Hey everyone, this is Debra and David talking. Thank you everyone for the van. It arrived the other day. It is a 2013 Dodge with low miles and it is fully accessible. Thanks to everyone who donated and supported this goal. We pledge to use this van for many good trips, including challenging the climate crisis!
Debra and David in front of the new van! You can name our van!
If you have a contact who is within driving distance of Eugene Oregon…or if you are local…please support donate to and attend the below fundraising sale to help me.
Here is the announcement from Friends of David Oaks (FODO):
Her is a PDF color poster you may download or view of the event:
If you are on Facebook, get out this Facebook event to your contacts and say you will attend: https://www.facebook.com/events/188931397984319/
The Friends of David Oaks fundraising committee invite you to a Living Estate Sale in North Eugene, starting Friday, Feb. 21 through Sunday, Feb. 23rd.
WHAT: Living Estate Sale to raise money for David Oaks’ medical/rehabilitative care needs
Read MoreIn his speeches and essays for more than a decade, MLK referred to the idea of Creative Maladjustment. He in fact said the world is in dire need of a new organization: International Association for the Advancement of Creative Maladjustment or the IAACM. MLK talked like this more than a dozen times in ten years.
We have a Facebook page for the IAACM here:
https://www.facebook.com/IAACM
Her are some MLK quotes about IAACM:
http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/mental-health-global/iaacm/MLK-on-IAACM
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Photo by Paul Carter, Eugene Register-Guard
The Sunday, Jan. 5, 2014, Register-Guard daily newspaper ran a huge piece by journalist Randi Bjornstad about me, my fall, my broken neck, activism, our supportive community, changing the mental health system, and even the Chamber of Commerce protest on climate crisis. There are two great photos by professional photographer Paul Carter, plus how to give to my irrevocable trust fund.
You can read, download, print a PDF of the article here: R-G-DavidWOaks-1-5-2014
You may wish to write a letter to the editor about this excellent article, contact information is here: http://registerguard.com/rg/opinion/#letter
For news about the protest of the Chamber of Commerce, see the next blog entry below:
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Amanda from the MFI office delivers the archives to OHSU.
I have good news to report: The big medical school in Portland, Oregon Health Sciences University, has taken the material from MindFreedom while I was director for twenty-five years. For many years I have encouraged archives for our movement, but there are very few.
We have compiled posters, newsletters, journals, letters, photos, etc. I would like to give a lot of credit to my mother Violet Oaks, who volunteered eight years in the office often three days a week. Mom must have gone through almost every piece of paper in the office applying her seventy-plus years of office experience and changing our messy office to one that had a very good filing system, thank you Mom! Mom is now 96 years old so she is working from home by doing thank you notes for gifts to my trust fund.
Read MoreUpdated: Monday Dec 2nd – See below for before or after gathering. Also see how you can help where ever you live.
Flash Gathering: Eugene Area Chamber of Climate Crisis
Tongue in Cheek Award Ceremony
Thursday, December 5, 2013
Contact: David Zupan
Phone: 541-484-9167
At 12:30 pm on December 5th, local citizens concerned about the global climate crisis will gather at the Eugene Area Chamber of Commerce, 1401 Willamette, to give them an award. The Golden Ostrich trophy will be presented to the Eugene Chamber because of their support for the US Chamber of Commerce and its blockade of progress on addressing The Climate Crisis.
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