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2008 Events

This folder contains Mad Pride event announcements and related material for 2008.

My Family Has Mad Pride Toronto (1)
Photo of Big Giant Pill in MindFreedom office Oregon (1)
Vancouver (0)
United Kingdom (0)
New York (0)
South Africa (0)
"You Are Not Alone" Image North Carolina (2)
Belgium (0)
Sweden (0)
New Zealand (0)
News Item Mad Pride 2008 Events in Seven Nations
Already, Mad Pride events are being planned in seven nations. Mad Pride celebrates the right of all human beings not to be "normal"! That means you! After a decade of activity, Mad Pride events are gaining altitude as never before. Join in or start Mad Pride 2008 events today -- large or small!
News Item Patch Adams, MD Agrees to be New Chair of the "IAACM"!
This day, 21 January 2008, is the official national holiday in the USA to celebrate the life of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., who would have turned 79 last week. Just moments ago, Patch Adams, MD phoned up MindFreedom International from his home in Virginia. Patch agreed to be the new chair of a dream MLK had that never came true: The IAACM. That's the International Association for the Advancement of Creative Maladjustment,
News Item Mad Pride 2008 updates
Here are a few of the upcoming anchor events for Mad Pride 2008. Mad Pride has celebrated human diversity and creative maladjustment for a decade, and now you can participate anywhere!
Article Mad pride giving voice to mentally ill
The global news wire service United Press International (UPI) picked up the New York Times story about the "mad pride" movement.
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Lauren Tenney, psychiatric survivor activist from New York State

First involuntarily institutionalized, at 15, Lauren Tenney is a survivor of psychiatry. She has been involved with the user and survivor movement since 1992. Her goal is to help stop forced psychiatric procedures, detainment, and confinement, human rights violations, psychiatric abuse and torture. Of particular concern are the elimination of forced electroconvulsive treatment (ECT) on people of all ages, but particularly children and senior citizens, forced drugging, restraints, seclusion, behavioral interventions, and coercion of any kind. Lauren, a Mad-Activist/ Artist/ Author/ Academic/ Adjunct Professor is coordinating The Opal Project, an outcome of participatory action research she coordinated for field research in the PhD program in Environmental Psychology at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her dissertation topic is: "The Institutionalized "Community." She became involved with WE THE PEOPLE when the Law Project for Psychiatric Rights and MindFreedom International needed someone on the ground in Brooklyn, New York to coordinate a response where Esmin Green was murdered-by-neglect. She now lives in Albany, NY with her service dog-in-training and cat. For more info: www.TheOpalProject.org and www.etrash.tv