MFI News: October = Screen the World for Normality Month!

Mon Oct 1 22:54:11 CDT 2007

MindFreedom International News - 1 October 2007
United Independent Activism for Free Minds
http://www.mindfreedom.org - please forward

    Six (6) *brief* news items:

1 - October is "Screen the World for Normality Month"! Mad Pride! Got  
Normal?

2 - Latest news & Dorothy Dundas on live free MindFreedom MAD Web  
Radio this Wed., 3 October 2007, 4 pm ET. You can call in live!

3 - Now Online: Photos & Videos of World Psychiatric Association  
Encounter in Dresden with Movement.

4 - Lloyd Ross Links Zyprexa and TeenScreen Scandals.

5 - On 60 Minutes Katie Couric Investigates Death of Rebecca Riley:  
You Can Comment.

6 - Maths Jesperson calls for speaking out inside online medical  
magazine.

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    (1) October is "Screen the World for Normality Month"!

Some claim October is "Mental Health Month." MindFreedom renamed  
October "Screen the World for Normality Month"! Celebrate Mad Pride.

Got normal? Here's how you can participate! Get your rubber chicken  
ready! Events in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Missouri, Illinois,  
Australia, Belgium... or anywhere you are.

Help launch Martin Luther King's vision of an "International  
Association for the Advancement of Creative Maladjustment." More info:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/madpride/screen-normality

or go to: http://tinyurl.com/3dudcq

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    (2) Next on MindFreedom MAD FREE LIVE Web Radio with Host David  
Oaks:

       Breaking News:

       - Screen the World for Normality!
       - Youth Voices for Chocies in Mental Health!

Plus, live interview with Dorothy Dundas, survivor of insulin coma  
shock who became psychiatric survivor activist.

This Wednesday, 3 October 2007, at 4 pm ET, click, listen and call in  
to a free LIVE MindFreedom Web Radio:

http://prncomm.net/

You can phone in from anywhere in the world live with your comments  
and questions live. Call toll free from USA. E-mail in questions to  
comments to radio at mindfreedom.org.

More info on the MindFreedom Mad Radio Show:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/radio

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    (3) Photos & Videos of World Psychiatric Association Negotiations  
Online

DRESDEN, GERMANY: When the World Psychiatric Association held a  
special international meeting on the subject of coercion in  
psychiatry, MindFreedom united with several other organizations of  
mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors to negotiate  
inclusion inside the conference.

Peter Lehmann and Reinhard Wojke organized photographs and video  
tapes of this encounter, which are now online. Go to:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/global/world-psychiatric-association

or go to: http://tinyurl.com/2rfc9x

Or go directly to:

http://www.enusp.org/dresden.htm

On the MindFreedom Blog, director David Oaks comments on the pro's  
and con's of negotiating with opponent organizations:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/mfi-blog

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    (4) Linking Zyprexa and TeenScreen Controversies

In a news analysis for MFI, Lloyd Ross, a psychologist and human  
rights activist, ties together the scandals of the way the  
psychiatric drug Zyprexa was marketed, with the targeting of  
America's youth through unscientific mental health screening programs  
such as TeenScreen. Lloyd encourages you to take action today to  
support the youth of the USA.

http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/usa/zyprexa-teenscreen

or go here: http://tinyurl.com/23jtqz

Lloyd is on the board of International Center for Study of Psychiatry  
and Psychology. Do not miss their conference next week in Arlington,  
Virginia! It's all about preventing abuse of youth with psychiatric  
drugs. MindFreedom's Mad Market will be there.

Go to http://www.icspp.org

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    (5) Katie Couric Investigates Death of Rebecca Riley: You Can  
Comment on CBS Web site.

On the CBS television show "60 Minutes" on 30 September 2007, Katie  
Couric looked into the death of four-year-old Rebecca Riley who was  
given multiple psychiatric drugs after being diagnosed "bipolar." The  
parents were charged with murder.

An online debate began on the CBS web site about this story. You may  
easily comment on the CBS web site, and also read information about  
the story itself. For more info click here:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/youth-mental-health/rebecca-riley-60- 
minutes

or go here: http://tinyurl.com/3a6p9c

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    (6) Alert: Psychiatric Survivors & Allies May Comment in Medical  
Magazine

Maths Jesperson is a long-time psychiatric survivor activist, leader  
and actor in Sweden, who is calling upon psychiatric survivors and  
allies all over the world to submit comments to an online medical  
magazine.

This online magazine covers all kinds of medical topics, but the  
editor, who is a psychiatrist, has reached out to psychiatric  
survivors and allies to ask for their commentary, and articles.

For more info:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/media-issues/maths-jesperson-pehm

or go here: http://tinyurl.com/2vr6q5

David Oaks, MindFreedom director, had his comment about studies  
showing major brain shrinkage caused by psychiatric  
"antipsychotic" (neuroleptic) drugs here:

http://www.peh-med.com/content/2/1/16/comments#284637

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