MF-News: Dan Fisher on Internet radio

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NARPA 'early-bird' special extended
MindFreedom News -- November 2006
Nonviolent Revolution in Mental Health Care
http://www.MindFreedom.org - please forward

Two brief news items about winning human rights and alternatives in
the mental health system.

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(1) This Wednesday, 1 November 2006 - MindFreedom News Hour Free
Internet Radio

Guest Dan Fisher, MD -- who is both psychiatric survivor and
psychiatrist -- will answer questions about national organizing by
people diagnosed with psychiatric disabilities including the launch
meeting this week of a new USA coalition. You can phone in live to
ask questions and make comments on six toll free phone lines. Dan is
executive director of National Empowerment Center, and is an expert
on recovery.

Action: Click on http://www.theprn.org at 4 pm EST, 1 pm PST or
listen to archives later.

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(2) November 15 to 18, 2006 - National Association for Rights
Protection and Advocacy Annual Conference

The NARPA annual conference is one of the main places where advocates
and activists for *true* transformation in the USA mental health
system meet. NARPA announced today that their 'early bird' special
has been extended ten days to 10 November, giving you another chance
to pre-register at their discount price. Their 25th annual conference
will be in Baltimore, Maryland but many people haven't heard about
it. You may pre-register for just one day or the whole event. NARPA
is a founding group of MFI's coalition, let's support NARPA!

Urgent Action: Spread the word & attend! For more info see http://
www.narpa.org.

Or to register go directly to:

http://www.narpa.org/2006_Registration.htm

BELOW are more details about the

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR RIGHTS PROTECTION AND ADVOCACY

2006 ANNUAL RIGHTS CONFERENCE

November 15-18, 2006

Tremont Plaza Hotel on St. Paul

Baltimore, Maryland, USA

SOCIAL JUSTICE - THE TIME IS NOW!

Come join us in Baltimore for NARPA's Annual Rights Conference.
Whether you're a NARPA veteran or newcomer, come learn, have fun and
re-energize for the personal and collective battles we must continue
to fight - especially today with so many challenges to individual
rights and liberty!

2006 Conference Keynoters:
Michael Perlin
Professor & Internationally Recognized Disability Law Expert

David Oaks
Survivor & Director, Mind Freedom Support Coalition International

Vera Sharav
President, Alliance for Human Research Protection

Leah Harris
Author and Activist

Eric Rosenthal
Director, Mental Disability Rights International

Alfreda Robinson-Dawkins
Founder & CEO, National Women's Prison Project

Well-known advocates and activists will present workshops, including:

a.. Mort Cohen, J.D., Adequacy of Representation in Civil
Commitment Proceedings

b.. Jacki McKinney & Celia Brown, A Call to Action: Trauma
Informed Rights

c.. Susan Stefan, J.D., Significant Developments in Mental Health
Law -- 2005 -2006

d.. Ira Burnim, J.D., Steve Schwartz, J.D., & Cathy Costanzo,
J.D., Successful Litigation for Children's Services Using the
Medicaid Act

e.. Michael Allen, Confronting Forced Treatment: The Media is the
Message

f.. Mary Jo O'Brien, R.N., Adele Lynch, J.D., & Carol Neidenberg,
Clients/Advocates as Innovators of Systemic Change

g.. David Popiel, J.D., Fair Housing Law for Persons with
Psychiatric Disabilities

h.. Susan Froetschel & Douglas Olsen, R.N., C.S., Ph.D.,
Empowerment & Advocacy through Writing & Teaching

i.. Dennis Feld, J.D., & Kim Darrow, J.D., Defending Against
Forced Maintenance ElectroShock

j.. Kent Earnhardt, J.D., Ph.D., PAIMI: Goals, Performance, and
Discussion

k.. Michael Allen, Separate and Unequal: Housing for People with
Psychiatric Disabilities

l.. David Fathi, J.D. (ACLU National Prison Project), Peter Cubra,
J.D., & Laura Cain, J.D., Prisoners with Psychiatric Disabilities:
Supermax, Segregation & Other Conditions of Confinement

m.. Emmett Dwyer, J.D., Juvenile Justice Issues

n.. Jim Gottstein, J.D., Strategic Litigation to Achieve
Meaningful Change: The Myers Case, Alaska, and a National Initiative

As well as Peter Stastny, M.D., Jennifer Mathis, J.D., of the Bazelon
Center for Mental Health Law, Laura Prescott, of Sister Witness
International, plus a key national expert on using Medicaid for
alternatives in mental health, and many more.

