Friday, 15 February 2019

Psychiatry: An Abuse Of Human Rights?


F.E.E.L. - Friends of East End Loonies are hosting an event about the recent Mental Health Act review presented in December 2018 and its disregards to the United Nations' recommendations on the CRPD (Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities).



Friday 22 March 2019, 7-9 pm 
Doors open at 6:30 pm for refreshments
Kingsley Hall Community Centre
 1 Powis Road, London E3 3HJ



 "Psychiatry: An Abuse Of Human Rights?"


Akiko Hart (Chair of the International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis UK - ISPS UK; English Hearing Voices Network; HV Project Manager, Mind in Camden) www.akikohart.com 'The Alternative Review'


Dorothy Gould (Survivor Consultant, Researcher and Trainer) 
'The fit between the rights of people with lived experience and the recommendations in the final Mental Health Act Review report'


Liz Brosnan (Survivor Researcher, member of SURE - Service User Research Enterprise, and EURIKHA) www.researchgate.net/profile/Liz_Brosnan
 'The Irish Mental Health Act Review: What happened and whose views got heard?'

The panel discussion will be followed by a Q&A
No entrance fee but there will be a collection to cover costs


 



The Mental Health Act review
The Mental Health Act review was published on 6thDecember 2018. Its aim was to look at how legislation around the Mental Health Act 1983 is used and makes recommendations to government. It was commissioned bythe Tory Government in response to increasing numbers of people being detained under the Act, including disproportionate numbers of black, Asian & ethnic minority people (See bit.ly/2D2Gqw8)

United Nation Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
This Convention is an International legal agreement adopted by the United Nations in 2007 to change attitudes and approaches to persons with disabilities. It is intended to protect the human rights of persons with disabilities,looking at areas where their rights have been violated.The convention covers a wide range of areas including health, employment, personal security & independent living. The UK signed the treaty in 2009. (bit.ly/2JZyVIX)
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Wednesday, 6 February 2019

February Newsletter

Dear Friends,

We hope you are managing well during these cold weeks. 
With Imbolc just gone and the Chinese New Year just started might these be propitious times for positive changes and new beginnings.

January has been an unpredictable month, with several events being canceled or postponed.
Our forthcoming event at Kingsley Hall "Psychiatry: An Abuse Of Human Rights?" has now been re-scheduled to Friday 22nd March 7-9pm. A leaflet that can be printed and circulated will be available soon. Copies will be available at our monthly meeting at LARC on Monday 18th Feb.

In the main time please check out a few notifications to follow and the usual event listing at the bottom of the page. Here a moving post about the power of Love, from Dr Breggin, which deserves the utmost respect for his inspiring work in his whole career: 
How Love Can Reformat Our Lives www.madinamerica.com/2019/01/love-reformats-lives
Might your heart always be full of Love to guide you in everyday steps!


- A "Global history of antipsychiatry and mad liberation movements" project by Matthew Smith with a German colleague: " We are particularly interested in associations and archives that have emerged outside of the Anglo-American world." If interested, please contact m.smith@strath.ac.uk;  W: www.strath.ac.uk/staff/smithmatthewdr

- Our friend Keira Pratt-Boyden information & invite to take part to her research in ‘Mental health activism’:
Dear friends,
First of all, happy new year!
Some of you will have met me and will know that I moved to London in August to pursue a PhD in ‘mental health activism’. I have spent a few months attending different groups and learning about different approaches in London. This email is to explain what I hope to do in the upcoming months and to ask for your permission to be involved 😊

