Events which have already happened.

MFI Web Radio Show Guests: Ann Rider & Debbie Plotnick (Global: Free on World Wide Web, from Jan 14, 2012 11:00 AM to Jan 14, 2012 12:00 PM)

Why protest the American Psychiatric Association? This Saturday, 14 January. 2012, tune in live from wherever you are to hear special guests invite you to peaceful protest the American Psychiatric Association. Boycott normal! Host is David Oaks, MFI director. With your live calls from everywhere in the world. 2 PM ET, 11 AM PT, 90 minutes.

Opal Hour 5 January 2012 (Eugene, Oregon, from Jan 05, 2012 05:00 PM to Jan 05, 2012 06:30 PM)

The Opal Hour is an opportunity to network and hear news to support your activism for change in mental health.

Your deadline for submitting to MindFreedom Journal (from Dec 31, 2011 11:00 PM to Dec 31, 2011 11:55 PM)

Submission deadline for next MindFreedom Journal has been extended. Submit your news items, photos, poetry, articles, letters.

Celebrate 25 Years of MFI United Independent Activism! (MFI Office, 454 Willamette, Eugene, OR, from Dec 22, 2011 05:00 PM to Dec 22, 2011 07:00 PM)

Twenty-five years ago, 22 December 1986, the project that became MindFreedom International was incorporated! You are encouraged to help celebrate wherever you are. Those in Oregon are invited to an MFI open house.

MF showing free film about hearing voices: “Knowing You, Knowing You.” (Eugene Public Library, Eugene, Oregon, from Dec 13, 2011 07:00 PM to Dec 13, 2011 08:30 PM)

See a new film, free, about how an individual who heard distressing voices found humane forms of help outside of the conventional mental health system. MindFreedom Lane County affiliate, Opal Network and OCSC co-sponsor this free film showing.

Intl Day of Persons With Disabilities & Human Rights Day (777 United Nations Plaza, NYC, from Dec 08, 2011 02:00 PM to Dec 08, 2011 04:00 PM)

BELOW is a forwarded invitation from NGO Committee on Mental Health to attend a panel discussion in NEW YORK CITY on 8 December 2011. Topic: “Celebrating the International Day of Persons with Disabilities and Human Right Day.” MindFreedom International president and UN team chair CELIA BROWN will be moderator.

Erick Fabris Talk in Eugene (Room 110, Knight Law School, University of Oregon, 1515 Agate St., from Nov 12, 2011 02:00 PM to Nov 12, 2011 03:30 PM)

It is with great please that MindFreedom welcomes Erick Fabris, ethnographer, author, psychiatric survivor, and mad activist. Erick Fabris joins us in Eugene, Oregon to speak on community treatment orders, psychiatric coercion, and “chemical incarceration.”

MFI Web Radio Show Guests: cj lince & Erick Fabris (Global: Free on World Wide Web, from Nov 12, 2011 11:00 AM to Nov 12, 2011 12:30 PM)

Occupy the Psychiatric Industry, this Saturday, 12 Nov. 2011, tune in live from wherever you are to hear two special guests: cj lince has launched a “People’s DSM” to fight back against psychiatric label. Author Erick Fabris exposes the new trend of forced psychiatric drugging of people living in their own homes. Host is David Oaks, MFI director. Plus with your live calls from everywhere in the world. 2 PM ET, 11 AM PT, 90 minutes.

Mental Health Recovery Conference in Toronto (Toronto, Canada, from Nov 03, 2011 12:00 AM to Nov 04, 2011 12:00 AM)

INTAR and The Leadership Project of Toronto co-sponsor this event. INTAR supports alternatives for mental health recovery, and is a sponsor group of MindFreedom International.

Deadline: MFI 25th Anniversary Support& Ally Feedback Survey (Web, from Oct 31, 2011 01:00 AM to Oct 31, 2011 12:55 PM)

This year is MindFreedom International’s 25th anniversary! We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for being a supporter and ally, as well as offer you an opportunity for input.

