Update: "Live only" Jim Gottstein - Internet radio this Wednesday

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MindFreedom UPDATE -- 6 November 2006
Nonviolent Revolution in Mental Health Care
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    *This* Wednesday, 8 November 2006 - MindFreedom News Hour Free  
Internet Radio

    Guest Jim Gottstein, psychiatric-survivor attorney, founded  
PsychRights.org.

To listen LIVE click on http://www.theprn.org at 4 pm EST, 1 pm PST  
this Wednesday, 8 Nov. 2006.

This show will *only* be broadcast *live* at this time. The show  
producers continue to have significant technical problems with  
archives for almost all shows due to a transition to a new and better  
platform.

Therefore, at this time please listen to this show LIVE. Hear the  
latest news and resources with host David Oaks.

*You* may phone in to the show live on one of the six toll free phone  
lines waiting for your calls! You may also e-mail your questions,  
comments and dedications to radio at mindfreedom.org.

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BIO on Jim Gottstein and news about PsychRights.org

Jim Gottstein grew up in Anchorage, Alaska and went to college at the  
University of Oregon. He then went to Harvard Law School. After law  
school, Jim went back to Alaska and has practiced law there for over  
25 years. He is a psychiatric survivor and for over 20 years has  
devoted a portion of his time advocating for and representing people  
labeled with mental illness.

One of these cases, the Alaska Mental Health Trust Lands litigation  
resulted in a settlement valued at over One Billion Dollars and  
created the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority which has had a  
dramatic, positive impact on Alaska's Mental Health program. In,  
2002, after reading the book _Mad in America_ by Bob Whitaker, Jim  
founded the Law Project for Psychiatric Rights, known as PsychRights,  
to mount a serious, strategic, coordinated legal campaign in the  
United States against forced drugging and electroshock.

Since then Jim has addressed public misconceptions about what is  
called mental illness and the very limited effectiveness and great  
harm caused by what is called psychiatric "treatment." Because of  
legal and practical reasons and because it is the right thing to do,  
Jim also works on creating humane, non-coercive alternatives to  
current psychiatric practices.

In Alaska Jim has had some considerable success in these efforts. In  
June of 2006, the Alaska Supreme Court decided the landmark Myers  
case which held Alaska's forced drugging statute unconstitutional.

In September of 2006, another project he has been working on -- a non- 
coercive alternative to hospitalization that allows non-drug choices,  
called Soteria-Alaska -- received formal support by the Alaska Mental  
Health Trust Authority and a commitment of funds to help get it going.

Another program, called CHOICES, Inc., which is a non-coercive  
community program run by peers, received a grant in 2006 to provide  
Independent Case Management and Flexible Support Services. This grant  
is designed to allow CHOICES to receive sustainable revenues into the  
future, including under Medicaid.

Jim is also president of the National Association for Rights  
Protection and Advocacy (NARPA).

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Reminder -- This Friday is deadline for NARPA's 'early bird' special.

November 15 to 18, 2006 - National Association for Rights Protection  
and Advocacy Annual Conference

The NARPA annual conference is one of the main places where advocates  
and activists for *true* transformation in the USA mental health  
system meet. NARPA announced today that their 'early bird' special  
has been extended ten days to 10 November, THIS FRIDAY, giving you  
another chance to pre-register at their discount price. Their 25th  
annual conference will be in Baltimore, Maryland but many people  
haven't heard about it. You may pre-register for just one day or the  
whole event. NARPA is a founding group of MFI's coalition, let's  
support NARPA!

Urgent Action: Spread the word & attend!

For more info see http://www.narpa.org.

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Other November guests on MindFreedom News Hour with host David Oaks:

Wed. 15 November 2006 -- Re-run (see you at NARPA).

Wed. 22 November 2006 -- Al Siebert, psychologist and psychiatric- 
survivor author, http://www.resiliencycenter.com/

Wed. 29 November 2006 -- Leah Harris, psychiatric survivor activist  
and on the board of NARPA (see below)

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