Info PRAWI-New Zealand PRAWI is a sponsor group of MindFreedom International in New Zealand led by Anna de Jonge. PRAWI stands for Patients’ Rights Advocacy Waikato Incorporated. Former mental health patients to sue A New Zealand newspaper, The Press, covers the mass lawsuit by hundreds of psychiatric survivors against the New Zealand government. New Zealand…
Info In Cork, Ireland, Mary Maddock, one of the founders of MindFreedom Ireland, submitted an official petition to the government of Ireland, and a copy of the text is here. Mary challenges the legality of Irish policy on forced psychiatric drugging. Mary presented the petition to the European Union Petitions Committee durings its tour of…
Info In Cork, Ireland, Mary Maddock, one of the founders of MindFreedom Ireland, submitted an official petition to the government of Ireland, and a copy of the text is here. Mary challenges the legality of Irish policy on forced psychiatric drugging. Mary presented the petition to the European Union Petitions Committee durings its tour of…
Info Freedom Center Freedom Center based in Northamptom, Massachusetts provides free alternatives and promotes human rights in the mental health system. Forbes magazine features Will Hall and Freedom Center in online spotlight Freedom Center news release: Freedom Center and co-founder Will Hall were featured in a special online Forbes magazine article. Freedom Center is a…
Info Protests were held on Mothers Day, 13 May 2007, in Ireland, Toronto and Montreal. Here are photos and reports from all three. MindFreedom Ireland Protests Electroshock in Cork on Mother’s Day 13 May 2007 in solidarity with protests in Toronto & Montreal. For report and photo from Toronto protest click here. For report…
Info LILA Lane Independent Living Alliance is a cross-disability independent living center based in Eugene, Oregon. LILA is working to support empowerment and self-determination and inclusion of people labeled with mental disabilities, including mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors. LILA LAMHP You may download an MS Word flyer from LILA about their event:Independence, access, and…
Info A new alliance called the “Opal Network” is beginning in Lane County, Oregon to support the voice, empowerment and self-determination of mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors. All agencies involved with mental health, along with all interested mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors, are invited to the initial meeting on Tuesday, 29 May 2007.…
Info OPAL OPAL network is an alliance of groups in Lane County, Oregon that support the voice, empowerment, and self-determination of mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors. Thanks much to LILA and many other groups for supporting this successful project. You are invited! An Info Center for Opal Network Meeting Posters & Announcements Info about…
Info MindFreedom Chicagoland News and information about forming a new affiliate in the northern Illinois area. Mad Liberation & Reforming the Mental Health System! Lecture by David W. Oaks (Roosevelt University, 2nd Floor Congress Lounge, 430 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago., from May 23, 2007 07:00 PM to May 23, 2007 08:30 PM) Free event: David…
Info MindFreedom Oregon Human Rights Alert: Strength in numbers! Now is the time for you to ask Oregon’s Governor to change Oregon’s mental health system. David Romprey, Oregon psychiatric survivor Just go to this easy web page and submit your message to the Governor in your own words: http://www.governor.state.or.us/Gov/contact_us.shtml Be part of…