[MF-NYS-NEWS] reminder: in a few hours

[MindFreedom International News]

Hi MindFreedom NYState News list:

Reminder that below important event is in just a few hours!

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TONIGHT
JUNE 19, 200
5-10 PM

JUSTICE FOR ESMIN GREEN.
JUSTICE FOR ALL.

Murdered-by-Neglect:
One year later,
WE THE PEOPLE
will not let this die.

DEMONSTRATION FOR OUR HUMAN RIGHTS
5-8 PM

CANDLE LIGHT VIGIL IN MEMORY OF ESMIN GREEN
8-10 PM

@ Kings County Hospital Center Psychiatric Emergency Room
Building R
410 Winthrop Street
Brooklyn, NY 11203

Contact:
Lauren Tenney (516) 319-4295 laurentenney at aol.com

Daniel Hazen (301) 395-5378  danhazeus at yahoo.com

websi te: www.TheOpalProject.org/Vigil.html

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Demonstration for=2 0Our Human Rights
5-8 PM


Confirmed Speakers (as of 6/14):
Attorney for Esmin Green's Family:
Sanford Rubenstein, Esq.,

Chair of the Assembly's Mental Health Committee:
Assemblyman Peter Rivera,

Esmin Green's Assemblyman:
Assemblyman Nick Perry,

Activists and former inmates of Kings County Hospital Center:
Marian Merlino & David Gonzalez,

International Human Rights Lawyer:
Tina Minkowitz

Advocates and Activists:
Anita Cameron, Kathie Casio, Sabrina Johnson, George Ebert,
Rolando Bini, George Badillo, John M. Donnelly,=2 0Jr.,
Josephine Carol Cicchini, and many more.

OPEN SPEAK OUT
7:30 - 8 PM

Close of Demonstration for Our Human Righ ts
8 PM
Mai Muna, Vocalist
"We Shall Overcome"

Candle Light Vigil
in Memory of Esmin Green
8 - 10 PM
Mai Muna, Vocalist
"Take My Hand"

MC's:
Dally Sanchez, Daniel Hazen, and Eva Dech

Co-Organizers:
The Law Project for Psychiatric Rights
  MindFreedom International
The Opal Project

For more information and to join the growing list of
individual endorsers and organizational co-sponsors:
www.TheOpalProject.org/vigil.html

For video of 2008 demonstration and vigil
in memory of Esmin Green:
http://opalprojectmedia.blogspot.com/


                                                 Contact: Lauren  
Tenney  (516) 319-4295 laurentenney at aol.com
                          ;                                       
Daniel Hazen  (301) 395-5378 danhazeus at yahoo.com
                                                               www.theopalproject.org/vigil.htm 
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

DEMONSTRATION AND VIGIL JUNE 19 IN MEMORY OF EMSIN GREEN,
KINGS COUNTY HOSPITAL CENTER PSYCHIATRIC EMERGENCY ROOM

WE THE PEOPLE, a coalition of people who are survivors of psychiatric  
systems, users of psychiatry, and allies, born out of the murder-by- 
neglect of Esmin Green will hold a demonstration and candlel ight  
vigil in her memory at Kings County Hospital Center Psychiatric  
Emergency Room, Building R  410 Winthrop St., Brooklyn, NY on Friday,  
June 19.

The demonstration will begin at 5pm, followed by a candlelight vigil  
from 8-10 pm.

Esmin Green died in the Kings County ER one year ago, after sitting  
for 23 hours in the waiting room.  Her murder by neglect highlights  
the need for human rights protections and an end to psychiatric  
atrocities including involuntary confinement, drugs, electroshock,  
restraint, seclusion and aversive “behavioral20interventions.”

The death of Esmin Green is indicative of a failure in the system that  
was supposed to be there to care for her.  The solution to protecting  
the lives and dignity of people with psychiatric histories is not  
simply to increase staff and services and/or to improve staff  
training.  As evidenced by Ms. Green’s death, these measures are  
nothing more than temporary band-aids that consistently fail.

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Independent external advocacy and HHC complying with human rights,  
International Law, and the United Nations Treaties are concrete  
strategies to take to assure that nothing like this ever happens again.

"It is really important for people to make their v oices heard so that  
what happened to Esmin Green never happens again". --Sanford  
Rubenstein, Esq.
Speakers will include Sanford Rubenstein, Esq., the attorney for Ms.  
Green's Family; legislators, Assemblymen Nick Perry and Peter Rivera,  
and dozens of activists including Dally Sanchez, Eva Dech, Sabrina  
Johnson, George Badillo, Tina Minkowitz, Anita Cameron, George Ebert,  
David Gonzalez, Kathie Casio, Marian Merlino, and Rolando Bini.

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