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1) JUDGE
DECIDES: FORCED SHOCK OF PAUL MAY PROCEED- State
Supreme Court Justice W. Bromley Hall finally issued his decision
this morning, April 16, 2001: Paul Henri Thomas can be given
up to another 40 forced electroshocks over his objection, starting
as early as this Wednesday or Friday.
- Paul has
already received that much or more forced electroshock during
his more than one year of captivity in Pilgrim State
Psychiatric Center
in West Brentwood, New York.
- ACTION: The
court of public opinion must be reached.
- Please
forward this news to friends, colleagues, media, and all appropriate
places on and off the Internet.
- MORE INFO:
Reaction by Paul's attorneys, their next moves, see:
- http://www.mindfreedom.org/mindfreedom/news/010416_b.shtml
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- 2) RAE
UNZICKER REMEMBERED:
- August 20,
1948 - March 22, 2001
- Rae Unzicker
was a powerful heroine for the psychiatric survivors'
human rights movement who died last month after
a lengthy fight with cancer. Justin Dart and others remember
Rae's triumphant life:
- http://www.mindfreedom.org/mindfreedom/rae.shtml
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3) PROJECT CENSORED GIVES
MINDFREEDOM AN AWARD
FOR EXPOSING PSYCHIATRIC DRUG COMPANY FUNDING
OF CAMPAIGNS FOR MORE FORCED DRUGS- On Saturday,
April 28, 2001, Project Censored gives an award
for a MindFreedom story that made the "2001 Top
Ten" list
of under-reported stories. The award will be given during the
"Press Freedom Conference and Alternative News Media Exposition"
in San Francisco, California.
- For more
information on the Project Censored event itself:
- http://www.projectcensored.org/frontpagenews/11-26-00altmedia.html
- To find out
about a workshop given during the conference about "Psychiatric
Drug Companies, Human Rights and the Media":
- http://www.mindfreedom.org/mindfreedom/alt.shtml
- To read the
winning story about NAMI's drug company slush fund, plus
background and updates since that story was published:
- http://www.mindfreedom.org/mindfreedom/news/slush.shtml
- Did you know
the World Bank now has a "mental health
division"?
- Does that
give you a sense of mental and emotional well being?
- This is one
of the concerns to be raised by MAD PRIDE events this July
2001 in UK, Germany, USA and Canada.
- Vancouver,
Canada will be the scene of a nonviolent legal protest of
globalization of psychiatric human rights violations on
Sunday, July
22, 2001, 3 pm, in front of the Vancovuer Convention
Center.
- For updates
about Mad Pride events this July in four nations:
- http://www.mindfreedom.org/mindfreedom/madpride/
- For news
about the July 22 protest in Vancouver, including a list
of more than a dozen speakers from Germany, Israel, USA and
Canada:
- http://www.mindfreedom.org/mindfreedom/madpride/vanc.shtml
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5) CALIFORNIA HUMAN RIGHTS STRUGGLE
HEATS UP, AGAIN
Once more, Calf. Assemblymember Helen Thomson (Davis) is pushing
a harsh bill attacking the human rights of people labeled
with psychiatric
disorders. This one is even worse than last year's AB
1800, which was defeated by hundreds of psychiatric survivors,
mental health consumers, advocates and allies.- For a news
release from the California Network of Mental Health Clients,
and how you can fight back:
- http://www.mindfreedom.org/mindfreedom/news/010412.shtml
- Meanwhile,
the main organization pushing for Thomson's bill is
itself split by inner turmoil. Since board president Brian
Jacobs fired
the editor of their journal and ordered pages of the
journal glued
shut (really!), boards and members in Santa Cruz, Sonoma, Stanislaus
and San Jacinto counties have been rebelling. (Brian has
turned down offers to see a psychiatrist about his own sticky
problems.)
