NEW TIME! MindFreedom News Hour has dissident psychologist - free Internet radio

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MindFreedom News -- 8 October 2006
For a nonviolent revolution in mental health.
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Public Service Announcement:

    New Day & Time! Every Wednesday at 4 pm EST

    MindFreedom News Hour - Live Free Weekly Internet Radio

    Next guest: Dissident psychologist & author Bruce Levine

When: *This* Wednesday, 11 October 2006, at 4 pm EST, 1 pm PST.

How: Click on http://www.theprn.org to listen live or hear archive  
later.

What: Guest Bruce Levine: A dissident psychologist rebels against the  
domination of psychiatric drugs, mental health corporations, and a  
"world gone crazy."

MindFreedom News Hour, hosted by human rights activist David Oaks,  
features interviews, news and resources about a nonviolent revolution  
that is challenging and transforming our society's abusive mental  
health system, *now* every Wednesday at 4 pm EST.

You may e-mail your questions and comments before, during or after  
the show to radio at mindfreedom.org. Your questions and comments may be  
read live during the show. Please say if you wish to be anonymous.

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BIO:

Bruce Levine is the author of _Commonsense Rebellion: Taking Back  
Your Life from Drugs, Shrinks, Corporations, and a World Gone Crazy_.  
Dr. Levine is a dissident clinical psychologist who challenges the  
mental health industry. He has been in private practice since 1984.  
He is on the advisory council of the International Center for the  
Study of Psychiatry and Psychology and on the editorial advisory  
board of the journal _Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry_. Dr.  
Levine lives in Ohio and is a regular contributor to _Z Magazine_.  
His website is http://www.brucelevine.net.

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News about the day and time change:

The new time slot -- Wednesdays at 4 pm EST -- will reach from New  
Zealand to USA to Europe during waking-hours. The producers at PRN  
said it's a priority to keep this new time slot the same, so please  
spread the word.

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Action:

Please spread the word and forward this public service announcement  
both on and off the Internet, including about the new day and time:

Be part of a nonviolent revolution in mental health! Listen to the  
MindFreedom News Hour every week, usually live, Wednesday, 4 pm  
eastern time, 1 pm pacific time. Just click on http://www.theprn.org

If you have guest suggestions or would like to volunteer e-mail to  
radio at mindfreedom.org

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Archives of the MindFreedom News Hour

If you miss a live show you may listen to the archive at http:// 
www.theprn.org. Just click on "shows" and go to MindFreedom News Hour  
or click on "host" and go to David Oaks. Here are past shows now on  
the archive by date:

10/3/06 Guest = Aby Adams: Mental health screening in your school:  
What are the dangers and alternatives?

9/26/06 Gust = Linda Valentine: How Family Members Can Support Human  
Rights of Psychiatric Survivors

9/19/06 Guest = Ted Chabasinski: From Forced Electroshock as a Child  
to Human Rights Activist Leader

9/12/06 Guest = Lauren Tenney -- Saving Children Today From  
Psychiatric Abuse: Learning from History

9/5/06 Guest = Will Hall -- How People Labeled 'Schizophrenic' Can  
Respond to False Stereotyping That We Are Violent

8/22/06 Guest = Sally Zinman -- Lessons for Today From 30 Years of  
Activism in the Mental Patients Rights Movement.

8/15/06 Guest = Judi Chamberlin -- Why We Demand Human Rights, Not  
'Mental Patient' Rights

08/8/06 Guest = Leonard Roy Frank -- Surviving & resisting electroshock.

08/1/06 Guest = Matt Morrissey -- Alternatives for extreme emotional  
distress.

07/25/06 Guest = Hugh Massengill -- Surviving trauma and psychiatric  
abuse.

07/18/06 Guest = Al Galves, PhD -- How dissident mental health  
professionals can be good allies.

07/11/06 Guest = Celia Brown -- Celia's story of surviving  
psychiatry, promoting alternatives, and speaking out inside the  
United Nations for three years as President of MindFreedom  
International.

06/27/06 Guest = Krista Erickson -- Mad Pride! How you can organize a  
Mad Pride event and join in with anchor events in four nations: Ghana  
Africa, UK, Canada and USA.

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A new issue of _MindFreedom Journal_ has been mailed to MFI members.  
This issue #47 profiles positive accomplishments of psychiatric  
survivors, including an MFI team that has championed human rights  
inside United Nations meetings, which recently proposed a binding  
global treaty on disability rights.

Note that receiving this e-mailed MFI E-news announcement, which is a  
free public service, does not necessarily mean you are an MFI member.  
If you are not an MFI member and want one free sample copy of the  
print journal -- or you want to check your membership status -- e- 
mail to office at mindfreedom.org. Or better yet, join or renew now at  
http://www.mindfreedom.org and you'll be sent the journal and other  
information as an MFI member!

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Watch for a new MFI web site in the next few weeks... MFI is  
launching a new content management system web site using Plone. If  
you would like to volunteer contact the MFI office at  
office at mindfreedom.org.

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Join MindFreedom International, donate, or renew your membership.

Do you want to...

* Win human rights campaigns in mental health?

* End abuse by the psychiatric drug industry?

* Support the self-determination of psychiatric survivors?

* Promote safe, humane and effective options in mental health?

You are not alone! MindFreedom is a nonprofit human rights group that  
unites 100 sponsor and affiliate groups with individual members, and  
is accredited by the United Nations as a Non-Governmental  
Organization (NGO) with Consultative Roster Status. Join or donate  
today!

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. While most of  
MindFreedom's members are psychiatric survivors, *all* who support  
human rights are invited to join and become active leaders.

JOIN, RENEW, DONATE, or give GIFT MEMBERSHIPS to MindFreedom  
International today:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/join.shtml

For a MAD MARKET of books and other products to support human rights  
campaigns in mental health: http://www.madmarket.org

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

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e-mail: office at mindfreedom.org
office phone: (541) 345-9106
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fax: (541) 345-3737

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