In this DENDRITE:
UPCOMING
NATIONAL EVENTS & ACTIONS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND
ALTERNATIVES OF PSYCHIATRIC SURVIVORS
and
CONTACT
USA PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES BY E-MAIL TO OPPOSE FORCED
OUTPATIENT PSYCHIATRIC DRUGGING
Support Coalition International
will have an exhibit table, and several members will present
workshops, at the following three events this Fall 2000:
1. *** NEW YORK
CITY ***
When: THIS Saturday, September
23, 2000, 10 AM to 5 PM
What: A PUBLIC FAIR critical of the ADHD label, and giving psychiatric
drugs to kids.
THIS EVENT IS ***** FREE *****
AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
Where: ROOSEVELT HOTEL -
EAST 45TH ST. & MADISON AVE.
This fair will have speakers,
book sales, treatment programs, educational
programs, free handouts... all critical of labeling and drugging
of children diagnosed with "Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
Disorder."
More details: This is part of a
three-day conference by the International
Center for the Study of Psychiatry & Psychology. http://www.breggin.com/conf2000.html
2. ***
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE ***
When: October 11 - 15, 2000
Where: Renaissance Nashville Hotel
What: ALTERNATIVES 2000. This
conference gathers hundreds
of "mental health consumers" and psychiatric survivors
from all over the USA, Canada and Europe. Funded by the
federal government, this year's conference is
sponsored by the National Empowerment Center. More
details: http://www.power2u.org/event.html
3. ***
SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA ***
When: November 8 to 11, 2000
Where: Doubletree Hotel
What: National Association for
Rights Protection & Advocacy 19th
Annual Rights Conference. Keynoters include Michael Perlin, Pat
Deegan, Daphne Scholinsky, and Jacki McKinney. This
is one of the main gatherings each year uniting advocates,
attorneys, psychiatric survivors and activists working
for human rights of people labeled with mental disabilities.
More details: http://www.narpa.org/
P
R E S I D E N T I A L P O L I T I C S
and
F O R C E D P S Y C H I A T R I C D R U G S
DENDRITE is not endorsing a
candidate, just reporting what
we know about candidates, and how to contact their campaigns
about human rights in psychiatry:
*** CONTACT RALPH NADER! ***
Ralph Nader has announced he is
staying "neutral" on the issue
of involuntary outpatient psychiatric drugging. What?? This
isn't good enough... Because Ralph has had long ties with the
group Public Citizen -- and two physicians associated with Public
Citizen (Drs. Wolfe & Torrey) both promote forced
outpatient psychiatric drugging... Ralph needs to distance
himself from these doctors,
and speak out against forced outpatient psychiatric drugging.
Public Citizen has even started a combined web site with
Torrey's extremist Treatment Advocacy Center. For
more info and proven ways to contact Ralph: http://mindfreedom.org/RelatedNews/nader%20leaf/naderleaflet.html
*** CONTACT TIPPER GORE ***
In the Gore campaign, Tipper
Gore has made "mental health" her key
issue. You can easily e-mail Tipper Gore today. Al Gore is
talking a lot about "patients rights" and
"taking on the drug industry"
on the campaign trail. But why haven't Al and Tipper endorsed
the President's National Council on Disability's Ten Core Recommendations
about *real* psychiatric rights? Read
the 10 core recommendations from the President's own National
Council on Disability at http://www.ncd.gov/newsroom/publications/privileges.html#exe
Ask for your own free copy of
"From Privileges to Rights: People Labeled
with Psychiatric Disabilities Speak for Themselves" by e-mailing
to: <sbrown@ncd.gov>.
E-mail to Tipper Gore to SPEAK
OUT against forced outpatient psychiatric
drugging. Has she read the NCD report? http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/Mail/html/Mail_Mrs_Gore.html
*** CONTACT HARRY BROWNE ***
This summer's convention of the
Libertarian Party passed a specific plank
against psychiatric coercion, such as involuntary outpatient commitment.
Candidate Harry Brown has spoken out against these
abuses. You can thank him by e-mailing to: info@HarryBrowne2000.org
The Support Coalition member
who helped get that plank through is
Alice Lillie of Nevada. You can thank her at <alicelillie@hotmail.com>.
Ask Alice about a public
interview where Harry Browne denounced S 2639, a huge
psychiatric bill which is sailing through the Senate.
*** GEORGE BUSH ****
Unfortunately, Texas has a
"double whammy." That is, it not only has
involuntary outpatient commitment, it also is one of six US
states that has PACT -- Program of Assertive Community Treatment.
That means anyone in Texas can not only be court ordered to
take powerful psychiatric drugs against their will while
living at home, but to
enforce that a drug-delivery team can come to their home
every day if need be to WATCH
while they involuntarily take their psychiatric
drug.
To see actual animated video of
these "dose drops," see the web site: http://mindfreedom.org/homeFeatures/PACT/PACT1.html
and click on the caption
for the animated video to see more video.
To e-mail and ask George Bush
to oppose such forced at-home drug
deliveries, you can leave an e-mail comment here: http://www.georgewbush.com/Contact.asp
*** DENDRON DEADLINE
EXTENDED ***
DENDRON is the print
newsjournal of Support Coalition.
The theme of the next issue of
DENDRON is *youth* resistance to
psychiatric human rights violations. Your news, letters, resource
listings, drawings and photos are welcome. The
deadline has been extended to October 10, 2000. Please
e-mail your submission to: office@mindfreedom.org
(If you have not yet seen
Dendron, and you are interested in joining
Support Coalition, you can e-mail your postal address for
a sample copy of the 64-page summer issue. This is while the
last of the 10,000 print run lasts -- it's almost out.)
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:
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