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This is crucial if we want respect we deserve!

flier for Vigil June 19, 2011 2-10 PM Kings County Hospital Center Psychiatric Emergency Room 410 Winthrop Street Brooklyn, NY click here to download file

JUNE 18 & 19 2010
Demonstrations, Speak Outs, and Vigils
 Still Outraged? Join Us!
Details in materials below. (download to PDF). Click below.

It will be two years since Esmin Green's murder. 

Please sign on with you individual and/or organizational support using the comment box below.

click here to download Esmin Green Materials

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Individual Endorsers

Eva Dech

Kathie Cascio

Lauren Tenney

Alison Hymes

Kings County newly built hospital is still unsafe as witness the alleged rape of a patient this year after the new hospital, after all the investigations, it is past time for this incorrigible institution to be shut down for good. We all matter, all lives matter, we can not stand silent as people are hurt, neglected, abused and victimized by crime in a place that claims to help keep people safe. No more. No more crimes, no more delays, no more corrective plans, no more chances.  Close it down now!

Dally Sanchez

Amy Colesante

Marian Merlino

Sabrina Johnson

Stephanie Orlando

Human Rights Now!

Desiree Moore Long island, East Meadow

I would love to be a part of this movement i think it is very important to show people that this has not been forgetten and we need to stand up and make that known and somthing need to CHANGE 

Organizational Co-Sponsors

MindFreedom International

The Law Project for Psychiatric Rights

The Opal Project

Mental Health Empowerment Project, Inc.

National Lawyers Guild New York City Chapter

Nationwide Organizing Call to Action: Stop Forced "Mental Health Treatment"


 

2009

ACTION ALERT:COMPLETED!
GREAT JOB. UPDATE TO FOLLOW:
 
EXPECT ACTION IN LATE JULY.


Please call Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes and ask him if a grande jury is being convened regarding the death of Esmin Green at Kings County Hospital Center Psychiatric Emergency Room, June 19, 2008.  If so, when?  If not, please ask the District Attorney if charges are being brought.

Is a grande jury being convened?
If so, when?
If not, are charges being brought?

You can either call the District Attorney's office  at:
718 250 2001

or e-mail:
hynesc@brooklynda.org


Please use this comment box to sign on to the demonstration and vigil as an individual endorser or organizational co-sponsor (it's free). 

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How long did it take? Officials never came out!
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Activists re-enact Esmin Green's death

NY1 Media Coverage

MindFreedom Radio Media Coverage

CBS News Media Coverage

Lou Young Reports WCBS

WABC Jim Dolan Reports

CBS 880 RADIO MEDIA COVERAGE

NY Daily News

MindFreedom Ireland Holds Vigil in Solidarity with WE THE PEOPLE

Coalition Against Psychiatric Assault, Toronto, holds vigil for Esmin Green in support of WE THE PEOPLE

Jamaicans.com Media Coverage

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JUSTICE FOR ESMIN GREEN
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JUSTICE FOR ALL

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD VIGIL FLYER

News from WE THE PEOPLE

For more information contact: Lauren Tenney, 516-319-4295

Esmin Green Did Not Survive. Survivors of Psychiatry & Allies Demand Report from NYC Dept of Investigations

WE THE PEOPLE to Hold a Demonstration and Vigil in Her Memory, June 19, 2009 at Kings County Hospital Center Psychiatric Emergency Room, Building R. from 5-10 Pm. Justice for Esmin Green. Justice for All


ROCKVILLE CENTRE, NY (05/29/2009; 1149)(readMedia)-- W E THE PEOPLE is reaching out to friends and family of Esmin Green who was murdered-by-neglect at the Kings County Hospital Center Psychiatric Emergency Room June 19, 2008. They are also looking for survivors of psychiatry, anyone affected by mental health or psychiatric systems, and allies who want to see change and make their voices heard.

Facility staff looked at Esmin face down on the floor - did nothing - and then tried to cover it up. The blatant negligence that was exhibited by facility staff should not be allowed to be brushed under the carpet - or excused for lack of team spirit, which Mr. Aviles, the President of Health and Hospitals Corporation which oversees Kings County Hospital Center, has tried to do. WE THE PEOPLE is demanding criminal charges in this murder-by-neglect and attempted cover-up. This ultimate violation of human rights can not be accepted by our society.


WE THE PEOPLE is demanding that the New York City Department of Investigations release the report of the investigation into the death of Esmin Green and asks why the city is holding back such information?


On June 19, beginning at 5 PM, WE THE PEOPLE will be holding a demonstration calling for human rights in psychiatric systems. A candle light vigil to remember Esmin Green, a woman who should still be alive, will begin at 8 PM.

Sanford Rubenstein, the attorney for the family is a confirmed speaker at the demonstration. He states,
"It is really important for people to make their voices heard so that what happened to Esmin Green never happens again".

WE THE PEOPLE invite you to stand with them in front of Kings County Hospital Center on June 19, 2009 from 5-10 PM to demand human rights in the psychiatric and mental health systems. Justice for Esmin Green. Justice for all.

Contact: Lauren Tenney (516) 319-4295 Daniel Hazen (301) 395-5378 website: www.TheOpalProject.org/Vigil.html
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What:
A Call to All People:Stop Human Rights Violations In memory of Esmin Green, murdered-by-neglect, one year later.

Date:
June 19, 2009

Time:
5-10 PM

Location:
Kings County Hospital Center Psychiatric Emergency Room Building R. (Clarkson Avenue at New York Avenue and Winthrop Street) Brooklyn, NY 11203

On June 19, 2009 it will be one year since the murder-by-neglect of Esmin Elizabeth Green by the Kings County Hospital Center Psychiatric Emergency Room in Brooklyn, New York (to see video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSaSQ1M9DIA)
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We will unite with a demonstration and candle light vigil outside the facility from 5-10 PM on June 19, 2009 (a full schedule of events will follow).

Last year many people across the country joined us in Brooklyn. Spontaneous vigils were organized all over the world to stand in solidarity with us. (See media coverage at www.theopalproject.org/vigil.html  See video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4Bg_6mi5Ck) .

This year, we hope you will renew your individu al endorsement or organizational co-sponsorship (it's free, of course). We hope even more people and organizations will join in this effort.  We welcome your participation.

Please send this on to your networks and get involved to protect our human rights.

If you are organizing your own local vigil, let us know and we will be happy to assist and network media coverage.

You can download a PDF of the flyer and sing on your support for the vigil at www.theopalproject.org/vigil.html

You can also find WE THE PEOPLE on Facebook.

Thank You!

WE THE PEOPLE
The Law Project for Psychiatric Rights
MindFreedom International
The Opal Project

website: www.theopalproject.org/vigil.html
e-mail: vigil@theopalproject.org

Media/Contacts
Lauren Tenney
LaurenTenney@aol.com
(516) 319-4295

Daniel Hazen
danhazeus@yahoo.com
(301) 395-5378

If you would like to renew your support or sign on as an individual endorser, organizational co-sponsor, please use the response box below. 

