Are you suffering from normality? Read about the Ten Warning Signs of “Normality” by Janet Foner, MindFreedom Board Member and psychiatric survivor activist. Mad scientists are working around the clock to discover the cure for “normality,” a serious and persistent “chronic mental illness” afflicting much of the general population. MindFreedom International, an alliance led by…
Info Document Actions Print this Longtime mental health human rights activist and MindFreedom member Will Hall was recently the subject of an article about MAD PRIDE in Newsweek magazine. “Listening to Madness: Why some mentally ill patients are rejecting their medication and making the case for ‘mad pride.’” Date Published: May 02, 2009 10:00 AM…
Info In this paper, Katina Andoniadis Harvick explores the Mad Pride movement within the context of the struggle to define madness. Harvick June 2008.doc — Microsoft Word Document, 51Kb Document Actions Print this
How to make a big giant hypodermic needle “prop” for a skit Here’s how to make an enormous hypodermic “prop” needle to use in your skits and plays. by David W. Oaks I have helped make about a dozen enormous hypodermic needles for skits and plays and guerilla theater. Making enormous prop hypo’s actually goes…
Info “Mad Pride ‘!reland’” Poster This two page poster, advertising a Mad Pride event in Fitzgeralds Park, went out as a full-color insert in 35,000 newspapers in the area of Cork, Ireland. This helped bring 5,000 people to this Mad Pride event, making it the biggest Mad Pride event in the world so far! “Mad…
Info Rufus in England has helped organize several successful “Bed Pushes,” where a group in costume pushes a bed (often with a manequin tied down in four-point restraint) through the streets, escaping from the psychiatric system. The Bed Pushes in UK have won national publicity on the BBC. Now Bed Pushes are planned in Germany,…
Info How To Hold a Successful Mad Pride Event Tips, suggestions, and brainstorms to create and participate in successful Mad Pride events, small and large! Photo of UK Bed Push Showing Mad Pride Mad Pride Brain Balloon Image You May Use For Posters Image of a hypodermic needle to show how to make a big…
Info Frank Blankenship (chair of MindFreedom Affiliate Support Committee), physician Larry Plumlee (MindFreedom DC), psychologist Al Galves on MindFreedom board, and David Oaks, director of MindFreedom International. Click to view full-size image… — Size: 2.0 MB Document Actions Print this
Info We ask that all action and speech by those involved in the International Association for the Advancement of Creative Maladjustment (IAACM) follow these guidelines. IAACM Nonviolence Guidelines These principles of a peaceful campaign are based on those of Martin Luther King, Jr., as interpreted by the “National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance.” Our attitude will…
Info Normality screening hits the streets Here’s the same skit about how to screen normality, but taking it to the streets. This one was done in the middle of downtown Eugene, in front of a statue remembering Ken Kesey, who wrote the book One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Bullhorn optional. MindFreedom has conducted more…