[mobglob-discuss] Re: Mad Pride

[Yashi & Liz]

In honour of all those being held today in mental prisions.
For anyone in Vancouver, there will be a picnic at Guelph Park (E.8th and
Brunswick, just north of Kingsgate Mall) starting at Noon on Sunday, July
14 - International Mad Pride Day. Bring your own food, musical instruments,
soccer balls etc. The Vancouver/Richmond Mental Health Network will be
supplying watermellons and the finest organic apple juice. On Sunday night,
we are holding the First Annual Mad Hatters Ball at the Heritage Hall (Main
and 16th). It starts at 8:00 PM. There will be live band and free snacks.
The Ball was originally scheded for Saturday...on Hastings...please note the
change.
IN struggle,
Liz Thor-Larsen

----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Weitz" <dweitz at pathcom.com>
To: <Can-Survive at topica.com>
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 7:16 AM
Subject: Mad Pride - draft release


> Media Release - July 11, 2002
>
> MAD PRIDE DAY JULY 14: SPEAK OUT-MARCH-REMEMBER
>
> This Sunday, July 14, at 6 pm, many psychiatric survivors, friends and
> allies are gathering outside the Parkdale Public Library at the corner of
> Queen & Cowan (about 2 blocks west of Dufferin) to mark International Mad
> Pride Day in Toronto. July 14 is also Bastille Day, it was chosen last
year
> to mark human rights struggles and victories involving millions of
> psychiatric survivors around the world. The public is welcome.
>
> Following a few short speeches, we will march to Queen St.Mental Health
> Centre where two survivor-activists will lead us on an historical walking
> tour of this notorious psychoprison. The day ends with native drumming,
and
> commemoration of many brother-and-sister survivors who did not survive
> psychiatry. Free food has been generously donated.
>
> We are pleased to reprint our Vision Statement which was first published
> during Psychiatric Survivor Pride Week last year, July 14-22.
>
> "The  Psychepride Committee envisions a day where psychiatric survivors
can
> come together and find allies and supporters and recognize the strength of
> our voices as advocates and survivors. The day is to also make our outrage
> against community  treatment orders known as we remember the lives of all
> those who have passed on in psychiatric institutions and on the streets.
We
> are representatives of colonized people,women who are raped and
> psychiatrized, poor people, gays, lesbians, and transgendered people
> seeking equality, homeless people, refugee claimants seeking political
> asylum, First Nations people, incarcerated women and men, young offenders,
> "hyperactive" children, those living with a disability, senior citizens,
> single parents, those subjected to everyday acts of racism, sexism,
> ableism, homophobia, anti-semitism ,and anyone unaware of their rights.
> The Pride of our committee lies in the spirit of our voices and the spirit
> to fight."
>
> Since 1993, psychiatric survivors and their allies in Toronto have also
> organized Psychiatric Survivor Pride Day. Special events are  being
planned
> for September 21, we will issue another release around that time.
>
> For more information on Mad Pride and the psychiatric
> survivor/antipsychiatry movement, please see these websites:
> www.tao.ca/~pact/Psychepride/pride2001.html
> www.tao.ca/~pact
> www.psychiatricsurvivorarchives.com
> www.MindFreedom.org
>
> prepared by the Psychiatric Survivor Pride Day Committee and People
Against
> Coercive Treatment (PACT), ph: 416-760-2795
>
>