Info MFI Book Club starting up: Sign up today for a special MFI Book Club Talk discussion group! Join the MFI-Mad Market Book Club today! MindFreedom International is excited to announce the launch of a new Online MFI Book Club in December! Each month we will feature a new book from our MadMarket for review…
Info Jeffrey Fager, 60 Minutes Executive Producer: Let Psychiatric Survivors Speak for Themselves! Please sign this URGENT petition and share WIDELY! NEWS FLASH!MFI launches a change.org petition to CBS…”Jeffrey Fager, 60 Minutes Executive Producer: Let Psychiatric Survivors Speak for Themselves!” Please sign this URGENT petition and share WIDELY! MindFreedom has launched an online petition to…
Info Activist Alert from MindFreedom International…Write or call CBS’ “60 Minutes” Exec. Producer, Jeffrey Fager: The September 29th edition of 60 Minutes “Untreated Mental Illness an Imminent Danger” was shameful and portrayed people with psychiatric histories as violent, inhuman, unworthy of compassion and incapable of making their own decisions. Untreated mental illness an imminent danger?…
Info The conference is still open for registration. The Choices in Mental Health Committee of MindFreedom International is proud to sponsor this exciting gathering at the Wisdom House in beautiful Litchfield, Connecticut. Author/activist, Robert Whitaker and Mary Ellen Copeland will be the keynote speakers. Wisdom House, site of the next Alternatives conference in July…
Info The conference is still open for registration. The Choices in Mental Health Committee of MindFreedom International is proud to sponsor this exciting gathering at the Wisdom House in beautiful Litchfield, Connecticut. Author/activist, Robert Whitaker and Mary Ellen Copeland will be the keynote speakers. Wisdom House, site of the next Alternatives conference in July CREATIVE…
Info Mark your calendar for this exciting conference planed for July of next summer, 2014: “CREATIVE REVOLUTION CONFERENCE: DEVELOPING AND EXPANDING ALTERNATIVES, MAKING BIG CHANGES!” CREATIVE REVOLUTION: DEVELOPING AND EXPANDING ALTERNATIVES—MAKING BIG CHANGES! To Our Longtime Supporters, The Choices Committee is planning a conference that will take place from July 24th through July 27th, 2014,…
Info We are proud and excited to announce a fundraising drive on razoo.com to raise money for MindFreedom’s Comfort Calls/Shield campaign! Our goal is to raise $30,000 in the next month. Will you donate to these vital programs and help us spread the word? Support the Comfort Calls/Shield Campaign today! Friends and supporters of MindFreedom…
Info David W. Oaks, former MFI Executive Director and longtime freedom fighter for psychiatric survivors, blogs on the parallels between chemical weapons in Syria and chemical abuse in the psych system. David W. Oaks is joyfully pelted by flower petals at his home in Eugene, Oregon The saber-rattling of the Obama administration has the world…
Info MindFreedom members who volunteer to provide comfort calls are a beacon of light for those facing dark times in the mental health system. Lending your ear or helping draft human rights alerts can make all the difference. Anyone, anywhere: If you can, consider offering your much needed support. Memo: From the desk of Heather…
Info David W. Oaks, former MFI Director and longtime freedom fighter for psychiatric survivors, blogs on the top 5 ways that the disability movement intersects with the civil rights movement and the environmental movement, especially the climate crisis. David and Debra pose on our new deck from Habitat for Humanity in our backyard summer August…