MFNews: Peter Lehmann - Web Radio, Shock Win, Mad Pride Youth & More Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 23:00:22 -0500 (CDT) MindFreedom International News - 7 August 2007 http://www.mindfreedom.org - please forward Six (6) *brief* news items to win a nonviolent revolution in the mental health system! ~~~~~~~~~~ (1) PETER LEHMANN -- Psychiatric survivor, editor, author, publisher, activist -- is next guest on: MindFreedom *Free* *Live* Call-in Internet Radio! Tomorrow, Wednesday, 8 August 2007, 4 pm ET., just click on http://prncomm.net Hear a live interview with PETER LEHMANN from his publishing house in Berlin, Germany. All in English. Peter is a psychiatric survivor author, editor, publisher, activist. Hear about his brand new book co-edited with Peter Stastny, "Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry." You may phone in with your questions & comments live and toll free. Host David Oaks is based in Oregon, USA. More info on the show, along with a photo and biography of Peter Lehmann, are here: http://mindfreedom.org/campaign/media/mfradio/peter-lehmann So tomorrow Wednesday, 8 August 2007 at 4:00 pm ET, just click on: http://prncomm.net. You may e-mail in questions and comments that may be read live at radio@mindfredom.org If you miss the show, recent archives are available here: http://oaks.progressiveradionetwork.org/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (2) VICTORY for John Kelly! Forced Electroshock Stopped! So Far... Apparently because of many complaints caused by these MindFreedom human rights alerts, the forced electroshock of John Kelly in Rockland Psychiatric Center in New York State has been prevented... so far! Latest news and statement from Mr. Kelly's attorney: http://mindfreedom.org/as/act/us/new-york/john-kelly-electroshock Next step: Stop the New York Office of Mental Health from forcibly electroshocking Simone D. and others in these state facilities! Keep up the peaceful pressure. It works! Use the web to file and re-file your complaints here: http://mindfreedom.org/kb/mental-health-abuse/electroshock/simone-d Need inspiration to join with many others to STOP the terror of forced electroshock? Read a report from the front lines by activist and psychiatric survivor DARBY PENNEY who spoke out with others directly front of officials from the New York State Office of Mental Health here: http://mindfreedom.org/as/act/us/new-york/darby-penney-omh-forced-shock ~~~~~~~~~~ (3) MAD PRIDE MONTH 2007 wrap-up! Mad Pride month was July, and reports and activities continue to come in from Africa... Canada... USA... For instance, read about a MAD PRIDE BED PUSH by the Freedom Center that got media attention in Northampton, Massachusetts, along with other news reports here: http://mindfreedom.org/campaign/madpride And Mad Pride is Every Month, read on.... ~~~~~~~~~~ (4) Save the dates! Nonviolent protest on 10 and 11 October 2007. We are screening the world for normality during a 48 hour period of October 10 and October 11! Help answer the question, "Is there even one 'normal' person on Planet Earth? You are encouraged to brainstorm and plan fun, peaceful protests of mental health system oppression, "normality," and "mental health screening" this October, especially during the 48 hours of October 10 (World Mental Health Day) and October 11 (National Mental Health Screening Day)! The special theme is youth. Creativity, theater, costumes and skits are especially invited. Take still photos and/or video, upload them. Events are already planned in Belgium, Washington, D.C., St. Louis and Accra, Ghana! Do a "Mad Minute" where in 60 seconds you explain what you survived... what you prefer... and show us your Mad Pride! As long as you follow Martin Luther King, Jr.'s guidelines, you are a leader in the International Association for the Advancement of Creative Maladjustment (IAACM), which MindFreedom launched during Mad Pride Month 2007. Get inspired. Get ready. Read some of MLK's words on the IAACM here: http://mindfreedom.org/kb/mental-health-global/iaacm/MLK-on-IAACM And who knows how to use viral marketing to say "enough" to the "normality" of environmental devastation... war... economic inequality... psychiatric oppression? YOUTH! Read on... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (5) MindFreedom Youth Mental Health Project MindFreedom is focusing on youth and mental health in special campaigns. If you are interested in participating, let us know. Youth and "ex-youth" are both invited, and leadership by youth is especially encouraged. The campaign begins in Lane County, Oregon, but anyone can participate. Contact MindFreedom Youth Coordinator Martin Rafferty at office@mindfreedom.org. Next local meeting, with a special youth panel of psychiatric survivors: The MindFreedom Monthly Free Mind RoundTable on Wednesday, 5 September 2007, 5:30 pm, outside the MindFreedom office. In the national media: By a funny coincidence, a Eugene, Oregon youth who supports the MindFreedom local youth campaign -- Skye -- happened to be featured this week challenging "normality" in the nationally- televised ABC "reality" show, "Wife Swap"! Martin is inviting Skye to tell us all about it at our youth meeting! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (6) Deadline Extended for New Issue of MindFreedom Journal: 20 August 2007. A new issue of the popular MindFreedom Journal is planned. All MindFreedom members are especially encouraged to e-mail in *brief* reports and/or a *clear* digital photo to news@mindfreedom.org about individual and/or group activities, announcements, resources and news. Editors are calling for reports or quotes from any MindFreedom campaign activities such as the recent conference and Mad Pride. The extended deadline is 20 August 2007. E- mail only to news@mindfreedom.org. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ More news (including a help wanted ad with initial closing date of 9 August) are at the MindFreedom News Web Site: http://www.mindfreedom.org Don't see an important news item? Submit it to news@mindfreedom.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~ And while you're on the web site... click on the button on the RIGHT to join or donate now, or go directly to: http://www.mindfreedom.org/join-donate Become a member or renew your membership now! Build united strength in numbers! 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. 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