MFI 5 News Items for a Mental Health Revolution

Tue Dec 8 19:32:10 CST 2009

MindFreedom International News - 8 December 2009
Unite for a Nonviolent Revolution in Mental Health
http://www.mindfreedom.org - please forward

      Five (5) *brief* news alerts for independent mental health  
advocacy and alternatives:

Read about: New MindFreedom Journal and Support Drive... This  
Saturday's MindFreedom Live Web Radio.... One month left to stop FDA  
rubber stamping electroshock... Mad Pride gifts... Irish Times covers  
MindFreedom Ireland fight against forced electroshock...

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(1) END-OF-YEAR SUPPORT DRIVE for MindFreedom International

The brand-spanking-new MindFreedom Journal #50 is now at the press.  
Current MindFreedom members get mailed the first copies.

How about you?

What a coincidence -- This is also the crucial end-of-year drive to  
support MindFreedom International!

So THIS MOMENT is a great time to donate and make sure your membership  
is up-to-date!

Join, renew, donate, or give gift memberships, now! Click here:

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

Yes, you'll receive 16 pages packed with news, poetry, interviews, and  
color photos of activism to change the mental health system and build  
alternatives from all over the world.

But most important, by donating today you are part of a key  
independent mental health activist coalition!

MindFreedom International has accomplished so much in 23 years.

With the tough economy, MFI is counting on *EVERY* supporter to dig in  
and help today.

Please act now:

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

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(2) THIS Saturday, 12 December 2009, listen and call in live to:

MINDFREEDOM FREE LIVE WEB RADIO!

Topic: What is *YOUR* vision of a nonviolent revolution in the mental  
health system in 2010?

How do you envision the future of mental health? How will you know  
we've "won"?

Co-hosts will be psychiatric survivors Celia Brown (MFI Board  
President) and David W. Oaks (MFI Director). Plus YOUR live calls.

Listen free and call in live from anywhere in the world to this 90  
minute show.

At USA 11 am PT, 2 pm ET, UTC 19:00, click here:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/davidwoaks

Your live calls, questions, comments, are welcome via the web or call- 
in number (646) 595-2125.

More info: http://www.mindfreedom.org/radio

The current issue of Utne Reader magazine (Nov./Dec.) named David as  
one of its 50 "visionaries" for 2009.

We are all visionaries! Let's hear *your* vision on this show!

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(3) LAST MONTH to Say "NO" to Rubber Stamping the Electroshock Device!

It is easier than ever for you to comment on the US Food & Drug  
Administration (FDA) web site, and "no" to their proposed permanent de- 
regulation of the machine used for electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).

But please act soon! Pro-industry comments are out-numbering critics  
at this time!

And you only have one month from now to comment, by the deadline of 8  
January 2010!

It takes just a moment!

For background info go here:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/shield/fda-ect/

Or go directly to the FDA comment page about electroshock here:

http://bit.ly/FDAECT

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(4) LAST MINUTE MAD PRIDE GIFTS?

It's not too late to order a few MAD PRIDE GIFTS from MindFreedom  
International's MAD MARKET!

All proceeds support MFI's human rights activism.

Check out this new Leah Harris CD and new Dan Mackler DVD here:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/mental-health-arts/great-gifts

Or go directly to the Mad Market featured products page here:

http://www.madmarket.org

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(5) IRISH NEWSPAPER COVERS CAMPAIGN TO STOP FORCED ELECTROSHOCK

MindFreedom board member Mary Maddock and her husband Jim (co-founders  
of MindFreedom Ireland), were featured in a newspaper article by the  
Irish Times about the campaign to end forced electroshock in Ireland.  
Mary experienced forced electroshock, and with Jim co-authored the  
book Soul Survivor.

To read the article in the Irish Times, with color photo of Mary and  
Jim, click here:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/media/mf/irish-ect

To read Mary's new essay on the real causes of mental and emotional  
distress, click here:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/as/act/inter/mfire/mary-maddock-mental-health

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SUPPORT MINDFREEDOM INTERNATIONAL TODAY!

YOUR membership and donation are CRUCIAL to MindFreedom  
International's campaigns for human rights alternatives.

Join or donate now:

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

MindFreedom International is one of the few totally-independent  
nonprofit organizations in the mental health advocacy field, with zero  
funding from the mental health system, governments, drug companies or  
religions.

Read about MindFreedom's activism, then click on the Big Red JOIN  
Button on the right:

http://www.mindfreedom.org

YOU keep MindFreedom International fighting for human rights and  
mental health alternatives!

Benefits include the award-winning print publication MindFreedom  
Journal, and the next issue -- number 50 -- is now at publishers!  
Members get theirs first!

Other benefits include special new web site for member networking at http://www.my-mfii.org 
, discount on http://www.madmarket.org books and gear, MindFreedom  
Shield, member services office...

....And most importantly, you UNITE for a nonviolent revolution in  
mental health!

Mind Your Freedom!

Donate, join now or renew early here NOW:

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

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