(1) ZAP MEDIA SILENCE ABOUT USA
FORCED SHOCK
_The New York Times_ reported
today about forced electroshock...
in China. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/18/world/18CHIN.html
But what about forced
electroshock in the USA, right in
New York State, not all that far from _New York Times_
offices?
Here is the human rights alert Support Coalition International
broadcast on Feb. 13 about forced electroshock
this past week of Paul Henri Thomas in New
York State. http://mindfreedom.org/mindfreedom/news/010213_b.shtml
Paul Henri Thomas is
truly a human rights activist. Paul's
court hearing to try to stop the forced electroshock
has been delayed two weeks, so he's in danger
of even more forced shock before the hearing.
Why have _The New York Times_ and corporate media ignored
the story that forced electroshock is done in the
USA?
Are electricity and the brain somehow different as one
gets closer to _The New York Times_ office?
ACTION -- ASK THE MEDIA YOURSELF!
1) BRIEF LETTER TO EDITOR
Please consider e-mailing a
letter to the editor to _The
New York Times_ and other media. You can point to
forced electroshock in New York State, and link it
to their story today. Your own unique words are best.
TIPS: The word limit for letters
to _The New York Times_ is
only *150* words, so stick to that.
Be sure to include your contact info, along with day and
evening phone numbers for confirmation.
There's a web form to e-mail your letters to the editor
(it also has fax and address if you want to use
that): http://www.nytimes.com/info/help/letters.html
Or you can directly
e-mail letters to the editor at <letters@nytimes.com>
.
2) REACH _THE NEW YORK TIMES_
REPORTERS AND EDITORS DIRECTLY
From a notice on _The NY Times_
web site:
"Contacting a
staff member: Send a message to <staff@nytimes.com>
for an automated response listing
the e-mail addresses of New York Times staff members
who have made their Internet ID available to the
public."
That's a way for you to automatically get back a long
long list of e-mail addresses for many _New York
Times_ reporters, editors, etc. Try it.
A disclaimer should be respected that says those e-mail
addresses *cannot* be used for (1) commercial gain,
and (2) any e-mail list without their explicit permission.
Therefore, only individual personal e-mail
to those e-mail addresses about news is okay.
And that's where we all come in.
Go for it! Please keep your message civil.
(2) A FREE WEBCAST
"RADIO" PROGRAM YOU'LL
WANT TO HEAR!!!
The "Don and Carla
Show" this Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2001 is
on the topic of "Forced Psychiatric Drugging."
The Don and Carla Show is a webcast broadcast free on
the Internet. It is a three-hour, topical talk show,
live Monday through Friday from 4-7 Alaska time,
5-8 Pacific time, 6-9 Mountain time, 7-10 Central
time, and 8-11 Eastern time.
Guests and (approximate) times for the special show this
Tuesday --
ALL BELOW TIMES ARE IN MOUNTAIN TIME: 6:00
David Oaks.
Endured forced psychiatric drugging in the mid-1970s.
He now is Director of Support Coalition International
and editor of its journal, _Dendron_.
Support Coalition unites 100+ grassroots groups in this
campaign for human rights in the mental health context.
http://www.mindfreedom.org
. The Don and Carla
show is a Sponsor Group.
6:30 Janet Foner, SCI
Co-founder and former Co-Coordinator,
now Board member and international activist
for mental health human rights, endured forced
psychiatric drugging in the 1960s.
6:55 N. Renay Tanner, trained
in psychopharmacology, neuroscience,
and clinical research, is a Ph.D. student
at Columbia University. She focuses on the ethics
and ideology of healthcare, seeing psychiatry as
idologically driven, not scientifically driven.
7:20 Don Weitz endured forced
insulin subcoma shocks for
"schizophrenia" in the 1950s. He is Co-founder of
People Against Coercive Treatment
(based in Toronto, Canada),
and a member of the No Force Coalition, and currently
mobilizing resistance against the Ontario government's
outpatient forced drugging/community treatment
orders.