Some of the things I’m interested in for my research are:
-          How people understand ‘mental health’
-          How people support and care for each other outside of services
-          How people resist or try to improve services
-          Whether people engage in alternative treatments/healing methods and how useful they
find them to be.
However, I don’t have any predetermined questions or answers and I am interested in hearing all your thoughts and opinions, and this will also guide my research.
The main research method I use is ‘participant observation’, and this means that getting to know people and observing everyday life is important. The way participant observation works is that I hope to be as involved with various groups and activities as much as I can be, so I can learn from your everyday experiences and perspectives, which also means helping out in various ways I can. Getting people’s consent is also very important to me and to the code of ethics set by my University. With people’s permission, I will take notes from time to time and might also ask to audio record meetings for my own use. I will not quote people directly if they ask me not to. All of my notes will be anonymised (so individuals can’t be identified) and I will only name organisations, groups and locations if given your permission to do so.
Reciprocity is an important part of my research, which means I’d like my research to be as useful to people as possible. Some suggestions are that I give a talk at the end of my research feeding back to the groups I have been working with so that people can reflect on lessons learnt and ‘best practices’ throughout the year (I have until September). Another suggestion is that I write up my main findings in a leaflet to circulate to everyone involved in the research.
I’m open to questions about my research and will try to answer as best I can! Please feel free to email me at k.pratt.boyden@gmail.com or alternatively we can meet face to face 😊
I’d like to thank everyone who has already given their time to talk to me about this important topic. I hope that my findings will work towards advancements in mental health activism and make the work that people do, the support they give each other and the cause more visible.

- Another FEEL esteemed friend, Dr Bob Johnson, latest handout:
            HAND-OUT for the DISPUK annual psychiatry seminar, 8th March 2019
                  how psychiatry cripples doctors
speechless terror
Without symptoms, doctors flounder. If you refuse to tell me about your chest pains, how can you expect me to diagnose your heart disease? Doctors need symptoms the same way bakers need flour. No flour, no bread. No clinical data, no medical care. This clinical predicament happens regularly enough – they’re called “incubation periods” – the disease is impending, but there’s no clinical evidence to diagnose it, yet. Take chest pain caused by pre-shingles, as happened to me – it’s “preherpetic pain” – until the classic spots arrive, you're working in the dark. It cannot be otherwise. Medical thinking cannot even begin, until recognisable symptoms develop – after that, it’s obvious, but never before. So in mental illhealth, when the bit that does the telling, is
on the blink, relevant symptoms are quite simply unavailable, so you can kiss goodbye to successful mental healthcare – doctors are stymied. Doctors are crippled by the very nature of the disease they are being asked to diagnose. We all know that a broken arm means you cannot WRITE. But how many know that a broken mind means you cannot TELL?
the irrefutable brainscan evidence
What’s the evidence? First check out the BRAINSCANS. These days much is made of scientific neurological advance – so put someone (anyone) in a brainscan machine, play them an audio tape of their trauma, the gun shot, the car crash, whatever it was that had traumatised them – and their speech centre and their frontal lobes go off line, they can neither speak nor think about the worst thing that has ever happened to them.
This evidence, unique in all psychiatry, is solid, scientific, REPRODUCIBLE, clinical data – it’s been available since the early 1990s – 25 years – what impact has it had? There are lots of things you can pretend in psychiatry – psychobabble occurs as much, if not more, in “biochemical psychiatry” as elsewhere. But when objective, scientific, reproducible, neuroscan evidence does eventually arrive, who are you to refute it? Bessel van der Kolk called it speechless terror in 1995 – without a workable speech centre, no trauma is available for medical help – doctors are seriously disabled.
clinical evidence
Sufferers can chatter on about everything else, but not the “Base Trauma” – the very essence of mental illhealth. The mind is for sorting things out, thinking things through, talking about solutions – so if none of this works any longer – what are you to do? Only a doctor with insight is going to tease out what you CANNOT tell her/him directly. I show a 1991 video of a prisoner – he didn’t start by saying he couldn’t tell his mother he was an adult. He didn’t know that this was THE problem, so how could he know where to start? The crunch is that when he DOES tell her, his anger, violence, and mental pain evaporates – fabulous. But DSM-psychiatrists see no more reason to pay attention to videod clinical data, than they do to solid scientific brainscan data (or to published, peer reviewed academic papers, see below). Do they really know better?
doctors’ delusions
A friend of mine, a university law lecturer, was asking a consultant psychiatrist why he prescribes four times the accepted maximum drug dosage. The reply stunned him. “Because I’m a consultant psychiatrist – you’re not”. My friend decided not to talk to psychiatrists again – would you? The first pages of Psychological Medicine in 2014 show that by NOT prescribing mis-named “anti-psychotic” drugs, for 20 years, you gain a ninefold REDUCTION of psychotic symptoms. That was published 5 years ago. Where’s the global drug reduction campaign? If doctors continue to ignore such solid scientific evidence in this most prestigious academic journal, what prevents their work (and their reasoning) from being dismissed as mere superstition or witchcraft? If Plan A doesn’t work – just keep repeating Plan A, embroidered with psychobabble, like the UK Prime Minister does with Brexit, embellished there with fake news.
the way forward
We humans use our minds to tell you what’s wrong. However, when trauma disables our speech centres – as brainscans universally prove it does – this channel is blocked, and an alternative clinical approach becomes mandatory. My clinical work indicates that a Base Trauma sits in the centre of the mental furniture, leaking toxins – but, because it can be neither visualised nor talked about, it self-perpetuates. Happily, as the video data shows, by DISEMPOWERING this speechless terror, and its blockage, you can blossom. You (and they) don’t have to believe this – but until you do, it’ll bite you.
Dr Bob Johnson Www.DrBobJohnson.org                                      Tuesday, 29 January 2019

