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These documents explore the intersection between the disability movement and the movement to change the mental health system.

MFI Ashley Alert: Nine-year-old given injections to stunt growth by David W. Oaks — last modified 2007-01-13 22:45
MindFreedom joins other disability rights group in speaking out to oppose how nine-year-old Ashley, who has intellectual and physical disabilities, is being given drugs to minimize her height and weight.
The link between the "mad movement" and the cross-disability movement is crucial. by David W. Oaks — last modified 2009-01-19 02:22
The psychiatric survivor/mental health consumer movement -- also known as 'mad movement' -- accelerated in the early 1970's at about the same time as the general cross-disability movement that addresses concerns of all people who end up with some type of disability label.

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Mary Ann Ebert - New York State Activist

Mary Ann Ebert of Mental Patients Liberation Alliance of Syracuse helped found MindFreedom International's Support Coalition and provided early technical assistance to get it off the ground. Mary Ann has worked for decades to support human rights and alternatives of people in the mental health system. (Photo by Tom Olin.)
 

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