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26 July 2011 • Portland, Oregon
Don't Forget the Community Organizing!
Winning Good Jobs for All Mental Health Consumers and
Psychiatric SurvivorsBy David W. Oaks
For Oregon Supported Employment Center for Excellence
David W. Oaks
Psychiatric survivor activist 35 years
Executive Director MindFreedom International 25 years
www.MindFreedom.org
Board member:Oregon Consumer/Survivor Coalition
United States International Council on Disability
MindFreedom Ghana
Learning from poor and developing countrie about employments: Role of Non Governmental Organizations and Community Organizing.
MindFreedom Ghana: Working with NGO's
Cross-Disability Organizing: MindFreedom Ghana Mad Pride
THANK YOU for supporting MindFreedom!
Turkish Consumer/Survivors
Concern about globalization of western psychiatric industry
Organizing in Pune, India.
Activist , survivor and counselor Bhargavi Davar, PhD
Mother power!
Role of allies such as family members in supporting major change in mental health system.
Al Galves, PhD, of New Mexico
Role of concerned psychologists:
New director of International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry (ISEPP).
Board member MFI.
Bonnie Burstow, PhD in Toronto
Role of professors:
What is history of 'mad' academia and 'mad' activism collaborating?
Geoffrey Reaume, PhD
Role of historians:
This is an activist and one of the founders of Psychiatric Survivor Archives of Toronto
PsychOut v. ECT in Toronto
Piers Gooding (Melbourne Australia)
Role of graduate students.
This intern started MindFreedom Academic Alliance
Sally Zinman: Long-time activist.
In a nutshell: What is psychiatric
survivor/mental health user movement, and how can anyone connect?
Community Organizing: Recycle!
Decide.
Win.
Act.
Grow
The 'gears' of people power.
Keep it Simple: Mutual Support Meets Community Organizing
Learn from other movements:
Nothing About Us Without Us!
South African Disability Movement Slogan
Olmstead Supreme Court victory
Winning national court decisions
USA example
Sue Jamieson (attorney)
Elaine Wilson (middle)
Lois Curtis (right)
Oregon Consumer/Survivor Coalition!
OCSC
State-wide VOICE for Oregon consumer/survivors
More "peer delivered specialists" in Oregon.
Infrastructure for major state-wide change.
United Nations binding treaty
Know your rights to social and
economic justice:
The UN Convention on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities in 2006
Drug ad: Maintainability?
Or creative maladjustment?
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Human salvation lies in the hands
of the creatively
maladjusted.
MLK on IAACM
It may well be that our world is in dire need
of a new organization:
"The International Association for the Advancement of
Creative Maladjustment."
Satyagraha = Truth Force
Science is finding that no one absolutely grips reality.
Science is finding the universe is more mysterious
than they ever thought.
Are You Proud to be "Maladjusted"?
What is generally called
"normal behavior"
Is related to:
Global climate catastrophe
Economic inequality
We Shall Overcome in Oslo, Norway
Judi Chamberlin
Last shock: 15 April 2009
Forced ECT in USA:
Ray Sandford of Minnesota
More than 40 outpatient forced electroshocks, escorted from home.
MFI helped. Now free.
Free: 24 May 2011
Forced ECT in USA:
Elizabeth Ellis of Minnesota
Had 13 forced electroshocks,
Including 1 outpatient.
For saying "no," back inside for more.
Global Emergency
Survivor of
Electroshock
In Accra
Psychiatric
Institution
In Ghana
Accra Psychiatric in Ghana
Loren Mosher and Soteria House
Robert Whitakerauthor of Anatomy of an Epidemic
Rae Unzicker & Justin Dart
http://www.mindfreedom.org
MindFreedom International
celebrates its 25th year for human rights
and humane alternatives in the
mental health system.
Independent. United. Activism.
Unite to Win
MindFreedom Vision:
Unite for a global nonviolent revolution in the mental health system
Unite to Win
A Few MindFreedom Campaigns:Shield: Alerts and Our Own Media
Global: UN, Handbook and Training
Choice: Alternatives for Mental Health
Mad Pride: Celebrate Our Diversity
Coalition: Affiliates and Sponsors
Electroshock & Human Rights Initiative
Patch Adams & Gesundheidt
Warning:
Red Rubber Nose!
Irish Mad Pride
Irish Mad Pride
MLK and You are in IAACM
What is your leadership role, globally and
locally, in: "The International
Association for the Advancement of
Creative Maladjustment."
David W. Oaks
psychiatric survivor and executive director of
MindFreedom International
www.MindFreedom.org
[email protected]: 541-345-9106
Toll free: 1-877-Mad-Prid