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NEWS: Ted Chabasinski on MindFreedom News Hour free

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MindFreedom News -- 9 September 2006

Voice & Choice in Mental Health Care!

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

 

Public Service Announcement:

 

MindFreedom Weekly News Hour - Live Free Internet Radio.

 

Next guest: Psychiatric survivor hero Ted Chabasinski

 

When: *This* Tuesday, 19 September 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.

 

What: Topic = " From forced electroshock as a child to human rights

activist leader. "

 

You will hear psychiatric survivor activist Ted Chabasinski of

California as a guest on the MindFreedom Weekly News Hour Internet

radio show. Ted is a true hero in the social change movement to

change the mental health system. He 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.

 

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

the show to radio. Your questions and comments may

be

read live during the show. Please say if you wish to be anonymous.

 

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TED CHABASINSKI was once given electroshock treatment as part of an

experiment at age six, then sent to a New York State psychiatric

institution where he spent the rest of his childhood. Now an

attorney

in Berkeley, California, he has been well-respected leader in the

psychiatric survivors movement since 1971. Ted was the main

organizer

of the 1982 ballot campaign to ban shock treatment in Berkeley,

California, which was passed overwhelmingly by the voters there.

Ted

is on the board of MindFreedom International.

 

The interview will cover:

 

* How did Ted survive years of psychiatric institutionalization and

electroshock experimentation?

 

* What are stories and highlights from 35 years of organizing in

the

psychiatric survivors social change movement?

 

* How can people effectively organize today to challenge

psychiatric

abuse and promote alternatives?

 

* What direction would Ted like to see the movement to change the

mental health system head?

 

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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):

 

9/12/06 Guest = Lauren Tenney -- Saving Children Today From

Psychiatric Abuse: Learning from History

 

9/5/06 Guest = Will Hall -- How People Labeled 'Schizophrenic' Can

Respond to False Stereotyping That We Are Violent

 

8/22/06 Guest = Sally Zinman -- Lessons for Today From 30 Years of

Activism in the Mental Patients Rights Movement.

 

8/15/06 Guest = Judi Chamberlin -- Why We Demand Human Rights, Not

'Mental Patient' Rights

 

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.

 

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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/

 

In this archive see a CALENDAR of Fall MindFreedom several related

events in the USA and internationally, including David Oaks, MFI

director, speaking at a free all-day NYU conference in NYC this

Saturday, 9/23, and at the annual NARPA conference starting 11/15.

 

http://intenex.net/pipermail/mindfreedom-news/2006-July/000045.html

 

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A new issue of _MindFreedom Journal_ has been mailed to MFI

members.

This issue #47 profiles positive accomplishments of psychiatric

survivors, including an MFI team that has championed human rights

inside United Nations meetings, which recently proposed a binding

global treaty on disability rights.

 

Note that receiving this e-mailed MFI E-news 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

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

mail to office. Or better yet, join or renew now at

http://www.mindfreedom.org and you'll be sent the journal and other

information as an MFI member!

 

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Watch for a new MFI web site in the next few weeks... MFI is

launching a new content management system web site using Plone. If

you would like to volunteer contact the MFI office at

office.

 

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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

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and

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MindFreedom is one of the very few totally independent groups in

the

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

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

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