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> Subject: News: New Task Force on Mental Health Legal Advocacy & Activism
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> NEWS RELEASE - 4 March 2008 - PsychRights - MindFreedom
> Media contacts: Daniel Hazen - 315-528-3385 [log in to unmask]
> Krista Erickson - 541-345-9106 [log in to unmask]
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> More info & download PDF of news release:
> http://www.mindfreedom.org/shield/psychrights
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> "Forcing Psychiatric Drugs Can Increase Violence," Warns
> New Task Force on Mental Health Legal Advocacy & Activism
>
> Promising to fight what they call pervasive and harmful violations of
> mental health clients who are involuntarily drugged and
> electroshocked in the United States, The Law Project for Psychiatric
> Rights (PsychRights) and the MindFreedom Shield Campaign announced
> today a joint Task Force on Mental Health Legal Advocacy & Activism.
> The new partnership of law and nonviolent direct action has an
> initial focus in the states of California, Massachusetts and New York.
>
> PsychRights' President Jim Gottstein declared, "People's rights in
> forced drugging proceedings are ignored as a matter of course,
> resulting in great harm to them and decreased public safety." David
> Oaks, Director of MindFreedom International (MFI), noted, "Violence
> by a few individuals labeled 'mentally ill' has led to a backlash
> calling for a massive increase in forced psychiatric drugging."
>
> Mr. Gottstein added, "Contrary to public perception, forcing people
> to take psychiatric drugs can often increase violence, rather than
> decrease it. If people were warned that both taking and withdrawing
> from these drugs can at times contribute to committing terrible acts,
> they and their loved ones can be alert to the possibility and
> tragedies averted."
>
> Krista Erickson, MFI board member and Chair of the MFI Shield
> Campaign, said, "I'm excited about MFI and PsychRights expanding our
> partnership and focusing the combined power of legal advocacy and
> activism on specific cases." The MFI Shield Campaign supports the
> wishes of a member to be free of involuntary mental health
> intervention with an international "Solidarity Network" of advocates.
> The new Task Force plans to use both the court of law and the court
> of public opinion.
>
> Task Force organizers say the combination of PsychRights' expertise
> for strategic litigation and the "people power" of MindFreedom
> activists around the country will bring a synergy and geographic
> reach to their demands for people’s legal and human rights. Daniel
> Hazen, Northeast Coordinator with PsychRights, added, "In the United
> States the 'mental health' industry is a labeling system that often
> dismisses self- determination, legal capacity and alternatives.
> 'Treatment' can be forced through the court systems. People ought to
> 'have their day in court' but this is often far from what actually
> occurs."
>
> MFI is an independent nonprofit coalition defending human rights and
> promoting humane alternatives in mental health. The Law Project for
> Psychiatric Rights is a public interest law firm devoted to the
> defense of people facing what they call the "horrors of unwarranted
> forced psychiatric drugging and other forced psychiatric procedures."
> PsychRights office is in Anchorage, Alaska: http://
> www.psychrights.org. The MFI office is in Eugene, Oregon: http://
> www.mindfreedom.org
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> ACTION:
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> Please forward this to all appropriate places on & off Internet.
>
> Download PDF of News Release, photocopy & distribute, click here:
> http://www.mindfreedom.org/shield/psychrights
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> Sign up for MFI Shield, and see list of public participants:
> http://www.mindfreedom.org/shield
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> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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