MindFreedom International News - 1 October 2007United Independent Activism for Free Mindshttp://www.mindfreedom.org - please forward News items: * October is "Screen the World for Normality Month"! Mad Pride! Got Normal? * Now Online: Photos & Videos of World Psychiatric Association Encounter in Dresden with Movement. * Lloyd Ross Links Zyprexa and TeenScreen Scandals. * On 60 Minutes Katie Couric Investigates Death of Rebecca Riley: You Can Comment. * Maths Jesperson calls for speaking out inside online medical magazine. October is "Screen the World for Normality Month"! Some claim October is "Mental Health Month." MindFreedom renamed October "Screen the World for Normality Month"! Celebrate Mad Pride. Got normal? Here's how you can participate! Get your rubber chicken ready! Events in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Missouri, Illinois, Australia, Belgium... or anywhere you are. Help launch Martin Luther King's vision of an "International Association for the Advancement of Creative Maladjustment." More info: http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/madpride/screen-normality or go to: http://tinyurl.com/3dudcq Photos & Videos of World Psychiatric Association Negotiations Online DRESDEN, GERMANY: When the World Psychiatric Association held a special international meeting on the subject of coercion in psychiatry, MindFreedom united with several other organizations of mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors to negotiate inclusion inside the conference. Peter Lehmann and Reinhard Wojke organized photographs and video tapes of this encounter, which are now online. Go to: http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/global/ or go to: http://tinyurl.com/2rfc9x Or go directly to: http://www.enusp.org/dresden.htm On the MindFreedom Blog, director David Oaks comments on the pro's and con's of negotiating with opponent organizations: http://www.mindfreedom.org/mfi-blog Linking Zyprexa and TeenScreen Controversies In a news analysis for MFI, Lloyd Ross, a psychologist and human rights activist, ties together the scandals of the way the psychiatric drug Zyprexa was marketed, with the targeting of America's youth through unscientific mental health screening programs such as TeenScreen. Lloyd encourages you to take action today to support the youth of the USA. http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/usa/zyprexa-teenscreen or go here: http://tinyurl.com/23jtqz Lloyd is on the board of International Center for Study of Psychiatry and Psychology. Do not miss their conference next week in Arlington, Virginia! It's all about preventing abuse of youth with psychiatric drugs. MindFreedom's Mad Market will be there. Go to http://www.icspp.org Katie Couric Investigates Death of Rebecca Riley: You Can Comment on CBS Web site. On the CBS television show "60 Minutes" on 30 September 2007, Katie Couric looked into the death of four-year-old Rebecca Riley who was given multiple psychiatric drugs after being diagnosed "bipolar." The parents were charged with murder. An online debate began on the CBS web site about this story. You may easily comment on the CBS web site, and also read information about the story itself. For more info click here: http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/youth-mental-health/rebecca-riley-60-minutes or go here: http://tinyurl.com/3a6p9c Alert: Psychiatric Survivors & Allies May Comment in Medical Magazine Maths Jesperson is a long-time psychiatric survivor activist, leader and actor in Sweden, who is calling upon psychiatric survivors and allies all over the world to submit comments to an online medical magazine. This online magazine covers all kinds of medical topics, but the editor, who is a psychiatrist, has reached out to psychiatric survivors and allies to ask for their commentary, and articles. For more info: http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/media-issues/maths-jesperson-pehm or go here: http://tinyurl.com/2vr6q5 David Oaks, MindFreedom director, had his comment about studies showing major brain shrinkage caused by psychiatric "antipsychotic" (neuroleptic) drugs here: http://www.peh-med.com/content/2/1/16/comments#284637 More news at the MindFreedom News Web Site: Don't see a news item? Submit it to news@mindfreedom.org MINDFREEDOM FALL MEMBERSHIP & RENEWAL DRIVE! Join or renew your membership today as part of the Fall Membership & Renewal Drive! Go to: http://www.mindfreedom.org/join-donate Become a member or renew your membership now! Build united strength in numbers! * 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 supported united activism! MindFreedom is a nonprofit human rights group that unites 100 sponsor and affiliate groups with individual members. 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. All human rights supporters are invited! Join or donate here: http://www.mindfreedom.org/join-donate For hard-to-find books and gear (including the new book Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry) go to: MindFreedom International Office: 454 Willamette, Suite 216 - POB 11284; Eugene, OR 97440-3484 USA web site: http://www.mindfreedom.org |