7:40 Dr. Dominic Riccio is a
psychologist and psychoanalyst
in private practice for 22 years, a training
analyst at the Institute for Moderen Psychoanalysis,
and a past president of the Association
for Moderen Psychoanalysis. He opposes Ritalin
drugging of children for ADD, and is Executive
Director of the Center for the Study of Psychiatry
and Psychology http://www.breggin.com
8:05 Alan Salerian, M.D.,
psychiatrist, Senior Consultant
to the F.B.I., is writing a book on psychiatric
abuses.
8:30 Jody Harmon, of Corvallis,
OR, is a survivor of forced
psychiatric drugging and articulate about her experiences.
"Webcast" means that
you can only listen free using your
computer. The computer must be equipped with a sound
card and speakers. And you must download a program
called "RealPlayer" to listen. RealPlayer is available
free from Don and Carla's website, http://www.donandcarla.net
. It takes about a half hour
to download, so get this done before the program
starts. Once you have RealPlayer downloaded, you
can practice using your RealPlayer listening to any
of the four archived shows on the http://www.donandcarla.net
website, available 24/7. You
can also listen to The Reading Hour, on the hour before
The Don and Carla Show. (Right now Carla is in the
middle of reading _The Secret Garden_!) In fact, once
you have RealPlayer, you can listen to streaming
audio and video all over the web!
If The Don and Carla Show happens to get disconnected
momentarily from their server, everybody
who is listening gets "bumped off." All you
do is start RealPlayer again to reconnect. If you
can't reconnect, it means they're still off. Wait
5 or 10 minutes and then try again. It should work
by then. Sometimes the incoming signal is bad. In
that case, try disconnecting and re-starting RealPlayer.
You'll get a different phone line and hopefully
a better connection.
If you want to contribute comments to the evening's topic,
do so either before or during the show by e-mail:
<doncarla@vtc.net>
. They consider those e-mailed
comments an important part of the show and will
read as many they can squeeze in. If you would like
the upcoming topics and guests e-mailed to you weekly,
just write Don and Carla, same address, to say
that you want to be on the show's mailing list.
If you miss the show, or want a copy of it, a CD may be
available after the show. Watch Don and Carla's web
site for that: http://www.donandcarla.net/
or e-mail to them at <doncarla@vtc.net>
.
(3) NEWSFLASH -- DON'T SHOCK
KIDS!
Legislation to ban
electroconvulsive "therapy" (ECT) in
New Hampshire on children under age 16 will be considered
by the New Hampshire legislature's Committee
on Health, Human Services & Elderly Affairs
in Concord, New Hampshire at 1 p.m. on February
20, 2001, Room 205 in the Legislative Office
Building.
For more info see http://www.antipsychiatry.com/
(4) NATIONAL RADIO SHOW
"NATURAL LIVING WITH
GARY NULL" CHALLENGES PSYCHIATRIC HUMAN
RIGHTS VIOLATIONS!
A popular national radio show
hosted by Gary Null is
targeting psychiatric human rights violations.
This Wednesday, February 21, 2001, listen for a special
show about challenging the globalization of forced
psychiatric drugging and forced electroshock.
Guests include David Oaks, director of Support
Coalition International.
The Gary Null show is available as a "regular" radio
show in selected radio stations in
Calif, District of Columbia, Indiana,
Maine, NY, ND, OK, VT, Virginia, State
of Washington, and Wisc.
The show is broadcast at different times (such as at
noon on WBAI in New York City). For more info: http://www.garynull.com/Null_on_the_Air.htm
The show is also
broadcast on the Internet: http://www.garynull.com/webcast.htm
Radio shows Monday and
Tuesday (Feb. 19 and 20) are
also scheduled to tackle psychiatric abuse. Null is widely
admired for exposing the "mental health system."
YOU can help bust the corporate
media blockade for FREE by
forwarding this message to all appropriate places
on and off the Internet. ZAP BACK! Thank you!
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