 

Thank you

 

HUMAN RIGHTS NOW. 

TORTURE, NEVER! 

2009

Individual Endorsers 

Confirmed Attendees & Organizational Co-Sponsors

 

The Law Project for Psychiatric Rights

 

 

MindFreedom International

 

 

The Opal Project

PNG 

GET ON THE BUS TO THE VIGIL

in Troy, Albany, & Hudson

Contact The Opal Project for more information

vigil@theopalproject.org 

 

The Empowerment Center 

GET ON THE BUS TO THE VIGIL

in WESTCHESTER

Contact the Empowerment Center for more information

  

Hands Across Long Island

GET ON THE BUS TO THE VIGIL

on Long Island

Contact HALI for more information

 

Bluebird

Coordinating a vigil in Gainesville, Florida 

 

Coalition Against Psychiatric Assault
 Friday, June 19 at 8:00pm
Friday, June 19 at 9:00pm
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health--Clarke Institute of Psychiatry

To see more details and RSVP, follow the link below:
http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=83625145938&mid=96619dG2004921dG53277a0G7

 

 

MindFreedom Ireland

Asylum Associates &

The Hearing Voices Network (UK)

Held vigil in Cork, Ireland, June 9, 2009

 

held vigil on June US Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry

The U.S. Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry endorses and supports the vigil. Justice for Esmin Green and human rights for all.

 

Lauren Tenney

 

Marian Merlino

 

Kathryn Cascio

 

Daniel Hazen

Human Rights NOW!

 

Jessica Arenella

No torture at home and no torture abroad!

 

Timothy J Harris 

Did anything change one year later? 

 

 

Amy Bookbinder 

Wholehearted support. 

 

 

CAFETY Allies

 

Mary Maddock

I will be with you in spirit. Congrats to all who are involved in this important event.

Ireland 

Todd Eaton 

 

Mental Health Empowerment Project, Inc. 

 

Dorothy Dundas

 We must all fight to stop human rights violations. 

 

Eva Dech

 

Darby Penney

 

Joan Conley

 

Eric O. Jackson

I'm in Puerto Rico. My support to you all.

She was so beautiful. Never again. These tragedies need to stop. Be well and be safe.

Puerto Rico 

Community Consortium, Inc.  

 

Dan Frey 

 

Barbara Katz-Rothman, PhD 

 

Can Troung

Can Consulting 

 

Stephanie Orlando

 

Daniel B. Fisher, M.D.

I really admire what your doing and wish I could be there. I will spread the word to my network.

Boston, MA 

 

Dally Sanchez

 

Jasna Russo

 

Helen Krisilas

 

Ellen M. Healion

 

Kellie L. Trombley

 

Michael G. Spennato

 

Robin Ballou

 Denver, CO

 

Kat Whitehead

 

Jacquiline Hirsch

Please, no more torture abroad or at home under the guise of human rights! 

 

George Badillo

 

Carlos Sabatar

 

Kym Libman

 

Melissa Firmes

 

Kyle S. Nesbitt

Rights for Imprisoned People with Psychiatric Disabilities

(www.rippd.org) 

 

Yvonne Z. Smith

 Washington, D.C.

 

Lester Cook

 

Bonnie Neighbor

I am there in spirit only though.

Richmond, VA

 

Deb Sierra Damone

 

Rolando Bini

 

Mike Halligan

 

Jodi Marchese

Something has to be done aganst the tactics that are used in our Psyc hospitals, jails, prisons, and any other type of instution in this country.              Shame on the American Populice 

 

Maxine Glover

 

Stephanie Lotto

 

Nicole Charise Jennings

Philadelphia, PA

 

Russ Pavlick

 Detroit, MI

 

Radiah Ishmail

 

Shirley P. Cooper

West Midlands

 

Don Roberts

Anchorage, AK 

 

Virginia Knowlton

Thank you for keeping attention focused on this horrific tragedy. Wish I could be in NYC to participate. Please let us know how it goes.

 

 Ellen Petschaft Berrios

I wish I could go! This really shook me up when I saw it. I'm going to send it to others who may be able to attend.

Boston, MA

 

Melody Riefer

I will be there in spirit!

Atlanta, GA

 

 George Ebert

 

MaryAnn Ebert

 

Mental Patients Liberation Alliance

 

John Michael Sparacio 

 

Gloria Jackson 

 

 Rolando Bini

 

Parents In Action

 

John M. Donnelly, Jr.

You talk about helping people, and you neglect, abuse, and murder them.

Stop the crime!  HUMAN RIGHTS NOW!!!!! 

 

Eileen McGinn

 

Sheilah Hill

 

Lauren Spiro

Keep shining the light, telling our truth. Murder-by-neglect and psychiatric torture

 

YOUTH POWER!

 

Dennis Whetsel

It is an abomination that in this country, innocent citizens are tortured for "their own good" 

Any action that is forced is  antithetical to personhood.

 

Eion Saunders

 

Phyllis Kaplan

No person should be left on the floor of any hospital for any reason no matter what and to die

shame on those who allowed her to lay there and did nothing!

 

Ted Chabasinski

 

Michelle Hobart

 

Tara Cole

 

Leap for Patient Safety

www.LeapForPatientSafety.org

Please help stop patient abuse, medical errors and wrongful deaths.

 

Felice Debra Eliscu


Sara Goodman

 

Rights for Imprisoned People with Psychiatric Disabilities

www.rippd.org
 

 

 

 
Tina Minkowitz

 

Center for the Human Rights of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry

www.chrusp.org 

 

Jen Gieseking 

 

Dean Smith
 Hi guys just like to say i support you for your vigal but can not make it as it is a long way across the atlantic lol!!its amazeing how mainstream society can go on about humann rights in deprived countrys when all you have to do is look on ya own door step!!well done and keep raiseing awarness on rights and stigma in mental health!!!peace and love DEANO xxx

 

Alison Hymes 

 

Sara Goodman
God bless you for doing this... too many sit aside and wait for someone else to take up the cause

 

Mary Ellen Maddock

 

MindFreedom Ireland

 

 Dr. C. N. Rodrigues
21 Jan 2000 when I was lied to, deceived and deprived of my Human Rights. 1 Sep 2000 - again, and finally, in Sep 2001! 

 

Shaindl Diamond
keep up the great work! this is so important. in solidarity, from toronto

 

 Isaac S. Brown
stop forced treatment of any sort

 

Jack Freedman 

 

Melissa Farrell
End psychiatric abuse

 

Time Harris

People do not treat people like this. 

