NEWS: July = Mad Pride 2007 Month! Celebrate with psychiatric survivors!

Tue Jun 26 19:19:54 CDT 2007

MindFreedom International News - July 2007
http://www.mindfreedom.org - please forward

    Mad Pride '07 is well underway!

    by Krista Erickson, chair, MFI Mad Pride Chair

July is Mad Pride month! Join in! Celebrate the right to be different  
and the psychiatric survivor movement.

A link to a complete, updated listing of Mad Pride 2007 events known  
to us is online at:

www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/madpride

A few highlights of events include:

-- BonkersFest was celebrated in June in England with Mad Pride  
events planned from now until early October. A cannon launch of  
bananas kicked off Mad Pride 2007 at this popular music event! See  
the photo. 

-- The Great Escape Bed Push. For the third year, activists in  
England will symbolically escape psychiatric institutions, dressed in  
pajamas and 'hot tail' it with a psychiatric bed to a place of safety  
and celebration while raising awareness about the over-use of forced  
treatments in mental health services and the need for holistic choice  
based services. 

-- This year the Great Escape Bed Push goes international with bed  
pushes scheduled in Canada and the US to celebrate Mad Pride. Next  
year? How about your home town?

-- The first-ever Mad Pride parade in Belgium.

-- Another great street march and other Mad Pride events in Accra,  
Ghana.

-- Several events in Toronto and Vancouver Canada.

-- A vigil in Albany, New York and a rally in Buffalo, NY.

-- Mad Pride celebration at MindFreedom's Creative Revolution  
conference.

And more! For more news on Mad Pride 2007 and links to background and  
news about Mad Pride events see:

www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/madpride/

Mad Pride events can be small or big, and can be inexpensive. Watch a  
free, brief online video of a Mad Pride event on our web site. If you  
are planning a Mad Pride celebration, please let us know at  
pride at mindfreedom.org

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    MAD PRIDE ON MFI LIVE INTERNET RADIO TOMORROW!

Listen and phone in LIVE on MFI free Internet radio when Krista  
Erickson, Martin Rafferty and other Mad Pride activists are guests,  
tomorrow, Wednesday, 27 June 2007, at 4 pm ET.

At that day and time just click on http://prncomm.net -- Then listen  
free, and phone in live!

Hear about activities all over the world to celebrate being different  
the psychiatric survivor movement. Host is MFI director David Oaks.  
Note because of other programming we sometimes start a few minutes  
late. If you miss it you can hear the archives later.

For more info on the LIVE Mad Pride 2007 radio show go to:

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

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Special News Preview: IAACM!

With support from MindFreedom International, Mad Pride 2007 will  
launch a vision of Martin Luther King, Jr.! In ten speeches over five  
years and in his writings, Dr. King said the world was in dire need  
of new organization, the "International Association for the  
Advancement of Creative Maladjustment," or the IAACM.

It has taken psychiatric survivors to help make this dream come true.  
During July -- Mad Pride Month 2007 -- watch for news of the launch  
of the IAACM. All who follow Dr. King's nonviolence guidelines may  
call themselves an IAACM leader! We hope that's YOU!

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

For background on the IAACM see:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/mental-health-global/iaacm

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Please forward this Mad Pride News to all appropriate places on and  
off the Internet!

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