MFNews: Toronto MadPride, Greek Protest of Psychiatry, Boston Protest of Kitty Dukakis, More

Sun Sep 23 21:55:25 CDT 2007

MindFreedom International News - 23 September 2007
United Independent Activism for Your Free Mind!
http://www.mindfreedom.org - please forward

    Six (6) **brief** news items:

1 - Next on MF Free Live Web Radio: Two Mad Pride Activists from  
Toronto Canada.

2 - Watch Web Video of 21 Sept. Protest of East Europe Psychiatric  
Conference in Greece.

3 - MindFreedom Protest Against Electroshock at Kitty Dukakis Speech  
in Boston.

4 - BonkersFest in UK has a 2008 Mad Pride Announcement.

5 - New Book "Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry" is Popular!

6 - Volunteer Opportunities for D.C. Residents & Attendees of  
Alternatives 2007.

MindFreedom Fall Membership Drive Starts Today!

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    (1) Next on MindFreedom Free Live Web Radio:

        Canadian Mad Pride on MindFreedom Free Live Web Radio

This Wednesday, 26 September 2007, at 4 pm ET, click, listen and call  
in to a free live Internet interview on MindFreedom Radio with two  
Mad Pride activists from Toronto Canada:

http://prncomm.net/

Ruth Ruth is a community theatre director with The Friendly Spike  
Theatre Band a community theatre for psychiatric survivors and people  
with disabilities. Jeremiah Bach is an activist in the Mad and  
Disability movement in Canada. Host is David Oaks.

You can phone in from anywhere in the world live with your comments  
and questions. Call toll free from USA.

Upcoming guests: 3 Oct. Activist Dorothy Washburn Dundas, survivor of  
insulin coma shock. 10 Oct. re-run. 17 Oct. Al Galves, author of  
Darking with Your Dark Side (re-scheduled).

More info on the MindFreedom Mad Radio Show:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/media/mfradio/canada-mad-pride

or go here: http://tinyurl.com/2e42og

New feature -- Selected past shows are archived for download here:

www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/media/mfradio/archived-shows

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    (2) Online Video of 21 September 2007 Protest of East Europe  
Psychiatric Conference

You can watch a nonviolent protest using banners and guerilla theater  
that was held in and outside of the "First Eastern European  
Psychiatric Congress" in Thessaloniki, Greece on 21 September 2007.  
The protest was by the Pan-Hellenic Coalition for Psychiatric Reform.

To watch a brief video of the protest:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/act/eastern-europe/greek-protest-video

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

To read a declaration from the protesters go here:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/act/eastern-europe/greek-protest- 
declaration

or go to: http://tinyurl.com/3xtcc6

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    (3) MindFreedom Peaceful Protest at Kitty Dukakis Speech in Boston

A pro-electroshock book, "Shock," will be promoted in a speech on 15  
October 2007 at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. The  
book by authors Kitty Dukakis and Larry Tye is one-sided. You could  
help by attending the event with a sign promoting "no forced shock,"  
humane alternatives to electroshock, etc.

Please help remember those who have been harmed and killed by human  
rights violations involving electroshock, which is also known as  
"electroconvulsive therapy" or ECT. This book, and mainstream media,  
tends to tell the public about those who support electroshock,  
instead of the many who are harmed.

More info:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/as/act/us/maine/kitty-dukakis-shock

or go to: http://tinyurl.com/2f7tkl

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      (4) Mad Pride 2008 Announcement in UK

BonkersFest in UK has put out an announcement about their 2008  
activities. For info go here:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/madpride/mp2008/bonkersfest-2008

or go here: http://tinyurl.com/2b7u39

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     (5) New Book "Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry" is Popular

Copies are flying out of the office. Sixty-one authors from five  
continents explain humane options beyond the current mental health  
system in this new book co-edited by psychiatric survivor activist  
Peter Lehmann and psychiatrist Peter Stastny.

More info, cover photo and how to buy your copy from the MadMarket to  
benefit human rights in mental health go here:

http://mindfreedom.org/mad-market/alternatives-beyond/

or go to: http://tinyurl.com/yrrljv

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      (6) Volunteer Opportunities: Are You In Washington, D.C. Area?  
Or Are You Attending Alternatives?

If you support a nonviolent revolution in human rights and  
alternatives in the mental health system, and live in the general  
Washington, D.C. area, you are invited to e-mail to  
news at mindfreedom.org to inquire about several volunteer opportunities  
for networking, strategizing and nonviolent activism in early October.

Also, wherever you live, if you are attending Alternatives 2007 in  
St. Louis in October and would like to volunteer with MindFreedom  
activists, please also e-mail to news at mindfreedom.org

For more info on events in these areas see:

http://mindfreedom.org/campaign/madpride/mlk-iaacm/mlk

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http://www.mindfreedom.org

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

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