 

Frank Blankenship
Gainesville, Florida

 

New York City Chapter

of the

National Lawyers Guild 

 

 

 

UK Advocacy Network 

 

David Gonzalez

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1_GPtFcPBY

 

Ruth Ruth 

Canada 

 

Friendly Spike Theater

Canada 

 

 

d.a. johnson

 

 

Grace Nichols 

 

Don Weitz

Canada 

 

Sabrina Johnson 

 

 

Angela Cerio 

 

Angelo Barbieri 

 

Hugh Mann
organicMD.org

 

Josephine Carol Cicchini 

 

 

Sandra Galante 

 

Empowerment for Healthy Minds
Blacksburg, Virginia

 

Terry Grimes 

 

Erick Fabris

Toronto, Canada 

 

Cherilyn Weekes

 Black women empowerment bloggers have NOT forgotten about Ms Esmin Green ,

nor the horrible treatment she endured at the hands of Kings County!

thecwexperience.wordpress.com

 

Michael Oman-Reagan
From  http://religionandtechnology.com/

At the heart of liberty is the right to define ones own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.

From the plurality decision of the Supreme Court of the United States,

PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHEASTERN PA. V. CASEY, 505 U.S. 833 (1992).

Could this set a precedent for an argument about a right to choose a state of consciousness, aka a right to mental privacy?

 

 Zappalorti Society

 

Sheila Hollingsworth 

What a shame! 

 

Jody Silver 

 

Anne Dox

WE THE PEOPLE will not allow the tragedy of Ms. Green's death to remain neglected on the floor 

 

Ithaca Mental Patients Advocacy Coalition (INPAC) 

 

 Myra Kovary

 

Paul Chipkin

 

Patricia Lefave

Let's all 'seek attention' together. 

 

Vivian Chapellier 

May Esmin's life be honored and her death be a spark for freedom.   

 

Joanne Switserloot 

In loving memory of Esmin x

Victoria, AUSTRALIA 

 

 

COMMUNITY ACCESS

 

C elina J. Pinto

I'm very concerned about what happened to her.  I'm a consumer too.  It could happen to any of us, specially as we grow older and more frail physically.  I'm 54, almost a 'young senior' whatever that is.  I'm very concerned.

 

Celia Brown

 

Sharon E. Hoffman

If we are really "true" to the values this country was founded on, such an tragedy would never have happened. It is unacceptable and no wonder America is viewed by the much of the world as hypocrites. We are unless we truly become our brother's keeper. Each and every one of our people are unique and must be accorded full civil and human rights lest we all lose our freedom. 

 

Mary Jane Alexander

 

Anita Jones

 I am so very proud and honored to be a part of this vigil. It changed my life. 

 

Sara Bergstresser Ph.D. MPH

 

David Humphreys

 

Your name here!

sign on above .. .Thanks! 

JOIN WE THE PEOPLE
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Esmin Green in Life.
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A Beautiful Woman, Mother of 6.

We The People
In remembrance of Esmin Green
who was murdered-by-neglect at the Kings County Hospital CenterPsychiatric Emergency Room, June 19, 2008.

 

Mission Statement
We resolve to work from a human rights platform to end involuntary psychiatric treatment and all other forms of abuse and torture in psychiatric systems.

 

We Are
A group of individuals who identify as having experienced psychiatric atrocities, people who have psychiatric histories, and our supporters.

 

Objectives
To address existing harmful structures and dynamics of the public mental health system, including:


•    Situations in which people's socioeconomic struggles are mislabeled as "mental illnesses" and then are subjected to psychiatric diagnoses and treatments; 


•    Failures to provide non-psychiatric alternatives to traditional mental health and community services;


•    Violations of international human rights and civil rights; and


•    The lack of protection of the lives and dignity of people in emotional distress or crisis.

 

Strategies
Actions will be collectively identified, researched, and considered through working groups and consensus.  Group members will provide testimonies and demand accountability.  Activism in the areas of advocacy, legislation, media, networking, human rights, and the abolition of forced psychiatric practices will be developed through group deliberation.


For more information:

 
 www.theopalproject.org/vigil.html
 http://www.mindfreedom.org/as/act/us/new-york/esmin-green/

 
 Contacts:
 
 Daniel Hazen (301) 395-5378

danhazeus@yahoo.com


 Lauren Tenney (516) 319-4295
 158 Jefferson Street

Albany, NY 12210

laurentenney@aol.com
 

David Oaks, (541) 345-9106

454 Willamette, Suite 216 - POB 11284
Eugene, OR 97440-3484 USA
oaks@mindfreedom.org
   




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READ IT FOR YOURSELF - THE TEXT OF LES COOK'S SPEECH FROM THE DEMONSTRATION: PSYCHIATRIC SURVIVORS SPEAK OUT

CLICK HERE: OPEN INVITATION TO NEW YORKERS WHO HAVE SURVIVED PSYCHIATRIC ATROCITIES 8/8-9 & 8/17-18

This site  The Web 

ESMIN GREEN IN DEATH.
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DEMONSTRATE YOUR SUPPORT. CONDEMN HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS.

SCROLL DOWN THE PAGE TO SEE PRESS COVERAGE, CO-SPONSORS, INDIVIDUAL ENDORSERS, AND PRESS RELEASES

PRESS COVERAGE

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Village Voice article about the Vigil, July 29, 2008

JULY 25, 2008 DEMONSTRATION BROOKLYN, NY. U.S.A.
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disRespect Disability Awareness Radio Radio Interview with Lauren Tenney July 24, 93.3 FM CFMU Hamilton and www.radio4all.net in Watkins Glen, NY click here, scroll to bottom of new window and click download. http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/2855

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Interview by Gary Byrd with Lauren Tenney on Kings County Vigil for Esmin Gren on the Global Black Experience Wednesday, July 16, 2008 9:00 pm Click on web page, scroll to "Global Black Experience" Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:00 pm click play.

Esmin Elizabeth Green Remembered in Toronto. Published July 26, 2008

Vigil for Esmin Green
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Published Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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Resistance Against Psychiatry in Toronto, Canada Press Coverage. Click here for photos. Thanks Dan Weitz!

 

 

 

 

REPORT OUT!

 

What have you seen?  

What have you done?

What are you doing next?

Please send suggestions using the comment box.  

Full name:
Email address:
Comments:
 

SEND GOVERNOR PATERSON AN E-MAIL DEMANDING HUMAN RIGHTS AND CALL FOR CRIMINAL CHARGES

 http://www.ny.gov/governor/contact/index.html

 

SEND IT TO US AS WELL USING ANY OF THE COMMENT BOXES ON THIS PAGE AND WE WILL POST IT

July 28, 2008
 
Attention: David Patterson, Governor of New  York
 
Dear Governor Patterson,
I urge you to take immediate action re the tragic, horrific and preventable death of Ms. Esmin Elizabeth Green. Ms. Green was a poor, black Jamaican woman and mother of six children, about to lose her home and become homeless. As you probably are aware, Ms. Green died of medical neglect and abuse and subjected to serious violations of her civil and human rights in the psychiatric emergency waiting room of Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, NY on June 19, 2008. Before  Ms. Green died, no doctor, no nurse and no security staff tried to help her - they all callously and willfully ignored her. This is absolutely disgraceful and inexcusable! The last minutes of her horrific death, recorded on an emergency room camera and currently displayed on a CNN video clip, shows Ms. Green suddenly collapsing and convulsing face down on the floor. Unfortunately, this is not an isolated incident, since I understand Kings County Hospital has a long track record of medical, if not criminal neglect and abuse of patients and has been investigated a number of times in the last few years. I urge you to order an independent, comprehensive, and public investigation into Ms.Green’s death and Kings County Hospital, so that all citizens entering Kings County Hospital in the future--regardless of racial identity or ethnicity, gender and class—are not neglected and abused by hospital staff, but treated with dignity and respect and receive competent and prompt medical care that they deserve as human beings.
Don Weitz
1401-38 Orchard View Blvd.,Toronto, Ontario M4R 2G3

Check out MindFreedom International

 

 

 

 

Special thanks to Daniel Hazen for taking leadership on this effort.   

