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DESCRIPTION:Saturday, March 1st, the disability community will gather across the nation 
 to remember disabled victims of filicide--disabled people murdered by their 
 family members or caregivers.\n\nIn the past five years, over forty people 
 with disabilities have been murdered by their parents.\n\nIn the year since 
 our last vigil, our community has lost at least ten more victims.\n\nIn 
 January of 2014, two more disabled people were lost in murder-suicides at 
 the hands of their parents: Damien Veraghen, age nine, and Vincent Phan, 
 age twenty four.\n\nThese acts are horrific enough on their own. But they 
 exist in the context of a larger pattern. A parent kills their disabled 
 child. The media portrays these murders as justifiable and inevitable due 
 to the "burden" of having a disabled person in the family. If the parent 
 stands trial, they are given sympathy and comparatively lighter sentences, 
 if they are sentenced at all. The victims is disregarded, blamed for their 
 own murder at the hands of the person they should have been able to trust 
 the most, and ultimately forgotten. And then the cycle repeats.\nFor the 
 last three years, ASAN, ADAPT, Not Dead Yet, the National Council on 
 Independent Living, the Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund, and 
 other disability rights organizations have come together to mourn those 
 losses, bring awareness to these tragedies, and demand justice and equal 
 protection under the law for all people with disabilities. On March 1st, 
 Please join us from noon until 2:00 pm as we will come together as a 
 community at the: \n\nEd Roberts Campus\n3075 Adeline Street\nBerkeley, CA 
 94703\n\n\nPlease call or e-mail with any questions you may have or to 
 request reasonable accommodations\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/02/24/18751486.php
SUMMARY:Day of Mourning 2014 - Remembering People with Disabilites Murdered by Caregivers
LOCATION:Ed Roberts Campus\n3075 Adeline St.\nBerkeley, CA 94703
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/02/24/18751486.php
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