5/1 MFI News: Youth psychiatric survivors v. media bias on Virginia Tech

Tue May 1 18:33:17 CDT 2007

MindFreedom International News Updates - 1 May 2007
May is "nonviolent revolution in mental health" month! - please forward!
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    Below are (3) *brief* news items from MindFreedom Web Site http:// 
www.mindfreedom.org

  - Youth psychiatric survivors speak out on MindFreedom Internet  
Radio... how you can phone in LIVE...

  - Latest updates on Virginia Tech, including call for full  
disclosure...

  - It's not too late to register for "Creative Revolution in  
Healing" event!

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(1) Youth Psychiatric Survivors Speak Out on MFI Free Internet Radio!

The next two MindFreedom Internet Radio Shows -- broadcast live and  
free on the web -- will feature youth psychiatric survivors  
reflecting on the Virginia Tech tragedy. You may phone in live with  
your questions and comments.

Tomorrow, Wednesday, 2 May 2007, at 4 pm ET, you may hear Martin  
Rafferty, a 20 year old psychiatric survivor activist and MindFreedom  
Youth Outreach Coordinator, as a guest on the show. Host is David Oaks.

The next week, Wednesday, 9 May 2007, guest will be Neil Gong of the  
Icarus Project. Neil is a psychiatric survivor college campus  
organizer at New York University. Hear from the point of view of a  
college student who is working to raise these issues with other  
students.

As always, you may call in LIVE with your comments and questions.

HOW TO HEAR SHOW LIVE: Just click on http://prncomm.net/ to hear the  
show live, Wednesdays at 4 pm ET. To call in, listen for the toll  
free number in the USA or a special number for outside the USA. Or e- 
mail at any time to radio at mindfreedom.org and your comment may be  
read on the air.

TO HEAR RECENT ARCHIVE: Once more you can hear archives of recent  
MindFreedom Radio Shows, now at a new web site from Progressive Radio  
Network:

http://oaks.progressiveradionetwork.org/

Archives include the recent popular show with journalist Bob  
Whitaker, author of Mad in America.

COMING UP on 16 May 2007: Jim Gottstein -- hero, attorney,  
psychiatric survivor, activist and founder of PsychRights -- returns  
for an update about his many campaigns, including taking on criminal  
fraud and corruption at psychiatric drug manufacturer Eli Lilly.

For more info on the MindFreedom Radio Show, including a photo of  
guest Martin Rafferty and a link to his essay about the Virginia Tech  
tragedy, go to:

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

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2. Latest updates about Virginia Tech & Mental Health Issues:

* May is supposed to be "mental health month." Will it instead be  
"cover-up month"? MindFreedom issues statement calling for "full  
disclosure" about Cho, including a toxicology examination that is  
supposed to be completed in May, but which the Virginia Medical  
Examiner said he will refuse to make public.

* Activist Judi Chamberlin challenges bias at 60 Minutes on coverage  
of mental health issues in wake of Virginia Tech.

* Read statements by Bazelon Center, Peter Breggin, MD and National  
Coalition of Mental Health Consumer/Survivor Organizations about the  
Virginia Tech tragedy.

* You may now listen or read quotes from David Oaks segment on  
National Public Radio "Talk of the Nation" about forced psychiatric  
drugging controversy.

* And more.

-- Media Center on Virginia Tech & Mental Health is here:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/youth-mental-health/virginia-tech/media- 
seung-hui-cho

or use this web address:

http://tinyurl.com/2v6lb5

-- MFI Info Center on Virginia Tech is here:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/youth-mental-health/virginia-tech

or use this web address:

http://tinyurl.com/yrbkzv

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(3)  Not too late! "Creative Revolution in Healing: Turning Our Minds  
Around"

The announced deadline to reserve your space at the MindFreedom  
conference/retreat was yesterday, 30 April.

But slots are still available so register soon. The gathering is in a  
beautiful retreat center in rural Connecticut to help create a choice  
of alternatives to the conventional mental health system, 12 to 15  
July 2007.

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

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All this and more at the MindFreedom News Web Site:

http://www.mindfreedom.org

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to join or donate now, or go directly to:

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Be a member now, or renew your membership! Build united strength in  
numbers!

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:

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Please forward.

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

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