Please check this web site - http://www.narpa.org - regularly for
updates!

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR RIGHTS PROTECTION AND ADVOCACY

Information is available at http://www.narpa.org or by calling
(205) 464-0101

Join us in Baltimore, MD, November 15-18, 2006.

The conference begins 6 p.m., Wednesday, November 15 with a Reception
and Keynote by David Oaks, of MindFreedom International. Thursday and
Friday events include workshops and keynote addresses from 9 a.m. to
5 p.m., as well as special evening events. The conference closes
Saturday, November 18, at 1 p.m., after a Keynote by Michael Perlin,
internationally recognized disability law expert.

- end NARPA announcement -

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Join MindFreedom International, donate, or renew your membership.

Do you want to...

* Win human rights campaigns in mental health?

* End abuse by the psychiatric drug industry?

* Support the self-determination of psychiatric survivors?

* Promote safe, humane and effective options in mental health?

You are not alone! MindFreedom is a nonprofit human rights group that
unites 100 sponsor and affiliate groups with individual members, and
is accredited by the United Nations as a Non-Governmental
Organization (NGO) with Consultative Roster Status. Join or donate
today!

MindFreedom is one of the very few totally independent groups in the
mental health field with no funding from governments, drug companies,
religions, corporations, or the mental health system. While most of
MindFreedom's members are psychiatric survivors, *all* who support
human rights are invited to join and become active leaders.

JOIN, RENEW, DONATE, or give GIFT MEMBERSHIPS to MindFreedom
International today:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/join.shtml

For a MAD MARKET of books and other products to support human rights
campaigns in mental health: http://www.madmarket.org

MindFreedom International Office: 454 Willamette, Suite 216 - POB
11284; Eugene, OR 97440-3484 USA

web site: http://www.mindfreedom.org
e-mail: office@mindfreedom.org
office phone: (541) 345-9106
toll free: 1-877-MAD-PRIDe or 1-877-623-7743
fax: (541) 345-3737

Please forward.

"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted." -
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Reminder 2006 Statewide Leadership Summit November 29, 2006

PLEASE HOLD THIS DATE: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2006

Statewide Leadership Summit, Part III

Transforming Maryland�s Public Mental Health System

9:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Turf Valley Resort

On Our Own of Maryland and the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law are co-sponsoring a third Statewide Leadership Summit on

Transforming Maryland�s Public Mental Health System.

The conference is being held on Wednesday, November 29, 2006 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM at the Turf Valley Resort and Conference Center in Ellicott City.

Key speakers include Robert Bernstein, Executive Director of the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law; Dr. Daniel Fisher, Commissioner with the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health from Boston, MA; Dr. Brian Hepburn, Executive Director of the Maryland Mental Hygiene Administration; Denise Sulzbach, Project Director with Maryland's Mental Health Transformation Grant, among others.

Maryland has received one of the new five-year federal Mental Health Transformation State Incentive Grants from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The Summit is designed to engage consumers and other stakeholders in exploring key public policy issues in transforming Maryland's public mental health system and gain input into Maryland's Comprehensive Mental Health Plan which is being developed.

This will be the third Statewide Summit co-hosted by both organizations. On Our Own of Maryland and the Bazelon Center jointly sponsored similar Summits the past two years.

Please hold this date and plan on attending. Further information with agenda and conference brochure will be sent as details are finalized.

If you have any questions, please contact the On Our Own of Maryland office at 410-646-0262

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Reciprocal Web links exchange?

Dear Mental Health Advocate:

Two affiliated, Washington-DC-region consumer-run mental health
organizations--the popular "Bethesda Beatniks Dinner Club"
(www.bethesdabeatniks.org) and the "DC Mental Health Consumers' League"
(www.dcmhcl.org)--have recently greatly enhanced our respective Web sites,
and are both interested in establishing reciprocal Web links exchange in
 the resources pages of your organization's Web site.

