San Francisco, 5/20: Mind Freedom-Support Coalition International's weekend of resistance to the mental health orthodoxy in San Francisco culminated in a protest at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. Where 19,000 shrinks gathered inside the Moscone Center, some 40 psychiatric survivors (some of whom endured forced "treatment" and labels affixed to them) picketed the APA in a peaceful display of dissidence (as well as dissonance). Freedom of choice, self-determination and the end of the drug industry's tyranny were the major themes that afternoon. More Info