Consultant Psychiatrist, (retired) P O Box 49, Ventnor, Isle of Wight, PO38 9AA UK
Author – “how Verbal Physiotherapy works” at www.smashwords.com/books/view/892956
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2019 LGBT History Month
LGBT History Month takes place every February. 
This year theme is Peace, Activism and Reconciliation lgbthistorymonth.org.uk

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DeafPlus 4th Annual Deaf Carers Conference - "Dementia" 
Wed 6th February, 10am - 12pm, Idea Store Whitechapel, 321 Whitechapel Road, London, E1 1BU. 
Speakers from Alzheimer's Society and Tower Hamlets Carers Centre as well as real life stories of being a carer to someone with Dementia being shared. 
Refreshments will be provided. To register, please contact either Milena or Aiysha: milena.blaszczyk@deafplus.org or aiysha.begum@deafplus.org

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Crack-up Comedy Cabaret 
Wednesday, 6 February, from 19:30 to 22:30, The Glory 281 Kingsland Road E2 8AS London
A brand new night of comedy and cabaret in aid of local Hackney mental health charity Core Arts www.corearts.co.uk
Brought to you by two queer femme comedienne's Charlie George* and Jennie Falconer.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crack-up-comedy-cabaret-tickets-54134052408

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MHRN Movie Night 
Thu 7 Feb, 7-10pm, 
The Field, 385 Queen's Road, 
New Cross, SE14 5HD
Showing the film 'This Time It's Personal' 
followed by a debate with Robert Stearn.






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Grounded Ecotherapy health and well-being volunteering
Every Friday 10:30am - 3:30pm Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, The Soanes Centre, Southern Grove, E3 4PX
Join the Grounded weekly volunteering day to support the work of The Friends in the Cemetery Park. The wildlife and plant life of the park needs constant care and every Friday volunteers are welcome to drop in for all or part of the day, in this Nature Reserve. Tea, coffee, tools and equipment are supplied. Please wear clothes which you don't mind getting dirty, sturdy shoes, and bring a packed lunch. For info/contact details  here groundedproject.org

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The Offical Mandela Exhibition ( £8-15)
From Friday 8th February, 26 Leake Street, Waterloo SE1 7NN, London
mandelaexhibition.com

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Central London Bipolar UK Support Group 
Friday 8th Feb 6:30 - 7:45 pm, St Gabriel's Church Hall, Glasgow Terrace, Churchill Gardens, Pimlico, SW1V 3AA 
Dr Rebecca Kelly www.national.slam.nhs.uk/about-us/our-experts/dr-rebecca-kelly will be joining the meeting to talk for twenty minutes or-so about the role of psychology in the maintenance and treatment of bipolar disorders with around 40 minutes for a Q&A session. No charge, donations welcome. For more info centrallondon@bipolarukgroups.org

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Healing Money Wounds - Online PeoplesHub Workshop 
Mon 11 Feb, 11 pm (90 min long). Pay what you can. Sign up here bit.ly/2BdbTfx 
Poverty is trauma, and the impact of chronic lack or looming debt can trigger depression, anxiety and anger. 
We are bombarded by messages about money, prosperity, wealth and value while we spend our days tending to the wounds of unbridled capitalism.

