MFNews: 6 Brief Items: Globalizing Psychiatry, Screening, Radio, & More

Tue Sep 4 14:07:25 CDT 2007

MindFreedom International News - 4 September 2007
United Action for Freedom of Your Mind
http://www.mindfreedom.org - please forward

    Six (6) *brief* news items:

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    (1) MindFreedom Reply to Call for "More Money" for Mental Health  
in Poor Countries

Today, media are widely covering a news story about global mental  
health.

Lancet, the widely-respected medical publication, published a study  
calling for more money for mental health services in poor developing  
countries. World Health Organization promptly put out an endorsement  
today of this call for more money.

But MindFreedom asks, "More money for what"? Read more, including how  
you can e-mail WHO:

http://mindfreedom.org/kb/mental-health-global/psychiatry- 
globalization/lancet-who

or use: http://tinyurl.com/3yolaj

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    (2) The Parental Consent Act of 2007: Support HR 2387!

Once more, the USA Congress is considering a bill to help protect  
families from being pressured by schools to screen young people for  
mental health problems.

And once more, MindFreedom is issuing an alert to encourage all USA  
citizens to contact your congressional delegation and support this  
important bill. In the past, the bill has sailed through the US  
House, but has gotten stuck in a US Senate committee now run by  
Senator Ted Kennedy. Read more:

http://mindfreedom.org/campaign/usa/screening/hr-2387

or use: http://tinyurl.com/2jbp6f

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    (3) Stories of Madness with Prof. Gail Hornstein

TOMORROW, Wednesday, 5 September 2007, at 4 pm ET, "click and listen"  
to:

http://prncomm.net

It's a live free web interview with Professor Gail Hornstein who has  
collected hundreds of personal accounts of people who have  
experienced being labeled "mad" by the mental health system.

Phone in with your questions & comments live! Or e-mail at any time  
to radio at mindfreedom.org. Host of the MindFreedom Live Free Internet  
Radio Hour is David Oaks. Read more:

http://mindfreedom.org/campaign/media/mfradio/gail-hornstein

or use: http://tinyurl.com/2oehot

Do you like Mad Radio? Radio on!

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    (4) Madness Radio: Four (4) Different -- Very Different -- Radio  
Shows

Here are four (4) MAD radio shows in both USA and Canada you may  
listen to about changing the mental health system, all hosted by  
MindFreedom members who are psychiatric survivors! All may be heard  
on the web. Read more:

http://mindfreedom.org/kb/media-issues/madness-radio

or use: http://tinyurl.com/3d3da4

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    (5) Opinion: Psychiatric Survivor Inside a Police Training  
Conference

An anonymous psychiatric survivor who is a MindFreedom member  
attended a major national conference about training the police for  
dealing with citizens labeled with mental health problems.

In this exclusive inside view, the author warns of a rising  
"paramilitary" between police and the mental health system. This  
psychiatric survivor concludes, "Be afraid, be very afraid!"

http://mindfreedom.org/kb/police-mental-health/cit

or use: http://tinyurl.com/3yys2b

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   (6) MindFreedom Youth VOICES FOR CHOICES in mental health.

MindFreedom is focusing on youth and mental health in special  
campaign called VOICES FOR CHOICES.

If you are interested in participating, let us know. Youth and "ex- 
youth" are both invited, and leadership by youth is especially  
encouraged.

The campaign begins in Lane County, Oregon, but anyone can  
participate. Contact MindFreedom Youth Coordinator Martin Rafferty at  
office at mindfreedom.org.

TOMORROW is the next local meeting, with a special youth panel of  
psychiatric survivors: The MindFreedom Monthly Free Mind RoundTable  
on Wednesday, 5 September 2007, 5:30 pm, by the MindFreedom office.  
The panel will include Skye, a teen who was featured in a recent  
nationally-televised reality TV show.

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More news at the MindFreedom News Web Site:

http://www.mindfreedom.org

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LEAD ON! BECOME PART OF MINDFREEDOM INTERNATIONAL!

While you're on the MFI web site... just click on the button on the  
RIGHT to join or donate now, or go directly to:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/join-donate

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

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    Is it time yet?

    Is it time yet to UNITE and...

* 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 enough about human rights to take  
united action!

MindFreedom is a nonprofit human rights group that unites 100 sponsor  
and affiliate groups with individual members.

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.

All human rights supporters are invited!

Join or donate here:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/join-donate

For hard-to-find books and gear (including to pre-order new book  
Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry) go to:

http://www.madmarket.org

MindFreedom International Office: 454 Willamette, Suite 216 - POB  
11284; Eugene, OR 97440-3484 USA

web site: http://www.mindfreedom.org
e-mail: office(at)mindfreedom(dot)org
office phone: (541) 345-9106
toll free: 1-877-MAD-PRIDe or 1-877-623-7743
fax: (541) 345-3737

Please forward.

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