BAY AREA PLANS TO HOST NONVIOLENT FREEDOM RALLY

[Guest guest]

NEWS: Your Mind & Human Rights -

http://www.MindFreedom.org - please forward

 

M18 UPDATE - BAY AREA PLANNING:

 

Please pass this on to any and all Bay Area contacts,

sorry if this is duplicate.

 

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BAY AREA PLANS TO HOST NONVIOLENT FREEDOM RALLY;

 

Stop Globalization of Human Rights Violations in Mental Health System

 

Support Coalition International and California Network of Mental

Health Clients are co-sponsoring a call for a

 

FREEDOM RALLY on SUNDAY, May 18, 2003, 1 pm.

 

Unite for choice, freedom and self-determination!

 

This will be directly in front of the annual meeting of the American

Psychiatric Association.

 

This e-mail is about how people in Bay Area can help on

site planning, please forward this to others in Bay Area who

may be interested.

 

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THIS FREEDOM RALLY IS A NONVIOLENT PROTEST TO:

 

....STOP THE RISE OF FORCED PSYCHIATRY...

 

....CHALLENGE GLOBALIZATION OF PSYCHIATRIC INDUSTRY HUMAN RIGHTS

VIOLATIONS...

 

.... SPEAK OUT AGAINST THE TAKE-OVER OF THE MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEM

BY THE PSYCHIATRIC DRUG INDUSTRY...

 

....END BUSH ADMINISTRATION ATTACKS ON CIVIL USING THE MENTAL HEALTH

SYSTEM...

 

....WIN SELF-DETERMINATION AND EMPOWERMENT!

 

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* For initial announcement on M18, including how to get on the

planning e-mail list, see:

 

http://www.mindfreedom.org/mindfreedom/m18.shtml

 

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* If you will actively volunteer on this, please note an initial

teleconference

is this Monday, Jan. 27, 2003, at 10 am pacific time. To

pre-register, e-mail to

oaks@m... If you miss this teleconference, there will be others.

 

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* A face-to-face planning meeting begins Sunday, February 2, 2003,

at 10 am. Location Address:

 

Alameda Count Network of Mental Health Clients (office)

3236 Adeline St.

Berkeley, CA 94703

 

Info on Feb. 2 planning meeting: 510- 652-5891(Nancy Thomas) or

1-800-626-7447 (Sally Zinman). If you have disability that prevents

using stairs, please phone ahead so meeting will be on ground floor;

if no calls, meeting will be on second floor.

 

Starting time: 10 am

 

Until done - by 4 PM hopefully.

 

This Feb. 2 planning (Happy Ground Hogs Day!) will be a chance to

network

with others already working on the Freedom Rally. We will also decide

the extent and length of a PRE-RALLY event for Saturday, May 17: If

there

is plenty of volunteers soon, this can be expanded; if not Sat., May

17 will

be

tailored back. Let people know soon.

 

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All activities and events related to M18 will follow nonviolence

guidelines.

While the main activities will all be legal with permits, there are

plans

for

nonviolent civil disobedience. If you are interested in that,

participation

requires pre-event nonviolence training. Participants, supporters and

trainers, contact us son.

 

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* M18 list volunteer is already matching up those who need housing

with

those who have free housing, for out of town. If you have a couch,

spare

bedroom, etc. in Bay Area -- or need are arriving from out of town and

need housing -- please contact julaville@e... Julia will also help

link up rides for carpooling.

 

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* For information on the initial co-sponsors: On Support Coalition

International

see http://www.MindFreedom.org. On California Network of Mental Health

Clients see: http://www.cnmhc.org. Both groups are deeply rooted in

the three-decade old psychiatric survivor/mental health consumer

social

change movement. To apply to be co-sponsor (co-sponsors will be

actively involved in working on event) or to be listed as endorser,

let us know.

 

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Please copy and forward this to all appropriate places on and off

Internet,

to reach individuals and groups in the Bay Area who may help support

this...

especially groups working on human rights, disability, poverty,

homelessness,

prisoner issues, globalization, gay/lesbian/transgender/bisexual

issues...

All these groups -- and increasingly the general population -- are

directly impacted

by the domination and oppression in the mental health system: lack of

alternatives

for people in crisis, forced psychiatric drugging, the rise of

electroshock. Speak out!

 

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To join Support Coalition International and get the winter 2003 issue

of

MINDFREEDOM (on electroshock) see http://www.MindFreedom.org.

 

--

 

David Oaks, Executive Director

MindFreedom Support Coalition International

454 Willamette, Suite 216 - POB 11284

Eugene, OR 97440-3484 USA

 

http://www.mindfreedom.org

e-mail: oaks@m... fax: (541) 345-3737

phone: (541) 345-9106 toll free in USA: 1-877-MAD-PRIDE

 

The mind is a terrible thing to label, forcibly drug & electroshock.

 

Freedom Rally, 18 May 2003, 1 pm, Moscone Center, SF, USA.