Sunday Brunch

Appetizer

Playing with Hugh
Or, rather, hue (and contrast, and saturation etc.). All these taken in the past week or two. Click for real size, which is big, btw.
I call this one “very close to fall”.

Oregon Rainforest- Silver Creek trail

Ground Foliage

“General Pictures, Sir!”

From:
MindFreedom Oregon News Alert – Please Forward
http://www.mindfreedom.org/oregon

MindFreedom International News – 22 October 2009
Ray Alert [...]

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Yesterday and Today at Oregon State Hospital

467 Poisoned at Oregon State Hospital
November 18, 1942
One of the most tragic incidents in Salem’s history was the poisoning of nearly 500 patients and staff at the Oregon State Hospital, on the evening of November 18, 1942. Many who ate the scrambled eggs served for dinner that evening would later claim that they had tasted [...]

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Anniversary Today

Today is the 39th anniversary of the infamous killings of four student antiwar protesters at Kent State University by members of the Ohio National Guard. Nine other students were wounded, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.

Some of the students had been protesting on campus against the American invasion of Cambodia, which then-President Richard Nixon had recently announced [...]

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Stories From Mental Hell Treatment

These are stories of people subjected to torture and humiliation in the name of “treatment” for mental health issues. They are found (with many others) on the website: http://psychrights.org/index.htm
CHOMP Hell
On October 15, 2007, I was kidnapped, put in solitary confinement, and I was physically abused for 3 days.
My husband had called the suicide prevention hotline and [...]

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Ray Update from MindFreedom

MindFreedom News – 15 April 2009
Nonviolent Revolution in Mental Health
http://www.mindfreedom.org/ray – please forward
    Ray Sandford Declares “Guarded Victory” for MindFreedom Ray Campaign
    Because of Public Pressure, Ray’s Psychiatrist May Quit Case
The bad news is that this morning, 15 April 2009, Ray Sandford of 
Minnesota had another involuntary, outpatient electroshock, also 
known as electroconvulsive therapy or [...]

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Study 15

From the Washington Post:
A Silenced Drug Study Creates An Uproar
By Shankar Vedantam
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, March 18, 2009; A01
 
The study would come to be called “cursed,” but it started out just as Study
15.
It was a long-term trial of the antipsychotic drug Seroquel. The common wisdom
in psychiatric circles was that newer drugs were far better than [...]

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Ron Unger Presents-

This information is forwrded from MindFreedom International. Ron Unger is a a therapist in Oregon who embraces the CS/X movement and teaches cognitive approaches to recovery from serious mental health issues.
-Rick
MindFreedom Oregon – 12 May 2008
http://www.mindfreedom.org – human rights in mental health
FORWARDED PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
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Oregon alternative treatment in mental health seminar:
Ron Unger is a longtime [...]

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Another MindFreedom news release from lazy blogger

Hi,
This is for everyone in Oregon…
In case you missed any of these news items, here is a link to April
2008 alerts about changing Oregon’s mental health system:
http://www.intenex.net/pipermail/mindfreedom-oregon-news/2008-April/
date.html
If that link is too long for your browser, try clicking on this link:
http://tinyurl.com/4nlef3
The big picture for April 2008?
As you may know by now, Oregon’s mental health system has [...]

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Forced Electroshock in Oregon + other stuff

Reprinted from OCSC:
Hi MindFreedom Oregon TALK list:
I asked for and receive statistics about State of Oregon electroshock
(that is, electroshock by State of Oregon “Hospital”).
Definitely, at least one individual received [...]

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Causes of Poverty- reprinted- url below

Causes of Poverty

http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Poverty.asp

by Anup Shah
This Page Last Updated Tuesday, March 04, 2008

This page: http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Poverty.asp.
To print full details (expanded/alternative links, side notes, etc.) use the printer-friendly version:

http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Poverty.asp?p=1

Half the world — nearly three billion people — live on less than two dollars a day.
The GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of the 41 Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (567 million [...]

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