MFNews: 1 Sept: Forty Years After MLK Called for IAACM!

Fri Aug 31 23:01:56 CDT 2007

MindFreedom International News - 1 September 2007
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Below news alert is also here with links & photos:
http://mindfreedom.org/campaign/madpride/mlk-iaacm

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    40 Years Later: You Can Lead MLK's Dream of the IAACM!

Forty years ago today, on 1 September 1967, the Rev. Dr. Martin  
Luther King, Jr. made an historic speech in front of a highly  
appropriate audience.

MLK stood in front of the American Psychological Association's Annual  
Meeting.

As he had for 12 years in many essays and speeches, MLK said he was  
"proud" to be psychologically "maladjusted."

And as he did at least ten speeches, MLK passionately said that,  
"Thus, it may well be that our world is in dire need of a new  
organization, The International Association for the Advancement of  
Creative Maladjustment."

The International Association for the Advancement of Creative  
Maladjustment or IAACM apparently never formed.

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    Please read and reflect on MLK's words calling for the IAACM!

You may read and hear excerpts from these speeches by MLK on the  
IAACM by clicking here:

http://mindfreedom.org/kb/mental-health-global/iaacm/MLK-on-IAACM

or use this web address: http://tinyurl.com/yob7wb

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    Now is the time to make this MLK dream a reality!

As never before, the world is in dire need of MLK's dream.

At the MindFreedom International event on choice in the mental health  
system, that dream became a reality, and the IAACM was launched:

http://mindfreedom.org/campaign/madpride/mlk-iaacm/iaacm-launched

    Who can hold an IAACM event? Anyone!

The IAACM was launched by psychiatric survivors in the Mad Pride  
movement.

But all of humanity is invited to start a global nonviolent  
revolution, in the spirit of MLK and his IAACM!

You can hold nonviolent protests of psychiatric abuse... or about the  
environment, peace and justice!

Have you had enough?

Had enough of war? Greenhouse effect? Economic inequality?

Have you had enough of a global crisis where humanity seems to be  
caught in a trance of conformity?

Then show it creatively!

Help revive the human spirit! Perhaps you will help lead a global  
nonviolent revolution!

Let us use 21st century technology to help launch this 20th century  
leader's dream!

As long as you follow nonviolence guidelines you are encouraged to  
hold IAACM events!

    First Step in Your Leadership in the IAACM

Here is your very first step for you to be a leader of the IAACM!

Be sure to follow MLK's spirit of nonviolence in your IAACM activities.

That's all!

Pledge now to follow a nonviolent guideline.

Do not humiliate, frighten, trick, threaten, lie to, etc. the people  
involved in your IAACM actions.

Click here to read nonviolence guidelines on this web site, that all  
participants in IAACM events must follow:

http://mindfreedom.org/campaign/madpride/mlk-iaacm/peace-rules

That's it!

As long as you follow these guidelines, you can call yourself a  
leader of the IAACM.

    Then, take action!

What action?

Within the MLK's nonviolence guidelines, anything for the good of  
humanity and the planet.

Just be creative. Be maladjusted!

You can hold public events and Mad Pride actions.

Hold a protest. Sing out with friends in public. Do a skit in public.  
Or just tell the truth in public.

Here is a brief four-minute video of David Oaks, director of  
MindFreedom, calling upon you to hold IAACM actions:

http://mindfreedom.org/campaign/madpride/mlk-iaacm/david-oaks-iaacm-call

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    Examples of actions you can take.

You can do whatever you wish, but if you need some inspiration, here  
are some successful examples.

1) SCREEN FOR NORMALITY!

It's fun! It helps educate people!

Here is a brief three-minute "how to video" on how to screen people  
for normality:

http://mindfreedom.org/campaign/madpride/mlk-iaacm/how-to-screen- 
normality

And here's a similar how-to video, this time "on the street":

http://mindfreedom.org/campaign/madpride/mlk-iaacm/norm-screen-in- 
action/

If you need a normality screening kit with all the needed props, you  
can get a "Norm Screen Beta Version" prototype here in the MadMarket.

We have tips on how to do a normality screening, click here:

http://mindfreedom.org/campaign/madpride/normality-screening

2) VOICES FOR CHOICES: TELL YOUR MAD PRIDE STORY

You could even do something as simple as briefly tell your Mad Pride  
story, or help a friend tell their story, and video it.

We have some of "Mad Minutes" on our web site. Within about a minute,  
people say what they survived... what they would have preferred...  
and what they are proud of.

View a promotion of some of the initial Mad Minute stories here:

http://mindfreedom.org/mfi-video/mad-minute-promo/

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    Document Your IAACM Event!

Here's where the 21st century comes to the aid of MLK's dream!

Please document your IAACM activity on the Internet!

If you have a video, please upload it onto, for example, YouTube, and  
be sure to include the word IAACM in the title so we can all find it  
when searching.

If you have a still photo(s), please upload one or more onto, for  
example, Flickr, and include the word IAACM in the title.

If you cannot take a video or still photo, please e-mail us your story.

Just let us know what you've done.

We will be highlighting some of the IAACM events we hear about.

Watch for announcements about an upcoming contest on IAACM events  
that are uploaded.

Who knows... maybe MLK's dream... and psychiatric survivors Mad  
Pride... combined with your actions... will help a nonviolent  
revolution! We can at least have fun trying!

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    Attend October Mad Pride IAACM Events!

If can attend the following Mad Pride IAACM events this October 2007,  
please do so! Anchor events are already set for:

    Screen the World for Normality!

The date of 11 October 2007 is widely considered "Mental Health  
Screening Day." The mental health industry encourages everyone to  
take a simple quiz. Sounds good. But without information, advocacy,  
and alternatives, screening can lead to human rights violations such  
as over-drugging.

We will hold nonviolent Mad Pride IAACM events on that day, and that  
week.

    VIRGINIA:

Screen the American Psychiatric Association headquarters for normality!

At noon, on Thursday, 11 October 2007, come to Arlington, Virginia,  
with MindFreedom board member and psychologist Al Galves and  
MindFreedom director David Oaks.

You can help lead a nonviolent guerilla theater about "screening for  
normality" directly in front of the American Psychiatric Association  
headquarters, 1000 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia.

    MISSOURI:

Screen St. Louis for normality!

At 1:30 pm, on Thursday, 11 October, 2007, St. Louis outside of  
Alternatives 2007, screen for normality!

MindFreedom members will be in front of the main hotel for this major  
national mental health conference at The Hilton St. Louis, One South  
Broadway, St. Louis, Missouri. This event is independent from, though  
friendly with and supportive of, the Alternatives 2007 conference.

MindFreedom also plans an exhibit table in the public exhibit area of  
Alternatives 2007. For info on the Alternatives 2007 conference  
itself see: http://www.alternatives2007.org/

To be in touch with these MFI members, contact the MFI office.

    Mad Pride!

AUSTRALIA is holding a Mad Pride event on 10 October 2007, which is  
World Mental Health Day! For a "save the date" flyer click here:

http://mindfreedom.org/campaign/madpride/mlk-iaacm/MadPride-DL-email.pdf

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM is also holding a Mad Pride event earlier that  
week. Dan Taylor, a representative from MindFreedom Ghana, plans to  
attend. To download a flyer click here:

http://mindfreedom.org/campaign/madpride/brussels-mad-pride-2007.doc

Endorse the IAACM, pledge to take action, or ask questions at:

pride at mindfreedom.org

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* 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?

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