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Colin
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Sent: 25 August 2011 21:13
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Subject: US fed web vote mental health deadline 8/26 tomorrow midnight ET
MindFreedom International URGENT ALERT
25 Years Winning Human Rights in Mental Health
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Your Deadline to Say "NO!" to Forced Psychiatric Drugs:
TOMORROW, Friday, 26 August 2011 at MIDNIGHT ET
US Federal Government Invites Your "Online Vote" on Mental Health
In seconds on web, you can defeat push for forced drugging.
People who want to forcibly drug those of us with psychiatric labels
are at it again.
But you can peacefully beat their "idea" with a click, if you act soon.
The huge federal mental health agency SAMHSA is holding another couple
of "online voting forums," this time about "recovery" in mental health.
Those pushing forced psychiatric drugs jumped in, and threaten to get
the top votes.
You can join a viral grassroots effort to deny them a win. Again!
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HOW TO FIGHT BACK -- IN SECONDS!
At this moment, an "idea" to support the forced-psychiatry agenda of
the extremist group Treatment Advocacy Center ("Anosognosia and Real
Reform") is winning.
Click to win in the "Guiding Principles of Recovery Forum"!
Act quickly! The deadline is 12:00 Midnight Eastern Time, tomorrow,
Friday, 26 August 2011.
EASY ACTION -- IF YOU DO ONE THING, THIS IS IT:
The feds give you ten (10) "votes" for each of two "Forums."
You can use up to three (3) votes for each "idea" in the two Forums.
Give your first three "votes" to the competing idea, "Nothing About Us
Without Us!" that supports human rights, self-determination and choice
in mental health!
JUST CLICK HERE, then click "VOTE":
http://bit.ly/recover-principle
or use this link:
http://feedback.samhsa.gov/forums/130013-guiding-principles-of-recovery/suggestions/2203215-nothing-about-us-without-us-
IMPORTANT NOTE: Be sure to register while you're there, and reply to
an automatic confirming email, to have your vote count at the end.
(You can ignore a "Gravatar" option, a feature in the system feds use.)
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ADDITIONAL ACTIONS -- IN JUST A FEW MORE SECONDS!
1) MORE ABOUT "GUIDING PRINCIPLES OF RECOVERY FORUM":
http://feedback.samhsa.gov/forums/130013-guiding-principles-of-recovery
Just below the proposed principles you can track who is winning by
clicking the word "top":
You can use your other seven (7) votes -- three at a time -- and/or
start your own "idea."
2) THE OTHER FORUM: "DEFINITION OF RECOVERY"
For a while, opponents of human rights again had top "votes" for a
"definition" that would take away our human rights.
That hate-speech looks squashed, but if you want to give three "votes"
to the competing "definition" that did the squashing, it's here:
http://bit.ly/recover-define
or use this link:
http://feedback.samhsa.gov/forums/129063-definition-of-recovery/suggestions/2176267-self-determination-empowerment-and-hope-are-vita?ref=title
For more about the "Definition" forum, go here:
http://feedback.samhsa.gov/forums/129063-definition-of-recovery
Again, there you can read the proposed definition, and click on "top"
just below to see who is winning.
You can use your other seven (7) votes -- three at a time -- and/or
start your own "idea."
3) COMMENT!
On any of the "ideas" in either of the two forums, you can make a
comment.
NOTE: You can even still add a comment on the "closed" forums listed
on the right!
To read how MindFreedom joined with many other groups to help win
those "votes" back in October 2010, click here:
http://www.mindfreedom.org/shield/samhsa-initiative
MindFreedom called for support for a "Bastille Day 2010" statement
about undue influence of pharmaceutical industry, which you can read
here:
http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/psychiatric-drugs/bastille-2010
In your COMMENTS you can ask exactly what SAMHSA is doing about this.
Even if you are 100 percent hopeless that SAMHSA will ever change,
BREAKING THE SILENCE TOGETHER is a legitimate win... and you can do
this with hundreds of others in seconds on SAMHSA's own official
public web forums. Thank you.
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ACTION: Please forward this news to all interested people who support
human rights in mental health.
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