3 brief alerts: Mental Health & Human Rights - electroshock, media & retreat

[mindfreedom-news at intenex.net]

MindFreedom News - 20 May 2007
http://www.mindfreedom.org - please forward

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Three (3) *brief* NEWS ALERTS for a nonviolent revolution in the  
mental health system:

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    1) NEWS & PHOTOS OF ELECTROSHOCK PROTESTS IN TORONTO, MONTREAL,  
IRELAND

Brief news reports and photos of the three grassroots protests  
against electroshock held last week in Toronto, Montreal & Ireland  
are on the web here:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/as/act/inter/mfire/mf-ireland-electroshock

Organizers chose Mother's Day for the protests to educate the public  
about how electroshock doctors overwhelmingly are targeting mothers  
and grandmothers.

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    2) URGENT: NATIONAL MEDIA SEEK COURAGEOUS PARENT OF DRUG-FREE  
CHILD LABELED 'BIPOLAR'

A major national media outlet has contacted MindFreedom. To have both  
sides of a story, they are urgently searching for a parent to  
interview. Please read the following criteria. If there is an *exact*  
match, e-mail details and contact info *soon* to news at mindfreedom.org:

Criteria: The parent must have a child between ages of 6 to 17 who  
has been labeled by a mental health professional as "bipolar," but  
the family has chosen NOT to use any psychiatric drugs, or has tried  
but abandoned all psychiatric drugs.

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    3) "CREATIVE REVOLUTION IN HEALING" FULL

The MindFreedom conference/retreat in July about creating  
alternatives to the conventional mental health system has reached  
capacity for general admission two months before the event. MFI no  
longer has space for regular registration.

The conference planning committee is looking into ways for a few more  
people to attend by staying at a local motel. Watch the MindFreedom  
web site for announcements about that. For those who registered very  
recently you will be notified about your status. See the web MFI site  
for more info and updates.

Info about the MFI conference/retreat is here:

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

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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?

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.

Join or donate here:

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Please forward.

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

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