Gail Hornstein talks about her new book
Agnes's Jacket: A Psychologist's Search for the Meanings of Madness

next Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at 6.30pm at the
Holyoke Public Library Community Room, Holyoke, MA

Free and Open to the Public, all welcome

Parking  behind library on Chestnut Street
Use entrance from Parking Lot & elevator to 2nd floor
For information: 413-532-2081

Listen to radio interviews with Gail here.

FC Organizer Mollie Hurter writes about the Northeast Herbal Convergence:

Freedom Center just did two presentations at the herbal convergence in
Ashfield. The convergence had a few hundred people at it from all over the
northeast and even some folks from the west coast.

 

 

 

 

 

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'07 Bed Push Protest audio clip from NPR - WAMC

We all met at Cooley Dickinson where we made signs, decorated the hospital bed, put on our hospital Johnnies, waved and saluted to the 5th floor, and called the psych unit to give a hello to everyone and tell them why we were here.

This past weekend, two Freedom Center did a presentation called "Who's Calling Who Crazy? Psychiatry and the Oppressed" in a packed standing room-only hotel room in Atlanta, Georgia as part of the U.S Social Forum.

Dr. Ed Knight, Ph. D., Vice President of Recovery, Rehabilitation, and Mutual Supports at ValueOptions in Colorado: Dialogue on Empowerment (Providers and Consumer/Survivors) 1-2:30 at MBHP, 489 Whitney Avenue, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Holyoke, MA

Building a Social Movement (Consumer/Survivors and Allies only) 3:30 - 5:00 at Quaker Space, 2nd Floor, 43 Center St., Northampton, MA.

Windhorse is sponsoring Dr. Dan Fisher, a world-reknowned speaker on recovery, at the Unitarian Church 5-7pm on April 5. Join us there!