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FW: ACTION ALERT - Psychiatry Protest May 2003 - please forward

 

 

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From MindFreedom:

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NEWS RELEASE - 9 May 2003

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

More info phone: 1-877-MAD-PRIDE

e-mail: office

 

 

PROTESTING PSYCHIATRY GOES MAINSTREAM?

 

FREE COUNTER-CONFERENCE & PROTEST

OF THE AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC

ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING TO BE

HELD IN SAN FRANCISCO

 

Two free events challenge mental health system

on Saturday, May 17 and Sunday, May 18, 2003

 

Organizers launch cyber-campaign to protest

psychiatric abuse: " Please forward this alert! "

 

 

SAN FRANCISCO: When 19,000 participants arrive

next weekend for the huge American Psychiatric

Association Annual Meeting, hundreds are expected

to peacefully protest at a free counter-conference

on Saturday, May 17, 2003 and a Freedom Rally on

Sunday, May 18, 2003. And the public is invited.

 

The two free events are drawing together a wide

diversity of disability, youth, anti-globalization

and homeless activists, plus legal advocates,

family members, wholistic health practitioners,

dissident mental health workers and more.

 

The protesters' stated goal: " A peaceful revolution

of empowerment and self-determination. "

 

A source of much of this ferment is a 33-year-old

social change movement that is uniting more and

more of psychiatry's own clients: Mental health

consumers and people who say they experienced

human rights violations in the mental health

system, also known as " psychiatric survivors. "

 

" First psychiatry came for us, " said one survivor,

" But now psychiatry is coming after the public.

And we're the ones who know what to do. "

 

PSYCHIATRY TARGETING THE PUBLIC?

 

Throughout the Bay Area, organizers have put up

posters with four facts to back up their claim that

psychiatry is now targeting the general public:

 

Fact 1: From 1990 to 2000, the sale of

antidepressant drugs increased 800 percent.

 

Fact 2: Children from the ages of two to four are

now given psychiatric drugs only approved by the

FDA for ages six and up.

 

Fact 3: In the state of California a person may

now be court ordered to take psychiatric drugs

against their will in their own home.

 

Fact 4: A key Bush Administration mental health

advisor -- psychiatrist Sally Satel -- is

campaigning for more forced psychiatric drugging

nationally.

 

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BELOW you will find the latest info from event

organizers about:

 

(1) Freedom Forum & Festival on Sat., May 17, 2003,

11 am to 7 pm, Everett Middle School,

450 Church St., San Francisco. All events free.

 

(2) Freedom Rally on Sun., May 18, 2003, 1 pm,

Moscone Center, 747 Howard St., San Francisco,

Calif., directly outside opening of APA Annual

Meeting. All events free.

 

(3) How *you* can participate in a free peaceful Cyber

Protest of psychiatry from anywhere in the world.

 

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PLEASE COPY & POST TO ALL -- ESPECIALY

PEOPLE IN CALIFORNIA WHO SUPPORT

HUMAN RIGHTS, NOW!!!

 

You can download a PDF flyer on events with

photos of six of the speakers at

http://www.MindFreedom.org.

 

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(1) FREEDOM FORUM & FESTIVAL:

An Alternative Mental Health Conference

 

ALL FREE!

 

Saturday, May 17, 2003, 11am to 7 pm

 

Everett Middle School, 450 Church St. (corner of

16th & Church), San Francisco, California, USA.

 

Keynote speakers include:

 

Robert Whitaker, award winning journalist and

author of _Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad

Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the

Mentally Ill_ Learn about this ground-breaking

expose of mental health by a professional

journalist at http://www.madinamerica.com/

Author Bob Whitaker lives in Massachusetts.

 

Celia Brown, President of Support Coalition

International, African-American psychiatric

survivor, and leader of the first and only

psychiatric survivor delegation inside the United

Nations. Celia lives & works in New York City.

 

Dr. Loren Mosher, Clinical Professor of

Psychiatry at UCSD, former Chief of the Center

for Studies of Schizophrenia, and creator of The

Soteria Project -- a successful non-medical

alternative to psychiatric hospitalization for

persons in acute crisis.

