You would think Minnesota’s human rights day conference would be a good place to bring up controversies like the involuntary outpatient electroshock of Ray Sandford. But with its hefty $200 price tag, you may need to stand by the entrance and peacefully bring the issue up to participants.
Asking the office of Minnesota’s Governor Pawlenty for a policy position about the involuntary outpatient electroshock of Ray Sandford has led to a dead end. (For more information on the Ray Campaign see “Related Content” links at bottom of this.)
Sometimes the Governor is forwarding inquisitive citizens to his Department of Human Rights.
Sounds good.
The thing is, this Departments states it only works on very narrowly-defined discrimination complaints.
Ray has already spoken with this Department, and they hare providing him a form to file a “discrimination claim.”
Their Department spokesperson says they have nothing — zero — to do with explaining the Governor’s policies.
Then again, this Department does indeed do more when it comes to public relations.
The Minnesota Dept. of Human Rights plans to celebrate the state’s human rights record at a special one-day “25th Annual Human Rights Day Conference and Forum” on Friday, 5 December 2008, at the St. Paul RiverCentre, 175 W Kellogg Blvd.
Minnesota is bringing in well-known Kweisi Mfume as keynote speaker, and there are a number of workshops on a wide ranging topics, including mental health.
You’d think this conference would be a good place to bring up the forced outpatient electroshock of Ray Sandford?
But you may need to stand outside the entrance. Only pre-registered participants who can afford the conference’s hefty $200 registration cost are allowed inside the “forum.”
Info on this event is here:
http://www.humanrights.state.mn.us/events_hrday.html
Something that’s far cheaper than this conference would be joining MindFreedom International.
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https://mindfreedom.org/join-donate
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