Event Details Topic: When calling for help gets you killed Date: Wednesday, May 1st, 2024 Time: 3 PM Pacific | 4 PM Mountain | 5 PM Central | 6 PM Eastern & Atlantic | 6 AM Eastern Australia | 7 PM Brazil | 11 PM UK Platform: Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82375518189 About the Conversation Jared,…
You’re invited to join us for the third Judi’s Room of 2024! Event Details • Topic: A conversation about involuntary commitment with Rob Wipond • Date: Wednesday, April 3rd 2024 • Time: 3 PM Pacific | 4 PM Mountain | 5 PM Central | 6 PM Eastern & Atlantic Standard | 6 AM Eastern Australia…
Update for the Month of March 2024 by Board President Al Galves New Board Members We have two new Board members: Dina Tyler in California and Kristina “KK” Kapp in Ohio. Dina Tyler is an individual and family counselor in private practice. She specializes in extreme states of consciousness often labeled as psychosis…
Monirul, a member of MindFreedom International who lives in Bangladesh, has created a new website called MindfulRights at https://www.mindfulrights.rf.gd in order to promote human rights in various fields in Bangladesh including mental health care and to raise public awareness of related issues within the country. Although the site is still a work in progress, it…
Update for the Month of February 2024 by Board President Al Galves Shield Program We are working on two active Shield campaigns: 1. Dawn Dziuba (pronouns: she/her) is an attorney who has been forcibly held at Forensic Treatment Center South in St. Louis, Missouri for nine years. She believed that her colleagues at…
A legislative measure known as Proposition 1 will soon be up for vote in California in the US on the state’s March 5th, 2024 ballot. We at MindFreedom International stand with Cal Voices and Disability Rights California in opposing this proposition on the grounds that it facilitates coercive psychiatric treatment and fails to adequately address…
About This Event • Date: Wednesday, March 6th 2024 • Time: 3:00 PM Pacific | 4:00 PM Mountain | 5:00 PM Central | 6:00 PM Eastern & Atlantic Standard | 6:00 AM Eastern Australia | 7:00 PM Brazil Standard | 11:00 PM UK • Platform: Zoom • Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82375518189 About the Topic From SAFE‘s…
MFI was disturbed to learn that Jill Kesti, a long-time Shield member and founder of Coalition to End Forced Psychiatric Drugging is being held against her will at Pine Rest ‘Christian’ Mental Health Services in Grand Rapids, Michigan. While there, she was forcibly injected three times with powerful sedatives. Her phone was taken away and…
Watch the rest of the Voices for Choices series NARRATION: Strength in any human rights movement is usually measured by people power — this can be witnessed both in the courts and on the streets. Protests against psychiatric oppression have taken place around the world. Worldwide electroshock rallies organized by MindFreedom Ireland call to abolish…
Watch the rest of the Voices for Choices series NARRATION: To fight the misinformation that persists in our society, psychiatric survivors have mounted a campaign to educate the public. Whitaker’s book “Mad in America” has been highly influential in reaching the public. Whitaker’s following grew into MadInAmerica.com, which publishes blogs and news articles about science,…