakers Announced... Ben Hansen on MF Radio... and

Eli Lilly Sued!

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(1) Announcing: A Few of the Workshop Presenters & Keynote Speakers...

Organizers of the "Creative Revolution in Healing: Turning Our Minds

Around" have announced some of the invited workshop presenters and

keynote speakers including:

Authors Mary and Jim Maddock of Ireland; Debbie Whittle of National

Empowerment Center.

Author Judi Chamberlin speaking about On Our Own - Reflections Thirty

Years On

David Oaks on Mad Pride Activism; Jennifer Branks of the Hearing

Voices Network

Susan Musante of Soteria Alaska Project

Peter Stastny, M.D.on International Network of Treatment Alternatives for

Recovery

.... and many more.

The gathering is 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. Half of registration fee is due as a

deposit 30 April 2007. Conference may reach capacity, so register soon.

For the latest conference info, speakers, registration form, fees,

travel info, photos of retreat center and more go to the Event Web

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

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(2) Ben Hansen is Guest on free, live MindFreedom Radio Tomorrow,

Wednesday, 4 April 2007, at 4 pm EST.

Ben Hansen is a psychiatric survivor activist. Most recently, on 23 March

2007, Ben made front-page headlines in the New York Times by helping to

expose a nation-wide Medicaid scandal involving drug maker Eli Lilly.

(See MindFreedom home page for link to this story.)

Ben also uses humor and satire to skewer psychiatric oppression. Ben is

also known as Dr. "M.I. Bonkers, M.D.," and is founder and president of

the "Bonkers Institute for Nearly Genuine Research," at

http://www.bonkersinstitute.org,  located in Traverse City, Michigan.

Ben will be on this Wednesday, 4 April 2007.

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: 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. [Guest Jim

Gottstein is rescheduling.]

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

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(3) Shareholder Class Action Filed Against Eli Lilly and Company over

Zyprexa

This is a forwarded news release from by the law firm of Schiffrin

Barroway Topaz & Kessler, LLP, announcing that a group of

shareholders of Eli Lilly are seeking to sue officers and directors of

the corporation for illegal fraud regarding their psychiatric drug

Zyprexa: http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/psych-drug-corp/eli-lilly/shareholders-sue

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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:

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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