- http://www.mindfreedom.org/mindfreedom/news/glue.shtml
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- 6) NEW ISSUE
OF SUPPORT COALITION'S PUBLICATION IS
AT THE PRESS, AND IS RE-NAMED "MINDFREEDOM
JOURNAL"
- Support
Coalition's award-winning publication -- _Dendron_ -- has
now changed its name to _MindFreedom Journal_.
- The issue is
at the printer right now.
- SCI wanted
the name to more clearly reflect SCI's campaigns
for human rights and alternatives in the "mental
health system." The new issue -- #44 -- is packed with
64 pages of news, resources, letters, cartoons, poetry,
color cover, etc.
- If you are
not a current SCI member, then you may not receive
this new issue. You can fix that in two ways.
- Join SCI now
on SCI's secure web site by VISA/MasterCard at http://www.MindFreedom.org.
- Or e-mail
your pledge to join now to SCI's office at <office@mindfreedom.org>
. Include your postal mailing address
and ask for a sample copy.
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7) IT'S U.S.A. TAX DAY -- DON'T LET
YOUR TAX DOLLARS GO
TO FORCED PSYCHIATRIC DRUGGING IN YOUR
OWN HOME!- Congress and
the Bush administration are considering giving
more taxpayer money to the National Alliance for the Mentally
Ill (NAMI) to promote their "Program of Assertive Community
Treatment" (PACT). PACT can involve coerced at-home
psychiatric drug deliveries using court orders.
- NAMI has
been secretly using millions of dollars in psychiatric
drug company funding to campaign for PACT.
- ACTION in
USA: E-mail your Congressperson and the federal government
to say "no" to your taxpayer money going to fund
at-home forced psychiatric drug deliveries! More info:
- http://www.mindfreedom.org/mindfreedom/news/010414.shtml
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8) NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR RIGHTS
PROTECTION AND
ADVOCACY 2001 MEETING WILL BE HELD IN NIAGARA
FALLS, NEW YORK -- NOVEMBER 1 TO 4, 2001- One of the
main gatherings of advocates and activists working
for human rights of people labeled with mental disabilities
is the National Association for Rights Protection
and Advocacy. NARPA was a founding sponsor
of Support Coalition International. For more info:
- http://www.mindfreedom.org/mindfreedom/news/010406.shtml
- or go
directly to NARPA'S web site at: http://NARPA.org
- Immediately
following the NARPA conference, only a few hours away,
another SCI sponsor group holds a bi-lingual conferencein
Quebec: http://WWW.CAM.ORG/~agidd/appelcommunication.htm
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9) _TIME MAGAZINE_ PACIFIC EDITION
EXPOSES PSYCHIATRIC
DRUG EXPERIMENTS ON YOUTH, QUOTES
SUPPORT COALITION ACTIVIST- Did you know
that psychiatric researchers in the USA and Australia
are experimenting on teens by giving them powerful
neuroleptic psychiatric drugs *before* they have even
been diagnosed "schizophrenic"? Even though neuroleptics
can cause brain damage and addiction, the researchers
say it's worth the risk to "prevent
schizophrenia."
- http://www.mindfreedom.org/mindfreedom/news/010409.shtml
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- 10) THE
DENDRITE E-MAIL LIST HAS BEEN RENAMED: MINDFREEDOM.ORG
BRIEF HUMAN RIGHTS ALERTS
- These human
rights alerts now directly reach more than 3,000 interested
people who take action, and who forward the alerts to others.
The list has now been re-named "MindFreedom.org
- Brief Human
Rights Alerts," or MINDFREEDOM ALERTS. To get
on or off this list, see instructions at BOTTOM.
DENDRITE is a public Internet
alert system about human rights in psychiatry, sponsored by
Support Coalition International, sending out notices to
thousands of concerned people, many of whom take ACTION NOW!
Support Coalition International is an independent non-profit
federation of more than 70 groups in 11 countries united to WIN
campaigns for human rights in the "mental health
system." For info on Support Coalition, see the web site: www.efn.org/~dendron
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