MindFreedom International News - July 2007
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Mad Pride '07 is well underway!
by Krista Erickson, chair, MFI Mad Pride Chair
July is Mad Pride month! Join in! Celebrate the right to be different
and the psychiatric survivor movement.
A link to a complete, updated listing of Mad Pride 2007 events known
to us is online at:
www.mindfreedom.org/campaign
A few highlights of events include:
-- BonkersFest was celebrated in June in England with Mad Pride
events planned from now until early October. A cannon launch of
bananas kicked off Mad Pride 2007 at this popular music event! See
the photo.
-- The Great Escape Bed Push. For the third year, activists in
England will symbolically escape psychiatric institutions, dressed in
pajamas and 'hot tail' it with a psychiatric bed to a place of safety
and celebration while raising awareness about the over-use of forced
treatments in mental health services and the need for holistic choice
based services.
-- This year the Great Escape Bed Push goes international with bed
pushes scheduled in Canada and the US to celebrate Mad Pride. Next
year? How about your home town?
-- The first-ever Mad Pride parade in Belgium.
-- Another great street march and ot
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