[Kids Together email newsletter] ACTION ALERT!!! Sept 2nd Protest!
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Kids Together Email Newsletter
"promoting inclusive communities where all people belong"
SEPTEMBER 2010 ACTION ALERT!!!!
This list consists of over 3000 people (and growing!)
Suggestions for newsletter items are welcome!
"Prejudice is a far greater problem than any impairment:
discrimination is a bigger obstacle for them to 'overcome'
than any disability"
~ Paul Longmore ~
Join the protest !!!!!!!!!
Remove people from Woods Services!
Thursday September 2nd from 11 a.m. to 1 pm.
Corner of Woods Dr and Maple Ave (Rt 213) Near Rt 1 across
from Dunkin' Donuts
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=130209913692531&index=1 (Event under
Facebook Page)
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We can and must change our systems so they are
individualized, less costly, and more beneficial to people with disabilities,
by providing home and community based services that greatly improve people's
quality of life and reduces the likelihood of abuse and neglect. Close Woods
Services and places like it, end the institutional bias, and end the abuse!
Out of the Woods - Join the campaign on Facebook!
A Facebook page and campaign to oppose institutional
placements
Inspired by the killing of Bryan Nevin's at Woods Services
in Langhorne PA
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Out-of-the-Woods/115838481800336 (Facebook main
page)
By now, most of the nation is aware of the death of the
young man with autism, Bryan Nevin, at the hands of the institution that was in
charge of providing him 24 hour a day safety and care 7 days week. The Woods
Services environment and it's culture allowed their employee to leave Bryan
locked in a hot van, where he baked to death, unnoticed by the entire staff and
center for 5 hours. One has wonder what else goes unnoticed on this 300 acre
secluded property? Another death occurred only 8 months earlier, then during
investigation a staff member is caught selling cocaine, now another young man
sustains injuries and a fractured neck. Woods blames their "clients" for their
own injuries!!
Kids Together Inc., ALFIE, Vision for Equality, Liberty
Resources and other disability organizations and advocates have come together
to oppose the on-going institutional biases that force people into these
segregated settings under the false pretense that segregating and removing
people with disabilities from their homes and community is some how an answer
to meeting their needs. How many Bryan's must die and how many other's must
suffer because well funded special interests have power and take precedence
over the methods of service delivery, putting revenues ahead of putting people
first?
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Pennhrust
House of horrors on sacred ground
Some of you attended the ceremony to dedicate a historical
marker to commemorate the struggle of the people who lived at Pennhurst State
School and Hospital, and are familiar with the efforts of the Pennhurst
Memorial and Preservation Alliance (PMPA) to use the buildings for a memorial,
a disability history museum, and transformative re-use. A few years ago, a
developer bought the property from the Commonwealth, and had not done much with
it until recently. PMPA has tried to work with the owner to achieve our goals,
to the point of obtaining funding for design work by some of the area's best
professionals.
The owner has apparently contracted with a purveyor of
"haunted attractions" to present a "house of horrors" in four of the old
Pennhurst buildings. The event will open September 24 and run through
Halloween. Here is a link to the description:
http://www.pennhurstasylum.com/mobile.html.
The leaders of PMPA have worked heroically to minimize the
stigmatizing imagery and damage that "Pennhurst Asylum" does to people with
disabilities. But judge for yourself how the attraction describes itself. The
disability rights movement needs to oppose the opening of the "Asylum" as
stridently and vociferously as it can. (by Judy Gran)
More information is on the PMPA website,
http://www.preservepennhurst.org/.
Close The Pennhurst Haunted Attraction (From Vision for
Equality, Inc)
Throughout history, individuals with disabilities have been
subjected to countless acts of abuse and neglect, including forced
sterilization, medical experimentation, imprisonment, isolation and euthanasia.
During the 1960s and 1970s, the public became aware of the dismal and inhumane
treatment occurring in state institutions like Pennhurst. Outraged by the
systemic victimization of people with disabilities, their families and
advocates fought to close state institutions and demanded civil rights and
inclusion in the community.
To Read The Full Letter (
http://www.box.net/shared/byh0aorm6o )
Online petition opposing this proposal.
http://www.gopetition.com/petition/38326.html
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