 

Organizers encourage participants to get there at

the 11 am kick off with live music by the band

" Land of the Blind " http://www.landoftheblind.com/

 

There is free food for about the first 300

participants courtesy of Oasis Community Center.

Capacity of event is 1,000 and it's first come first in.

 

Workshops by national and local presenters will

be on a wide variety of issues: Ending Forced

Treatment, Alternative Humane Treatments,

Consumer/Survivor Run Alternatives,

Medicalization of Human Suffering, Exploring

Madness, Cultural-Diversity Perspectives on

Madness, Globalization of Drug Companies,

Discrimination & Rights Youth & Madness.

 

Plus:

 

Let your voice be heard: Participate in a Town

Hall Forum about changing the mental health

system.

 

And enjoy entertainment, share poetry, visit

exhibits and make art in a Festival. Kids of all

ages will love Queen Radia, a story teller who

also claims to channel Ken Kesey.

 

The timeline for events on May 17 will be: 11 am

to 12 noon music & exhibits. 12 to 1:15

keynoters. 1:30 to 3:30 Town Hall. 3:45 to 5:15

Workshops. 5:30 to 7 Networking.

 

Then the very next day....

 

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(2) FREEDOM RALLY

 

Sunday, May 18, 2003 - 1 pm

Moscone Center

747 Howard St.

(between 3rd & 4th Streets by flagpoles)

San Francisco

 

This legal and peaceful protest is directly in

front of opening of the American Psychiatric

Association Annual Meeting.

 

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Some of the speakers and presenters on May 17

and/or May 18 events include: Singer Ava Chante

de L'Esprit... Mike Cornwall... Roy Crew...

Michele Curran... Diane Doolan... Al Galves...

Diane Kern... Jessie Lorenz... Jay

Mahler ... Chance Martin... Terry Messman... Matt

Morrissey... Carol Patterson... Bonnie Schell...

Ron Schreiber... Performer Nancy Thomas... Alice

Washington... Kathy Zatkin...

 

Other speakers and/or workshop presenters

include:

 

*** Judi Chamberlin: Psychiatric survivor leader,

author of _On Our Own_ from Massachusetts.

 

*** Leah Harris, Youth anti-globalization activist

and board member of National Association for

Rights Protection and Advocacy.

 

*** Katherine Hodges: Youth anti-globalization

activist, founder of Chicagoland Alliance for

Psychiatric Alternatives.

 

*** Sally Zinman: Director of California Network

of Mental Health.

 

*** David Oaks, Director of MindFreedom, a

psychiatric survivor from Oregon.

 

*** JUST CONFIRMED! Jim Ward, director of ADA

Watch and a national disability activist from

Washington, D.C.

 

And more.

 

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THE MALADJUSTED MAJORITY?

 

Event organizers say their main concern

is touching the general public because

it is really about freedom and choice, including:

 

" Stop forced psychiatric drugging and the

expansion of forced treatment laws.

 

" Stop Bush Administration attacks on our human and

civil rights through the mental health system:

Our freedom is under siege internationally,

nationally, and in California.

 

" Stop the globalization of the drug companies!

 

" Create alternatives that value choice and

self-determination. Stop medicalizing us.

 

" Promote unity with other movements including

disability, homeless, peace, youth, women, people

of color, gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender, and

others. "

 

Event organizers are also marking the 30th

anniversary of the APA members voting

homosexuality out of their diagnostic and

statistical manual -- though gender preference

still lingers on in the APA official " label bible. "

 

Organizers stated, " It's time to move beyond

being on the defensive. The late Justin Dart,

hero of the disability movement and psychiatric

survivors called for a nonviolent revolution of self-determination. We will

make his vision real!

 

" Martin Luther King, Jr., had a favorite

saying: 'The salvation of the world

lies in the hands of the maladjusted.'

 

" UNITE FOR FREEDOM! "

 

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For more updates and articles about

the May events check the web site

http://www.mindfreedom.org

 

And join these e-mail lists:

 

For occasional updates, join this dendrite

MindFreedom occasional announcement list:

http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/dendrite

 

For M17/M18 planning, join M18 discussion list:

http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/m18

 

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:

 

WHAT ABOUT HOUSING & TRANSPORT?

