Mad Pride 2006 Celebrations
Exactly,nobody really knows the Power of the Mind..
People have two eyes ,i believe there are three .The Third
eye is called the "Mind eye" ...that can see all things.
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two people A & B were having a chat in the garden.
A told B to go for therapy and B replies,A you need
to go for therapy ...Understood..
Meaning,the people who are responsible for making
others go for therapy should go for therapy first...
eg Consider Us soldiers.
They were perfectly normal people put in situations
or conditions ,now some of them have to go for therapy.
Iam sure if i imagine myself in the boots of a soldier,
anyone would behave like that.
A told B indirectly B was mad and had to go for therapy
while B point of view is that people who MAKE perfectly normal people mad should go for therapy first,.......this is a very imporant point
while fighting legal cases.
So there is a difference between Crazy,mad,eccentric
and genious...along the line.
Hi,
I wrote a website about my forced psychiatric care experience. It was Fresno County U.S GOVERNMENT that did it to me. I was perfectly fine and had just complained in a reasonable non-volatile way about how a juvenile was neglected. He was brought in (according to him) by the police and could not get up do to police abuse and I asked for his epilepsy medications for him as he could not himself do to injuries. I asked and asked for his meds for him and he ended up have a grand mal seizure hitting his head on the chair. I asked for 30-45 minutes.
I complained to an employee and got his card, shortly after, like 20 minutes I was threatened by a doctor that never saw before to take meds or be confined and given a shot.
The day after as I was just there because my apartment had problems, I saw a county worker forcefully put a disabled person into confinement. He was a Hispanic developmentally disabled individual who was clapping at me and I was tapping on the table, we were talking. For socializing he was placed in confined isolation by force.
A superior court judge released me from that place. Shortly after because of the things they did to me, my parents moved me out of that city and county. I was dependent upon the social service system that threw me into that place because my apartment was leaking and I asked them to talk to my apartment manager, instead I was taken against my will into a locked facility.
http://www.nathanyoung.net
I wrote a book on NathanYoung.net called Turning In Big Brother about what went through my mind, what I witnessed and experienced.
In America, I’d expect better, now I’m speaking out and it’s costing me $100+ a month to put ads on Google and yahoo embarrassing the county government when people look up government services and departments in the county government there.
Nathan Young
American Advocate
The Great Escape Back to Bedlam
Bed Push Brighton Londoon
and
London Mad Hetters Tea
7th- 10th of August
For more information go to: http://www.kissit.org To contact us email: kissitxxcampaign@aol.com
Like the policies of the government and most psychiatric hospitals...We are going back to Bedlam!
The Great Escape bed push aims to raise awareness about the poor levels of choice of treatments and the widespread use of force used in the psychiatric hospitals. The Great Escape Bed Push Team believe in its current state psychiatric care often makes people's problems worse and that the use of unnecessary force is on the increase. Many of the campaigners have been in-patients who have witnessed and experienced the use of forced drug treatment. They are joined by nurses and others concerned by the emphasis on control in psychiatry and the lack of therapeutic activities.
The crazy bed pushers will give out wanted posters and dodgy pills (sweets) to members of the public and proclaim 'Psychiatry is off its trolley!' At various points of the journey the escapees and the public will have to look out for the giant 6 foot syringe squirting water at them.
The bed push will end at Geraldine Harmsworth Park, London at 3pm on 10th of August. The bed pushers will join a 'Mad hatters Tea Party'(see HERE)
A petition will also be presented to 10 Downing
Street protesting about the over use of force in psychiatry (e.g. forced drugging, forced ECT, psychosurgery and brainwashing).
Campaigners would like more meaningful activities in hospitals, access to alternative therapies, more accountability about levels of force used in psychiatry and more alternatives to hospital admission
provided (e.g. crisis houses).
Psychiatry has a shameful history and deplorably it has carried many aspects of its past in to the present. Psychiatric treatment is often more akin to state sanctioned torture than to compassionate and
sensitive care......Incarceration, physical force, forced drugging, compulsory electric shock treatment, pain compliance techniques, psychosurgery and brain washing.........
The Mental Health System is in urgent need of radical reform. We demand an Immediate End to Psychiatric Assault.
This year, extensive Mad Pride events are taking place in Toronto Canada, Ghana, England, Ireland and the USA among other nations. Celebrations of Mad Pride are planned from now until September 17, 2006!
Mad Pride celebrates the creativity, strength and resilience of the human spirit. Mad Pride provides an opportunity to empower psychiatric survivors and raise public consciousness about human rights through various activities such as art, theatre, music, poetry, protests, vigils and more. All are welcome.
For information about past Mad Pride events, frequently asked questions about Mad Pride, ideas for how to have your own Mad Pride celebration and updates on current Mad Pride events visit:
http://tinyurl.com/n7784
FROM Mad Pride Event GHANA, AFRICA
MARCH FOR RIGHTS OF THE MENTALLY ILL
A petition outlining our rebuke in the mental health delivery system will be submitted to the Minister of Health. We'll later converge at the main parade grounds in town where speeches will be delivered.
Do join us in spirit by calling (Tel: +233 277 421 207) in to feel the atmosphere and talking to some of the marchers.
July 13, 2006
March for the cause of the mentally ill in Ghana. The march will start at 1000GMT i.e 10.00am in Ghana and end at 1200GMT i.e 12noon. The route is about 3 kilometres long.
