Info The 11 May 2008 New York Times published an article about the global Mad Pride movement, including spotlighting MindFreedom International, and several sponsor groups in the MindFreedom coalition. Mad Pride celebrates the international movement for creative maladjustment! Bonkersfest in UK is one of the largest Mad Pride events, attracting 3,000 people. For original NY…
Info Document Actions Print this MindFreedom Ireland founder Mary Maddock was featured in a major newspaper story in Ireland. Mary Maddock is a former nun, an electroshock survivor, founder of MindFreedom Ireland based in Cork, Ireland, and author of the book Soul Survivor. One of the main newspapers in Ireland ran a major feature about…
Info Document Actions Print this As one of the impacts from the Cho massacre at Virginia Tech, Virginia is passing laws making it easier to forcibly drug citizens on an outpatient basis. Here, Frank Blankenship of MindFreedom Virginia (and chair of the MindFreedom Affiliate Support Committee) warns that this can lead to massive psychiatric drugging,…
Info Document Actions Print this Washington Post ran this article about the MindFreedom hunger strike “Fast for Freedom in Mental Health.” Raising Doubts About Drugs Date Published: Aug 29, 2003 01:00 AM Author: Kimberly Edds Source: Washington Post article also published here with photo: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0830-07.htm Washington Post Calif. Hunger Strike Challenges Use of Antidepressants PASADENA,…
Info Document Actions Print this The main newspaper sold by low income and homeless people on the streets of Portland, Oregon, USA — Street Roots — covers the launch of the board of directors for the Oregon Consumer/Survivor Coalition. New mental health coalition organizes survivors for reform Date Published: Apr 04, 2008 01:00 AM Author:…
Info David Oaks, Director of MindFreedom, is interviewed on OPB radio about his experience of forced psychiatric drugging, and MindFreedom’s opposition to forced mental health procedures. Oregon Public Broadcasting included segment about MindFreedom’s opposition to forced psychiatry. 21 March 2008 News alert by David Oaks, Director, MindFreedom International Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) broadcast a radio…
Info Document Actions Print this The activist media “Dissident Voice” quotes MindFreedom about President Bush and the USA mental health system. Let’s Go Crazy: The Decline in US Mental Health Under Bush Date Published: Feb 11, 2007 01:00 AM Author: Heather Woksuch Source: Dissident Voice Factors linked with mental illness (including poverty, homelessness,violence and social…
Info Document Actions Print this One of the main newspapers for New York City — the NY Sun — ran this brief article about electroshock because the topic came up in coverage of a murder. MindFreedom director David Oaks is quoted criticizing electroshock. Shock Therapy Emerges As Detail in Therapist’s Killing Date Published: Feb 21,…
Info Document Actions Print this The main newspaper for Rochester, Minnesota carried a story about how MindFreedom International is calling for an investigation of the death of MFI member Michael Heston, who committed suicide after years of forced psychiatric drugging. Group calls for investigation of suicide at Federal Medical Center Date Published: Feb 16, 2008…
Info Document Actions Print this The main newspaper for Eugene, Oregon looks back over the one year that has passed since the shooting death by police of 19 year-old Ryan Salisbury, who ran out of his home holding a knife. MindFreedom Lane County has worked on the issue for a year, and the article includes…