NEWS: Activist Lauren Tenney - MindFreedom News Hour free Internet radio

Sat Sep 9 14:51:37 CDT 2006

MindFreedom News -- 9 September 2006
Voice & Choice in Mental Health Care!
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Public Service Announcement:

    MindFreedom Weekly News Hour - Live Free Internet Radio.

    Next guest: Psychiatric survivor activist Lauren Tenney

When: *This* Tuesday, 12 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: Theme = "Saving Children Today From Psychiatric Abuse: Learning  
from History."

You will hear psychiatric survivor activist Lauren Tenney from New  
York State as a guest on the MindFreedom Weekly News Hour Internet  
radio show. Lauren 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 at mindfreedom.org. Your questions and comments may be  
read live during the show. Please say if you wish to be anonymous.

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Brief biography:

Lauren Tenney (34), a psychiatric survivor, grew up in the  
psychiatric system in New York City. She is currently:

* chair of the board of directors of the Mental Patients Liberation  
Alliance.

* adjunct professor of psychology at the College of Staten Island

* a doctoral student at the City University of New York's Graduate  
Center in the Environmental Psychology program

Topics will include:

Mad Pride - Bastille Days '06: Hear about the campaign and protests  
in New York State to defend children from abuse by the mental health  
system. Over 1,000 petitions were turned into the Office of Mental  
Health to stop the use of shock on children

Mad History: Lauren is studying a psychiatric survivor newsletter  
from the 1800's called _The Opal_. She has access to ten volumes of  
this publication that was written and edited by the inmates of Utica  
State Lunatic Asylum from 1851 to 1860. Lauren will talk about how  
this history project is based on a new academic idea of  
"participatory action research" (PAR), where the community of  
psychiatric survivors has a voice in the study's direction and use.

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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):

9/5/09 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 on 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 at mindfreedom.org. 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 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 at mindfreedom.org.

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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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