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Made of Money 
Tue 12th Feb 6-8pm, Islington Town Hall, Upper St, N1 2UD
Talk for Health's February Special will be hosted by Denise Brewster and Priscilla Joseph from Made of Money - a financial wellbeing course that recognises the many aspects of money.
Register here. For more information, or if you can't register on Eventbrite, contact info@talkforhealth.co.uk or 07826148461

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Survivors' Poetry at the Poetry Cafe 
Thurs Feb 14, 7:30-10:30pm, arrive 7.00pm to sign up for floorspots (1.50 floorspots / 2.50 concessions / 3.50 the full ticket)
The Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton St, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9BX
An evening of Poetry and song. MC Dave Russell. 
Featuring guest 'seasoned' poet and erstwhile member of the Survivors' tribe Jessica Lawrence will give a wry look at relationships and love - failed or otherwise! - on Valentines Day.  
Facebook: Survivor's Poetry Gigs.

 






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'Social/Spiritual gathering' 
Friday 22nd February, Brayford Square Community Hall, E1 
Interested in Spirituality? You are invited to join for an hour of inspired writings and discussion from 5-6pm. After 6, those that want to can come down to the Peacock pub (200 yards down Aylward St.) for further chat and play their WONDERFUL FREE juke box. Those that want to can visit the terrific George Tavern (bottom of Jubilee St) afterwards, easy walking distance, for late night live music. For more info contact Donald Greig Prentice on donprentice@hotmail.com Website: sites.google.com/site/internationalfpc

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The Anatomy of Melancholy Exhibition
16 January - 27 April, Bethlem Museum of the Mind, Monks Orchard Road, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3BX
museumofthemind.org.uk/whats-on/exhibition-info/the-anatomy-of-melancholy

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Social Care Charging Survey
Following on from the Independent Living Strategy Group "A tax on the need for support?" report into charging for social care  we’d like to get more information on charging and how it is affecting people. Please could people fill in details in the form below. Could you also email us at mail@dpac.uk.net if you’d be willing to speak to the journalist Frances Ryan about charging and it’s impact on your lives and support. dpac.uk.net/2019/01/please-help-our-research-on-social-care

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International Women's Strike on 8 March 2019.


THE FESTIVAL OF REST & RESISTANCE
Showcasing the very best of the UK's disability arts scene.
4-16 Mar, Battersea Arts Centre Lavender Hill London SW11 5TN
www.bac.org.uk/content/45358/whats_on/whats_on/shows/the_festival_of_rest__resistance

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Mental Capacity Action Day 
Friday 15 March, Royal College of Nursing, 20 Cavendish Square, London, W1G 0RN. 
If you'd like to attend, please get in touch with Maya Sooben, Mental Capacity Policy Department, Ministry of Justice. Tel - 0203 334 3127, Email - NMCF1@justice.gov.uk
www.scie.org.uk/mca/directory/forum

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Compassionate Mental Health - Safe Spaces for Suffering & Joy 
Mon 1 April, 10:00 am - 6:00 pm, Kingsley Hall, Bromley-by-Bow, London E3 3HJ 
Changing the script around mental health, challenging stigma and raising expectations. Speakers and facilitators include: Will Hall, Dr Joseph H. Berke, Akiko Hart and core Compassionate mental health team members, Malcolm Stern, Andy Bradley and Brigid Bowen compassionatementalhealth.co.uk

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International #Emerging Proud Day 2019 launch event
Sunday 12 May LIVE online event emergingproud.com/events
Reframing Mental distress as a transformation process 

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How To Be Human 
Ruby Wax National Live Tour 
4 June - 15 June 2019, Leicester Square Theatre, London
www.rubywax.net/tour.html

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Petitions

- Provide Tapering Strips for people who want to withdraw safely from antidepressant drugs
bit.ly/2DaC5aN

- Increase funding to Children's Mental Health services
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/231146

- Windrush scandal -
Release Owen Haisley and the 50+ passengers being deported on Tuesday 5th Feb
bit.ly/2MPgWHA

- Professor Heather Ashton, the true Angel of the North, to be honoured by the UK Government
bit.ly/2SuCqi1

- Petition: Make DLA/ PIP assessment companies liable for wrongly rejected claims
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/228602
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Friday, 4 January 2019

January Newsletter

Dear Friends,

We hope you have entered 2019 in good health and good spirit. 

