We’re finishing “Creative Maladjustment Week” 2018, Get Ready for 2019!
Leonard Roy Frank We just finished another Creative Maladjustment Week. In case you are new to that phrase, for more than a decade, Martin Luther King talked about “creative maladjustment.” MLK would say that he was proud to be creatively maladjusted to problems like militarism, poverty and racism. A number of years ago, MindFreedom International began a Creative Maladjustment Week to celebrate this idea, and to challenge what is falsely called “normal.” Of course, there are 8 days in Creative Maladjustment Week. I suggest we add a...
read moreHelp Wanted in Eugene: Join Our Amazing Homecare Team!
Paid Home Care Worker Wanted Spring 2018: Part-Time, Eugene, OR Have a Current S&DS Home Care Provider Number? Here in southwest Eugene, on a quarter-acre of wild garden, in our little creative home, I have a great team of five fantastic folks. They provide about 85 hours per week to help me get out of bed, do hygiene, eat, get back to bed and various activities of independent living that allow me to live in our community with my amazing wife, Debra. My workers all say they love this job. But one is leaving for a full time position:...
read moreDocumentary on Involuntary Mental Health Has Interview with Me: Free Showing in Eugene 1/30/2018
I’ll go to free showing tomorrow of new documentary about controversy of involuntary mental healthcare. Movie is appropriately called “Crazy” and appropriately I am one of those interviewed in the flick. If you are in Eugene Tues 1/30, more info about the 5:30 showing is here on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1078812778925476/ Here is a PDF of the flyer: crazy-eugene-20180130-flyer (1) Please note that you can help prep for the showing and chat with me after 4 pm tomorrow. See...
read moreHappy Groundhog Day! Friday, Feb 2, 2018, Win Human Rights in Mental Health!
Especially for those of you who live in Eugene, this Friday you are invited to join us at the LILA Peer Support Club, free. We will build MindFreedom Oregon and then have fun on the stage with folk singer David Rogers and others. Here is more info, and you can download this flyer: 2018-02-02-mf-oregon Facebook event here. Text: HAPPY GROUNDHOG DAY! Win Human Rights & Humane Alternatives in the Mental Health System in Lane County! Where: Cuckoo’s Nest Stage LILA Peer Support Club 990 Oak St, Eugene (NW corner 8th & Oak) Date:...
read moreEugene Men Who Survived Sexual Assault Now Have Free Weekly Support Meetup
Eugene, Oregon, USA. Thankfully, the USA culture is discussing more than ever the hidden oppression of sexual assault against women. However, men who have had their lives disrupted by unwanted or abusive sexual experiences might not have felt the same level of support or not known where to turn. A local respected nonprofit here in Eugene, Oregon, Sexual Assault Support Services, has mainly worked with female survivors, but they have a resource for male survivors. Many group meetings for counseling have a formal expectation for attending, but...
read moreWow, it has been 5 years since I broke my neck… time to party!
Download a pdf flyer of the below here: 12-1-2017-mf-oregon.4 You are invited to a free celebration by David Oaks: “It’s Been 5 Years Since My Accident!” Where: Cuckoo’s Nest Stage LILA Peer Support Club 990 Oak St, Eugene (NW corner 8th & Oak) Date: Friday, Dec 1, 2017 Time: Starts at 3 pm Who? Confirmed: David Rogers, folk singer. Howard Falk, stand-up comedian. Sarah Smith, MindFreedom International. Chrissy Peirsol & David Oaks, revolutionary psychiatric survivor activists. Libbie Rascon, Office of Consumer...
read moreCelebrate a Victory! Kesey Square is now officially Kesey Square in Eugene, Oregon.
This Friday, November 3, 2017 at 3 pm we have a special free event planned, especially if you are in or near Eugene, Oregon. Celebrate the fact that the City Council has officially proclaimed that the center square in our city is Kesey Square, named after a wonderful writer and friend of our movement, Ken Kesey (1935-2001). Here is the PDF flyer: new_2017-11-3-cuckoo Below is the text from this PDF: You are invited to a free celebration of Kesey Square is now officially Kesey Square! Where : Cuckoo’s Nest Stage LILA Peer Support...
read moreProtected: Rise of Involuntary Mental Health in Key US Agency: What is Your Resistance Strategy?
Many advocates for human rights in the US mental health system already know this sad fact: The main US government agency that addresses mental health is increasingly under the influence of a special interest group, founded by extremist psychiatrist E. Fuller Torrey. This group, Treatment Advocate Center, promotes court-ordered involuntary outpatient mental health treatment, even if the client lives outside of a psychiatric institution. However, even after working for decades for human rights in mental health, I have been surprised about how...
read moreHurricane Harvey, Trump, USA Mental Health: We Are All Mad, 100%!
Dear Year 2192 & Year 2017: Can our two years talk? Let’s use our imaginations. The Iroquois Native Americans wisely advised us all to think ahead seven generations. As Hurricane Harvey attacks the Houston area in this year 2017, seven generations ahead (each generation is now about 25 years) would be the year 2192. Wow, you in the year 2192, that is the 700th anniversary of the invasion of this continent by us Europeans. I hope someone is there to read this message? Perhaps if we here in the year 2017 are effective and ignite a...
read moreNew Game: What Are Your Four Truths (#4Truths) That You Feel Could Save the Planet?
Over the years I have created a number of games that I mostly play in my own head. One of these has actually caught on a bit with some of my homecare workers: When you hear anyone, such as on the radio, say the word “normal” you howl. That is it. You can play! On the right we made a party for watching the 2017 eclipse. My brother Tony chose the soundtrack. Personally my current game that I play in my own head is named “4Truths.” All you need to do is provide four of your truths that you feel that if the world knew, it...
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