MindFreedom News Show

Wednesday, 2 May 2007

Listen to the free weekly LIVE MindFreedom News Internet Radio Show by clicking on http://prncomm.net/ LIVE every Wednesdayat 4 pm ET.

Guest this week, Wed., 2 May, is Martin Rafferty who is a young psychiatric survivor and MindFreedom Youth Outreach Coordinator, as well as office manager. Martin S. Rafferty is a long-time youth leader in Lane County, Oregon.You may read his reflections on the Virginia Tech tragedy from thepoint of view of a young person with a psychiatric diagnosis by clicking here.

This is radio for a nonviolent revolution in the mental health system, hosted bypsychiatric rights activist David Oaks, director of MindFreedom. David also experienced the mental health system as a youth when he was institutionalized five times and diagnosed”schizophrenic.” For a brief bio click here.

If you listen LIVE to the MindFreedom News Hour jot down the toll free call-in number for the USA or the special call-in number for outside the USA as it is given during the show. Please keep trying, sometimes it takes more than once to get through.

You may e-mail at any time to radio@mindfreedom.org and your comment or question may be read on the air.

Some topics we are exploring in this series of shows:

• Will Cho’s use of psychiatric drugs be covered up by the Medical Examiners in Virginia?
• What do we do about media bias about these issues on 60 Minutes and CNN?
• What do we know about the mental health system’s interaction with Cho?
• What kinds of alternatives were available? What ought to be available?
• What is it like to be a college student and diagnosed with a psychiatric disability?
• What do we do about the call for more forced psychiatric drugging?
• How do we answer concerns about “violent mental patients”?
• Where can people turn for humane alternatives to the conventional mental health system?

Upcoming MindFreedom Internet Radio Shows:

9 May 2007 – Neil Gong of the Icarus Project is a psychiatric survivor college campus organizer at New York University. Hear from the point of view of a young college student psychiatric survivor who is working to raise these issues with other students.

16 May 2007 – Jim Gottstein – psychiatric survivor, attorney, Harvard Law School graduate and founder of PsychRights.org — is back by popular demand! Hear the latest about Jim’s ongoing fight to hold Eli Lilly accountable for their criminal cover-up and mis-marketing of the psychiatric drug Zyprexa. Jim will also keep us up to date on his numerous other projects, campaigns and lawsuits.

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TheMindFreedom News Hour is part of a diverse array of shows onProgressive Radio Network.

On each MindFreedom News Hour you’llhear hear news, resources, and an interview. Shows have covered thehistory of the psychiatric survivor movement, how psychiatric survivorsand concerned mental health professionals are working together on humanrights campaigns, and more.

Regular features include networking announcements about successful activism and alternatives.

It’s your mind! It’s your freedom! Free your mind with theMindFreedom News Hour hosted by David Oaks every Wednesday at 4 pmeastern time.

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If you have show suggestions, comments, ideas, please e-mail it to radio@mindfreedom.org. E-mail is checked during the show, and your comments may be read live on “the air.”