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Human Rights! Know them, demand them, defend them!

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Teach In - Demonstration - 24 Hour Vigil

What
  • Meeting
When Jun 28, 2008 10:00 AM to
Jun 29, 2008 05:00 PM
Where East Lawn New York State Capitol Albany, NY, USA
Contact Name
Attendees All who support human rights are welcome.
Endorsers are: US Human Rights Network, American Friends Service Committee, StopMax Campaign, Black Bird Legal Collective, MindFreedom International, CCWP - Berkley CA, NYC Jericho, Tamas Year Ten, StopForce.
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Saturday:



  •   9:00 AM -  Kick-Off - 24 Hour Vigil & Demonstration Welcoming & Introductions
  • 10:00 AM  - Bell Ringing (Let the clamor against torture around the US Sound)
  • 11:00 AM -  Unity Reading of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  • Lunch on Own
  • 2:00 PM  On - Demonstration:  Please Bring Signs - Banners - Information (Poster Board/Markers will be available to create Posters)


Sunday:

  •   9:00 AM - Teach In on the Convention Against Torture (CAT)
  • 10:00 AM - Teach in on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
  • 11:00 AM - Teach in on the CEDAW - CRC - CERD
  • Lunch on Own
  •  2:00 PM  -  Closing Voices:  Call To Action


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Chuck Hughes is a psychiatric survivor activist from Santa Barbara, California.

"I find inspiration and mental support in MindFreedom," says Chuck. "I like associating with like-minded activists for human rights in mental health. When I go into a Board or Commission and say I am a member of MindFreedom International. It gives what I say a lot more validity and my voice carries a lot farther. My first of eight involuntarily institutionalizations was at age 23. I have witnessed much injustice in mental health. I have been involved with the user and survivor movement since 1992. My goal is to help stop forced outpatient psychiatric procedures, seclusion, restraints and other human rights violations, psychiatric abuse and torture. Of particular concern is the elimination of forced electroconvulsive treatment (ECT) on people of all ages."

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