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Recommendation by City Club of Eugene for David W. Oaks Keynote Presentation

Jerry Diethelm, President of the City Club of Eugene, thanks David Oaks for being on a keynote panel with TC Dumas and Ron Unger, in Eugene, Oregon, on 15 January 2010, Martin Luther King's 81st birthday. Their panel linked up organizing for human rights in mental health, with the inspiration of the Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement.


I want to thank you again for your fine presentation at City Club on "Voice, Choice and Human Rights in Mental Health Care."

I've received many compliments on the program from City Club members. They appreciated the Civil Rights Movement and Martin Luther King Jr. setting you provided and then the way you humanized that overview with your remarkable stories.

It was an effective and powerful connection and I want to wish you and your organization every success.

                    Sincerely,

                    Jerry Diethelm, President
                    City Club of Eugene



To read about this speech, and hear it via YouTube or online radio, click here.

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Leah Harris, a second generation psychiatric survivor, discovered MindFreedom in 2000 when she was 25 years old. Her first act in the mad movement was to tell her story of oppression and resistance, and to help edit stories for MindFreedom's Oral History Project. Since then, she has been working in various ways to help achieve the vision of MindFreedom: an end to all forms of psychiatric oppression, healing of all forms of "normality," and the creation of vibrant, colorful communities that honor and celebrate diversity, difference, and the full range of human experience.