26 July 2011 • Portland, Oregon

Don't Forget the Community Organizing!

Winning Good Jobs for All Mental Health Consumers and

Psychiatric SurvivorsBy David W. Oaks

For Oregon Supported Employment Center for Excellence

David W. Oaks

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

MindFreedom Ghana

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

MindFreedom Ghana: Working with NGO's

Cross-Disability Organizing: MindFreedom Ghana Mad Pride

THANK YOU for supporting MindFreedom!

Turkish Consumer/Survivors

Concern about globalization of western psychiatric industry

Organizing in Pune, India.

Activist , survivor and counselor Bhargavi Davar, PhD

Mother power!

Role of allies such as family members in supporting major change in mental health system.

Al Galves, PhD, of New Mexico

Role of concerned psychologists:

New director of International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry (ISEPP).

Board member MFI.

Bonnie Burstow, PhD in Toronto

Role of professors:

What is history of 'mad' academia and 'mad' activism collaborating?

Geoffrey Reaume, PhD

Role of historians:

This is an activist and one of the founders of Psychiatric Survivor Archives of Toronto

PsychOut v. ECT in Toronto

Piers Gooding (Melbourne Australia)

Role of graduate students.

This intern started MindFreedom Academic Alliance

Sally Zinman: Long-time activist.

In a nutshell: What is psychiatric

survivor/mental health user movement, and how can anyone connect?

Community Organizing: Recycle!

Decide.

Win.

Act.

Grow

The 'gears' of people power.

Keep it Simple: Mutual Support Meets Community Organizing

Learn from other movements:

Nothing About Us Without Us!

South African Disability Movement Slogan

Olmstead Supreme Court victory

Winning national court decisions

USA example

Sue Jamieson (attorney)

Elaine Wilson (middle)

Lois Curtis (right)

Oregon Consumer/Survivor Coalition!

OCSC

State-wide VOICE for Oregon consumer/survivors

More "peer delivered specialists" in Oregon.

Infrastructure for major state-wide change.

United Nations binding treaty

Know your rights to social and

economic justice:

The UN Convention on the Rights of

Persons with Disabilities in 2006

Drug ad: Maintainability?

Or creative maladjustment?

Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Human salvation lies in the hands

of the creatively

maladjusted.

MLK on IAACM

It may well be that our world is in dire need

of a new organization:

"The International Association for the Advancement of

Creative Maladjustment."

Satyagraha = Truth Force

Science is finding that no one absolutely grips reality.

Science is finding the universe is more mysterious

than they ever thought.

Are You Proud to be "Maladjusted"?

What is generally called

"normal behavior"

Is related to:

Global climate catastrophe

Economic inequality

We Shall Overcome in Oslo, Norway

Judi Chamberlin

Last shock: 15 April 2009

Forced ECT in USA:

Ray Sandford of Minnesota

More than 40 outpatient forced electroshocks, escorted from home.

MFI helped. Now free.

Free: 24 May 2011

Forced ECT in USA:

Elizabeth Ellis of Minnesota

Had 13 forced electroshocks,

Including 1 outpatient.

For saying "no," back inside for more.

Global Emergency

Survivor of

Electroshock

In Accra

Psychiatric

Institution

In Ghana

Accra Psychiatric in Ghana

Loren Mosher and Soteria House

Robert Whitakerauthor of Anatomy of an Epidemic

Rae Unzicker & Justin Dart

http://www.mindfreedom.org

MindFreedom International

celebrates its 25th year for human rights

and humane alternatives in the

mental health system.

Independent. United. Activism.

Unite to Win

MindFreedom Vision:

Unite for a global nonviolent revolution in the mental health system

Unite to Win

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

Patch Adams & Gesundheidt

Warning:

Red Rubber Nose!

Irish Mad Pride

Irish Mad Pride

MLK and You are in IAACM

What is your leadership role, globally and

locally, in: "The International

Association for the Advancement of

Creative Maladjustment."

David W. Oaks

psychiatric survivor and executive director of

MindFreedom International

www.MindFreedom.org

oaks@mindfreedom.orgPh: 541-345-9106

Toll free: 1-877-Mad-Prid