Shield Alert Update for Charles Helmer 4/5/2021

Today's recommended action:

The motto of Fairview, the facility where Charles receives his outpatient shock has this motto on its website HERE:

"Heal More. Hurt Less"

That is why we need your help! Make Fairview live up to its rhetoric and stop harming Charles Helmer!

We now have only 3 business days left to pressure public officials to stop the next forced shock treatment of Charles Helmer. His next scheduled shock is this Friday, April 9th, 2021.

Charles' supporters had a virtual meeting today involving Charles' mother, her attorney and our committee about legal strategy for his protection. In the meantime, we must continue to apply public pressure! Please join us by taking action today. Why is Charles being treated so horribly?

Please call the office for developmental disabilities at 651-757-1800 and let them know that Charles Helmer, a disabled individual, needs protection from harmful, forced electroshock.  Since Charles self identifies as autistic, he is a protected individual. As our friends at Surviving Race, Disability, and Justice make clear, the right of individuals to reject harmful psychiatric 'treatment' intersects many other movements for social justice, including the disability rights movement. If you know someone within the neurodiversity/autism community, please let them know that Charles needs their support today!

Also, please note that Shield members who alerted James Hereford in accordance with our last update reported that the email address we had posted for him is invalid. If you used the invalid email address in a previous action (jhereford@fairview.org) please resend your message to jherefo1@fairview.org or his personal email address jameshereford@me.com‎ or call him at one of two phone numbers we found on record for him:

1-651-982-7122
425-353-7966