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Please note that this blog is under construction; I will be adding to it very shortly and tweaking the settings so people can post. Thank You!!!
Monday, October 4, 2010
WELCOME TO THE BLOG!
Thank you to everyone who is visiting this site!
This blog has been created to serve as a forum for the very important work being done in Massachusetts (specifically) and nationally.
We are extremely concerned about violations of Basic Human Rights at psychiatric hospitals. Although the State of Massachusetts has a law that specifically spells out five legal rights, this law is routinely and systematically ignored.
Our charge, therefore, is to demand change. This blog will introduce information of the law, the nature of violations, raising awareness of the abuse and mistreatment of people who are seeking help.
It is PAST TIME that our institutions charged with "healing" own up to the gross negligence that has become routine. This is nothing less than a Civil Rights violation. The discrimination visited upon the mental health consumer/survivor population is a national shame, and only by exposing the problem will we be able to make progress for our population, which deserves the utmost dignity and respect.
As the United States Declaration of Independence says,
"We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal."
We must uphold these words. Our population needs justice and dignity, and the profit motive must never stand in its way.
I look forward to the development of this blog, the exchange of ideas, and the CHANGE that is inevitable.
This blog has been created to serve as a forum for the very important work being done in Massachusetts (specifically) and nationally.
We are extremely concerned about violations of Basic Human Rights at psychiatric hospitals. Although the State of Massachusetts has a law that specifically spells out five legal rights, this law is routinely and systematically ignored.
Our charge, therefore, is to demand change. This blog will introduce information of the law, the nature of violations, raising awareness of the abuse and mistreatment of people who are seeking help.
It is PAST TIME that our institutions charged with "healing" own up to the gross negligence that has become routine. This is nothing less than a Civil Rights violation. The discrimination visited upon the mental health consumer/survivor population is a national shame, and only by exposing the problem will we be able to make progress for our population, which deserves the utmost dignity and respect.
As the United States Declaration of Independence says,
"We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal."
We must uphold these words. Our population needs justice and dignity, and the profit motive must never stand in its way.
I look forward to the development of this blog, the exchange of ideas, and the CHANGE that is inevitable.
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