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8/4: ONLINE VIGIL FOR THE MURDERED DISABLED PEOPLE OF SAGAMIHARA
The Disability Visibility Project will be partnering with disabled filmmaker and activist Dominick Evans in an online vigil and chat remembering the 19 disabled people of the Tsukui Yamayuri En residential care facility in Sagamihara, Japan who were murdered and the 26 people that survived on July 26, 2016. Joining us as a guest host […]
Nova Scotia appeal court removes children from disabled parents’ care
Nova Scotia’s highest court has denied an intellectually disabled couple custody of their children, saying a lower court was wrong to prioritize the parents’ rights over their sons. “We recognize [the parents] genuinely want to continue to parent their children and losing the right to do so is a devastating loss,” the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal […]
White lies from blue hairs: study reveals elderly people tend to lie about health
Seniors associated the admission of a health risk with being disabled, and no longer independent “We tend to put an emphasis on able bodies and there seems to be a stigma attached to disability or impairments. In that societal context it’s really difficult to have open conversations about impairment, illness and disease,” said Rachelle Hole, associate professor […]
Autistic Oakland boy restrained 92 times in 11 months by Concord school
OAKLAND — The U.S. Department of Education ruled the Oakland school district discriminated against a 9-year-old autistic boy who was restrained 92 times during one school year, sometimes for up to 90 minutes at a time, according to an announcement Tuesday. Read the full story
UN asked to investigate use of restraints on intellectually disabled Aboriginal man
The United Nations has been asked to investigate the use of restraints on an intellectually disabled Aboriginal man 17 times in the past four years. Malcolm Morton, 25, was found unfit to plead to a murder charge in 2012 over the stabbing death of his uncle when he was a teenager and has been held […]
Inclusion International expresses sympathies to the victims of Japan attack
“We are horrified by the barbaric act against these innocent persons with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities. The worldwide intellectual disability community extends its sympathies to those individuals and families at this terrible time. Let us come together to remember the victims as valued citizens of the world. Let us continue to fight for a society […]
Mother wins battle to have 24/7 care for disabled teenager
Social Development Minister Michelle Stilwell has ordered a government agency to reinstate around-the-clock care for a 19-year-old Victoria woman with a severe developmental disability. The move comes after Community Living B.C. announced in April that it was cutting Katrina Lavery’s at-home care from 24 hours a day to 16 — the same day her mother, […]
Killer Of Disabled People In Japan Announced His Intentions Months Ago
This Is What Disability Erasure Looks Like
Letter foretold Japan rampage that killed 19 disabled people
26-year-old Satoshi Uematsu stabbed nearly a third of the 150 patients at a facility for the mentally disabled 19 were killed and around 25 were injured, 20 of them seriously Uematsu was fired from working at the facility and broke in by shattering a window It is Japan’s deadliest mass killing in decades Uematsu calmly […]