Interesting notes about activism which may affect
some of our members who fall into the psychiatric
traps set for us:

URGENT - MindFreedom News - 6 June 2007
http://www.mindfreedom.org - please forward

Live *TODAY* from Dresden, Germany:

MindFreedom Internet Radio Reports Live on Psychiatric Survivors 

Speaking Out Inside and Outside World Psychiatric Association
Meeting  in Germany

Today is a special live edition of MindFreedom Internet Radio.
Host  David Oaks reports live from Dresden, Germany after both
protesting  and attending the first day of the three-day World
Psychiatric  Association special conference on coercion in
psychiatry.

You may listen and phone in to this Internet radio show LIVE
today  Wednesday, 6 June at 4 pm ET at http://prncomm.net.

Psychiatric survivors from several human rights groups have
gained  admission to this World Psychiatric Association, and are
speaking up  in symposia, exhibit table, and keynotes, Plus,
there are protests  outside.

A number of psychiatric survivor groups have relased a united 
statement with a vision for the end of coercion in psychiatry.
You  may read and download the special "Declaration of Dresden
Against  Coerced Psychiatric Treatment" by going here:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/mental-health-global/wpa-dresden/

Host David Oaks will report on happenings here in Dresden,
including  on some of the psychiatric survivor activists who are
here such as  Jim & Mary Maddock, Peter Lehmann, Mary Nettle,
Judi Chamberlin and  more. "Nothing About Us Without Us!"

This is radio for a nonviolent revolution in the mental health
system.

If you miss the live show this Wednesday at 4 pm ET at http://
prncomm.net/, the MindFreedom News Hour is once more being
archived  by Progressive Radio Network on an all new web site.
Recent shows can  be found here:

http://oaks.progressiveradionetwork.org/

If you listen LIVE to the MindFreedom News Hour jot down the 
toll
 free call-in number for the USA or the special call-in number
for  outside the USA as it is given during the show. Please keep
trying,  sometimes it takes more than once to get through.

You may e-mail at any time before or during the show to  
radio@mindfreedom.org and your comment or question may be read 
on
the  air.

More info:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/media/mfradio/next

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And this just in on MindFreedom Web Site!

Live from London, England:

You can see LIVE photo coverage of the launch of Bonkersfest
2007!  That's right, catch a photo by Peter Lindley of the 
cannon
launch.  Organizers of this popular outdoor music, arts, 
cultural
festival to  promote psychiatric survivors start their
"Bonkersfest" with a cannon  that launches bananas. Check it out
at:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/madpride/bonkersfest-2007

It's all part of Mad Pride 2007, for a list of this year's known 

events go here:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/madpride

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All this and lots more that's new at the MindFreedom News Web
Site:

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