Bruce Levine joins The 23rd Nelson Algren Annual Birthday Party

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For the past 23 years, the literary and arts community of Wicker Park, Chicago, has been memorializing the birthday of a great Chicago novelist--Nelson Algren. Readings, musical performances, photographic exhibits and theater are regularly part of the party. The 2012 event was held Saturday, March 24, in a former church on North Avenue.

Bruce E. Levine writes and speaks widely on how society, culture, politics and psychology intersect. His latest book is Get Up, Stand Up: Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite (2011). Earlier books include Surviving America’s Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (2007) and Commonsense Rebellion: Taking Back Your Life from Drugs, Shrinks, Corporations, and a World Gone Crazy (2003).

A practicing clinical psychologist often at odds with the mainstream of his profession, he is a regular contributor to CounterPunch, AlterNet, Truthout, Z Magazine and the Huffington Post. His articles and interviews have been published in Adbusters, The Ecologist, High Times, and numerous other magazines, and he has contributed chapters to The Military Industrial Complex at 50 (2011), Writing without Formula (2009), Perspectives on Diseases and Disorders: Depression (2009), and Alternatives beyond Psychiatry (2007).

Dr. Levine is on the editorial advisory board of the journal Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, and he is an editorial advisor for the Icarus Project/Freedom Center Harm Reduction Guide to Coming off Psychiatric Drugs. A longtime activist in the mental health treatment reform movement, he is a member of the International Society for Ethical Psychology & Psychiatry as well as MindFreedom. Dr. Levine has presented talks and workshops to diverse organizations throughout North America.

Bruce E. Levine was born in 1956, grew up in Rockaway in New York City, graduated from Queens College of the City University of New York, and received his PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Cincinnati. He currently lives in Cincinnati with his wife, Bon.

El Marketing de la Locura - Vendiendo la Enfermedad

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EL Marketing de La Locura
Un vídeo de los canales Ankesenaton y SaavedraAbel
La compra-venta de la enfermedad es una estrategia altamente exitosa que convierte las situaciones normales de la vida en condiciones de enfermedad psiquiátrica, haciendo que la gente de todos los estratos sociales se preocupe acerca de la "enfermedad mental" más reciente; y que soliciten una pastilla.

Myths of Mental Illness

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Does paranoia exist? Does schizophrenia exist? Does mental illness exist? Who are R.D. Laing, Thomas Szasz, & Wilhelm Reich? How has the mental health system changed? What causes mental illness? Is there a mass malaise or mass alienation of mass schizophrenia? How can the mentally ill recover? These are some of the questions this video attempts to answer.

EL MARKETING DEL MIEDO 1/2 from ALISH on Vimeo.

DOCUMENTAL ACERCA DE LA GRIPE A Y EL MARKETING DEL MIEDO. PRIMERA PARTE.

SEGUNDA PARTE EN:
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PRIMERA PARTE:
CAP I: LA GRIPE A
CAP II: EL ORIGEN
CAP III: LAS VACUNAS
CAP IV: LA VACUNA DE LA GRIPE A
CAP V: POSIBLE OBLIGATORIEDAD

Trata de cómo nos manipulan y juegan con nuestra salud gracias a la invención de falsas enfermedades

INCLUYE ENTREVISTAS A
JUAN GERVAS, médico (entrevista entera en vimeo.com/8452780 )
JAVIER URIARTE, médico (entrevista entera en vimeo.com/8658705 )
SANTOS MARTIN, médico (entrevista entera en vimeo.com/9390410 )
TERESA FORCADES, médica (entrevista entera en vimeo.com/6790193 )
MAXIMO SANDIN, biólogo
MIGUEL JARA, periodista (entrevista entera en vimeo.com/9713797 )
JESUS REINA, abogado (entrevista entera en vimeo.com/9957707 )

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WellPoint sued an ENTIRE STATE to increase profits

Netting $2.5 billion in profits last year wasn't enough for WellPoint, the nation's largest insurance company.

