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Yvonne Smith and Lauren Tenney host open lines for response to the MHASP webinar, "Murphy Bill in 2015". Not that they would put it this way, maybe, but the webinar will feature a discussion about three sweeping legislative efforts concerning the psychiatric industry and state power. The bills discussed will include the Congressman Tim Murphy's now dead H.R. 3717 and its resurrected evil twin, H.R...

2 PM Eastern August 7, 2015. Download the bill here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/x7eodspllgtrqmx/Cassidy%20Murphy%20Mental%20Health%20Bill%20Senate%20August%202015.pdf?dl=0   Today I will read the Cassidy-Murphy "Mental Health" Bill  without commentary. (wish me luck.) Read along with me (file link above)

The Cassidy-Murphy Bill announced August 4, 2015, presents the same kind of issues as HR 2646, the Murphy Bill.  Tune in for a reading of the bill and call in to share your thoughts. You can read the yet-to-be-numbered bill here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/th6pmfcpo7qmg1g/15%207-27%20Draft%20Senate%20MH%20bill.pdf?dl=0    

6pm pacific 7Mtn,8pm Central 9pmEST Aubrey Ellen Shomo is a writer, filmmaker, activist, hacker, psychiatric survivor, entrepreneur, network engineer, and dreamer. Amy Smith is a recent old country gal, gearing up to organize MindFreedom Colorado from the beautiful windswept high grass plains of Northeast Colorado. Amy left psychiatry in 2007 and has amazing mad skills and dreams returning to her...

  Sunday 900pm Eastern 8 pm Central  7Pm Mountain and 6Pm Central  call in number 267-521-0167 or listen only on blog radio or podcast Joseph Rogers joins us again for a second Round of Late Night. Call in with your advocacy quetions and where Joe sees this movemet going in 2016.Joseph is the cheif advocacy Officer for Mental health Clearing House  One of Three Consumer Technical Centers. Jospeh h...

(267) 521-0167 David Healy: You Promote This? Life After Electroshock: Disability, Discrimination, Brain Damage, and Negative Economic Ramifications David Healy please clarify your stance on electroshock. Hear people who are electroshock survivors and their academic allies describe the multiple ways in which electroshock continues to act as a human rights violation on a day-to-day basis for those...

267) 521-0167 You asked for it. More opportunities to call in. So tonights show is totally a call in Starting at 9PM Central. Lots of things are happening. Murphy Bill still on burner. Looks like National Mental Health Clearing House is losing its federal Grant.  Chatanoga TN shooter may have been on anti depresents. Why is it suddenly that domestic teroist are not seen as mentally Ill. You want t...

Debbie F. Plotnick, MSS, MLSP is the Vice President for Mental Health and Systems Advocacy at Mental Health America (MHA). Previously, she was the Director of Advocacy and Policy for the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania (MHASP), where she developed policy, organized grassroots advocacy activities, and designed recovery-oriented, community services. Debbie will explain about w...

Show Date. July 5 Time 9pm Eastern 8 Central 7pm Mountain 6pm pacific.  Late Night with Hero. Guest Leah Harris  talks about the Upcoming March in Washington and Updates on Murphy Bill. Interesting call in  by Lauren Tenney  about MAtsui bill which threatens to take away rights. Althought this was intended to be a show about the March and  DC Trauma recent new legislation broght up by callers over...

 This week has been a very interesting week with the Supreme Court Upholding taxcredit on Affordable Health Care. Funerals of slaughtered Worshippers in Charleston. Cliff Wright, mental health and  community activist having lived and worked in Hawaii and the mainland bring a unique perspecive  look to the look at systems and communities. Please feel free to call into the the show . 267 521 0167or...

Talk with Tenney: Pre-Launch Party Line Burtow's Psychiatry  and the Business of Madness Please join me on June 27, 2015 from 8-10 PM EST for a Pe-Launch Party Line with Dr. Bonnie Burstow, Irit Shimrat, Cheryl Prax, and other leading activist, academics, and survivors to discuss Burstow's groundbreaking book, Psychiatry and the Business of Madness.  Irit Shimrat is the author of Call Me Crazy: St...

Misinformation about electroshock is being delivered to the public. David Healy, psychiatrist and a writer on Mad in America, also co-authored a book supporting electroshock. Shock survivors want to hear Healy's defense. They say the dangers of his pro-shock position include people voluntarily getting it based on his word that brain damage from electroshock is an "urban myth" (which Breggin M. D.,...

