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" www.MindFreedom.org Office "

" NEWS: Your Mind & Freedom "

NEWS: Zuzu's Last Ditch Fight for Psychiatric Survivors

 

 

 

NEWS: Your Mind & Freedom - 12 Feb. 2004

http://www.MindFreedom.org - please forward

 

Psychiatric Survivor Run Residential

Alternative Fights for Survival.

 

Zuzu's Place to Host Emergency Conference,

Urgently Seeks New Residents.

 

by David Oaks, director, MindFreedom

 

We get the calls in the office all the time:

 

" I need a place to live where I'm free of forced

psychiatric drugging. "

 

" I want a place to live where I can organize with

other psychiatric survivors for human rights! "

 

Well, there is such a place. It's called Zuzu's

Place in Massachusetts. It's totally independent

of the mental health system, with the intent of

being run totally by and for psychiatric survivors.

Zuzu's Place is dedicated to ending forced psychiatry.

 

Zuzu's is a beautiful, 20-room, furnished building,

just south of Boston, that is ready, willing and

able to be the home for about a dozen psychiatric

survivors, with affordable rent. Zuzu's Place is a

Sponsor Group in MindFreedom.

 

But there's a problem. And it's about all of us

reading this.

 

Zuzu's Place needs *all* of us who support

deep change in the mental health system to

support it now! They need more people to

live there, soon, or it may close! They need

volunteers and support.

 

The organizers say:

 

" With your help, Zuzu's Place can be as

important to our movement as the Underground

Railroad was to the fight against slavery.

You can help us keep this opportunity alive! "

 

To help turn things around, Zuzu's Place

is holding an emergency conference

about psychiatric survivors creating

places of our own. I'm honored and

pleased to fly in to be one of the speakers!

 

BELOW is the conference announcement

from Zuzu's. Note they have scholarships

available, and do not intend to turn away

anyone from the conference due to lack

of money.

 

AT BOTTOM is an urgent & important

plea from Zuzu's Place about their

wonderful project, and how you can

support them.

 

Please spread this far and wide to all

those who seriously want to change the

current mental health system.

 

- David Oaks, Director

MindFreedom Support Coalition International

 

___________

 

12 Feb. 2004

 

URGENT MESSAGE FROM ZUZU'S PLACE!

web: http://www.zuzusplace.org

e-mail: contact

ph: 617-834-5463

 

JOIN US IN A CRUCIAL BATTLE IN THE FIGHT FOR

HUMAN RIGHTS IN MENTAL HEALTH!!!

 

" The Next Step for Psychiatric Survivors:

Creating Places of Our Own "

 

A conference featuring:

 

* Judi Chamberlin ** David Oaks *** Robert Whitaker

 

We are all working toward the day when no

one will have to submit to the horrors of

forced psychiatric " treatment. " To achieve

this, we need places -- actual physical

structures -- where people can live with

freedom and dignity.

 

Join us in a discussion about how to create

genuine alternatives. Hosted at Zuzu's

Place, one of the first survivor-run

cooperative residences in the United States,

this conference will bring our community

together to confront the challenges we face

in creating places of our own. (More

information on Zuzu's Place follows below,

after this announcement.)

 

HOLD THE DATE!

 

When: March 26 to 28, 2004. (Evening reception

Friday; workshops and plenary sessions

Saturday through early Sunday afternoon.)

 

Where: Zuzu's Place in Whitman, MA, USA

 

Accommodations: Limited space available for

free accommodations at Zuzu's Place and

nearby residences. Inexpensive motels are

available nearby.

 

Cost: $110 pre-registered, $130 at the

door. NOTE: Full and partial scholarships

available. No one will be turned away

for lack of money!

 

For more information about this event and

how to register, email us at

contact.

 

A full schedule of events will soon be

posted at http://www.zuzusplace.org.

______________

 

*Judi Chamberlin is the author of _On Our

Own_, a seminal work in the history of the

psychiatric survivors' movement. See:

http://www.bu.edu/cpr/about/profiles/judicham.html

 

**David Oaks is the Director of MindFreedom

Support Coalition International and a leading

survivor/activist. See http://www.mindfreedom.org

 

***Robert Whitaker is an award-winning

investigative reporter and author of

_Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine,

and the Enduring Mistreatment

of the Mentally Ill_. See:

http://www.madinamerica.com/

 

___

 

IMPORTANT & URGENT:

 

More information about Zuzu's Place below!

 

___

 

THIS NEXT STEP IN THE SURVIVOR MOVEMENT

NEEDS YOUR HELP!!!

 

We are engaged in a crucial battle in the

fight for human rights in mental health.

 

WHO ARE WE?

 

We are psychiatric survivors who choose to

live in community. In Boston, we have

created Zuzu's Place

(http://www.zuzusplace.org), our own

residential cooperative. Unlike a " group

home " or a " halfway house, " our cooperative

is controlled and run entirely by the

members. At Zuzu's Place, we have the

complete freedom to live as we decide, for

as long as we wish.

 

WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?

 

We all know the horrors of coercive

treatment. Zuzu's Place is currently one of

the only survivor-controlled cooperatives in

the world. Once successful, Zuzu's Place

will demonstrate the truth: Loving human

relationships are the best way to heal from

severe emotional distress.

 

WE NEED YOUR HELP

 

Zuzu's Place is in crisis. We've got a

beautiful, furnished, 20-room house,

properly zoned (no small feat) -- but not

enough members. We have 3 months to find 11

survivors who want to form a thriving

cooperative community. Unless this happens,

the project will run out of funding and a

vital and unique opportunity for the

survivor movement will be lost.

 

HOW YOU CAN HELP

 

- Contact Zuzu's Place for information on

becoming a co-op member, referring others

who may want to live in the house, making a

donation, or volunteering.

 

- Join us at the March conference --

http://zuzusplace.org/index.php?id=

conference -- and help us develop a vision

for survivor-run alternatives.

 

With your help, Zuzu's Place can be as

important to our movement as the Underground

Railroad was to the fight against slavery.

You can help us keep this opportunity alive!

 

Please call Zuzu's Place at 617-834-5463. For more

information, go to http://www.zuzusplace.org

 

Your allies in the struggle for human rights,

 

Members and Friends of Zuzu's Place

 

- end of announcement -

 

~~~~~~~

 

Please forward.

 

Forwarded by:

 

MindFreedom Support Coalition International.

 

United Action for Human Rights.

 

http://www.MindFreedom.org

 

To join/donate to MindFreedom go directly to:

 

http://www.mindfreedom.org/join.shtml

 

" Today, psychologists have a favorite work and that

word is 'maladjusted.' The salvation of the world

lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. "

 

- Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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