and PsychRights®
Law Project for Psychiatric Rights, Inc
OCCUPY THE
AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION
American Psychiatric Association Protest
May 19, 2013 -- San Francisco, California
On
May 19th, MindFreedom International, the Law Project for Psychiatric
Rights (PsychRights®), and the California Client Action Workgroup,
organized under the Occupy Psychiatry banner, will protest of the
American Psychiatric Association's 2013 Annual Conference at the Moscone
Center, 747 Howard St, San Francisco, California from 11:30 am until
5:30 pm.
The American Psychiatric Association is being
charged with serious human rights abuses, coercing people to undergo
brain-damaging psychiatric drugs and electroshock, psychiatric
profiling, scientific fraud, and psychiatric labeling, including the
already discredited Fifth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) to be released at the conference.
Psychiatric
survivor, psychotherapist and MindFreedom Board Member Matthew
Morrissey will speak and MC the protest rally and demonstration which
will feature the following speakers:
Ted
Chabasinski, psychiatric survivor and lawyer, who was electroshocked
for experimental purposes when he was six years old. “The increased
labeling and drugging of children, and the way the new DSM puts everyone
at risk for being called 'mentally ill' must be stopped. Everyone must
realize that they too can be called crazy, not just those who have
already been dragged into and trapped by the system."
Chaya
Grossberg, psychiatric survivor and healer. “Rather than being a source
for healing, the American Psychiatric Association has damaged the souls
and bodies of millions of Americans."
Michael
Cornwall, PhD, licensed therapist and human rights activist. "The
profession of psychiatry lives in a collective state of denial.
Psychiatrists are true believers with a religious fundamentalist type of
fervor that allows them to routinely injure, and frequently hasten the
death of those they are sworn to heal. But the reckoning is upon them.
Their blatant human rights violations will not stand the light of day."
James
B. (Jim) Gottstein, Esq., psychiatric survivor and lawyer. "Hundreds of
thousands of people are locked up and drugged or electroshocked against
their will every day under the auspices of the American Psychiatric
Association. These are human rights abuses on a massive scale in
violation of United States and International Law. The American
Psychiatric Association must be held accountable for its role in these
horrors."
There will also be an open microphone for
protestors who want to speak. At least portions of the protest will be
live-streamed at ustream.tv on the Occupy Psychiatry Channel,
http://bit.ly/10kf0cS.
On Friday, May 17th, from 7 to
10 pm, along with protest preparations, there will be a free/donation
based screening of Daniel Mackler's new film, Coming off Psych Drugs: A
Meeting of the Minds, at the beautiful Goforaloop Gallery, 1458 San
Bruno Ave., San Francisco.
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CONTACTS:
Matthew Morrissey Jim Gottstein
(415) 722-6317 (907) 274-7686
mattmorr21@yahoo.com jim.gottstein@psychrights.org