Now, WellPoint's affiliate, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, is suing the state of Maine for refusing to guarantee it a profit margin in the midst of a painful recession.

Fight back against health insurance lies

What does UnitedHealth Group CEO Stephen Hemsley have to lose if Congress passes real healthcare reform this year?

Well, for starters, Hemsley’s nearly three quarters of a billion dollars in unexercised stock options might lose a few pennies on the dollar if insurance providers like UnitedHealth Group are forced to actually pay for the treatment that patients need.

What does Isabella, a four year-old girl in Winsconsin who is physically incapable of eating and has had to be tube fed her entire life, have to gain from healthcare reform? The treatment she needs to live a normal life.

The chance for Isabella to become a normal, healthy child depends on Congress passing healthcare reform this year. But Stephen Hemsley opposes reform, and after making the equivalent of $4,096,815 each and every week of this year, it doesn’t take an expert to figure out why.

Welcome to the American health insurance industry. Instead of helping policyholders attain the health security they need for themselves and their families, insurance companies like UnitedHealth Group are sending lobbyists to Washington, DC to twist the arms of lawmakers to oppose reform of the status quo.

Why? Because maintaining the status quo means continuing to allow huge insurance corporations like UnitedHealth Group to treat the physical livelihoods of average Americans as commodities to exploit for shareholder profits and outsized executive compensation packages. It means continuing to let working class people suffer and die so that wealthy insurance executives can live in $7.8 million mansions like Hemsley’s Minnesota home.

Help Brave New Films expose the truth about what the status quo means for insurance executives, and what it means for the rest of us. And if you or a loved one has been victimized by the unscrupulous practices of CIGNA, Aetna, WellPoint, Humana or Coventry, tell us your story.

With your help, we’ll make sure that in the future, our premium dollars pay for treatment for patients like Isabella, and not to line the pockets of billionaires like Hemsley.

Bill Moyers Journal . MONEY-DRIVEN MEDICINE PBS

The film MONEY-DRIVEN MEDICINE reveals how a profit-hungry medical-industrial complex has turned health care into a system that squanders millions of dollars on unnecessary tests, unproven and sometimes unwanted procedures and overpriced prescription drugs. Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney has teamed up with producers Peter Bull, Chris Matonti, and director Andy Fredericks to produce a film based on Maggie Mahar's powerful book MONEY-DRIVEN MEDICINE.

After covering the health care industry for years as a financial journalist, Mahar wanted to write a book examining the system from the perspective of doctors and patients. The response from the doctors she contacted was overwhelming — five out of six called her back. The film brings their stories to the screen, portraying an industry where corporate profits often get in the way of care.

Big Bucks, Big Pharma - Marketing Disease & Pushing Drugs

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Big Bucks, Big Pharma pulls back the curtain on the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry to expose the insidious ways that illness is used, manipulated, and in some instances created, for capital gain. Focusing on the industry's marketing practices, media scholars and health professionals help viewers understand the ways in which direct-to-consumer (DTC) pharmaceutical advertising glamorizes and normalizes the use of prescription medication, and works in tandem with promotion to doctors. Combined, these industry practices shape how both patients and doctors understand and relate to disease and treatment. Ultimately, Big Bucks, Big Pharma challenges us to ask important questions about the consequences of relying on a for-profit industry for our health and well-being.

Featuring interviews with Dr. Marcia Angell (Dept. of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Former Editor New England Journal of Medicine), Dr. Bob Goodman (Columbia University Medical Center; Founder, No Free Lunch), Gene Carbona (Former Pharmaceutical Industry Insider and Current Executive Director of Sales, The Medical Letter), Katharine Greider (Journalist; Author, The Big Fix: How the Pharmaceutical Industry Rips Off American Consumers), Dr. Elizabeth Preston (Dept. of Communication, Westfield State College), and Dr. Larry Sasich (Public Citizen Health Research Group).

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