 

The M18 e-mail list is 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. Julia

is now linking up rides for carpooling.

 

ARE THESE EVENTS CONNECTED TO THE

CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY OR THEIR

ANTI-PSYCHIATRY GROUP CCHR?

 

No. These two events are independently led by

psychiatric survivors, and are in no way

connected to the Church of Scientology or their

organization Citizens Commission on Human Rights

(CCHR). CCHR is purposely holding their protest

of the APA on a different day: Monday.

 

Psychiatric industry defenders often claim that all

criticisms of them must be by CCHR. That's untrue.

Our disclaimer here is in no way to criticize advocacy

work by CCHR or any other organization,

but to simply point out to everyone that the

psychiatric profession has many independent

critics... and not just one. The public is catching on.

 

WHO ARE THE EVENT SPONSORS, THEN?

 

Some of the leading human rights organizations

in mental health, homelessness and globalization,

check them out:

 

MindFreedom - Support Coalition International,

uniting 100 sponsor groups in a dozen countries.

ph: 1-877-MAD-PRIDE http://www.MindFreedom.org

 

California Network of Mental Health Clients, one

of the largest democratically-run grassroots

networks of mental health consumers and

psychiatric survivors in the world. ph:

1-800-626-7447 http://www.cnmhc.org

 

Mental Health Consumer Concerns http://www.sonic.net/~mhcc/index.htm

 

Alameda County Network of Mental Health Clients

 

Global Exchange.

 

Oasis Community Center.

 

Plus see the March, April and May issues of the

important Bay Area sponsors, _Street Spirit_ and

_Street Sheet_, for their three-part series.

 

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(3) CYBER PROTEST!

 

Wherever you are, please inform human rights

supporters in California about this event -- copy

and forward this announcement. Please copy to

your friends, relatives and colleagues throughout

California, especially in the Bay Area! Act now!

 

EXTRA CYBER ACTION YOU CAN TAKE:

 

You are invited to e-mail a *civil* note defending

human rights in mental health to the winners of

the recent American Psychiatric Association

elections:

 

President-Elect: Michelle B. Riba, M.D., M.S.

Ann Arbor, Michigan

 

Vice-President: Pedro Ruiz, M.D.,

Houston

 

 

Secretary: Nada L. Stotland, M.D., M.P.H.

Chicago, IL

 

SAMPLE MESSAGE, though your own words are best:

 

,

,

 

I encourage you to support human rights, oppose

forced psychiatric treatment, and promote a wide

range of humane alternatives. I look forward to

your response. Thank you. ____ [your name] ___

 

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Cyber-Campaign Already Produces Results --

APA Protest Strategy Revealed!

 

An APA spokesperson accidentally copied the

below message to the above APA officers

publicly, stating the APA has met with the

parents' organization -- National Alliance for

the Mentally Ill -- to respond to the protest.

 

" Laurie Oseran of American

Psychiatric Association public relations wrote [sic]:

'Nada -- We are well aware of this and tracking

their site... These are the Mind Freeedom folks

(people who believe they have been victimized or

abuse by psychiatry) who are protesting at our

meeting. We have met with NAMI on this, and are

developing talking points, spokespersons and a

local angle. Would you consider being one of our

spokespersons if needed? Many tx,' - Laurie "

 

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The APA and NAMI have millions in psychiatric

drug industry donations... we have people power:

YOU! Please tell people about these events.

 

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JOIN OR DONATE NOW, PLEASE!

 

Protest events are entirely self-funded by

grassroots organizations and individuals,

many of them very low-income. Dozens are

volunteering hundreds of hours.

 

To donate to and support the Forum and Rally please

join MindFreedom, a project of Support Coalition

International, a non-profit organization.

 

Join or donate at: http://www.MindFreedom.org.

 

You'll also get a copy of _MindFreedom Journal_

with 64 pages of news and views about winning

human rights for your mind. Thank you!

 

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PLEASE FORWARD THIS

ANNOUNCEMENT, NOW!

 

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Sandy Mintz

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