Monday, February 4, 2008

Vote Now for ECT Coalition Documentary

From:"john breeding"


Subject: Round 2: VOTE NOW for Roky Erickson/Electroshock Coalition Documentary


Sun, 3 Feb 2008 09:27:42 -0800

See Dr. John Breeding discuss the documentary, see this youtube.com video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11cdtoGM2wA

Dear Friends,
WE MADE IT THROUGH ROUND ONE FOR THE TOP 50 FILMS. I NEED YOUR HELP NOW TO MAKE THE TOP 25 AND BEYOND. PLEASE VOTE NOW AND EVERYDAY FOR ARTISTIC FREEDOM OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND AGAINST THE HORROR OF ELECTROSHOCK. LET'S MAKE A NOISE ABOUT IT. HELP US BY VOTING!!! PLEASE! and spread the word...
VOTE for our Mary Marvel documentary of:
THE FIFTH ANNUAL
ROKY ERICKSON PSYCHEDELIC ICE CREAM SOCIAL
CELEBRATING ELECTROSHOCK SURVIVORS.
step-by-step DIRECTIONS
1. Register on www.FameCast.com as a Voter or Fanatic. Click where it says " 2 The Audience Votes"
2. Click here to view our documentary: http://www.FameCast.com/MaryMarvelMovies
3. Click the "Vote" button at the top right hand corner of the video

Steps 2 will take you to see our video. Steps 1 and 3 are necessary to vote.
[ A plea for ardent supporters: The rules of this contest are such that you can vote once a day for the video you like, so please consider adding this to your daily schedule for awhile.]
I will send out weekly updates from here on out on our status. I am also doing regular youtube videos to draw folks to our effort. Please do whatever you can to help us spread the message of our Coaliton for the Abolition of Electroshock in Texas (CAEST) and to help Mary win this contest. See our website, www.endofshock.com for related information on the Ice Cream Social, and on our coalition efforts to stop electroshock.
Thank you!!
John
BACKGROUND
In the last two years, our Coalition for the Abolition of Electroshock in Texas (CAEST) was very active, carrying on an initiative in Austin to challenge the use of electroshock at our area's most prolific shock hospital, Seton Shoal Creek. As described on our website, www.endofshock.com, we carried on with them quite a bit, including direct interaction with the hospital board and medical director, a series of protest rallies at the hospital, a resolution from the Texas legislature, and a hearing on electroshock with the Austin City Council.
In March 2007, we had a magnificent, unprecedented event--a concert featuring a number of terrific musicians and artists, a number of whom were also shock survivors now joining forces to call for a stop to this horrific procedure. These luminaries included ROKY ERICKSON, J.T. VAN ZANDT, JIM FRANKLIN, LEONARD ROY FRANK, MICHELLE SHOCKED, SUMNER ERICKSON, ROBYN HITCHCOCK and PETER BUCK, and POWELL ST. JOHN, among others. Check out a broader sampling of creative artists who were electroshocked on page 6 of Leonard Frank's Electroshock Quotationary at http://www.endofshock.com/102C_ECT.PDF .
The event was cosponsored by CAEST and a vocal challenge of electroshock was interspersed with great music throughout the day. For a fuller, written summary of the event, see our website at http://www.endofshock.com/Report%20on%20The%205th%20Annual%20Roky%20Erickson%20Psychedelic%20Ice%20Cream%20Social.pdf .
Our event was called:
THE FIFTH ANNUAL ROKY ERICKSON PSYCHEDELIC ICE CREAM SOCIAL CELEBRATING ELECTROSHOCK SURVIVORS.
Some of us affectionately called it the "Rock to Ban Shock" concert.
Now our own fantastic videographer, Mary Luker, known professionally as Mary Marvel, has created a short (20 minutes) documentary of our event. It is terrific, and we intend to use it to promote our effort to abolish electroshock, and to create safe haven for artists, who all too often suffer this horrific assault--witness Roky Erickson, Townes Van Zandt and Jim Franklin from our event.
In support of our cause, Mary Marvel has submiited her documentary to an internet contest called Famecast. In order to have the greatest impact, we want to win this contest. In order to win, WE NEED YOU TO GET ON BOARD AND ENJOY A RIDE, bringing music and a big message --END OF SHOCK-- to the world.

