From John Breeding:
2/10/08
Dear CAEST Supporters,
We are going into week 2 of the 3 week
Round of 50. We are at number 12 today, which means we are on course
to make the round of 25. Thanks to all of you who are voting to help
us out on this.
We do need more support to reap the
greater benefit of this project, which insiders tell me comes with
the round of 10 and beyond when we pick up more and more viewers who
are not already our supporters. Hence,
PLEASE VOTE NOW AND EVERYDAY FOR
ARTISTIC FREEDOM OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND AGAINST THE HORROR OF
ELECTROSHOCK. LET'S MAKE A NOISE ABOUT IT. HELP US BY VOTING!!!
PLEASE! and spread the word...
VOTE for our Mary Marvel documentary of:
THE FIFTH ANNUAL
ROKY ERICKSON PSYCHEDELIC ICE
CREAM SOCIAL
CELEBRATING ELECTROSHOCK
SURVIVORS.
step-by-step DIRECTIONS
1. Register on
www.FameCast.com
as a Voter or Fanatic. Click where it says "
2 The Audience
Votes"
Note: Registration is a bit of a
hassle, but once registered it is easy to vote every day--just tell
the login to remember you and you don't even need to login again!
2. Click here to view our documentary: http://www.FameCast.com/MaryMarvelMovies
3. Click the "Vote" button at the top
right hand corner of the video
Steps 2 will take you to see our video. Steps 1 and 3 are necessary
to vote.
[ A plea for ardent supporters: The
rules of this contest are such that you can vote once a day for the
video you like, so please consider adding this to your daily
schedule for awhile.]
I will send out weekly updates from here on out on our status. I
am also doing regular youtube videos to draw folks to our
effort. Please do whatever you can to help us spread the message
of our Coaliton for the Abolition of Electroshock in
Texas (CAEST) and to help Mary win this contest. See our
website,
www.endofshock.com
for related information on the Ice Cream Social, and on our
coalition efforts to stop electroshock.
Thank you!!
John
BACKGROUND
In the last two years, our Coalition
for the Abolition of Electroshock in
Texas (CAEST) was very active, carrying on an initiative
in
Austin to challenge the use of electroshock at our area's
most prolific shock hospital, Seton Shoal Creek. As described on
our website,
www.endofshock.com,
we carried on with them quite a bit, including direct
interaction with the hospital board and medical director, a
series of protest rallies at the hospital, a resolution from the
Texas legislature, and a hearing on electroshock with the Austin
City Council.
In March 2007, we had a magnificent,
unprecedented event--a concert featuring a number of terrific
musicians and artists, a number of whom were also shock
survivors now joining forces to call for a stop to this horrific
procedure. These luminaries included ROKY ERICKSON, J.T. VAN
ZANDT, JIM FRANKLIN, LEONARD ROY FRANK, MICHELLE SHOCKED,
SUMNER ERICKSON, ROBYN HITCHCOCK and PETER BUCK, and POWELL ST.
JOHN, among others. Check out a broader sampling of creative
artists who were electroshocked on page 6 of Leonard Frank's
Electroshock Quotationary at
http://www.endofshock.com/102C_ECT.PDF .
Our event was called:
THE FIFTH ANNUAL ROKY ERICKSON PSYCHEDELIC ICE CREAM SOCIAL
CELEBRATING ELECTROSHOCK SURVIVORS.
Some of us affectionately called it the "Rock to Ban Shock"
concert.
Now our own fantastic videographer, Mary Luker, known
professionally as Mary Marvel, has created a short (20 minutes)
documentary of our event. It is terrific, and we intend to use
it to promote our effort to abolish electroshock, and to create
safe haven for artists, who all too often suffer this horrific
assault--witness
Roky Erickson,
Townes Van Zandt and Jim Franklin from our event.
In support of our cause, Mary Marvel has submiited her
documentary to an internet contest called Famecast. In order to
have the greatest impact, we want to win this contest. In order
to win, WE NEED YOU TO GET ON BOARD AND ENJOY A RIDE, bringing
music and a big message --END OF SHOCK-- to the world.
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