Stop shocking our mothers and grandmothers! Stop public funding of electroshock “therapy”! Sun. May 9, 1:15 p.m. College / Spadina, 2 p.m. Queen's Park Legislative Grounds
Please join us on Mother’s Day (Sunday, May 9th) to protest the province’s continuing sponsorship of electroconvulsive therapy, a controversial and often involuntary procedure that is most commonly inflicted upon women and the elderly. The Mother’s Day event will be followed by a private member’s bill to discontinue public funding for electroshock, which will be introduced into the legislature by NDP Parkdale-High Park MPP Cheri DiNovo days later.
Cheri DiNovo will discuss her much-anticipated bill at this rally. This is a family-friendly event. Free refreshments will be served. This event is proudly sponsored by the Coalition Against Psychiatric Assault (CAPA). Co-sponsors include: the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP), Nellie’s Women’s Shelter, Greenspiration, Resistance Against Psychiatry, We the People, The Opal Project, and the Nationwide Organizing Call to Action: Stop Forced “Mental Health Treatment,” and the steering committee of “PsychOut: A Conference for Organizing Against Psychiatry.”