Info How do to a simple “normality screening” skit. An easy way to participate in the IAACM is to do a simple skit to “screen for normality,” similar to an airport screening. Developed by Patch Adams clown troupe in Florence, Italy, you just need a few simple props. You can then screen your willing colleagues,…
Info David Oaks, Director of MindFreedom International encourages you to lead IAACM. In this brief video (about 4 minutes), the director of MindFreedom International, David Oaks, from his desk in the MindFreedom office, calls for YOU to be one of the leaders in Martin Luther King’s vision of the International Association for the Advancement of…
Info Document Actions Print this Activist Laura Ziegler gives an overview of events this past month as the New York Office of Mental Health gave nine (9) last-minute electroshocks to Simone D., before her attorneys finally won a court battle on 28 August 2007 for her right to say “no” to forced electroshock. Summary of…
Simone D. has won her right to say “no” to forced electroshock by the New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH). But not before OMH got in nine last minute forced electroshocks in the month before Simone’s court victory. How are we to constructively respond to such overwhelming violence? Simone D. and John Kelly…
Apparently because of many complaints, the forced electroshock of John Kelly in Rockland Psychiatric Center has been prevented. Attorney Aaron Frishberg had issued an alert on 30 July 2007 alert about his client John Kelly facing more forced electroshock in Rockland Psychiatric Center. MindFreedom distributed the alert to thousands of people, and many made their…
Info MindFreedom salutes Mother Jones magazine for publishing a very important investigation of abuse of youth in today’s mental health system. Journalist Jennifer Gonnerman has extensively examined the infamous Rotenberg Center that uses electrical pain to try to change the behavior of troubled youth. Photo by Mother Jones in School of Shock article. See the…
A disability show on the radio station for the University of San Francisco will interview director of MindFreedom International, David Oaks. Listen when it airs on Sunday, 26 August 2007, at 12:30 pm pacific time. David Oaks, Director, MindFreedom International On Sunday, 26 August 2007, at 12:30 pm pacific time (3:30 pm eastern time) you…
Info The following news announcement was forwarded by European Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (ENUSP) about one of their member groups in Belgium, UilenSpiegel, which is celebrating their 10th anniversary. UilenSpiegel is also planning a Mad Pride celebration. Dan Taylor, secretary from MindFreedom Ghana in Accra, Ghana, Africa, intends to attend. European Network…
Info Archive of MindFreedom Radio Shows MindFreedom Internet Radio Show archived shows, with host David Oaks. Dorothy Dundas 3 October 2007 – Guest Dorothy Dundas survived insulin coma shock and went on to become a human rights activist. Read More… Chrissy Peirsol 12 September 2007 – Guest Chrissy Peirsol is a 20-year-old activist who has…
Here is information provided by Don Weitz in his own words. Don Weitz – A Short Biographical Note Don Weitz is a psychiatric survivor of insulin subcoma shock and an antipsychiatry activist. For over 30 years (since 1974), he has been active in the antipsychiatry movement. Don is co-founder of the self-help group On Our…