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Mad Pride Asheville 2008

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Announcement for an upcoming festival in Asheville, North Carolina, USA.

What
  • Social Event
  • mad-pride
When Jul 19, 2008
from 02:00 PM to 06:00 PM
Where City-County Park, Asheville, NC, USA
Contact Name
Contact Phone (828) 299-4434
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Saturday, July 19, 1-5 pm

City-County Park    Mad Pride Figure



What is Mad Pride?
Mad Pride counteracts some of the discrimination and prejudice often shown towards people who have experienced mental distress and difference by promoting the economic, political, social, and cultural integration of users/survivors of psychiatry into the larger society. Mad Pride celebrates the creativity, strength and resilience of the human spirit. Mad Pride empowers psychiatric survivors and raises public consciousness through various activities such as art, theatre, music, poetry, protests, vigils and more.

MadPride Asheville is part of a 9-nation disorganization of similar festivals, featuring week-long  festivals in London and Toronto and others in Portland OR, Montreal, and various other cities in the US, Canada, Belgium, England, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Ghana.

MadPride Asheville is an individually-organized event.  It is nominally co-sponsored by MindFreedom International, Asheville Homeless Network, Asheville Radical Mental Health Collective, and the International Association for the Advancement of Creative Maladjustment.  Membership in any of these organizations is not required – membership in the human race is, and all diagnosis-labelled individuals as well as their friends, families and supporters are invited.

We would like to build this into a larger festival in subsequent years.  If you can't be weird in Asheville, then where?  Contact Moss Bliss and his incredible answering machine at (828) 299-4434 if you'd like to be involved in planning future events.  This year, all you need to do is ATTEND!





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Samantha Johnson, psychiatric survivor, MFI intern

Samantha Johnson is a 22-year-old psychiatric survivor who is interning at the MindFreedom International office. "I was absolutely in disbelief at how the people were treated at the hospital. It was an environment of emotional abuse interspersed with 'treatments' and 'policies' that could be more accurately described as assault. The tragic thing is that there really are some good people working there, but they are unable to provide people with the help they need inside a system that prioritizes profits over people. It might take five years of counseling for someone to truly recover from a mental health crisis, but it takes five minutes to tranquilize them. This is why I started working with MindFreedom. For 25 years MFI has been challenging the mental health system to see us as human beings- to treat us as human beings- through peaceful activism. At MFI we emphasize individual choice, empowerment, and compassion as necessary aspects of a true healing process."

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