Advocacy to Activism: Direct Action as Core Components of Disability Rights and Justice on November 6th

By Sarah Smith | October 24, 2024

Event Details • Topic: From Advocacy to Activation: Organization and Direct Action as Core Components of Disability Rights and Justice • Date: Wednesday, November 6, 2024 • Time: 3 PM Pacific | 4 PM Mountain | 5 PM Central | 6 PM Eastern & Atlantic | 6 AM Eastern Australia | 7 PM Brazil | 11 PM UK…

Dr. Lee Coleman to discuss psychiatry’s “reign of error” at Judi’s Room on October 2nd

By MFI Office Staff | September 17, 2024

  Event Details Topic: Psychiatry, authority, and law Date: Wednesday, October 2nd, 2024 Time: 3 PM Pacific | 4 PM Mountain | 5 PM Central | 6 PM Eastern & Atlantic | 6 AM Eastern Australia | 7 PM Brazil | 11 PM UK Platform: Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82375518189   About the Speaker We are delighted…

Luke Sikinyi to facilitate a panel on race, mental health, disabilities, and the need for non-police crisis response at Judi’s Room on September 4th

By MFI Office Staff | August 19, 2024

  Event Details Topic: When calling for help gets you killed — part two Date: Wednesday, September 4th, 2024 Time: 3 PM Pacific | 4 PM Mountain | 5 PM Central | 6 PM Eastern & Atlantic | 6 AM Eastern Australia | 7 PM Brazil | 11 PM UK Platform: Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82375518189  …

Judi’s Room to discuss the topic of assisted suicide on August 7th

By MFI Office Staff | August 2, 2024

Event Details Topic: If assisted suicide is legal, what will our healthcare be like? Date: Wednesday, August 7, 2024 Time: 3 PM Pacific | 4 PM Mountain | 5 PM Central | 6 PM Eastern & Atlantic | 6 AM Eastern Australia | 7 PM Brazil | 11 PM UK Platform: Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82375518189  …

June 5th Judi’s Room–PAIMI Advisory Councils: Sleeping 800-Pound Gorillas?

By Jim Gottstein | June 5, 2024

Event Details • Date: Wednesday, June 5th, 2024 • Time: 6 PM Eastern • Platform: Zoom • Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82375518189   About the Conversation The federal Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI) Act was enacted in the United States to ensure, among other things, that “the rights of individuals with mental illness are…

Judi’s Room resumes for another year!

By Sarah Smith | January 24, 2024

Join us for the first Judi’s Room of 2024 Detroit Peer Respite and the Kiva Centers, Different Models with the Same End: Centering People with Lived Experience to Support Individuals in Distress Wednesday, February 7, 2024 at 3 PM PST Registration is required. Despite experiencing recent reductions in staff, MindFreedom International will continue to host…

Image is a color rendition of Judi Chamberlin by Board Member Vesper Moore. They depicted Judi wearing a seventies era striped turtleneck, with large flowing brown wavy hair, white skin, and large black rimmed glasses

Jim Gottstein on “Reinventing Mental Health From Current System of Drugging Millions Indefinitely to Giving People Hope through People, Place, and Purpose

By Sarah Smith | September 11, 2023

— Join us for Judi’s Room — Featuring Special Guest Jim Gottstein* “Reinventing the Mental Health System from a Pipeline Drugging Millions Indefinitely to Giving People Hope Through People, Place, and Purpose” Wednesday, October 4, 2023 3:00 PM Pacific 4:00 PM Mountain 5:00 PM Central 6:00 PM Eastern 6 AM Eastern Australia, 12 PM Hawaii,…

Assisted Suicide: Topic of Next Judi’s Room on Wednesday, July 6 at 6 PM Eastern

By Sarah Smith | June 29, 2022

About the Topic What are the implications of granting the right to use suicide as healthcare to people with psychiatric diagnoses, ineffective healthcare, perceived disabilities, and undiagnosed medical problems? How does the conversation change when death becomes an approved outcome of healthcare?   About the Speakers Anita Cameron (she/her) began working as Not Dead Yet‘s…