3/26/07 MindFreedom News: Shock Censors, Radio, Retreat & More

Mon Mar 26 10:20:26 CDT 2007

MindFreedom News Updates - 26 March 2007
nonviolent revolution in mental health - please forward

    Seven (7) brief news updates from MindFreedom International News  
at http://www.mindfreedom.org

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(1) Today: New Zealand TV Station Squashes Censorship by Shock Doctor

When a woman who had experienced forced electroshock told her story  
on a national New Zealand television news show, the doctor who had  
given the involuntary electroshock filed a formal complaint with the  
TV station, claiming it was the journalist who had violated the  
woman's "informed consent"! Today, TV3 issued its decision. Read all  
about it:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/mental-health-abuse/electroshock/censor

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(2) Upcoming Guests Announced for Free MindFreedom Internet Radio

Guest this Wednesday, 28 March 2007: John McCarthy helped found  
MindFreedom Ireland, and lives in Cork. He's a psychiatric survivor,  
a poet, an activist, and now he's running for elected office on a  
platform that discloses his experiences on the receiving end of  
mental health care. John has taken his brilliant analysis and sense  
of humor directly into United Nations meetings to resist psychiatric  
human rights violations.

Listen to MindFreedom Radio live and call-in toll free on Wednesdays  
at 4 pm EST or via archives at http://www.prncomm.net with host David  
Oaks. E-mail any time to radio at mindfreedom.org.

Future guests: 4 April: Whistleblower Jim Gottstein of Alaska returns  
with updates on Eli Lilly controversy. 11 April: Author Jay Joseph  
exposes the "gene myth" of psychiatry. 18 April: Journalist Bob  
Whitaker, author of _Mad in America_, takes on history and current  
practice of psychiatry:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/media/mfradio/upcoming

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(3) This Saturday, 31 March 2007, is "Early Bird" Discount Deadline  
to Get in Deposit for MindFreedom 2007 Conference Retreat.

"Creative Revolution in Healing: Turning Our Minds Around" gathers in  
a beautiful retreat center in Connecticut to help create a choice of  
alternatives to the conventional mental health system, 12 to 15 July  
2007. You are invited.

For the latest conference info, registration form, travel info,  
photos of retreat center and more go to the Event Web Center:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/choice/

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(4) Announcing: MindFreedom Oregon News Center

A new web area at the MindFreedom portal covers news updates about  
Oregon activism, including:

* Support Oregon Senate bills SB 363 and 364 written by psychiatric  
survivors and mental health consumers to put the principle of self- 
determination into Oregon law, and create an office of mental health  
consumer affairs, an ombudsman office to handle complaints about  
Oregon's mental health system, and support for a mental health  
consumer advisory council.

* Oppose Oregon House bills HB 3954 and HB 2995: These "dual  
disappointments" target privacy among Oregonians diagnosed with  
psychiatric disabilities. If both pass, then medical personnel could  
give away private information from our protected medical records  
about mental health. And police would create a database for certain  
individuals with psychiatric labels.

* E-mail Oregon's Governor! Psychiatric survivor Dave Romprey had a  
guest column published in the Salem Statesman Journal calling upon  
Governor Ted Kulongoski to weave the principles of recovery and  
consumer-direction into Oregon's psychiatric system, especially since  
the Governor wants to build new huge institutions. See how you can  
easily join in contacting the Governor via the web.

All this and more see:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/as/act/us/or/oregon-news

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(5) Toronto Activism for Mad Pride and to Stop Electroshock!

Toronto Star Covers "Mad Pride" Movement!

The mainstream newspaper Toronto Star in Canada published an article  
about the international psychiatric survivors and allies in the "Mad  
Pride" movement:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/act/toronto-star-mad-pride

Toronto will have a Mothers Day protest of electroshock on 13 May 2007:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/mental-health-abuse/electroshock/ 
toronto-protest

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(6) New York Times continues to pound Eli Lilly for corruption in  
pushing Zyprexa

On 23 March 2007 the NY Times ran an article quoting MindFreedom  
member Ben Hansen about how Eli Lilly uses undue influence in US  
States to fraudulently promote their psychiatric drug Zyprexa. Read  
this and other NY Times articles exposing Eli Lilly corruption:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/as/act/us/psychrights/nytimes-vs-eli-lilly/

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(7) Psychiatric Survivors Spotlighted in Radical Psychology Journal

A special issue of the _Radical Psychology Journal_ gives a voice to  
the psychiatric survivors movement, including "Who fancies to have a  
Revolution here? The Opal Revisited (1851-1860)" by Lauren J. Tenney  
and "A Matter of Definition: Acknowledging Consumer/Survivor  
Experiences through Narrative" by Linda Morrison:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/psychiatric-survivors/radical-psychology/

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Plus... we're always adding new items, blog links, resources, etc. to  
the expanding MindFreedom Knowledge Base at:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb

And don't miss the MindFreedom blog, including comment on psychiatric  
industry censorship:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/mfi-blog

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Be part of the MindFreedom International Spring '07 Drive Today!

Do you want to...

* 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 about human rights who want to unite!

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.

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.

Be part of the Spring '07 Member Recruitment & Fundraising Drive TODAY:

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

MindFreedom International Office: 454 Willamette, Suite 216 - POB  
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Please forward.

"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted." -  
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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