Protest of the American Psychiatric Association May 4 2014

An Annual Protest of the American Psychiatric Association's Annual Meeting is in NEW YORK CITY.




Please come.

We need to be seen in numbers, now more than ever. The public needs to know that what happen to us can happen to anyone - and this includes them and their families.

Justina Pelletier is but one example of a young person who is currently knapped by psychiatry. Justina is imprisoned in a psychiatric institution and barred access to her family. Justina's family has broken legal gag orders preventing them from speaking about what is happening to Justina, to bring attention to the fact that Justina is being tortured while true medical treatment is being withheld from her. http://www.facebook.com/events/624125897669908/; #FreeJustina

On a national level, the Murphy Bill #StopHR3717 if passed, will reverse thirty years of progress in public psychiatric service delivery systems, including wiping out Alternatives, PAIMI (Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness), and instituting a national involuntary outpatient commitment law, ordinarily carried out in racist and classist ways. HR3717 expands forced psychiatry and eliminates choice and informed consent. #StopHR3717

It is crucial that we come together and say StopPsychAssault and Protest the American Psychiatric Association.

If you cannot come to the protest in person, please post your letters of protest on this event page.

Your written protests will be compiled and given to the APA and the MEDIA.


34th Street and 11th Avenue Across the street from Jacob Javitz Convention Center

https://www.facebook.com/events/246150788902655/

-- Mon Apr 28, 2014 3:00 am --

On May 4th in NYC, join MindFreedom in a protest against psychiatric brutality.

This year's Protest of the American Psychiatric Association's Annual Meeting is in NEW YORK CITY. WHEN: Sunday, May 4 at 12:00pm Eastern time WHERE: 34th Street and 11th Avenue Across the street from Jacob Javitz Convention Center Please come.
On May 4th in NYC, join MindFreedom in a protest against psychiatric brutality.

Join us in protesting the APA convention this year!

On May 4, in New York City, join MindFreedom for a protest against psychiatry's human rights abuses.

In 2014, America faces the gravest threat to civil rights in the mental health area in decades.

In a dire blow to basic human dignity, congress threatens to pass the Murphy Bill, providing a massive funding boost for brutal forced injections of psychiatric drugs against society's most distressed and overwhelmed people. This bill expands so called 'outpatient commitment', the government practice of forcibly drugging people in their own homes. People in crisis are forced to live in terror of being rounded up out of their own homes, and forcibly drugged by an invasive and violent mental health system founded on Big Psychiatry / Big Pharma dogma about sham 'chemical imbalances'. In Colorado, they are trying to add 'resource mismanagement' to the commitment laws, this means that if state psychiatry believes you are mismanaging your credit cards, they can use this as yet another justification to terrorize people with forced government needles full of brain altering drugs. In Boston, the Justina Pelletier case continues to capture the public's attention. Justina, an innocent teenager, has been ripped away from her family and forced into psychiatric 'care', her case shows once and for all how much danger forced psychiatry poses to the rights of every parent, and of every citizen in the land.

http://www.mindfreedom.org/come-to-the- ... rk-may-4th

I do not believe in protesting, since it usually leads to inhaling massive amounts of tear gas and or getting your ass kicked by riot police....

I believe more in what the Russian speaking majority in east Ukraine are doing.... That takes balls.

Can't go but I'll pay for some placards if someone will carry them.