Campaign To End Mental Health Screenings In MA
The Freedom Center has initiated a campaign to end mental health screenings in MA to contribute to the nation-wide movement of opposition to screening programs.Campaign Overviewread more
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End Discrimination At Meditation Retreat
You can also fill out this as an email and send it from the CitizenSpeak website.Read the article in Turning Wheel: A Journal of Engaged Buddhism about this issue.read more
View ArticleVirgina Tech Tragedy Info + Resources
Info on the Virgina Tech mass killing and implications for mental health policy can be found on the Mindfreedom website Info Center page.
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FC Joins SHaRC to Oppose Prison Mental Health Units
Freedom Center is a member of SHaRC, the Statewide Harm ReductionCoalition, and we join in opposing the proposed creation of new mentalhealth treatment units in MA prisons. Read the testimony before...
View ArticleCongressional Bill to End Funding for Mental Health Screenings
Below is important info about HR 2387 - which would end federal funding for mental health screenings. read more
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Buddhist Magazine Publishes on Retreat Discrimination
Download scanned version here. Freedom To Sit: Welcoming People Labeled with Psychiatric Disabilities at Buddhist Retreats by Will HallTurning Wheel: A Journal of Socially Engaged Buddhism, Publication...
View ArticleBoston Forum on PCA Issues June 26
Please come advocate for mental health personal care attendants: read more
View ArticleThe Shocking Facts - Why Opponents Call for A Ban on ECT
by Marian B. GoldsteinLeonard Roy Frank is a survivor and activist. One of the most prominent personalities in the movement against ECT. He has been exposed to ECT-treatment himself, he has written a...
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Get Involved With Our Spring Speakout w/ Leah Harris!
Freedom Center is organizing a spring Speak Out and we want your help! Join slam poet and mental health activist Leah Harris from DC, Caty Simon, Lee Hurter and others. We need speakers and volunteers...
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Join The Community Power Kickoff - DATE CHANGE March 28th
Freedom Center organizer Caty Simon is attending the Community Activation Network's Community Power Kickoff to represent us and would like other Freedom Center members & people interested in the...
View ArticleFreedom Center and USNUSP collaborate on "Human Rights for ALL" Tour
I'm Leah Harris, co-coordinator of the U.S. Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (USNUSP), a newly-formed network seeking to use the language, framework, and principles of international human...
View ArticleFreedom Center, Arise for Social Justice, OutNow Question PostPartum...
Dear MotherWoman,We are writing to address our concern about your legislation on postpartum depression screenings. We propose that Motherwoman drop this legislation because we believe in the long-run...
View ArticleFreedom Center, Arise for Social Justice, Out Now Oppose PostPartum...
Dear MotherWoman,We are writing to address our concern about your legislation on postpartum depression screenings. We propose that Motherwoman drop this legislation because we believe in the long-run...
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Poverty Is Not A Crime - Local Campaign
Caty Simon of Freedom Center is coordinating Freedom Center's involvement with the Poverty Is Not A Crime campaign, to stop the city from adopting anti-panhandling laws.Get latest info at the Povery Is...
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Gazette Covers Panhandling Campaign
The Hampshire Daily Gazette just did a 10-17-08 story on the proposed panhandling law in Northampton that Freedom Center opposes, and quotes Caty Simon from Freedom Center speaking at a recent protest...
View ArticleMajor UK Study Shows No Evidence For Forced Drugging
A major new study in latest Journal of Advanced Nursing says there is no clincal evidence in research that forced drugging helps people. Instead, the practice is "taken for granted." According to the...
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Victory!!! Poverty Is Not A Crime Campaign Succeeds!
The solicitation ordinance, which if passed would have de facto criminalized panhandling in most of downtown Northampton, has been withdrawn by the mayor's office & the police department from the...
View ArticleStarting Hearing Voices Groups Training at RLC
Recovery Learning Community is sponsoring a "Starting Hearing Voices Groups" training with Oryx Cohen, Gail Hornstein, Ron Coleman (UK Hearing Voices Network) and Paul Baker (UK Hearing Voices...
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