CO-SPONSORS

Individual Endorsers 

 

MindFreedom International
www.mindfreedom.org

Lane County to Hold Psychiatric Rights Memorial

One of Many Memorials in Three Nations

When: This Friday, 25 July 2008, at 1 pm

Where: 6th & Willamette, Eugene, Oregon, USA

The Law Project for Psychiatric Rights
www.psychrights.org

 

Stop Force
www.stopforce.org

 

David Gonzalez

 www.recoveryxchange.org 


 

Maurice Frank
Scotland 

 

Dreamweavers Peer Support
www.dreamweaverspeersupport.org 

 

Center for the Human Rights of Users and
Survivors of Psychiatry -
CHRUSP

PEOPLe, Inc.
www.projectstoempower.org

Community Consortium
www.community-consortium.org

 

The Opal Project
www.theopalproject.org

 

The Mental Patients Liberation Alliance
www.thealliance.org

THANKS FOR THE PRESS RELEASE!! 

 

National Empowerment Center
www.power2u.org

 

PIPER
www.recoveryisreal.org/piperny/p2_articleid/11

 

New York City Voices
www.nycvoices.org

 

F.U.T.U.R.E. Views 

 

National Mental Health Consumers’ Self-Help Clearinghouse
www.mhselfhelp.org

 

 Texas Mental Health Consumers
www.tmhc.org 

 

The Florida Peer Network

the state organization for consumer/survivors 

 

 

Hands Across Long Island

Get on the bus!  Thanks HALI! 

www.hali88.org 

 

Community Access, Inc.
www.communityaccess.org 

 

Michael Paul Oman-Reagan, Artist

http://fieldgallery.org 

 

Leslie Gonzalez 
 

Paul Chipkin 

 

Hugh Mann
www.organicMD.org

 

Marian Merlino 

 

Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council, Australia
http://forum.vmiac.com.au

 

Parents in Action
http://www.parentsinaction.net

 

MindFreedom Virginia 

  

Felice Debra Eliscu, Artist 

http://www.kabbalart.com

 

Empowerment for Healthy Minds
www.efhm.com

 

Ithaca Mental Patients Advocacy Coalition (IMPAC)

Ithaca, New York 

 

Freedom Center

Northampton Massachusettes 

www.freedom-center.org 

 

Diane Engster, J.D.
Alexandria, VA. 

 

  Judene Shelley

 

Helen Krisilas 

 

Metamorphosis Club

Durham, North Carolina

 

The Westchester Peer Network 

 

Donnel B. Stern, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist

 

Marty Raaymakers Recovery That Rocks 

www.recoverythatrocks.com 

 

Peter Stastny, MD 

 

Dally M. Sanchez 


Stephanie Orlando

 

Lauren Tenney/Xandi J. Storm 

psychiatric survivor
www.etrash.tv 

 

Steve Periard

 

Sylvia McConnell Richey 

 

Sabrina Johnson 
Weschester, NY 

 

Sheryl Berkley
Springfield, Missouri 

 

d.a. johnson 

 

Alison Hymes

Member, Commitment Taskforce of the Supreme Court of Virginia Commission on Mental Health Law Reform 

 

Don Weitz

psychiatric survivor, antipsychiatry activist

Toronto, Canada

 

NAMI National Consumer Council
www.nami.org/template.cfm?section=Consumer_Council

  

 

NYC-PNG

New York City Peer Network Group 

 

Northern Virginia

Mental Health Consumers' Association (NVMHCA) 

 

Dolores DeVito 

 

Les Cook 
dreamweaverspeersupport.com 

 

William Tyner
Sandra Tyner M.D.
Grants Pass, Oregon

 

June B. Rodriguez 

 

Carole Hayes Collier 

We are holding a memorial service for Ms. Green at Unique Peerspectives in Syracuse on the morning of the 25th. 

 

VOCAL NETWORK 
Virginia Organization of Consumers Asserting Leadership 

www.vocalvirginia.org 

 

Transitional Living Services of Onondaga County 

 www.tls-onodaga.org


Jasna Russo 

 

 Rozz Poul Lieght

We are having a vigil where we are in Seattle, at the Westlake Center Plaza on 4th and Pine.
We will make it a candlelight vigil starting at 7pm.

for details, e-mail: yangshenmen@gmail.com 

 

NAMI-MASS
www.namimass.org 

 

NAMI GB CAN  Greater Boston Consumer Affiliate/Advocacy Network
   We are organizing our own vigil also on 7/25.
www.namigbcan.org

 

Karen Henniger

Cultural Environmentalist 

 

The Empowerment Center

www.recoveryisreal.org

 

Enough Room

Roy Bercaw, Editor

enoughroom.blogspot.com
enoughroomvideo.blogspot.com

 

Darby Penney 

 

Lauro Puril
The National Committee on the UN Convention,
Sectoral Council for Person with Disabilities,
National Anti-poverty Commission
Manila, Philippines

 

DK Calkins 

Parent, Survivor, Activist and a Student of Human Services as an Ally for our Peers. 

 

John Barrella

 

 

Moira Wait

 

ADAPT NE 

The ADAPT NE network will be taking a moment of silence at 9:30 their time, while the vigil is being held at Kings County Hospital Center.

Nebraska 

 

Laura Van Tosh 

 

Moneer Zarou 

  

 Mark Davis, M.A.D

 

Pink & Blues Philadelphia

 

Main Line Pink & Blues

 

David Gonzalez

 

Amy Upham

 

Marlene Chait, Ed.D

 

Dr. Huhana Hickey
Solicitor
Auckland Disability Law
New Zealand

 


International Indigenous Disability Group

  IIDCWG

 

Anne Hawker

President Elect of Rehabilitation International

 

 

Frank Mulcahy
Information Officer DPI Europe and

President of Kildare Network of People with Disabilities

Ireland
 

Hiljmnijeta Apuk

Director " NGO Little People of Kosova" & Main Editor in Chief office of monthly magazine "Newspaper to the Rights of Persons with Disabilities of Kosova"

Kosava 
www.lpkosova.com
 

Frank Hall-Bentick

Disability Australia 

Chairperson Disability Resources Centre Victoria

Chairperson, Disability Rights Victoria

www.drc.org.au

Australia
 

 

Julie Shafer

 

 

Mindfreedom Ireland

We hope to remember Ms. Esmin Elizabeth Green on Friday from 7 PM - 8 PM at 16 Manor Close, Thornbury Hgts., Rochestown and hope you will be able to join us.
 

