What intrigues me, Bobby, is why JFA sends this info last minute or after
the fact.
Be "informed" but don't participate in policy or decision making.
I keep asking who are these people because I don't know them or of them, nor
have I been asked to give consent for their activites.
Something in this process leaves me uneasy.
Jailing the MI? A new HUD subsidized housing program?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bobby Greer" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 5:07 PM
Subject: Re: Highlander 30 Call to Action
> Steve,
>
> Seems Ironic this meeting took place in my home state, which has
> one of the worst public mental systems in the nation. We have just closed
> out last public psychiatric hospital amd are now jailing most of the
> MI(homeless).
>
> Bobby
>
>
> >Seems like the "latest" group to speak out are speaking.
> >
> >S.
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Justice For All Moderator" <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2000 9:13 PM
> >Subject: Highlander 30 Call to Action
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Justice For All
> >>
> >> [log in to unmask]
> >>
> >> Highlander 30 Call to Action
> >>
> >> The following is a joint statement from leaders from the psychiatric
> >> survivor movement following meetings at the Highlander Training and
> >> Education Center, near Knoxville, Tennessee. Names of those signing
> >> the statement are at the bottom.
> >>
> >> The Highlander Statement of Concern and Call to Action
> >> March 25, 2000
> >>
> >> In the tradition of Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Eleanor Roosevelt
and
> >> thousands of men and women concerned about social justice and
progressive
> >> change, thirty people with long histories of fighting for human rights
in
> >> mental health gathered for three days at the Highlander Center in
> >> Tennessee. We argued, came to consensus, and then quietly shared our
pain,
> >> our concerns, our fears, and our hopes for the future.
> >>
> >> We came to understand that our personal stories have power and that
they
> >> must be heard. We must tell them to other people who have been damaged
by
> >> psychiatric treatment, to the public, to lawmakers and to political
> >> candidates as well. We are compelled to share our collective struggle
and
> >> claim our place as a civil rights movement alongside those who have
been
> >> similarly discounted, disenfranchised, and marginalized: people of
color;
> >> gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people; people with physical
or
> >> cognitive disabilities; women; people belonging to religious, ethnic,
and
> >> linguistic minorities; and people forced to live in poverty amidst the
> >> great wealth and abundance of the corporate economy.
> >>
> >> We are obliged to be vigilant and to help others realize the horrible
> >> consequences that arise when certain groups are seen as less than fully
> >> human and less deserving of basic civil rights. We must never forget
that
> >> in Nazi Germany "mercy killings" of mental patients, people with
> >> disabilities and others labeled asocial preceded the attempted genocide
of
> >> Jews and other oppressed groups during the Holocaust. To prevent
similar
> >> atrocities from occurring we pledge to speak out for equal human rights
> >> for everyone throughout the world.
> >>
> >> In the Highlander tradition, we came away from those three days on the
> >> mountain determined that we will not allow anyone to do for us, to
> >> discount us, or to pat us on the head instead of looking us in the eye.
We
> >> came away invigorated and ready to act individually and collectively to
> >> insure that self-determination, respect, ethical behavior, and humane
> >> voluntary services and supports become the foundation of a reinvented
> >> mental health system. This system must first and foremost do no harm.
We
> >> came away ready to make this a reality.
> >>
> >> The Highlander Call for Action:
> >>
> >> ***We call upon all people committed to human rights to organize and
fight
> >> against the passage and implementation of legislation making it easier
to
> >> lock up, shock, and forcibly drug people labeled with psychiatric
> >> disorders,legislation that is creating the back-wards of the
twenty-first
> >> century not just in hospitals, but also in our own homes.
> >>
> >> ***We call upon all people committed to human rights to work together
to
> >> build a mental health system that is based upon the principle of
> >> self-determination, on a belief in our ability to recover, and on our
> >> right to define what recovery is and how best to achieve it.
> >>
> >> ***We call upon people who have used mental health services to heal
each
> >> other by telling our stories. We call for the creation of literature
and
> >> other art forms that use our truths to educate, to inform, and to
validate
> >> our culture and our experience.
> >>
> >> ***We call upon elected officials, political candidates, and those with
> >> power over our lives to recognize and honor the legitimacy of our
concerns
> >> through their policy statements, legislative proposals, and their
actions;
> >> and we hereby give notice that we will do whatever it takes to insure
that
> >> we are heard, that our rights are protected, and that we can live
freely
> >> and peacefully in our communities.
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> The Highlander 30: Laurie Ahern, Patricia Deegan, Ken Schlosser, Judi
> >> Chamberlin, Tom Behrendt, Carla X Cubit, Celia Brown, Anne Krauss. Ron
> >> Bassman, George Ebert, Mary Ann Ebert, Linda Morrison, Janet Foner, Tom
> >> Olin, Lawrence Plumlee, Gayle Bluebird, Cookie Gant, Vicki Fox
> >> Wieselthier, Mickey Weinberg, Beverly Jones, Loren Mosher, Ty Colbert,
Jay
> >> Mahler, Kris Yates, Sally Zinman, Ted Chabasinski, Lynda Wright, Sue
> >> Parry, Linda Sisson, David Oaks
> >>
> >> Comments to: [log in to unmask]
> >>
> >> --
> >> Fred Fay
> >> Chair, Justice For All
> >> [log in to unmask]
> >> http://www.jfanow.org
> >>
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> >>
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