NEWS: Judi Chamberlin- MindFreedom News Hour Live Free Internet Radio

Fri Aug 11 15:15:26 CDT 2006

MindFreedom News --11 August 2006
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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 at mindfreedom.org. Your questions and comments may be  
read live during the show.

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Brief biography:

JUDI CHAMBERLIN -- Arlington, Mass., USA -- MadPride at aol.com

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 at mindfreedom.org

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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 at mindfreedom.org.

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 at mindfreedom.org. 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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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?

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