Valerie F Swartz 

 

Ronald L. Berman 

 

Depression & Bipolar Support Alliance

Delaware Valley  

 

Elena Chavez
Founder
ALAMO Promocion de la Salud Mental
WNUSP  Perù

Lima - Peru

 

MindFreedom Ghana

Ghana, Africa

 Resistance Against Psychiatry

Date: Friday, July 25, 2008

Time: 1pm-3pm

Place: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 1001 Queen St.W. (corner Ossington Ave)

Toronto, Canada 

for more information dweitz@rogers.com 

 

Val Farmer 

www.myspace.com/redpossum 

 

The Clark-Wittenberg Family

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada



International Campaign
to Ban Electroshock (ICBE)

 icbe.wordpress.com
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

 

Mental Health Empowerment Project 

 

Michael Quiles III

 

M-POWER

Roxbury, MA
Vigil Friday July 25th from 6-8 PM at the State House in Boston, MA.

email: info@m-power.org

 

NAMI Consumer Council

Restraint and Seclusion Committee 

 

 

Howard D. Trachtman
www.RestraintFreeWorld.org

 

Brooklyn Mental Hygiene Court Monitors Project 

 

George Badillo 

 

Gayle Bluebird
Bluebird Consultants

www.bluebirdconsultants.com

 

Beckie Child 

 

Nancy Pontius
 Tucson Icarus Project

 

 Dawn Robyn Petrlik, Artist

Opening July 26, 2008

The Lonely Death of Esmin Green

Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition

499 van Brunt Street

Red Hook, Brooklyn 

http://www.dawnrobyn.com/

 

Beth LaCrosse, M.S.
Member, Disability Law Center of Alaska
Member, Alaska Mental Health Rights Advisory Committe
Client Assistance Program Counselor
Member, CAP Advisory Committee

 

 David Romprey

Peer Bridgers Oregon 

"We are in a war against indignity!" 

 

Scott Snedecor 

 

 

Jonathan Dosick 

 

Joann Smith 

ladyj@dreamweaverspeersupport.org 

Peer, Weaving my way to becoming a Web Designer to show those that say we cannot succeed that we can in fact succeed. 

 

Douglas Payne

THANKS FOR THE WATER, DOUGLAS!!! 

 

Ma Amritananda (Rita DiCarlo)
Psych abuse survivor
Mind Aid's "Not In Our Brains Campaign"
Member United for Peace and Justice, Int'l
Founder, Grail House 

 

Nicki Glasser 

 

Carlos Sabater
Member, Rights for Imprisoned People with Psychiatric Disabilities

 

Marie Parcell

 

David McDonald
www.dawgoregon.blogspot.com 

 

Laura Ziegler

mad activist and former NYC resident

Vermont

 

Robin Plan
aka flawedplan at Writhe Safely

http://writhesafely.wordpress.com/

 

Mental Health America of Oregon
We are in solidarity with those who protest the so-called "treatment" of Ms. Greene.  We send condolences to her friends and family.  People diagnosed/labeled with mental illness deserve the same dignity and respect as those who are not diagnosed/ labeled.

 

 

  fennel@hereinreality.com

what happened to Ms. Esmin Green at King's County hospital is totally inexcusable, without merit and totally uncalled for.  Please Mayor Bloomberg make absolutely certain this doesn't happen to anyone else.

 

Amy Bookbinder
Leeds, MA

 

 Diane Green

MUSE, Inc.
Candles Lit for Esmin Green,
Museum of Universal Self Expression, Psychiatric Survivior Studio

email: muse@callmecrazy.org

 

WE CAN! of Colorado
www.wecancolorado.org

 

Nathaniel S. Leharman, MD
Former Clinical Director, Kingsboro Psychiatric Center

 

christinaclataif@sbcglobal.net
another life wasted due to neglect of proffessionals who are supposed to be under the hypocritic  oath to save lives not end them.  

Board of the UK Advocacy Network 

 

Nancy Pontius
Tucson Icarus Project

 

disRespect Disability Awareness Radio
email: dialog@inbox.com
comments: Radio Interview with Lauren Tenney on one-hour show July 24, 93.3 FM CFMU Hamilton and www.radio4all.net in Watkins Glen


http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/28559

 

NAMI East Flatbush 

 

Rebecca Edens 

 

A PLACE OF OUR OWN
aplaceofourown@charterinternet.com

 

Will Brady
will.brady@gmail.com
 Human Rights Officer & Activist Connecticut
http://willbradyjournal.blogspot.com

 

Angela Cerio 

 

Sandy Brower
perkys10@yahoo.com

I too have been treated badly
at Kings County in their psychicatric ward in 2006 and hope to speak on it.They need to close this horrible place so things like what happened to me, Miss Green and others don't happen again. This horrible thing that happened to Miss Green could of been avoided if it were a different kind of hospital.  They need to close this place.

 

 

 Coalition Of Concerned Citizens For Complete Justice (CFCJ)
 As General Director of the Coalition of Concerned Citizens for Complete Justice (CFCJ)and a former G Building patient, I was delighted to participate in the 07/25/2008 Vigil.

May GOD bless all of the other people having participated in the above-said event.

s.): Elder Romel Viel

 

Brenda A. LeFrancois, PhD 

 

ISPS-US

contact@isps-us.org
www.isps-us.org
The International Society for the Psychological Treatments of the Schizophrenias and Other Psychoses, U.S. Chapter

 

Chaya Grossberg 

 

Emily Millhollen 

WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK OUR CO-SPONSORS AND INDIVIDUAL ENDORSERS, TO JOIN THIS EFFORT, PLEASE USE THIS COMMENT BOX. THANKS, WE THE PEOPLE

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RESISTANCE AGAINST PSYCHIATRY MEDIA RELEASE CLICK HERE

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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POSTED: JULY 24, 2008
 
Please attend, send out to your networks, and sign on.  Thanks, ~~Lauren

SURVIVORS OF PSYCHIATRIC ATROCITIES AND ALLIES  TO SPEAK OUT AND HOLD A VIGIL
IN HONOR OF EMSIN GREEN WHO WAS MURDERED-BY-NEGLECT
AT THE KINGS COUNTY HOSPITAL CENTER PSYCHIATRIC EMERGENCY ROOM.



Contact: Lauren J. Tenney, Psychiatric Survivor                                    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
phone: (516) 319-4295
e-mail: lauren@theopalproject.org
website: www.theopalproject.org/vigil.org

WE THE PEOPLE began as an alliance of people who were accused of and treated for mental illness.  We have survived with our lives, unlike Ms. Green. However, our liberty, our health, and our futures continue to be under the threat of the therapeutic state - and so is yours.

The experience of involuntarily detainment in a psychiatric emergency room or in a psychiatric institution is tantamount to torture.  Human rights and feminist activist Kate Millett during the negotiations on the UN Convention on the subject of forced treatment and confinement of persons with disabilities stated, “"The power of an entire civilization massed against one lone individual.  Every phone and lock and guard and drug . . . Everything conspires to make you completely alone and terrified.  Malleable.  These are the conditions of torture”".

