The official police count is 433 protesters!!!! Way to go Big Apple!!!!!!!!!!!!
From: Rita Dicarlo
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 10:57:12 EDT
Subject: Mind Aid report May 22,
MIND AID: a mind is a beautiful thing to save
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Gary Null's No force Demo & press conference was
awsome!
Held May 21, 2001 at the entrance to Attorney General
Spitzer's offices at 120 Broadway in Manhattan, this
event attracted 250 to 300 people. Speakers
included: Gary Null, Ph.D. nutritionist, psychologist
and broadcaster; Linda Andre of Committee for Truth
in Psychiatry; John Breeding, Ph.D. psychologist
from Texas for Safe Education; Leonard Frank of
Support Coalition International; Larry Simon, Ph.D.
from CUNY; Nathaniel Lehrman, MD Psychiatrist
retired from the OMH's Creedmore and Kingsboro;
Ellen Isaacs, MD internist from Coalition Against
The Violence Initiative; Mitchell Cohen of the Anti
Pesticide Coalition (?); Joseph DuBovy from the
Green Party Mental Health Caucus; Dominic Riccio,
Ph.D. of International Center for the Study of
Psychiatry and Psychology; Rita DiCarlo, director of
Mind Aid and member of Disabled in Action, SCI, CAVI,
ICSPP and Gary Null support groups.
The media was there, Channel 11 filmed, others where
there who are doing documentaries and filmed most of
us who spoke. Anna Szyszco was there but we only
found out after the speakers were finished and it
was over or we would have had her speak. We later
learned that Laura Ziegler also made it, but since we
thought she wasn't coming she was not on the speaker
list or she would have been called out of the crowd
which was so dense they could get through to us.
All in all, this was a very successful event. We
encourage Gary Null and the other speakers to
volunteer to speak at future events our coalition
has planned such as the one in Harlem coming up this
month sponsored by the Coalition Against the Violence
Initiative. We must all work together, supporting
each others' organizational efforts to curtail the
atrocities being forced on innocent, poor and
"Majority of Minorities" people. Please stay in
touch and let me know of any new resources we can
use in future planning. If you are going to speak
at the Harlem event, please let me know today if you
could. Let there be peace on earth and let it begin
with us.
In Marley's words, "One Love".
In Solidarity,
Rita DiCarlo, Mind Aid
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