Award-winning journalist Philip Dawdy, formerly a writer with the Seattle Weekly newspaper, discusses how forced psychiatric treatment and drugging are ineffective responses to violent crime and the so-called "dangerous mentally ill." Philip is the writer of the excellent blog about Big Pharma profiteering and mental health policy www.FuriousSeasons.com.

A money insider's view of how crazy and corrupt our US-led world economic system really is, including drug money, mlitary spending, and the housing crisis. Catherine Austin Fitts was Assistant Secretary of Housing - Federal Housing Commissioner under President Bush senior, Managing Director, Dillon Read & Co. Inc., and founder of Hamilton Securities investment bank. She has designed and closed over $25 billion of transactions and investments to-date and has led portfolio strategy for $300 billion of financial assets and liabilities. www.solari.com

A statement written for the Statwide Harm Reduction Coalition on why mandated treatment is not consistent with Harm Reduction philosophy, developed by Caty Simon and Will Hall.

Latin America Program Director Alison Hillman of Mental Disability Rights International talks with Will Hall in Buenos Aires Argentina about the campaign to reform the country's brutally abusive mental health system, and the work she and Will have been doing with the Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales to support the emergence of the user/survivor movement. Check www.mdri.org and www.cels.org.ar.

Big Pharma 'Zyprexa Papers' Whistle-Blower and Crusader Against Forced Drugging comes to Amherst Monday Oct. 22nd

Download flyer here.

Madness Radio 2007-08-15: Exposing Pharma Corruption Journalist Evelyn Pringle

from Cathy Levin of MPOWER:

 

We wish to collect horror stories about abusive treatment in emergency rooms to convince lawmakers to pass 2 pieces of legislation through the state house....

News of the congressional investigation into Zyprexa and Seroquel; Australian radio interview with Furious Seasons blogger Philip Dawdy, and the audio of the Feb 2007 Freedom Center and Information Collective legal training on the Department of Social Services MA foster care system, addressing legal rights and DSS mistreatment and harm inflicted on children and familes. Presented by Attorney David Roulston.

MadnessRadio-2007-03-06DSSTraining.mp3

Feb 2007 Freedom Center and Information Collective sponsored a legal training on the Department of Social Services MA foster care system, addressing legal rights and DSS mistreatment and harm inflicted on children and familes. Presented by Attorney David Roulston.

Leading legal scholar Michael Perlman discusses psychiatric rights around the world and the political uses of forced treatment, at the 2006 NARPA conference.