We invite you, we implore you, to meet with us and work with us towards a humane environment and to establish alternatives to the atrocities of confinement, drugs, electroshock treatment, restraint, and seclusion.  We let our light shine in remembrance of the victims of the mental illness system - for people who have suffered because of fear and ignorance - for people who have been traumatized - for people who have been disabled - for people who are dead - and for people who are not really living.

As in the  HIGHLANDER STATEMENT of 2000, we call on all people to "act individually and collectively to ensure that self-determination, respect, ethical behavior, and humane voluntary supports and services become the foundation of a reinvented mental health system.  This system must first and foremost do no harm".

David Gonzalez, a former patient of the “G” Building at Kings County Hospital Center asks, “What has brought Ms. Green’s appalling death to public scrutiny is not that it was unusual or uncommon in any way, but that it was caught on video.  The lack of compassion, callous indifference, and subsequent cover-up exposes not only the hypocrisy which allows this type of systemic abuse to take place under the guise of treatment, but more importantly exposes the perversion of institutional psychiatry”.

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and other International law has been violated. Daniel Hazen, of the Law Project for Psychiatric Rights (PsychRights®) and Stop Force asks, "Was Ms. Green's medical emergency in any way related to the toxic and debilitating psychiatric drugs she might have been taking, possibly through intimidation, coercion, or force?  This seems likely in light of the known connection between such drugs and fatal leg blood clots."


We are lighting candles to celebrate Esmin Green's life and passion as a way to spark necessary change and call for the respect of human rights in mental health. We offer the light of these candles as a sign of love for our families and friends, and our elected officials, and broader communities who often trapped in circumstance and by the psychiatric system cannot understand us as we struggle to communicate.

All people committed to human rights, join us.

On July 25, 2008, we invite all people to join us and stand united in support of the demand that everyone receive the full benefit of their human rights and the preservation of their liberty, dignity, and respect. There are vigils happening all over the world for Ms. Green on July 25, 2008 to stand in solidarity with New Yorkers. 

If you can attend the vigil or not, on Friday, July 25, 2008, call Governor Patterson (518) 474-8390, Mayor Bloomberg, (212) NEW-YORK, and your elected Representatives to express your outrage about Ms. Green's murder and insist that the City of New York stand in full compliance with International law and Human Rights.

Who: All People.

What:  A demonstration and candle light vigil to mourn the loss of Ms. Esmin Elizabeth Green and condemn human rights violations.

Why:   WE THE PEOPLE call for an end of abuse, torture, and neglect in the wake of Ms. Green's death on June 19, 2008, while detained at Kings County Hospital Center's Psychiatric Emergency Room.

Where: Kings County Hospital Center, Psychiatric Emergency Room, Building G. 606 Winthrop Street Brooklyn, NY 11203

Date: July 25, 2008

Time: Demonstration begins at 5 PM, Candle Light Vigil, 8:30 PM

Websites: www.theopalproject.org/vigil.html  www.mindfreedom.org

If you would like to co-sponsor or endorse this demonstration, vigil, and its follow up forums, please contact us.

WE THE PEOPLE

###

 For more information or to schedule an interview, please contact:

Contact: Lauren J. Tenney, Cell: 516-319-4295 e-mail: lauren@theopalproject.org website: www.theopalproject.org/vigil.html

Contact: David W. Oaks Phone: 541-345-9106 e-mail: office@mindfreedom.org website: www.mindfreedom.org

=

POSTED: JULY 23, 2008

WE THE PEOPLE
 
Contact: Lauren J. Tenney, MA, MPA, Psychiatric Survivor          FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Cell: 516-319-4295
e-mail: lauren@theopalproject.org
website: www.theopalproject.org/vigil.html
 
A DEMONSTRATION AND CANDLE LIGHT VIGIL TO MOURN THE LOSS OF MS. ESMIN ELIZABETH GREEN AND CONDEMN HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS.
 
 
WE THE PEOPLE Call For An End Of Abuse, Torture, And Neglect In The Wake Of Ms. Green's Death On June 19, 2008, While Detained At Kings County Hospital Center's Psychiatric Emergency Room.
 
 
The death of Esmin Green is indicative of a failure in the system that was supposed to be there to care for her.  The solution to protecting the lives and dignity of people with psychiatric histories is not simply to increase staff and services and/or to improve staff training.  As evidenced by Ms. Green’s death, these measures are nothing more than temporary band-aids that consistently fail.  Fully implementing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is a real solution that will promote respect, human rights, and dignity of people who have a psychiatric history.  The principles of the CRPD include respect for inherent dignity and individual autonomy including the freedom to make one’s own choices; non-discrimination; the respect for differences; and acceptance of persons with disabilities as part of human diversity and humanity.  Clearly, several articles in the CRPD contain protections that might have saved Esmin Green’s life.

Other International law has been violated as well including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenants on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention Against Torture, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.  (For more information about the CRPD and other protections see www.mindfreedom.org; www.theopalproject.org/vigil.html.)

Daniel Hazen, of the Law Project for Psychiatric Rights (PsychRights®) and Stop Force said,  "This could only happen within a system that uniformly ignores complaints of physical problems by people who have been labeled with serious mental illness.  This is particularly dangerous because of the extremely harmful nature of psychiatric drugs.  Was Ms. Green's medical emergency in any way related to the toxic and debilitating psychiatric drugs she might have been taking, possibly through intimidation, coercion, or force?  This seems likely in light of the known connection between such drugs and fatal leg blood clots. A thorough investigation is necessary."

The experience of involuntarily detainment in a psychiatric emergency room or in a psychiatric institution is tantamount to torture.  Human rights and feminist activist Kate Millett during the negotiations on the UN Convention on the subject of forced treatment and confinement of persons with disabilities stated, “The power of an entire civilization massed against one lone individual.  Every phone and lock and guard and drug . . . Everything conspires to make you completely alone and terrified.  Malleable.  These are the conditions of torture”.
 
David Gonzalez, founder and Senior Consultant of the Recovery x-Change and a former patient of the “G” Building at Kings County Hospital Center will be speaking at the demonstration.  Gonzalez states, “What has brought Ms. Green’s appalling death to public scrutiny is not that it was unusual or uncommon in any way, but that it was caught on video.  The lack of compassion, callous indifference, and subsequent cover-up exposes not only the hypocrisy which allows this type of systemic abuse to take place under the guise of treatment, but more importantly exposes the perversion of institutional psychiatry”.
 
On July 25, 2008, we invite all people to join us and stand united in support of the demand that everyone receive the full benefit of their human rights and the preservation of their liberty, dignity, and respect. There are vigils happening all over the world for Ms. Green on July 25, 2008 to stand in solidarity with New Yorkers.  If you can attend the vigil or not, on Friday, July 25, 2008, call Governor Patterson (518) 474-8390, Mayor Bloomberg, (212) NEW-YORK, and your elected Representatives to express your outrage about Ms. Green's murder and insist that the City of New York stand in full compliance with International law and Human Rights.
 
