Scope Magazine. Ronald Gorton Centre 1972-1976
The Editorial team of Scope magazine produced 16 copies - 1972-1976 with a print run of 500. Provided information and comment. Front covers illustrated by Ken.
Victor Finkelstein and the Union of the Physically Impaired Against Segregation The Magic Carpet Quarterly magazine (1948 on) of the Invalid Tricycle Association, which became the Disabled Drivers' Association in 1963. ISSN 0047-5475
The editions of the Disabled Drivers Asssociatuon's journal Magic Carpet in which Vic Finkelstein first published the definitions which became a basis for the UK disability movement. See Finkelstein New Year 1975: "Phase 2: Discovering the Person in 'Disability' and 'Rehabilitation'" and March 1975 "More on phase 2" During this same period Ken joined the Union of the Physically Impaired Against Segregation and, as I often accompanied him as a helper I became an Associate member.
Rochdale Voluntary Action
Constitution adopted
20.3.1975 - Registered as a charity
3.6.1976 - On
27.3.1997 the name changed to the Council For Voluntary Service,
Rochdale
The
Ronald Gorton Day Centre management decided
that the Housing and Mobility
groups were non bon fidae, so they moved to Rochdale Voluntary Action
where Ken also became involved in its management.
This is a selection of items relating to these activities
A photo of local activists supporting the national trike and mobility campaign for small car. Ken wrote a piece 'Little Blue Things remembered' expressing affection for the 'Noddy Cars' and the independence they bought especially to young people despite how dangerous they were. (Mobility Allowance (1976) often goes towards a family car and young people do not always have the same independence) - See link
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A press report on opposition to the building of a young disabled unit at Birch Hill hospital. Despite opposition by disabled people to these segregated units the government was putting vast sums of money into the programme.
In the 1980s, Ken retained links with Rochdale - with the Disabled Persons
Working Party but I have no record - but became closely involved in
Greater Manchester.
1981 International Year of Disabled People
Ken became a fieldworker with the Greater Manchester Council for
Voluntary Service (history), charged with organising things for the
International Year of Disabled People (1981)
The International Year of Disabled People brought together activists in the
various Greater Manchester
boroughs who had shared concerns, setting up the Greater Manchester Housing
and Disability
group, the Greater Manchester Mobility and Access group (still in existence
today) and the
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People (1985). The GMCDP had
close links
with the Derbyshire Coalition of Disabled People and Derbyshire Centre for
Integrated Living
GMCDP produced a magazine
Coalition
Set up a Young Disabled people's project.
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Coalition magazine grew out of the GMCDP newsletter, produced quarterly. The initial editor was Ian Stanton (1951-26.11.1998) Ian was GMCDP's Information worker and , in some disability circles, reknowned singer song writer. Eg I'm a Crip with a Chip was played at ken Lumb's tribute. After Ian's death, Ken took over as editor. The magazine is now being produced with guest editors. A member of GMCDP is currently working on a data base to record and make the magazines accessible as they are an important record of disability action and debate. The GMCDP archive has been under threat over the years.
Loss of funding for the their Information project;
These are some of the activities of the UPIAS and the GMCDP in the 1980s
In January 1988, supporting Nabil Shaban, a disabled actor, in a protest outside Granada studios when he was turned down as a children's presenter as being "too frightening" (see)
Anne Plumb
I guess I could be defined during my time within the psychiatric system in
the late 1960s as a service resister.
This does not mean I have not needed sanctuary or support either personal
and in making sense of my experiences but that my experience of psychiatry
was traumatic, abusive and not helpful.
So I began collecting stuff I came across that reflected this resistance.
One item on
slide 12 -
State and Mind - I came across in Manchester's Grassroots
Bookshop in the mid 1970s
[After
1978].
PROMPT Booklet8/9 (1981), with my signature coffee stain,
Akimbo, a Manchester Mind number on unwanted effects of drugs
Your Rights in Mental Hospital (about 1979) also picked
up in Grassroots Bookshop at this time, is shown on slide 13. It was a
Manchester Mental Patients' Union pamphlet, supported by
Manchester
University Community Action, Manchester Area Resource Centre,
Manchester Big Flame, Grass Roots Books
Later publications shown are the
first issue of
Asylum belong to the 1980s.
My copies of
Perceptions and
Solo Survivor were given to me by other survivors/service
users from their collections.