January is a dreaded month for many. The 3rd Monday of January has even been labelled "Blue Monday", and that happens to be when our next monthly meeting is taking place.
Please, join us on Monday 21st at LARC, 62 Fieldgate St, London E1 1ES from 6:30-8:30 pm, and together we might turn that Monday turquoise-like. 
Something will be announced on the evening as well (clue: being free on Tue 22 Jan might help dispersing some blues...)

Please note that we are planning a public event on the theme of the Mental Health Act review. This will take place on Friday the 22nd February 2019 at Kingsley Hall, 7-9pm. Save the date pls. 
Confirmed speakers are Dorothy Gould (NSUN), Akiko Hart (Mind in Camden, Hearing Voices Network, ISPSUK). More news and details will circulate soon.

2018 ended with some peculiar events, among the various political crises and uproars around the world, not mentioning refugees, brexit, Christian's walls or yellow vests here... The Globe is rumbling allover.
We've heard that Dr Peter Gøtzsche was expelled from the Cochrane Collaboration and a petition in protest was started: www.ipetitions.com/petition/letter-to-danish-minister-of-health-against
Now the Institute for Scientific Freedom is going to be launched in Denmark next March. Sure something to look forward/follow as close as possible www.deadlymedicines.dk

Scottish Psychiatrist Dr Peter Gordon officially presented his resignation as a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists last November and how did RCP responded?
Dr Gordon has been raising awareness about the need of a Sunshine legislation (regulations requiring openness in government or business) for several years.
Such laws certainly would bring down the barriers of deceit and expose important truths behind psychiatry. Many psychiatrist, psy-nurses and other mental health professionals silently quit their involvement and/or career in the field. Psychiatry has created such a toxic and damaging environment to work in - not mentioning the poor souls that are meant to be receiving care, and instead are subjected to torture, experimentation and damaging effects from the forceful drugging and often inhumane treatments. So well done and all the best to Dr Gordon and his remarkable work.

Another great news is the recommendation from the All Party Parliamentary Group for the NHS to integrate more complementary, traditional and natural medicine theanp.co.uk/Blog/6959600 It is time that Ethical and natural, safe and real healthcare/medicine are offered for people's sake, not corporate greed. This is a good cause to support.

BBC TWO is showing the Film "I, Daniel Blake" tomorrow Sat 5 Jan 2019 at 21:45pm www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08c2xlg Available on iPlayer right after.
Most activist and campaigners might have already seen it. Worth watching it again and pass the link around.  

Please note some of the awesome events listed below.
Looking forward to the first Compassionate Mental Health in London and special guests next week.


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Speak Out Against Psychiatry Meeting 
Saturday 5th January 2019 , 2.30-4.30pm, The Cock Tavern, 23 Phoenix Rd, NW1 1HB London.
Held every two weeks in general but considering making this once a month – to be discussed. 
Be prepared to buy a drink and make a small donation to the publican’s charity for use of the room.
email: speakoutagainstpsychiatry@gmail.com; Twitter: @soapgroup​ 

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Studio Upstairs - 30 Year Anniversary Exhibition
Studio Upstairs 30th anniversary exhibition is at Stour Space,  7 Roach Rd, E3 2PA Hackney, till 13th January
Exhibition includes both artworks from the Dalston and Croydon studio. Studio Upstairs is an arts and wellbeing charity working in London, with studios in East London (Dalston), South London (Croydon) and Bristol, which aims to provide holistic support to adults who are experiencing enduring mental or emotional difficulties www.studioupstairs.org.uk

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Compassionate Mental Health - Safe Spaces for Suffering & Joy
Thu 10 Jan 2019 10:00 am - 6:00 pm, Kingsley Hall, Bromley-by-Bow, London E3 3HJ
Speakers and facilitators include: Will Hall, Dr Joseph H. Berke, Akiko Hart  and core Compassionate mental health team members, Malcolm Stern, Andy Bradley and Brigid Bowen. To book tickets www.tickettailor.com/events/compassionatementalhealth/219368/
Some limited bursary places for people with personal experience on a low income, please contact Brigid Bowen ask@compassionatementalhealth.co.uk for more details. compassionatementalhealth.co.uk