Who: All People.
 
What:  A demonstration and candle light vigil to mourn the loss of Ms. Esmin Elizabeth Green and condemn human rights violations.
 
Why:   WE THE PEOPLE call for an end of abuse, torture, and neglect in the wake of Ms. Green's death on June 19, 2008, while detained at Kings County Hospital Center's Psychiatric Emergency Room.
 
Where: Kings County Hospital Center, Psychiatric Emergency Room, Building G. 606 Winthrop Street Brooklyn, NY 11203
 
Date: July 25, 2008
 
Time: Demonstration begins at 5 PM, Candle Light Vigil, 8:30 PM
 
Websites: www.theopalproject.org/vigil.html  www.mindfreedom.org
 
If you would like to co-sponsor or endorse this demonstration, vigil, and its follow up forums, please contact us.
 
WE THE PEOPLE
###
 
Special thanks to Myra Kovary, UN Representative of MindFreedom International, for drafting this press release   For more information or to schedule an interview, please contact:
 
 
Contact: Lauren J. Tenney
Cell: 516-319-4295
e-mail: lauren@theopalproject.org
website: www.theopalproject.org/vigil.html

Contact: David W. Oaks
Phone: 541-345-9106
e-mail: office@mindfreedom.org
website: www.mindfreedom.org


 
 
POSTED: JULY 9, 2008
 
WE THE PEOPLE
 
Contact: Lauren J. Tenney, MA, MPA, Psychiatric Survivor                                              FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Cell: 516-319-4295
e-mail: lauren@theopalproject.org
website: www.theopalproject.org
 
VIGIL TO MOURN THE LOSS OF MS. ESMIN ELIZABETH GREEN AND CONDEMN VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS
 
Who: All People.
 
What: Candle Light Vigil to mourn the loss of Ms. Esmin Elizabeth Green and condemn violations of human rights.
 
Why: WE THE PEOPLE call for an end of abuse, torture, and neglect in the wake of Ms. Green's Death on June 19, 2008, while detained at Kings County Hospital Center's Psychiatric Emergency Room.
 
Where: Kings County Hospital Center, Psychiatric Emergency Room, Building G. 606 Winthrop Street Brooklyn, NY 11203
 
Date: July 25, 2008

Time: 5 PM - 10 PM, Candle Light Vigil, 8:30 PM
 

WE THE PEOPLE Call for an End of Abuse, Torture, and Neglect in the Wake of Ms. Green's Death While Detained at Kings County Hospital Center's Psychiatric Emergency Room.
 
Advocates, human rights activists, and community members are holding a vigil and demonstration to mourn the death of Ms. Esmin Elizabeth Green.  WE the PEOPLE are calling attention to the reported horrific inactions and complete neglect that Ms. Green was subjected to while detained at the Kings County Hospital Center's Psychiatric Emergency Room.
 
According to the Associated Press, after being involuntarily committed to the institution, Ms. Green sat waiting for a bed to become available for nearly 24 hours before she collapsed on to the floor.  She lay there helpless for nearly an hour until she received medical attention, which came too late[i]. Further, according to the New York Civil Liberties Union, facility staff  possibly falsified documents, stating that Ms. Green was "up and went to the bathroom" and was "'sitting quietly in the waiting room' - more than 10 minutes after she last moved”[ii].  The surveillance tape shown on CNN Video portrays Ms. Green dying on the floor as people pass her by[iii]. In fact, on the Internet, one can find a mass of comment on this tragedy by individuals all over the world - a question repeatedly asked, "Where is the humanity?"
 
All people must be treated with dignity, humanity, and respect.  We must not tolerate violations of human rights that individuals who are assigned psychiatric labels often endure.
 
We ask you, wouldn't you be depressed and possibly even 'agitated' if you were going to lose your home and employment? Reportedly, this is what led to Ms. Green's commitment[iv]. Any one of us could be labeled with a psychiatric diagnosis and subjected to inhumane 'treatment' if we are thought to be 'agitated', particularly if we are poor.  

How many more people labeled with "mental illness" will be subjected to torture and neglect before something is done to protect human rights within psychiatric systems?  David Oaks, Executive Director of MindFreedom International states, "I encourage us all to reflect on the need for a deep nonviolent revolution in the field of mental health, far beyond the "reforms" that have gotten us to where we are today, with televised death via neglect of a mother of six".

In 1875, a New York Times article cites abuses of inmates at the Kings County Asylum, spurred by Mr. Nelson Magee, a former inmate. Then-Commissioner Norris reacts to the investigation, "This sort of thing is very common among lunatics; they are always imagining themselves in great danger of being killed by their keepers"v.  How many more centuries have to go by before action is taken to end these abuses and neglect?  
 
WE the PEOPLE stand for change.  We have been abused by the psychiatric system. Our brothers and sisters continue to be abused and murdered, as evidenced by Ms. Green's untimely demise. Massive human rights violations happen every day in psychiatric institutions but this horrific inaction was captured on videotape. We will call attention to the every day tortures committed in the name of psychiatric "help" including diagnosing life's challenges as ''illness," forced pharmaceuticals, restraint, seclusion, and electric shock treatment (ECT) with a Vigil to honor Ms. Green's memory beginning at 5 PM.
 
There are many questions as to what led to Ms. Green's death.  Was it in any way related to the toxic and debilitating drugs that people labeled with "mental illness" are intimidated, coerced, and forced into taking? A thorough investigation is necessary to determine the extent of the torture, ill treatment and other human rights violations involved in this case and in the practices of the institution as a whole.  We must stand united to demand social justice, equal rights, and environments free from torture and detention.  
 
On July 25, 2008, we invite all people to join us and stand united in support of the demand that everyone receive the full benefit of their human rights and the preservation of their liberty, dignity and respect.
 

We welcome your involvement as an organizational co-sponsor or an individual endorser of this effort. If you would like to speak at this event, please contact us.
 
WE THE PEOPLE
 
###
 
For more information or to schedule an interview, please contact:
 
Contact: Lauren J. Tenney
Cell: 516-319-4295
e-mail: lauren@theopalproject.org
website: www.theopalproject.org
 
Contact: David W. Oaks
Phone: 541-345-9106
e-mail: office@mindfreedom.org
website: www.mindfreedom.org
 
REFERENCES
[i] Retrieved July 8, 2008 from http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/H/HOSPITAL_WARD_DEATH?SITE=OHRAV&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
[ii] Retrieved July 8, 2008 from http://www.nyclu.org/node/1876)
[iii] Retrieved on July 8, 2008 from http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/01/waiting.room.death/index.html.
[iv] Retrieved July 8, 2008, from http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/03/hospital.woman.death/index.html
[v] Retrieved July 9, 2008 from http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F00E6D8103CE63ABC4851DFBE66838E669FDE

DIRECTIONS TO THE JULY 25, 2008 VIGIL & DEMONSTRATION

The vigil is in front of Building G on Winthrop street.  Winthrop Street runs Parallel to Clarkson Avenue.  

