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26 July 2011 • Portland, Oregon

Don't Forget the Community Organizing! Winning Good Jobs for All Mental Health Consumers and Psychiatric Survivors By David W. Oaks For Oregon Supported Employment Center for Excellence. 26 July 2011 • Portland, Oregon. Psychiatric survivor activist 35 years Executive Director

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26 July 2011 • Portland, Oregon

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  1. Don't Forget the Community Organizing! Winning Good Jobs for All Mental Health Consumers and Psychiatric Survivors By David W. Oaks For Oregon Supported Employment Center for Excellence 26 July 2011 • Portland, Oregon

  2. Psychiatric survivor activist 35 years Executive Director MindFreedom International 25 years www.MindFreedom.org Board member: Oregon Consumer/Survivor Coalition United States International Council on Disability David W. Oaks

  3. Learning from poor and developing countrie about employments: Role of Non Governmental Organizations and Community Organizing. MindFreedom Ghana

  4. MindFreedom Ghana: Working with NGO's

  5. Cross-Disability Organizing: MindFreedom Ghana Mad Pride

  6. THANK YOU for supporting MindFreedom!

  7. Turkish Consumer/Survivors

  8. Organizing in Pune, India. Activist , survivor and counselor Bhargavi Davar, PhD Concern about globalization of western psychiatric industry

  9. Role of allies such as family members in supporting major change in mental health system. Mother power!

  10. Role of concerned psychologists: New director of International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry (ISEPP). Board member MFI. Al Galves, PhD, of New Mexico

  11. Role of professors: What is history of 'mad' academia and 'mad' activism collaborating? Bonnie Burstow, PhD in Toronto

  12. Role of historians: This is an activist and one of the founders of Psychiatric Survivor Archives of Toronto Geoffrey Reaume, PhD

  13. PsychOut v. ECT in Toronto

  14. Role of graduate students. This intern started MindFreedom Academic Alliance Piers Gooding (Melbourne Australia)

  15. In a nutshell: • What is psychiatric survivor/mental health user movement, and how can anyone connect? Sally Zinman: Long-time activist.

  16. Decide. • Act. • Win. • Grow Community Organizing: Recycle!

  17. Keep it Simple: Mutual Support Meets Community Organizing The 'gears' of people power.

  18. Learn from other movements: Nothing About Us Without Us! South African Disability Movement Slogan

  19. Winning national court decisions USA example • Sue Jamieson (attorney) • Elaine Wilson (middle) • Lois Curtis (right) Olmstead Supreme Court victory

  20. Oregon Consumer/Survivor Coalition!

  21. State-wide VOICE for Oregon consumer/survivors More "peer delivered specialists" in Oregon. Infrastructure for major state-wide change. OCSC

  22. Know your rights to social and economic justice: The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2006 United Nations binding treaty

  23. Drug ad: Maintainability?

  24. Or creative maladjustment?

  25. Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

  26. It may well be that our world is in dire need of a new organization: "The International Association for the Advancement of Creative Maladjustment." MLK on IAACM

  27. Science is finding that no one absolutely grips reality. Science is finding the universe is more mysterious than they ever thought. Satyagraha = Truth Force

  28. What is generally called "normal behavior" Is related to: • Global climate catastrophe • Economic inequality Are You Proud to be "Maladjusted"?

  29. We Shall Overcome in Oslo, Norway

  30. Judi Chamberlin

  31. Forced ECT in USA: Ray Sandford of Minnesota More than 40 outpatient forced electroshocks, escorted from home. MFI helped. Now free. Last shock: 15 April 2009

  32. Forced ECT in USA: Elizabeth Ellis of Minnesota Had 13 forced electroshocks, Including 1 outpatient. For saying "no," back inside for more. Free: 24 May 2011

  33. Survivor of Electroshock In Accra Psychiatric Institution In Ghana Global Emergency

  34. Accra Psychiatric in Ghana

  35. Loren Mosher and Soteria House

  36. Robert Whitakerauthor of Anatomy of an Epidemic

  37. Rae Unzicker & Justin Dart

  38. http://www.mindfreedom.org MindFreedom International celebrates its 25th year for human rights and humane alternatives in the mental health system. Independent. United. Activism.

  39. MindFreedom Vision: • Unite for a global nonviolent revolution in the mental health system Unite to Win

  40. A Few MindFreedom Campaigns: Shield: Alerts and Our Own Media Global: UN, Handbook and Training Choice: Alternatives for Mental Health Mad Pride: Celebrate Our Diversity Coalition: Affiliates and Sponsors Electroshock & Human Rights Initiative Unite to Win

  41. Warning: Red Rubber Nose! Patch Adams & Gesundheidt

  42. Irish Mad Pride

  43. Irish Mad Pride

  44. What is your leadership role, globally and locally, in: • "The International Association for the Advancement of Creative Maladjustment." MLK and You are in IAACM

  45. psychiatric survivor and executive director of MindFreedom International www.MindFreedom.org oaks@mindfreedom.org Ph: 541-345-9106 Toll free: 1-877-Mad-Prid David W. Oaks

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