Newsletters, in my collection include
Survivors Speak
Out
- I was member from 1987 to late 1990s when the organisation changed
substantially - and subscribed to the
Hearing Voices Network.
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Slide 13.:
I'll just a say a bit about two or three of these.
Power in Strange Places, published by Good Practices in Mental Health in 1987, contains articles of user empowerment at the time (Chesterfield, Camden, Nottingham) Direct Power. Joint publication by Brixton Community sanctuary,Community Support Network, Pavilion Publishing and MIND. A resource pack for people who want to develop their own care plans and support networks. 1994 Whose service is it Anyway? Research and Development for Psychiatry Institute publication 1990 1990, arose when it was pointed out that the RDP had extensive consultative links but had not sought the opinion of service users |
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Slide 14: Books include
Aidan Schindler, Beyond Reason, a catalogue of an exhibition.
Survivor Poetry, Under the Asylum Tree,
1994
Janet Frame's autobiographical novel, Faces in the Water
DerbyshireVoice: On the receiving End , The emotional and psychological
impact of Psychiatric Assault
MIND,Finding Our own Solutions, Women's experience of mental health.
1988
Jim Read and Jill Reynolds, OU set book, Speaking our Minds; 1996
Peter Lehmann ed. Alternatives to Psychiatry.
Varous eds. Living with Voices. 50 stories of Recovery
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slide 15:
Some of the organisations with an entry in my files.
ORGANISATIONS : survivor, service-user, ally
ALLEGED LUNATICS FRIEND Society 1845-1863 LUNACY LAW REFORM SOCIETY 1873-1885 PATIENTENVERTROUWENSPDSOON (Holland) MENTAL PATIENTS LIBERATION FRONT (USA) NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PSYCHIATRIC SURVIVORS (USA) NAPS MENTAL PATIENTS UNION CAMPAIGN AGAINST PSYCHIATRIC OPPRESSION BRITISH NETWORK FOR ALTERNATIVES TO PSYCHIATRY LAMBETH LINK FORUM HACKNEY MENTAL HEALTH ACTION GROUP CAMDEN MENTAL HEALTH CONSORTIUM BRIGHTON INSIGHT/THRESHOLD CONTACT (CHESTERFIELD) ISLINGTON FORUM MCMURPHYS (SHEFFIELD) MANCHESTER MIND CAMDEN MIND MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEM SURVIVORS PEOPLE NOT PSYCHIATRY (PNP) SURVIVORS SPEAK OUT MIND CONSUMER NETWORK (MINDLINK) NAN/ UKAN ( NATIONAL/UK ADVOCACY NETWORK) MAD PRIDE VOICES FORUM (PERCEPTIONS) HEARING VOICES NETWORK PARANOIA NETWORK SCOTTISH USERS NETWORK SCOTTISH ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH MENTAL HEALTH MEDIA EUROPEAN NETWORK OF USERS AND SURVIVORS OF PSYCHIATRY WORLD FEDERATION OF PSYCHIATRIC USERS INTERVOICE COME OFF IT (TRANQULLISER ACTION GROUP) COUNCIL FOR INVOLUNTARY TRANQUILLISERACTION (CITA) ECT ANONYMOUS WOMEN IN SPECIAL HOSPITALS (WISH) ASSOCIATION OF SURVIVOR WORKERS SURVIVOR RESEARCH NETWORK WORKING TO RECOVERY COOL TAN ARTS CRITICAL PSYCHIATRY NETWORK FURTHER MENTION OF ORGANISATIONS IN COLLECTION OF ASYLUM MAGAZINES
ACTIONB Booklets , reports, conference flyers. interview SAMPLE documentary.
Hackney Mental Health Action Group.
Camden Consortium
Bristol crisis Service for Women
Islington Forum
Survivors Speak Out
Manchester MIND
Broadmoor. Janet Cresswell.
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Press cuttings. There is letter from Peter Campbell to the Guardian .
I feel I should declare that I have been diagnosed with manic depression
with schizophrenic tendencies.While this description may have helped the
experts in prescribing numerous "drug cocktails" over the years it is not
proved a notable success on the dance floors of life.
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I have a great many articles listed - along with ones noted in Asylum magazine over the years. My set of Asylum magazine is a significant record as survivor/service user contributions and notification of activities were encouraged. Also useful for dating events! Early leaflets etc were often not dated or sourced.
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