A Rally to Save the California Survivor/Consumer Movement (Culver City, California, from Oct 28, 2011 11:00 AM to Oct 28, 2011 02:00 PM)

David Oaks will be one of the speakers at this gathering to help support the movement led by mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors in California.

International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry Conference (Los Angeles, from Oct 28, 2011 08:00 AM to Oct 29, 2011 06:00 PM)

One of the main networks of dissident mental health professionals, psychiatrists, psychologists is ISEPP (formerly International Center for Study of Psychiatry and Psychology – ICSPP). ISEPP is a long-time sponsor organization of MindFreedom International. Many speakers are MFI members, including MFI director David Oaks.

Alternatives 2011 (Orlando, Florida, from Oct 26, 2011 12:00 PM to Oct 30, 2011 12:00 PM)

Each year the US government funds a conference that gathers hundreds of Americans who are mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors, many of whom are working with peer-run services.

‘Boycott Normal’ at Chamber of Commerce (1401 Willamette St., Eugene, Oregon, USA, from Oct 10, 2011 04:00 PM to Oct 10, 2011 05:30 PM)

The MindFreedom Mad Pride Theater Troupe invites you to be part of a Youtubed peaceful street theater in front of a Chamber of Commerce office. What is called “normal” is wrecking Earth’s environment, and the Chamber is one of the main entities blocking action on the Climate Crisis. Have fun asking, “Is it possible to be crazier than ‘normal’?”

Web Radio Show on “Boycott Normal: DSM & You” Campaign! (Global: Free on World Wide Web, from Oct 08, 2011 11:00 AM to Oct 08, 2011 12:30 PM)

Saturday, 8 Oct. 2011, tune in live from wherever you are to hear special guests about “Boycott Normal” Campaign. Host is David Oaks, psychiatric survivor director of MindFreedom International. Plus with your live calls from everywhere in the world. 2 PM ET, 11 AM PT, one hour.

“Boycott Normal” street theater prep: MF 1st Wednesday (MFI Office, 454 Willamette, Eugene, OR, from Oct 05, 2011 05:30 PM to Oct 05, 2011 07:30 PM)

Help prepare for a peaceful street theater with MindFreedom International, with the support of Katina Adoniadis. We’re launching Boycott Normal!

Free Webinar: Coalition Building 101: Mental Health Consumers & Psychiatric Survivors Find Common Ground with Each Other & Allies (Internet, from Sep 30, 2011 11:00 AM to Sep 30, 2011 12:30 PM)

This is a free webinar you can view either live now, or later via archive. Co-presenters are Nancy Snider and David Oaks, both of the board of directors of OCSC (Oregon Consumer/Survivor Coalition). David Oaks is also executive director of MindFreedom International. Nancy Snider directs Project Able.

National Association for Rights Protection & Advocacy 2011 Annual Meeting (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from Sep 07, 2011 04:00 PM to Sep 10, 2011 12:00 PM)

NARPA is a founding sponsor organization of MindFreedom International. This is an important annual gathering of advocates, attorneys and activists to change how people labeled with mental disabilities are treated.

International Conference – Searching for a Rose Garden. Fostering Real Alternatives to Psychiatry (Berlin, Germany, from Sep 02, 2011 12:00 AM to Sep 03, 2011 12:00 AM)

This conference is the highlight of the event series ‘’Survivor Control: The Rights and Self-help Opportunities of People with Psychiatric Experience” organized by the Berlin Association for Protection against Psychiatric Violence in 2011. While MFI is not an organizer of this important event, a number of members are presenting.

Opal Network Meeting on Jobs for Mental Health Peer Support (Eugene, Oregon Public Library, from Aug 30, 2011 02:00 PM to Aug 30, 2011 04:00 PM)

The quarterly Opal Network meeting will feature a special topic and panel: Jobs for Mental Health Peer Support. Panel: Gina & Bob Nikkel, and Laura Van Tosh.