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NEWS: Judi Chamberlin- MindFreedom News Hour Live Free

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MindFreedom News --11 August 2006

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

 

Public Service Announcement:

 

Lead a nonviolent revolution in the mental health system!

 

MindFreedom Weekly News Hour Live Free Internet Radio.

 

Featured guest: Judi Chamberlin - psychiatric survivor human

rights activist

 

When: This Tuesday, 15 August 2006 at 1 pm eastern time, 10 am

pacific time.

 

How: Click on http://www.theprn.org to listen live, or to hear the

archive later.

 

You will hear psychiatric survivor and author Judi Chamberlin as a

guest on the MindFreedom Weekly News Hour Internet radio show. Judi

will be interviewed by host David Oaks on the live free show which is

part of the Progressive Radio Network. You'll also hear the latest

news and resources to win human rights and alternatives in the mental

health system.

 

Judi is widely considered a leading international human rights

activist in the field of mental health. The theme this show: " Why We

Demand Human Rights and Not 'Mental Patients' Rights! "

 

You may e-mail your questions and comments before, during or after

the show at radio. Your questions and comments may be

read live during the show.

 

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Brief biography:

 

JUDI CHAMBERLIN -- Arlington, Mass., USA -- MadPride

 

Judi Chamberlin is a psychiatric survivor and an activist since 1971

in the survivor/consumer/ex-patient movement. She helped to found the

Ruby Rogers Advocacy and Drop-In Center in 1985, which is run by and

for people who have received psychiatric services.

 

Judi is the author of On Our Own: Patient-Controlled Alternatives to

the Mental Health System, originally published in 1978, and later

republished in Britain, Italy, and Japan. She has also written

numerous articles about the movement, self-help, and patients' rights.

 

Judi is affiliated with the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at

Boston University, where she works on projects concerning recovery,

curriculum development, and on the use of personal assistance

services for people with psychiatric disabilities. She is a co-

founder of the National Empowerment Center, in Lawrence, MA, a

federally funded technical assistance center which serves the

consumer/survivor/ex-patient movement, where she is the Director of

Education and Training.

 

Judi is a board member of the National Association for Rights

Protection and Advocacy (NARPA), MindFreedom International, the

Center for Public Representation, and Mental Disability Rights

International (MDRI). She served as co-chair of the World Network of

Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (WNUSP) from 2001 to 2004. In 2004,

she was appointed to the Panel of Experts which advises the United

Nations Special Rapporteur on Disability. She also serves on the

Massachusetts Mental Health State Planning Council (co-chair), and

the Governor's Special Advisory Commission on Disability Policy,

among many other boards and committees. She is a member of the

editorial board of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal. She is listed

in Who's Who in America, and is profiled in Extraordinary People with

Disabilities, a book for young people.

 

Judi has spoken at conferences and meetings around the world, with

appearances in Canada, England, Scotland, Ireland, Iceland, Sweden,

Denmark, Norway, Finland, Holland, Portugal, Italy, Austria, Germany,

Slovenia, Hungary, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Hong Kong.

 

In 1992, Judi received the Distinguished Service Award of the

President of the United States from the President's Committee on

Employment of People with Disabilities, and the David J. Vail

National Advocacy Award from the Mental Health Association of

Minnesota. In 1995, she was the recipient of the N. Neal Pike Prize

for Services to People with Disabilities, from the Boston University

School of Law.

 

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Action:

 

Please spread the word and forward this public service announcement

both on and off the Internet.

 

Be part of a nonviolent revolution in mental health! Listen to the

MindFreedom News Hour every week, usually live, at Tuesday, 1 pm

eastern time, 10 am pacific time. Just click on http://www.theprn.org

 

If you have guest suggestions or would like to volunteer e-mail to

radio

 

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Archives of the MindFreedom News Hour

 

If you miss a live show you may listen to the archive at http://

www.theprn.org. Just click on " shows " and go to MindFreedom News

Hour. Here are past shows now on the archive by DATE (the new web

site does not have name labels yet):

 

08/8/06 Guest = Leonard Roy Frank -- Surviving & resisting

electroshock.

 

08/1/06 Guest = Matt Morrissey -- Alternatives for extreme emotional

distress.

 

07/25/06 Guest = Hugh Massengill -- Surviving trauma and psychiatric

abuse.

 

07/18/06 Guest = Al Galves, PhD -- How dissident mental health

professionals can be good allies.

 

07/11/06 Guest = Celia Brown -- Celia's story of surviving

psychiatry, promoting alternatives, and speaking out inside the

United Nations for three years as President of MindFreedom

International.

 

06/27/06 Guest = Krista Erickson -- Mad Pride! How you can organize a

Mad Pride event and join in with anchor events in four nations: Ghana

Africa, UK, Canada and USA.

 

Update on listening to archives: Many people can now hear the

archives. However, some are having technical problems. For instance,

people who have Macs with OS X & later may need to download Windows

Media® Components for QuickTime by Flip4Mac™, free, so you can play

Windows Media files (.wma and .wmv) directly in QuickTime Player and

view Windows Media content on the Internet using a Web browser. This

program allows for MP3s to be played, and can be found at: http://

tinyurl.com/9rz5l Be sure to restart your browser have installing.

 

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Also see an archive of MFI news alerts, including recent news

articles involving MFI in Utne, Philadelphia Inquirer, Psychiatric

Services, Wall St. Journal and more here:

 

http://www.intenex.net/pipermail/mindfreedom-news/

 

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A new issue of _MindFreedom Journal_ is finally going to press! The

theme is how you can join in MFI actions. If you are a MindFreedom

member and have moved please make sure the office has your new postal

address by e-mailing it to office.

 

Note that receiving this MFI news e-mail announcement, which is a

free public service, does not necessarily mean you are an MFI member.

 

If you are not an MFI member and want one free sample copy of the

journal -- or you want to check your membership status -- e-mail to

office. Or better yet, join or renew now below and

you'll be sent the journal and other information as a MFI member!

 

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Join MindFreedom International, donate, or renew your membership!

 

Do you want to...

 

* Win human rights campaigns in mental health?

 

* End abuse by the psychiatric drug industry?

 

* Support the self-determination of psychiatric survivors?

 

* Promote safe, humane and effective options in mental health?

 

You are not alone! MindFreedom is a nonprofit human rights group that

unites 100 sponsor and affiliate groups with individual members, and

is accredited by the United Nations as a Non-Governmental

Organization (NGO) with Consultative Roster Status. Join or donate

today!

 

MindFreedom is one of the very few totally independent groups in the

mental health field with no funding from governments, drug companies,

religions, corporations, or the mental health system. While most of

MindFreedom's members are psychiatric survivors, *all* who support

human rights are invited to join and become active leaders.

 

JOIN, RENEW, DONATE, or give GIFT MEMBERSHIPS to MindFreedom

International today:

 

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Please forward.

 

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