Today MF Radio: JIM GOTTSTEIN - Law Mental Health Activism 11/14

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SPECIAL SURPRISE GUEST: Ray Sandford -- who won his campaign against  
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start of show, from Minnesota!

*BELOW* is more UPDATED information about today's show, including the  
guest and hosts, from the announcement previously sent!

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TODAY Saturday, 14 November 2009 -- The Law and Mental Health Activism:

   JIM GOTTSTEIN is an attorney, activist, psychiatric survivor and  
hero.

   Jim will be the guest on the next MindFreedom Free Live Web Radio  
Show.

   Listen free and call in live from anywhere!

Jim Gottstein of Alaska is president of PsychRights, a public interest  
law firm that makes waves to change the mental health system  
throughout the USA.

Co-hosts are MindFreedom's director, psychiatric survivor David W.  
Oaks, and Piers Gooding from Australia.

HOW TO LISTEN AND CALL-IN LIVE TO THIS FREE WEB SHOW:

WHEN:  TODAY Saturday, 14 November 2009 - 90 minutes.

	• USA: 11 am Pacific, 12 noon Mountain, 1 pm Central, 2 pm Eastern
	• UTC/GMT: 7 pm [19:00]
	• London/Dublin: 7 pm [19:00]
	• Berlin: 8 pm [20:00]
	• New Zealand: 8 am [next day]

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show to hear archives):

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Your live calls, questions, comments, are welcome!

Call-in Number: (646) 595-2125.

Can't get to a computer that day? Use the call-in number just to  
listen. (Because of show popularity, more lines are being added for  
this show. This feature may change in future months.)

Update: Special guest! Ray Sandford, who MindFreedom helped in a  
successful campaign to stop his forced outpatient electroshock, will  
check in LIVE at start of show for brief update! Don't miss it! For  
more info about Ray campaign see http://www.mindfreedom.org/ray

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   More About Guest Jim Gottstein:

Jim Gottstein is a psychiatric survivor and Harvard Law School  
Graduate (1978). Since 2002, Jim has largely worked for free to  
support PsychRights efforts to stop forced psychiatric drugging,  
challenge psychiatric drug company fraud, and create humane  
alternatives in the mental health system.

Jim won international publicity by subpoenaing and then releasing  
thousands of documents about criminal fraud involving Eli Lilly and  
their psychiatric drug Zyprexa. Jim's courageous actions results in  
days of front page coverage in The New York Times, a NY Times  
editorial and a congressional investigation.

Jim has won several victories in front of the Alaska supreme court. He  
is now challenging psychiatric drugging of children and youth as  
Medicaid fraud.

On the show, Jim says he wants to be sure to cover psychiatric  
drugging of children and youth, especially in foster care. "That is  
the majority of Medicaid fraud," said Jim.

Jim also said it's important to talk about, "People's constitutional  
rights to be free of psychiatric imprisonment, euphemistically called  
involuntary commitment and forced drugging and electroshock. How are  
these rights ignored as a matter of course? What are strategies for  
combating it?"

Jim is also on the board of directors of National Association for  
Rights Protection and Advocacy and International Center for the Study  
of Psychiatry and Psychology. Psychrights, NARPA and ICSPP are all  
sponsor groups in MindFreedom International.

For more about Jim Gottstein click here:

http://psychrights.org/about/Gottstein.htm

The host is MindFreedom director DAVID W. OAKS. Utne Reader is naming  
David one of 50 'visionaries' in its current Nov./Dec. 2009 issue,  
along with the Dalai Lama. For his bio see:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/about-us/david-w-oaks

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And mark your calendar for the Second Saturday in December 2009 for  
MindFreedom Live Free Mad Pride Radio!

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