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Survivors' Poetry Live at the Poetry Cafe (every second Thursday of the month - see leaflet attached) 
Thu 10th Dec, 7:30-10.30pm. Arrive 7pm to sign up for floorspots (1.50 floorspots / 2.50 concessions / 3.50 the full ticket). 
The Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton St, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9BX Facebook: Survivor's Poetry Gigs.
An evening of Poetry and song. MC Alastair Murray; resident musician Dave Russell. 
Featured Guest the brilliant hiphop and spoken word artist POTENT WHISPER: 'Changing the world one rhyme at at time' www.potentwhisper.com


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London Group of the Spiritual Crisis Network (Monthly meeting) 
Friday 11 January 2019 Arrive 7pm for 7.15pm (future dates, usually on the 2nd Friday of the month: February 8th March 8th April 12th), London Buddhist Centre, 51 Roman Rd Bethnal Green London E2 0HU.
If you're planning to attend you might contact londonSCN@gmx.co.uk; you can call 07930 415 506 if you come late and have difficulty accessing the building. Do not attempt to contact this number except on the evening of the meeting, as it won't be switched on. Wait at reception if you arrive early (before 7pm). Please try not to interrupt the end of yoga session in the basement. The national SCN website is spiritualcrisisnetwork.uk Please do take a look. The London group was set up in line with the ethos/aims expressed there.

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Psychology, Equality and Social Justice 
Sat 19 Jan 2019, 12:30-5:30pm, London School of Economics, Wolfson Theatre, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LJ. Dismayed at the state of the world in 2019? Appalled by food banks and hostile environments and homeless people dying on the streets? Here's a resolution for 2019: let's use our work to make a difference. Come to 'Psychology for Social Justice and Equality' at LSE, Jan 19th. A meeting to launch new initiatives. No fees/tickets etc needed. For details contact evangelos.ntontis@canterbury.ac.uk 

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Support Stansted 15 
15 human rights defenders peacefully and non-violently prevented a mass deportation flight at Stansted Airport in 2017, but have been found guilty of 'endangering safety at aerodromes' under serious terror-related charges. Their action enabled at least 11 asylum seekers to be given the right to stay permanently in the UK and highlighted injustices in the immigration and asylum system. Please protest against this outrageous verdict that suggests a link between non-violent protest and terrorism. You can help by signing change.org petition to reverse the verdict and can donate to the defendants' costs here.

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Help CHRUSP advocate at the UN
The Center for the Human Rights of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (CHRUSP) is a non-profit fighting for the worldwide abolition of involuntary confinement and involuntary 'treatment', an atrocity of great magnitude that is commonly overlooked or worse, considered to be a positive good by well-meaning people.
Please donate to help CHRUSP sending delegates to UN meetings and create resources for continued advocacy by users and survivors of psychiatry

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UK Premiere: 'Fattitude' Body-Positive Documentary Screening
Sat, February 2, 2019 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM, Everyman Kings Cross 14-18 Handyside Street London N1C 4DNUK 
Premiere of the US 'Fattitude' Documentary exploring weight-stigma, body positivity, and fat activism hosted by the charity AnyBody UK

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Symposium about Scientific Freedom And the inauguration of the Institute for Scientific Freedom. 
Saturday, 9 March 2019 at Bethesda, Rømersgade 17, København (Israels Plads), Denmark
Peter C. Gøtzsche, Peter Breggin, Robert Whitaker among other speakers

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OUPS Annual Conference - Parapsychology 
10th-12th May 2019, Warwick University
The conference will put research described as 'paranormal' under the microscope of critical scrutiny. Phenomena to be discussed include near-death experiences, poltergeists, and the veracity of readings by mediums. This will be presented to be of interest to both academics and lay persons www.oups.org.uk/events/annual-conference-parapsychology

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Transformation, Illness and Identity 
6th July 2019 Holiday Inn Riverlights, Derby - Day Session (9-5) TBC, Derby - Evening Session (7.30-10.00)
CALL FOR PAPERS (Day Session) POETRY/PROSE (Evening Session)
Please send all submissions to Hannah via compassion_well@hotmail.co.uk before the 4th February 2019 compassionatewellbeingconferences.weebly.com

***Best wishes for a healthy, happy and productive 2019!***

F.E.E.L. - Friends of East End Loonies​​
FEEL meets the third Monday of each month 6.30 - 8.30 pm
@ LARC 62, Fieldgate Street, Whitechapel E1 1ES​, London UK​
friends-of-east-end-loonies.blogspot.co.uk
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