The "Beatniks" club hosts biweekly educational dinner meetings with
prominent after-dinner speakers, plus occasional mental health consumer
 arts & music festivals.  The club and its activities have been written up
or
reported multiple times in "Washington Post Montgomery Extra," "Washington
Post Metro," "Washington Post Health," "Gazette Newspapers," "City Paper,"
"NAMI Newsletter," "Schizophrenia Digest," "Psychiatric News," plus half a
dozen local radio stations including news leader WTOP.  The focus is
socialization, peer support, education, and advocacy.  Prominent sponsors
include NAMI/Montgomery County, Mental Health Assn./Montgomery County, CORE
Service Agency/Montgomery County, and the Washington Psychiatric Society.

The "Consumers' League" focus is on advocacy first, plus maintaining a
mental health information clearing house and providing peer support.

Our constantly-growing inter-organizational mailing list now exceeds 1,200
people, locally and nationally.

 Please visit our respective Web sites, and if you like what you see,
contact Phil Quiett, Web master for both organizations, at pkq66@erols.com.
He will answer any questions and promptly arrange reciprocal Web links with
you.  Thank you!!  ###

Please provide us with the following information to add your site to our
listings;

Agency, Association, Company name_________________________________________

Your Web site url address
http://www.________________________________________

 Phone________________________________Fax______________________________

 A contact E-mail address___________________________________________________

 A contact Person name____________________________________________________

Street Address________________________________City______________Zip_______

 A brief description of your program or services (100 to 150 words)

Fw: Disability Rights Protection Act - URGENT ACTION ALERT

>
> Dear Disability Rights Protection Act Supporters:
>
> As you know, in September the DC City Administrator
> enthusiastically pledged the Mayor's support for the
> DRPA. We have subsequently worked closely with staff in
> the Mayor's office to develop a staffing plan and find
> funds to implement the bill. Unfortunately, we learned
> yesterday that the Mayor is retracting his support for
> the bill and there will testimony about this on
> Friday.
>
> YOUR support is needed!
>
> 1) Help fill the hearing room!! Please ATTEND
> tomorrow's hearing on the DRPA at 10 AM, 1350
> Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, 5th Floor Council Chamber.
> Please bring as many individuals as you can.
>
> 2) Call or email Interim City Administrator Ed Reiskin
> TODAY. Ask all of your colleagues and program
> participants to call or email, as well.
>
> CALL: 727-6053
>
> MESSAGE: My name is ______ and I [am a DC resident /
> work at______]. I am calling to urge City Administrator
> Reiskin to support the Disability Rights Protection
> Act. Thank you.
>
> EMAIL: Edward.Reiskin@dc.gov
>
> MESSAGE: People with disabilities are 22% of the
> District's population. I urge the Mayor to continue to
> support the Disability Rights Protection Act. This bill
> is urgently needed to stop discrimination and exclusion
> of people with disabilities from District buildings and
> programs. Thank you.
>
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For more information:
Amber Harding, 328-5503 / amber@legalclinic.org
T.J. Sutcliffe, 636-2963 / tjsutcliffe@arcdc.net

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"Canvas" - World Premiere in NY

Dear Friend,

I hope this finds you well. I am pleased to report that my feature film "Canvas" is completed and having it's world premiere at the Hamptons International Film Festival in NY on Saturday, October 21st. Actors Marcia Gay Harden and Joe Pantoliano will be attending. Please see the press release below with links to the Hamptons and Canvas websites. This is the first opportunity for distributors to see "Canvas." I encourage you to spread the word so we can pack the house. Thank you for your continued support.

Sincerely,
Joe Greco

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CANVAS, STARRING MARCIA GAY HARDEN & JOE PANTOLIANO,
TO PREMIERE AT 2006 HAMPTONS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

New York / Los Angeles (October 5, 2006): The independent film 'Canvas,' starring Joe Pantoliano, Academy Award� winner Marcia Gay Harden, and introducing 11 year old Devon Gearhart, is now completed and set to headline the 14th Annual Hamptons International Film Festival, where it will be featured in the �Spotlight Section.� The Hamptons International Film Festival will be held October 18-22nd in East Hampton, New York, with additional venues in Southampton, Sag Harbor and Montauk.

Writer/Director Joseph Greco's own childhood experiences inspired this poignant story of one family's struggle with mental illness. Filmed against the backdrop of Mr. Greco's hometown of Hollywood, Florida, �Canvas� has chosen the intimate atmosphere of the Hamptons for its debut. �Premiering 'Canvas' at the Hamptons is an honor,� states Mr. Greco. �The harbor backdrop is the perfect setting to unveil this story.� Mr. Greco's short film �Lena's Spaghetti� premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in the Filmmakers of Tomorrow Section, and �Canvas� is his feature debut.

