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Jim Gottstein
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Protesters to Ask Governor Parnell to Stop
Drugging Alaska's Children and Youth at Governor's Picnic
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 16, 2012 Anchorage, Alaska
A protest at the Governor's picnic, Saturday, July 20, 2013,
on the Delaney Parkstrip in Anchorage is planned to demand Governor Parnell stop
the psychiatric drugging of Alaska's children in state custody and through
Medicaid. The Governor's picnic starts at noon at I St. and the protestors are
going to meet at the Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial at 11:30 on L Street. Jim
Gottstein, president of the Law Project for Psychiatric Rights (PsychRights®)
noted, "At last year's Governor's Picnic, after his people threatening to call
the police didn't work, Gov. Parnell promised to convene a round table on the
issue in order to get us to leave. He later denied he made that commitment."
Reasons for the protest include:
•
Children are being greatly harmed by psychiatric
drugs, including being killed. The State of Alaska doesn't know or won't say how
many Alaska children have been killed by psychiatric drugs while in State
custody and through improper Medicaid prescriptions.
•
Almost all children and youth in foster care have
been given psychiatric drugs.
•
Most of the psychiatric drugs given to children
and youth on Medicaid are not medically proper (not for medically accepted
indications).
•
Alaska's poor children need love, not drugs.
The Law Project for Psychiatric Rights is a public interest
law firm devoted to the defense of people facing the horrors of forced
psychiatric drugging and electroshock. PsychRights is further dedicated to
exposing the truth about psychiatric interventions and the courts being misled
into ordering people subjected to these brain and body damaging drugs against
their will. Extensive information about these dangers, and about the tragic
damage caused by electroshock, is available on the PsychRights web site:
http://psychrights.org/.
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http://psychrights.org/PR/130716GovsPicnicProtestRelease.pdf