We all have human rights...

A couple of brief clips from 2011 when I was interviewed by Lauren Tenney, as part of a participatory research project.  

(de)VOICED: a trailer

(de)VOICED is a participatory research project of my friend, Lauren Tenney.  Lauren a human rights activist, Director at The Opal Project, Adjunct Professor at College of Staten Island, CUNY and Author at Existential Trash AuthorHouse (2005)

via Lauren:

Please watch, this is a draft. Please comment - I'm so curious if this makes sense to someone outside of my head. Thanks! (from (de)VOICED- Coming Soon!!!) Again, this is a draft - not even a rough cut really.  It has not been submitted to, or approved by, the committee.

via Lauren Tenney on youtube:

(de)VOICED trailer  not submitted or approved 

Isaac summer 2011

Preliminary graphic: www.3dcontentcentral.com

not approved graphic pmtips.net

originally titled, "(de)VOICED: A PARTICIPATORY PLANNING PROCESS DRAFT with (de)VOICED trailer" updated: 8-5-2013

ADVOCATES STAND TO SAY YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT ME, STOP PSYCHIATRIC PROFILING!

Stop Psychiatric Profiling Action

from (de)VOICED on Vimeo.

Stop Psychiatric Profiling Trailer 1

from (de)VOICED on Vimeo.

Stop Psychiatric Profiling Epic

from (de)VOICED on Vimeo.

Stop Psychiatric Profiling NOIR

from (de)VOICED on Vimeo.

ADVOCATES STAND TO SAY YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT ME,

STOP PSYCHIATRIC PROFILING!

People from across New York State who have been given a psychiatric diagnosis Stand in Protest of funding for legislation that violates human rights at the Joint Legislative Public Hearing on 2013-2014 Executive Budget Proposal: Topic "Mental Hygiene".

PRESS RELEASE

For Immediate Release

CONTACT: AMY COLESANTE, (518) 813-3156

WHAT: PRESS CONFERENCE and ACTION

WHERE: Legislative Office Building 181 State Street, outside of Hearing Room B Albany, NY 12247

DATE: February 27, 2013

PRESS CONFERENCE TIME: 12:30 PM (at close of Hearing)

PHOTO OP TIME: From 9:30 AM thru the close of the Public Hearings, (12:30 PM)

WEBSITE FOR PUBLIC: mhepinc.org

On Wednesday, February 27, 2013, people who have been given a psychiatric diagnosis will be taking a stand against New York State Legislation that tracks and criminalizes them. These advocates will be wearing T-Shirts that say on the front, “You are talking about me” and on the back, “Stop psychiatric profiling” in protest of legislation such as the New York Safe Act; public health law Section 384b of the Social Services Law that removes children from their parents simply because they have been given a psychiatric diagnosis; and the expansion and extension of the highly controversial Kendra’s Law.

Amy Colesante, Executive Director of Mental Health Empowerment Project, a statewide advocacy organization that is run for and by people with first hand, lived experience in the psychiatric system, states “Today, we Stand to let the New York Legislature know it is not acceptable to spend tax-payer dollars to promote and fund multiple acts of legislation which violate the civil, human, and constitutional rights of people who have been given a psychiatric diagnosis.” (emphasis mine)

The latest discriminatory action taken by the NYS government involves the creation of a central data base designed to track people with a psychiatric diagnosis. Maura Kelley, Director of Mental Health Peer Connection, a consumer run program in Buffalo, New York states “Research findings can no longer be ignored. It is commonly cited that people with a psychiatric history are 14 times more likely to be a victims of crime than arrested for one (Brekke, 2001). In the United States and abroad, people are calling for action to stop psychiatric profiling (Walsh, et, al 2003). These efforts to scapegoat us are simply a veil of safety.”

Stopping psychiatric profiling is a movement to eliminate the scapegoating of people who have been given a psychiatric diagnosis by politicians, media, gun control advocates and the pro-gun lobbyists. Ellen Healion, Executive Director of Hands Across Long Island, a consumer-run agency in Long Island, states “people with a psychiatric label pose as much risk to the general public as everyone sitting on the floor of the Assembly or Senate. The bottom line is the fact that even considering a data base attacks civil liberties and rights. That this issue is even being discussed, whether publicly or behind closed doors is an atrocity.”