Jan Eastgate

Ms. Jan Eastgate is an IAS Freedom Medal Winner.

She is the President of Citizens Commission on Human Rights.

She is an incredibly outspoken and impinging speaker and through her work she is saving lives on a daily basis. Here's what she says in her "Presidents' Message" on the CCHR web site.

"Most people today have difficulty understanding the destructive impact that psychiatry is having on communities around the world. For far too many people, the lesson is learned only after a psychiatrist has destroyed some part of their life.

"The destruction might come in the form of the death of their child due to long-term usage of a stimulant drug, prescribed for an invented psychiatric disorder called Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD); it could be a murderous school campus assault by a gun-toting child who had been prescribed a violence-inducing psychiatric drug and/or undergone “death education” or “anger management” classes; perhaps the death of a frail elderly relative from electroshock treatment at a psychiatric nursing home; maybe a child who was labeled mentally ill early in school and prescribed addictive, psychotropic drugs, who later becomes a hard-core street-drug addict.

"At CCHR, we work continuously to educate the public on the truth about psychiatry. Only in this way is it possible to reduce the number of victims who learn this truth through personal tragedy." >>

The importance of exposing psychiatry's crimes and protecting the public from their harmful practices and their damaging influence on so many aspects of our culture is one of the prime targes of the IAS. I can't think of a year that David Miscavige (Chairman of the Board of Religious Technology Center) hasn't presented an IAS Freedom Medal to a member of CCHR.

I tell you, these people are so courageous. I really admire the work they are doing!