Joe Pantoliano, currently filming his new television series �Waterfront� for CBS, and Marcia Gay Harden, of the upcoming Lasse Hallstr�m's �Hoax,� will be in attendance at the world premiere scheduled for Saturday, October 21st.

The producers of �Canvas� are Sharon Lane of Lane Management Group, Adam Hammel and Lucy Hammel of Rebellion Pictures, Joe Pantoliano and Bill Erfurth. Executive producer Alan Rolnick is joined by co-executive producers Bruce Beresford (�Driving Miss Daisy� & �Tender Mercies�) and George Hickenlooper (�Factory Girl�). �Canvas� was lensed by Cinematographer Rob Sweeney (�Entourage� & �Six Feet Under�). The soundtrack of �Canvas� features artists Jimmy Buffett and The 88, two original songs written & performed by Lisbeth Scott (�Munich� and �The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe�), and an original score written by film composer Joel Goodman.

The nation's largest mental health organization, NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness), was given an early look at �Canvas� during post-production of the film. �It is one of the few dramatic films that can be considered authentic in its portrayal of schizophrenia. It is both heart-breaking and heartwarming, and even (has) touches of humor,� says NAMI Executive Director Michael Fitzpatrick, �...�Canvas� has the potential to touch the general public even more than the movie A BEAUTIFUL MIND - which was itself a breakthrough - because the film focuses not on a Nobel-Prize winning mathematician, but an ordinary family.�

www.hamptonsfilmfest.org
www.canvasthefilm.com
For Press: John Murphy, Murphy PR, Office: 212-414-0408
For Sales: Bob Aaronson, cell: 310-863-5767

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The Mouse that Roared, It is our pleasure on the Web site to welcome you, to actively interact in this new endeavor.

Dear Friends:

The Mouse that Roared

Welcome to the DC Mental Health Consumers League mental health e-letter, brought to you in conjunction with the Bethesda Beatniks Dinner Club and its postal mailing which most of you recently received. The purpose of that postal mailing was to bring you �NEWZ AND VIEWZ U CAN UZE��truly useful information from service providers, law firms, etc., which are going out of their way to support their local consumer-run mental health clubs and organizations, and to educate YOU about resources in the community to enhance recovery, via postal mail and companion virtual social networking.

This non-commercial, shoestring, consumer-edited, periodic e-letter is intended to be the community conduit for our regional mental health community, and to supplement our postal mailings. We want to hear from you!: the pros and cons of your experiences with different mental health treatments, different service providers, different professionals serving the community, etc. We as consumers are the �unsung majority� in the community. We welcome letters to the editor.

As we reach more and more people by e-mail, by postal mail, by telephone, by educational lectures at the Beatniks Dinner Club, we hope to build a network to further enhance the growth and recovery of each and every one of us. We plan to continue to work in conjunction with social workers, case managers, and doctors, etc., to achieve those aims. Future e-letters will include numerous educational materials, letters to the editor, and other news. But we can�t do it alone�we need your support. Please tell your friends and colleagues how impressed you were with the contents of our recent postal mailing, and to provide us with their e-mail addresses and other contact information to add to the list. For our postal mailings, contact �Beatnik Pete� at peterwarner2@mac.com, or (301)279-2578. And if you didn�t receive our recent postal mailing, we need your postal mailing address! Our goal is to have full contact information about �everyone who�s anyone� in the metro Washington DC mental

health community: not only consumers, social workers, case managers, doctors, non-profit exec�s, and pharma reps, but also selected attorneys, politicians, journalists, artists and musicians.

SO SPREAD THE WORD!! STAY TUNED FOR MORE COMING SOON!!

(To see other linked Web pages in our extensive online resource guide, go to www.dcmhcl.org/OtherResources.html, which is under construction. To unsubscribe from this e-letter recipient database, go to www.dcmhcl.org, click on the envelope with the slash mark through it on the upper right-hand side, and enter your e-mail address. To add a friend or colleague, use to normal envelope icon on the upper left-hand side.)

It is our pleasure on the Web site to welcome you, to actively interact in this new endeavor.

Executive.director@dcmhcl.org

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