FREEDOM RALLY for CONSUMER RIGHTS!

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKERS

In Alphabetical order: (confirmed as of 4/11)

Laurie Ahern, National Empowerment Center (NEC)
Larry Belcher, West Virginia Judi Chamberlin, National Empowerment Center (NEC)
Honorable Justin Dart, recipient, Presidential Medal of Freedom, and Father of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Mark Davis, Pennsylvania Mental Health Consumers' Association
Dan Fisher, NEC Andy Imparato, President and CEO of the American Association of People with Disabilities
David Oaks, Support Coalition International (SCI)
Larry Plumlee, SCI Montgomery County
Joseph Rogers, Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania
Laura Van Tosh, Montgomery County activist and Rally Organizer

Other speakers to be announced!

Thursday, May 2, 2002 5:00 - 7:30 p.m.

DoubleTree Hotel
1750 Rockville Pike Rockville, MD
Phone: (301) 468-1100
for directions, please go to the DoubleTree Web site: http://www.doubletreerockville.com/

WHY ARE WE GATHERING?

On May 2nd inside the DoubleTree Hotel, Dr. E. Fuller Torrey, the key spokesman for efforts to expand involuntary treatment laws across the United States will be part of an award ceremony. Dr. Torrey recently called for shutting down the federal Center for Mental Health Services because it supports consumer-operated services that promote recovery. (Washington Monthly April 2002)

Maryland consumers and advocates recently defeated a bill to expand commitment power (H.B. 923/S.B. 645). But the struggle continues across the country! Join us to protest Dr. Torrey's agenda of force and coercion. Your support is needed now, more than ever! The future of consumer rights is on the line!

Join the Heroic Battle for Civil Rights!

"Coercion should not be a substitute for effective care that is sought voluntarily..."
US Surgeon General's Report On Mental Health (1999)

Sponsored by the Montgomery County Coalition for Human Rights in Mental Health
FreedomRally@aol.com

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