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Mother's Day Protest of Electroshock
| What | Meeting |
|---|---|
| When |
2007-05-13 from 04:00 to 06:00 |
| Where | Toronto, Montreal & Ireland |
| Contact Name | Don Weitz |
| Contact Email | sdiamond@oise.utoronto.ca |
| Contact Phone | 416-545-0796 |
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MindFreedom endorses this important protest in Toronto, Canada of forced electroshock.
Mother's Day protests of electroshock are now planned in Montreal, Toronto and Ireland.
The below event is in Queen's Park; Toronto, Canada.
From Bonnie Burstow at bburstow@oise.utoronto.ca:
Join us for an anti-shock Mother’s Day event in Toronto Canada
May 13, 2007 from 2 to 4 pm in front of Queen’s Park
(march begins at the Clarke Institute, 250 College Street at 1:15 pm)
The Gentleman’s way to beat up a woman -Ollie May Bozarth (1976)
- Electroshock is touted as the treatment of choice for post-partum depression
- Women receive electroshock 2-3 times as much as men
- Elderly women are the greatest risk of electroshock- 52% of electroshock treatments are given to women over 60
Proudly Sponsored by: CAPA (Coalition Against Psychiatric Assault); Sistering; and The Centre for Women and Trans People at York University
Proudly Endorsed by: Ontario Coalition Against Poverty; The Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/ Multicultural Women Against Rape; Lunatic Liberation Front; Mind Freedom International; School for Disability Studies at Ryerson University; Greenspiration; Resistance Against Psychiatry; The Centre for Women’s Studies in Education at OISE/UT; The Transformative Leaning Centre at OISE/UT; Friendly Spike Theatre Band; Canadian Alliance for Rights in Health Care; Parkdale Community Legal Services; Street Health;The Edmund Yu Project; Street Health; and Mad Students Guerillas; Women’s Counselling Referral and Education Centre; Action Autonomie; Call Us Crazy; York University Access Centre; Toronto Disaster Relief Committee; Ithaca Mental Patients Advocacy Coalition; Assaulted Women and Children Counsellor Advocate Program, George Brown College.
For more information or to get involved call Don Weitz 416-545-0796 or email Shaindl Diamond at sdiamond@oise.utoronto.ca.
BYOB (Bring Your Own Baby) BYOMAG (Bring Your Own Mother and Grandmother)
