Freedom Center is now live on the radio on 103.3 FM Wednesdays 6-7PM (note new day)!

We'll be featuring news, interviews, music, and more from the world of mental health outside the corporate mainstream. First show is 8-8-05.

If you're from out of the area, you can listen live on the internet:

Listen live to Valley Free Radio 103.3FM -- broadband.

Listen live to Valley Free Radio 103.3FM -- dialup.

Freedom Center helped win a lawsuit against a Northampton landlord who refused to take a Section 8 rental subsidy voucher!

After more than 2 years of litigation the case finally settled out of court. Freedom Center connected the plaintiff Will Hall with the Housing Discrimination Project, a low-income legal aid agency which filed the case and provided an attorney. FC also provided Will with emotional support and practical advice during the lengthy legal process and ongoing conflict with his landlord.

NAMI Fires Director For Survivor Dialog

Overflow Crowd At Mt. Holyoke

Mental Health Staff
Form Support Group

Freedom Center gets
Disability Rights Award

Forbes Magazine
Interview

International business magazine Forbes published a feature story on the dangers of SSRI anti-depressants and their declining reputation in its Sept 6 issue. The sidebar story interviews Freedom Center's Will Hall. You can also download the entire article as a pdf scan (takes a few minutes on dialup). There's also a great Anne Thogersen photo of the banner Vikki Gilbert made.

Vipassana Meditation
Center Discrimination

Gazette SpotlightsFreedom Center

Movement Mourns
Loren Mosher's Death

ServiceNet Initiates
Acupuncture Project

ServiceNet Clients
Win Phone Rights

Books Donated
to Forbes Library

Recent Developments
at Freedom Center

NAMI President
Steps Down

Historic Forced Drugging Settlement

In an historic court ruling, a Manhattan man was recently award $975,000 -- that's right, **$975,000** -- for being forcibly confined at Bellevue Hospital and drugged against his will.

The jury found that it didn't matter if the man was psychotic or mentally ill, was angry or yelling, or had a history of psychiatric diagnosis: the hospital had no real justification for forced treatment.

Fight MassHealth Cuts

Forced Drug Campaign Update

James Bower, the 25 year old ServiceNet client forced to take Haldol against his will, has refused to take his scheduled injection without police intervention so far. The DMH and ServiceNet received dozens of emails from around the country and even internationally as a result of our pressure campaign, and we are feeling positive that with all the public attention they won't force James to take the shot.

Hold NAMI Accountable

Weekly Writing
Group Begins

END SERVICENET FORCED DRUGGING!

James Bower is a 25 year old ServiceNet residence client forced to take psychiatric medication against his will, following a court-directed "Rogers Order." Every month he is told he must take a hypodermic injection of the powerful tranquilizer Haldol; when he refuses, the police are called and he is detained at Cooley Dickinson hospital, where he is forced to take the shot.

Tuesday Film Series Begins Oct. 7

Free Speak-Out CDs
Now Available