NEWS: Ted Chabasinski on MindFreedom News Hour free Internet radio

Sun Sep 17 21:28:52 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 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 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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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 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):

9/12/06 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 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 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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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  
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