4/3/07 MindFreedom News: Conference Speakers, Ben Hansen on MFRadio, Eli Lilly Sued

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MindFreedom News Updates - 3 April 2007
nonviolent revolution in mental health - please forward

    Three (3) brief news items from MindFreedom International at  
http://www.mindfreedom.org:

    Conference Speakers Announced... Ben Hansen on MF Radio... and  
Eli Lilly Sued!

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(1)  Announcing: A Few of the Workshop Presenters & Keynote Speakers...

Organizers of the "Creative Revolution in Healing: Turning Our Minds  
Around" have announced some of the invited workshop presenters and  
keynote speakers including:

Authors Mary and Jim Maddock of Ireland; Debbie Whittle of National  
Empowerment Center.

Author Judi Chamberlin speaking about On Our Own - Reflections Thirty  
Years On

David Oaks on Mad Pride Activism; Jennifer Branks of the Hearing  
Voices Network

Susan Musante of Soteria Alaska Project

Peter Stastny, M.D.on International Network of Treatment Alternatives  
for Recovery

.... and many more.

The gathering is in a beautiful retreat center in Connecticut to help  
create a choice of alternatives to the conventional mental health  
system, 12 to 15 July 2007. You are invited. Half of registration fee  
is due as a deposit 30 April 2007. Conference may reach capacity, so  
register soon.

For the latest conference info, speakers, registration form, fees,  
travel info, photos of retreat center and more go to the Event Web  
Center:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/choice/

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(2) Ben Hansen is Guest on free, live MindFreedom Radio Tomorrow,  
Wednesday, 4 April 2007, at 4 pm EST.

Ben Hansen is a psychiatric survivor activist. Most recently, on 23  
March 2007, Ben made front-page headlines in the New York Times by  
helping to expose a nation-wide Medicaid scandal involving drug maker  
Eli Lilly. (See MindFreedom home page for link to this story.)

Ben also uses humor and satire to skewer psychiatric oppression. Ben  
is also known as Dr. "M.I. Bonkers, M.D.," and is founder and  
president of the "Bonkers Institute for Nearly Genuine Research," at  
http://www.bonkersinstitute.org, located in Traverse City, Michigan.

Ben will be on this Wednesday, 4 April 2007.

Listen to MindFreedom Radio live and call-in toll free on Wednesdays  
at 4 pm EST or via archives at http://www.prncomm.net with host David  
Oaks. E-mail any time to radio at mindfreedom.org.

Future guests: 11 April: Author Jay Joseph exposes the "gene myth" of  
psychiatry. 18 April: Journalist Bob Whitaker, author of _Mad in  
America_, takes on history and current practice of psychiatry. [Guest  
Jim Gottstein is rescheduling.]

More info:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/media/mfradio/upcoming

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(3) Shareholder Class Action Filed Against Eli Lilly and Company over  
Zyprexa

This is a forwarded news release from by the law firm of Schiffrin  
Barroway Topaz & Kessler, LLP, announcing that a group of  
shareholders of Eli Lilly are seeking to sue officers and directors  
of the corporation for illegal fraud regarding their psychiatric drug  
Zyprexa:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/psych-drug-corp/eli-lilly/shareholders-sue

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Be part of the MindFreedom International Spring '07 Drive Today!

Do you want to...

* Win human rights campaigns in mental health?

* End abuse by the psychiatric drug industry?

* Support self-determination of psychiatric survivors?

* Promote safe, humane, effective options in mental health?

MindFreedom is for people who care about human rights who want to unite!

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.

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.

Be part of the Spring '07 Member Recruitment & Fundraising Drive TODAY:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/join-donate

MindFreedom International Office: 454 Willamette, Suite 216 - POB  
11284; Eugene, OR 97440-3484 USA

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Please forward.

"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted." -  
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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