Info This Wednesday, 22 August 2007, at 4 pm ET, “click and listen” to a live interview with long-time leader DON WEITZ in Toronto, Canada. Phone in with your questions & comments live. Host is David Oaks. Don Weitz: Psychiatric survivor activist from Toronto. This Wednesday, 22 August 2007, 4 pm ET: Don Weitz on…
Info Wednesday, 29 August 2007, at 4 pm ET, “click and listen” to a live interview with electroshock-survivor SUE CLARK in Ontario, Canada. Phone in with your questions & comments live. Host is David Oaks. Sue Clark: electroshock survivor activist from Ontario, Canada Update August 2015, Sue has passed away. Please click to see MindFreedom’s…
Info Wednesday, 5 September 2007, at 4 pm ET, “click and listen” to a live free web interview with Professor Gail Hornstein who has collected hundreds of personal accounts of people who have experienced being labeled “mad” by the mental health system. Phone in with your questions & comments live. Host of the MindFreedom Live…
Info This Wednesday, 12 September 2007, at 4 pm ET, “click and listen” to a live free web interview with Chrissy Peirsol. Chrissy is an 20-year-old activist who has survived abuse by the mental health system, and is part of the MindFreedom Youth Voices for Choices in Mental Health Campaign. Phone in with your questions…
Info It’s MAD LIVE RADIO this Wednesday, 26 September 2007, at 4 pm ET. You can click, listen and phone in to a free live web interview on MindFreedom Internet Radio with two Mad Pride activists in Toronto, Canada: Ruth Ruth and Jeremiah Bach. Phone in live with your questions & comments. Host is David…
Info Dorothy Dundas survived insulin coma shock and went on to become a human rights activist. This Wednesday, 3 October 2007, at 4 pm ET click, listen and phone in to a free live web interview on MindFreedom Internet Radio with Dorothy Dundas. Phone in live with your questions & comments. Host is David Oaks.…
Info bias Mainstream media bias toward the perspective of the mental health industry, while excluding the voice of critics and mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors, is one of the biggest obstacles to winning human rights in the mental health system. Major media tend to ignore the public service work of mental health consumers and…
Info Document Actions Print this The weekly newspaper in Portland, Oregon provided an overview about progress in uniting the national movement of mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors. The Guinea Pigs’ Rebellion Date Published: Sep 01, 1999 03:00 AM Author: CHRIS LYDGATE Source: Willamette Week, Portland, Oregon, USA The movement for the rights of mental…
Info ABC News web site ran a “pro and con” piece about so-called “new” electroshock using supposedly brief pulse electricity to induce a convulsion. Several movement activists and MindFreedom members, including director David Oaks, are quoted. You can comment on the ABC web site. ABC used an image from the film “One Flew Over the…
Info 28 August 2007 update: The attorneys for “Simone D.” announced today that her planned forced electroshock in a New York State psychiatric institution has been halted because of a new court ruling they won this morning! MindFreedom had issued a human rights alert to say “no” to Simone D.’s forced electroshock. Next step: End…