FROM VANCOUVER, CANADA
WORLD MAD PRIDE HUMAN RIGHTS + PSYCHIATRY ARTS FESTIVAL!
Mad Pride is a growing international movement which asks the question: Could madness be a sane response to an insane world?
World Mad Pride Vision
FROM IRELAND
MindFreedom Ireland will organise a petition gathering event in Cork City in support of the campaign being run by Nuria O'Mahony , Holistic Action Group, entitled "WE DESERVE TO KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT OUR PRESCRIPTION DRUGS'.
Mad Pride Party in Leeds, Yorkshire at the Commonplace Centre
July 14:
July 16:
There will be a party with the title 'Madness Is The Strategy'. This is to coincide with the launch of a 'Mental Health Strategy' for Leeds. We'll be having poetry, music, food and film - the first public showing of the film of An Untimely Death On Paschendale Ward as performed by the Orphans of Beulah.
FROM ENGLAND
For the second year, psychiatric survivors and allies in England will be celebrating Mad Pride by conducting a "Bed Push." They will start in Brighton, UK and in pajamas push a bed with a manequin tied down in it in "restraints" for 50 miles over five days. The Mad Pride Bed Push 2006 will end up at the ex-site for infamous Bedlam psychiatric institution where all are invited to a "mad hatters' tea party." For more information and photos of Bed Push 2005 see: 
http://www.kissit.org
August 6 to 10, 2006
USA - IN THE UNITED NATIONS, New York City
MindFreedom's United Nations delegation, led by Celia Brown, will be participating for a third year inside the UN in the continuing international negotiations surrounding a proposed treaty on the rights of people with disabilities, especially focused on trying to keep language in favor of forced treatment out of the document.
You are urged to call on the USA and other nations to support strong human rights proposals in this effort, which is formally entitled the "Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities." This is the fifth year that MindFreedom.org is the only group of its kind with United Nations accreditation as a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) with Consultative Roster Status. For more information see this UN web site:
http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/rights/ahc8.htm
August 14 to 25, 2006
FROM NEW YORK STATE
MENTAL PATIENTS TO SET UP TEMPORARY ASYLUM ON STATE CAPITOL LAWN TO FOCUS ON CHILDREN'S ISSUES
A group of people who have been labeled mentally ill is camping out on the East Lawn of the State Capitol Building in downtown Albany, New York from 7:00 PM Saturday, July 8 to 7:00 PM Sunday, July 16, 2006. For the first time, this 26th annual demonstration will focus on the concerns of young people.
Activities will include a vigil, memorials, round table discussions, teach-ins, guest speakers. Support (or participate in) a FAST to oppose the use of shock treatment on children in New York State.
This event marks the 26th Annual Bastille Day Celebration/ Demonstration of the Mental Patients Liberation Alliance.
For more information contact: George Ebert (315) 947-5888 or Email: bastilledays06@yahoo.com
There is a petition you can sign at Petition Spot calling for a ban on electro convulsive treatment (ECT) on children for both public and private practitioners.
http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/stopshock
FROM CHICAGO
In the spirit of the 2006 Parade Theme,"Celebrating Disability Arts and Culture," join parade participants, organizers, friends and supporters on the eve of the parade for an informal evening of poetry, rap, music, stories and essays. Friday, July 21 from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
An Open Mic Night
The University of Illinois at Chicago
1640 West Roosevelt Road, Auditorium
For more information, contact Gary at:
garnold@accessliving.org
or 312-253-7000 ext 199 (voice), or 312-253-7002 (tty).
Saturday, July 22, 2006
DISABLED AND PROUD 2006:
Celebrating Disability Arts and Culture
Join the MindFreedom Mad Pride contingent as we march in the Third Annual Disability Pride Parade. This year, the Parade will have a highly visible, prominent route through Chicago's loop ending in Daley Plaza with a post-parade celebration. Since its inception in 2004, the internationally recognized Disability Pride Parade has actively engaged in its mission of
For information about the Disability Pride Parade see:
http://www.disabilityprideparade.com
For information on Disability Pride see:
www.disabledandproud.com
FROM OHIO
Long-time psychiatric survivor activist PAT RISSER of Ohio, USA has published a new essay today on his web site about the importance of Mad Pride in his personal recovery from the harm of psychiatric labeling and segregation. Pat calls on people to support Mad Pride, and is joining the Mad Pride International Coordinating Committee. See his essay here:
http://home.att.net/~LetFreedomRing/updates/MadPride.html
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FROM TORONTO, CANADA
Friday, July 14, 2006 has been proclaimed Psychiatric Survivor Pride Day in the City of Toronto. To celebrate we are coordinating The Mad Pride 2006 Weekend September 14th to 17th 2006.
West (accessible from St. George Subway). Presented by Erick Fabris.
An open stage will be offered to writers of every ilk whose work uses experiences of psychiatric survivors, and or madness. Featuring Mel Starkman - Hope For Change, Lorretta Clark - 3 Rivers of Blood and Destiny, and Caroline Fei-Yeng Kwok - The Tormented Mind, and many more!.
For more information contact Ruth Ruth at Friendly Spike Theater at (416) 516-4740 or by e-mail at friendlyspike@primus.ca
www.friendlyspike.ca
Friendly Spike Theatre Band is a Sponsor Group of MindFreedom International.
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For a MAD MARKET of books and other products to support human rights campaigns in mental health: http://www.madmarket.org