Intersection Between Law Enforcement and Mentall illness  Call in 267 621 0167 Joining us june 7 are two of our very strong Human rights fighter Brenda Crawford and Wallce Kirby  Wallace Kirby is a Community Organizer with the University Legal Services’ DC Jail Advocacy Project in Washington, DC.    Before joining ULS, Wallace was a founding member of “Strategic Options and Solutions” a reentry/re...

HR2646 introduced by Congressmen Tim Murphy and Eddie Bernice Johnson must be stopped.   This is a continuation of reading the bill in its entirety without commentary (to the best of my ability).  I will start on page 90.  You can hear the bill read from the begining through page 89 at www.blogtalkradio.com/talkwithtenney/2015/06/06/talk-with-tenney-special-reading-text-of-murphy-bill Congressman...

Intersection Between Law Enforcement and Mentall illness  Call in 267 621 0167 Joining us june 7 are two of our very strong Human rights fighter Brenda Crawford and Wallce Kirby  Wallace Kirby is a Community Organizer with the University Legal Services’ DC Jail Advocacy Project in Washington, DC.    Before joining ULS, Wallace was a founding member of “Strategic Options and Solutions” a reentry/re...

Congressman Tim Murphy's arrogance last year was shown up when Nancy Jensen replied that she had in fact read the whole bill which she was there to testify against. (see video here: https://vimeo.com/90899113) Like Nancy Jensen, we must be informed.  In this episode will read the 173 page bill without commentary. This may require more than one episode. Only time will tell.  Talk with Tenney will h...

May 31 9:00pm to 11pm Eastern time   Join us on line or phone call in. 267-521-0167 Moe Armstrong,military, advocate and peer speclist with the VA Administration joins us to talk about effective peer programs for Veterns. We all know about the short coming in the press lets explore things that do work. Veterns, their supporters and others are encouraged to call in.

Call in 267) 521-0167 http://www.hhs.gov/healthcare/rights/A Fight over Health Care is Occurin all over the United States but in Tennesse Heroes are fighting Back. Pamela Weston, Randall Rice and his wife retired therpist Meryl Rice were determined not to let their neighbors go uninsured. Learn how they launched a campaign for ACA.Pamela Weston is a grandmother in East TN who organized a 70 mile w...

On May 6, 2015, from 9-11 PM Eastern, please join me for a riveting conversation with Robert Whitaker. Robert Whitaker is the author of four books, two of which tell of the history of psychiatry. His first, Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill was named by Discover magazine as one of the best science books of 2002. His newest book on this topi...

From Craig Lewis: Our animal companions mean the world to us. For those of us who have struggled throughout our lives, who have been abandoned, mistreated, subjugated and disempowered, we know the damage that has impacted our psyche. I am one of these people. I know what it means to be damaged to my core. There have been many times in my life when I was unsure if I would make it the next day. Ther...

Join Talk with Tenney on April 22, 2015 from 9-11 PM Eastern for an exciting and informative conversation with Lauren Parks on surviving and ending domestic violence and sexual assault. Lauren Parks is a social work graduate student at Monmouth university. Her life's work has been dedicated to aiding and assisting victims of violence, specifically, domestic violence and sexual assault. Through her...

Join me on April 15, 2015 from 9-11 PM Eastern for an exciting conversation with Chaya Grossberg about making our own media - the art of the blog! Chaya Grossberg will talk about the importance of blogging for psychiatric survivors and some recent and upcoming blogging initiatives. She will talk about the importance of blogging for building our movement and for us as individuals who have experienc...

 calll in 267 521 0167 Amy Smith is a 60 yo city-gal Obamacare wonk who now lives in the high plains of frontier NE Colorado. She exited psychiatry in 2007, loosley, after 37 years of marginal and deadly "treatment". She will be discussing the bone-chillingly frightening current trends of industry and how we might respond, with a special emphasis on using available national programming to liberate...

Call in 267 521 0167  After years of working  Larry and Linda never dreamed that their would be turned upside down. Social Security and the fight over Medical Care was going  to be the death of them. A story only a few years ago that we could imagine concocoted for  Chritmas Holiday this couple is forced to seperate in order for Linda to live. Recognized locally and Nationally for advocacy the Dra...

Conversation around Race and Mentall Illness System.267- 521-0167 call in. Tracy is a person who was a victim of traumatic domestic abuse and who got the bes of her abuser. She also is a ECPR trainer. Join us to discuss how the struggle and race intersect. Feel comfortable to call in.