PRIZE-WINNING
COMPETITION:

Find
an appropriate slogan to criminalize all those who work in a locked
psychiatric ward after 1/1/2009!

From
1/1/2009 onwards, most countries will ratify* the UN
convention of the rights of persons with disabilities,
which prohibits the deprivation of liberty and bodily harm also of people
who are slandered as being “mentally ill”.

We
take it for granted that in these countries, according
to the UN-Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights,
the mental health laws allowing the use of force will become illegal
and therefore from 1/1/2009 the violent acts of the psychiatric staff
and all others who work in a locked psychiatric ward become a crime
and these people should therefore be declared to be criminals.

But this explanation is too long and complicated. We in IAAPA therefore
suggest to campaign now against those criminals and at the same time
inform the public about the issue by a public competition for such a
slogan:

1st
Prize: –100 Euros
2nd Prize: —70 Euros
3rd Prize: —40 Euros

*
look here for the date
of the ratification
in your country: www.un.org/disabilities/default.asp?id=257

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Conditions
of the competition, to which each participant agrees:

1. Entries should be sent to:
IAAPA Secretariat, Vorbergstr. 9a, 10823 Berlin, Germany. E-mail: r.talbot@berlin.de

2.
The language of the competition is English. Entries in other languages
may be made but only the English translation is valid for the voting.
(We will try to be of assistance for this translation.)

3.
All entries must reach the above address by midnight on January 12th,
2009.

4.
The next General Assembly of IAAPA on Tuesday, 13th of January 2009
by majority vote will make a pre-selection by excluding entries deemed
to be not interesting enough.

5.
The remaining entries will be made public on this website on January
14th, 2009.

6.
For one month up to February 14th, 2009, these entries will be open
to voting by the general public over the internet – details of the exact
procedure see
here.

7.
The author of all entries agrees to renounce all copyright claims to
his/her slogan against IAAPA.

8.
The author of all entries agrees to have his/her name published. However,
on his/her request their entry can be posted anonymously with an “artist
name” suggested by the author.

9.
The decisions of IAAPA concerning the winning entries are final and
cannot be contested in court.

(Resolution
Point # 1 of the IAAPA General Assembly of December 9, 2008)