BY PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:

By Subway


Subway 2 or 5 (Flatbush Avenue bound):
(Flatbush Line) Take to Winthrop Street Station. Walk to 606 Winthrop Street

 

Note: The Flatbush Avenue bound 5 train only makes local stops during rush hours (6:15 to 10am; 3:15 to 8:45pm).

Subway Q (Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue bound):
Take to Parkside Avenue Station and pick up the B-12 East New York bus directly across the street from exit. (See B-12 below.)

By Bus

B-12 Route:
East New York Avenue bus to Clarkson and New York Avenues.

B-44 Route:
Nostrand Avenue bus to Clarkson Avenue.


B-46 Route:
Utica Avenue bus to Clarkson Avenue.


B-35 Route:
Church Avenue bus to New York Avenue. 


BY AUTOMOBILE:

From Manhattan


Via Brooklyn Battery Tunnel:
Gowanus Expressway to Prospect Expressway which becomes Ocean Parkway. First legal left turn onto Beverly Road. Follow Beverly Road to Bedford Avenue. Right turn on Winthrop Street to 606

Via Brooklyn Bridge:
Continue off bridge on Adams Street to Atlantic Avenue. Left on Atlantic Avenue to Flatbush Avenue. Right on Flatbush Avenue. Follow Flatbush Avenue around Grand Army Plaza and continue to Parkside Avenue. Left on Parkside Avenue to New York Avenue. Right on New York Avenue Left on Winthrop Street to 606.


From Staten Island

Via Verrazano Narrows Bridge:
Exit to Fort Hamilton Parkway. Follow Parkway to Caton Avenue. Right on Caton Avenue which becomes Linden Boulevard. Linden Boulevard to New York Avenue. Left on New York Avenue. Right on Winthrop Street to 606 Winthrop Street.

LaGuardia Airport:
East on Grand Central Parkway to Interborough Parkway to Pennsylvania Avenue. Follow Pennsylvania Avenue to Linden Boulevard. Right on Linden Boulevard to New York Avenue. Right on Clarkson Avenue.
Right on New York Avenue. Right on Winthrop Street. 606 Winthrop Street.

 

Kennedy International Airport:
West on the Southern State Parkway (Belt Parkway) to Linden Boulevard exit. Right on Linden Boulevard to New York Avenue. Right on New York Avenue to Clarkson Avenue. Right on Clarkson Avenue. Right on New York Avenue. Right on Winthrop Street. 606 Winthrop Street.

 

From ALBANY

From:
99 Watervliet Ave
Albany, NY 12206
       
Drive:   
168 mi – about 3 hours 7 mins
1.    Head southwest on Watervliet Ave toward Watervliet Ave Ext        292 ft
2.    Turn right at Watervliet Ave Ext        0.3 mi
3.    Turn right at Everett Rd        482 ft
4.    Turn right to merge onto I-90 E        2.8 mi
5.    Take the exit onto I-787 S toward Albany        3.2 mi
6.    Take exit 1 to merge onto I-87 S/New York State Thruway S  Partial toll road 122 mi
7.    Take exit 13S for Palisades Pkwy S toward New Jersey        0.4 mi
8.    Merge onto Palisades Interstate Pkwy S  Entering New Jersey 18.1 mi
9.    Take the exit toward GW Bridge Partial toll road 1.0 mi
10.    Merge onto I-95 N/US-1 N  Entering New York  1.9 mi
11.    Take exit 1C-3 to merge onto I-87 S/Major Deegan Expy toward Queens        3.4 mi
12.    Take the exit onto I-278 W toward Queens/Triboro Bridge/Manhattan  Partial toll road 3.5 mi
13.    Take the exit onto Brooklyn Queens Expy W/I-278 W toward Staten Is/Brooklyn  6.4 mi
14.    Take exit 31 toward Wythe Ave/Kent Ave        0.1 mi
15.    Merge onto Williamsburg St W        0.3 mi
16.    Turn right at Flushing Ave        0.3 mi
17.    Turn left at Washington Ave        1.8 mi
18.    Turn left at Eastern Pkwy        0.9 mi
19.    Turn right at Brooklyn Ave        0.8 mi
20.    Turn left at Winthrop St        0.3 mi
To:
606 Winthrop St
Brooklyn, NY 11203
   
 FROM UTICA

From:
13 Hopper St
Utica, NY 13501      
Drive:   
253 mi – about 4 hours 27 mins
1.    Head northwest on Hopper St toward King St        0.1 mi
2.    Turn right at Genesee St        1.5 mi
3.    Slight right to merge onto I-90 E/New York State Thruway E Partial toll road 84.4 mi
4.    Continue on I-87 S/New York State Thruway S (signs for Mass Pike/New York/Boston/I-87 S/New York Thruway S) Partial toll road 128 mi
5.    Take exit 13S for Palisades Pkwy S toward New Jersey        0.4 mi
6.    Merge onto Palisades Interstate Pkwy S  Entering New Jersey  18.1 mi
7.    Take the exit toward GW Bridge  Partial toll road 1.0 mi
8.    Merge onto I-95 N/US-1 N  Entering New York 1.9 mi
9.    Take exit 1C-3 to merge onto I-87 S/Major Deegan Expy toward Queens        3.4 mi
10.    Take the exit onto I-278 W toward Queens/Triboro Bridge/Manhattan
Partial toll road 3.5 mi
11.    Take the exit onto Brooklyn Queens Expy W/I-278 W toward Staten Is/Brooklyn        6.4 mi
12.    Take exit 31 toward Wythe Ave/Kent Ave        0.1 mi
13.    Merge onto Williamsburg St W        0.3 mi
14.    Turn right at Flushing Ave        0.3 mi
15.    Turn left at Washington Ave        1.8 mi
16.    Turn left at Eastern Pkwy        0.9 mi
17.    Turn right at Brooklyn Ave        0.8 mi
18.    Turn left at Winthrop St

 

FROM LONG ISLAND

From:
159 Brightside Ave
Central Islip, NY 11722

      
Drive:   
44.3 mi – about 1 hour 5 mins
up to 1 hour 30 mins in traffic

1.    Head west on Brightside Ave toward Islip Ave/RT-111        223 ft
2.    Turn left at Islip Ave/RT-111        2.1 mi
3.    Turn right to merge onto Southern Pkwy W/Southern State Pkwy toward New York        29.3 mi
4.    Continue on Belt Pkwy W        6.7 mi
5.    Take exit 17W toward No Conduit Ave        0.3 mi
6.    Merge onto Nassau Expy/RT-27 W  Continue to follow RT-27 W 0.6 mi
7.    Slight left at Linden Blvd/RT-27 W (signs for Linden Blvd)        4.0 mi
8.    Slight left to stay on Linden Blvd/RT-27 W        1.0 mi
9.    Turn right at Albany Ave        0.3 mi
10.    Turn left at Winthrop St        200 ft
To:
606 Winthrop St
Brooklyn, NY 11203
          

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