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The survivor press that kept its own record
Madness Network News founded 1972 by two women inmates of Agnews State Hospital, published to 1986; NAPA (Frank and Wade Hudson) organized protests that for a time stopped ECT in San Francisco; the movement began with the Insane Liberation Front (Portland, 1970)
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What the record says
Worldwide register by region (Batch 2) · Batch 10
- Jurisdiction / date
- San Francisco / Berkeley, 1972–1986
- Channel
- 3
- Mechanism
- Survivor press and organizing
- What is documented
- Madness Network News founded 1972 by two women inmates of Agnews State Hospital, published to 1986; NAPA (Frank and Wade Hudson) organized protests that for a time stopped ECT in San Francisco; the movement began with the Insane Liberation Front (Portland, 1970)
- Finding or status
- Archival (Mad in America history; Oskar Diethelm Library exhibit)
- Limits
- MNN's run (1972–86) is the single richest unsearched California case source; Batch 11 should read the issues for named 5150 and conservatorship cases
- Label
- VERIFIED (archive located)
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Reference and provenance
1972-CA-MNN-NAPA