Request for data about involuntary ECT in Oregon

David Oaks"
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 18:53:29 -0800
To:"zapback"
Subject: [ZapBack!] Fwd: Request for data about involuntary electroshock in Oregon

Laura Ziegler got me an academic article about forced electroshock in
Oregon that came out in 2005, glad to finally see this, didn't know
about it.

As you might guess, we have a long history of working on the of
electroshock here. I'm proud to have been arrested doing civil
disobedience on that particular topic here, actually! (We have a
shock device manufacturer here in Oregon.)

I've immediately made inquiries with the head of the mental health
system here.

If you'd like to add your own CIVIL NOTE to Bob Nikkel asking to be
informed of whatever he finds out go for it. I say civil, because I
want to provide zero excuse for non-response.

One impact of the movement is that a lot of mental health agency
leaders are at least acting friendly with our movement leaders. No
worries that we are lulled, though it's always a risk. Quite the
contrary. One can at least actually find and sit down and address and
quiz such folks, and get a some kind of words back... when years ago
we'd get slammed doors. Which is at least one difference from years
ago. Not enough, not enough. And actually yes a risk, because one can
lulled. But it is a difference, so let's use it.

It would help to show a bunch of people are curious about what is
found.....

David

Begin forwarded message:

From: David Oaks <oaks@mindfreedom.org>
Date: February 1, 2008 6:47:56 PM PST
To: Robert E NIKKEL <robert.e.nikkel@state.or.us>
Subject: Request for data about involuntary electroshock in Oregon


Dear Bob,

Hope you're doing well.

A member has sent us an academic law article that came out in 2005
about the use of involuntary electroshock over the wishes of citizens
considered competent here in Oregon:

Here's how to download the PDF of the article the member referred to
us:

http://www.lclark.edu/org/lclr/objects/LCB94_Newell.pdf

I'll copy this to the author.

Can you please -- on an urgent basis -- get me all data on the use of
involuntary electroshock in Oregon that you can possibly obtain,
especially recent data?

As you may know, Oregon has one of the weakest laws in the USA when
it comes to blocking forced electroshock. Many states at least
require a judge's signature, but Oregon only requires the signature
of a physician unaffiliated with the institution to "override" a
citizen's rights, which of course is just plain wrong.

Years ago Bob Joondeph and I worked on a bill to plug that loophole,
and of course it didn't go anywhere. MindFreedom International has
been one of the main groups to expose and focus on the problem of
forced electroshock. We're proud that we were able to successfully
encourage the World Health Organization to put in writing in their
legal guide that they absolutely oppose all involuntary electroshock
in the world.

Can you please request any and all information, on an urgent basis,
about the use of involuntary electroshock?

And for that matter, any data about the use of electroshock at all
would be helpful. But I'd rather get any data you do have or can get
as soon as possible, rather than wait to get it all at the same time.

Also, any comment on this article would be appreciated, though as I
said, please don't let that delay getting us any data.... please get
that to us as soon as possible on an urgent basis.

I'll copy this to a few folks who I think may be interested.

Thanks,

David

David W. Oaks, Executive Director
MindFreedom International
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David W. Oaks, Executive Director
MindFreedom International
454 Willamette, Suite 216 - POB 11284
Eugene, OR 97440-3484 USA

web: http://www.mindfreedom.org
email: oaks@mindfreedom.org
office phone: (541) 345-9106
fax: (541) 345-3737
member services toll free in USA: 1-877-MAD-PRID[e] or 1-877-623-7743

United Independent Activism for Human Rights in Mental Health!

MindFreedom International is a non-profit coalition with a vision of
a non-violent revolution in mental health. Accredited by the United
Nations as a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) with Consultative
Roster Status.

Join now! http://www.mindfreedom.org/join-donate

"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted." -
Martin Luther King, Jr.



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