| In the past five years, over seventy people with disabilities have been murdered by their parents. We see the same pattern repeating over and over again. 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 are 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.  For the last four 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 at local vigils across the country 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, we will come together again, and we ask you to join us.  There is just one week left to sign up to be a site coordinator and hold a vigil in your area.
Current Vigil Sites: Â Anchorage, AK
Tempe, AZ
Berkeley, CA
Sacramento, CA Â Washington, DC
Kissimmee, FL
Atlanta/Decatur, GA Â Captain Cook, HI
Chicago, IL Gurnee, IL Cambridge, MA Â Medford, MA Salem, MA
Ypsilanti, MI
Albuquerque, NM
Edison, NJ
Brooklyn, NY
Flushing, NY
New City, NY
Rochester, NY Portland, OR Â Springfield, OR
Pittsburgh, PA
Dallas, TX Salt Lake City, UT Â Sultan, WA Beloit, WI
AUSTRALIA
Kearneys Spring, Queensland  AZERBAIJAN
Baku
CANADA
New Westminster, BC
NETHERLANDS
Amsterdam  UNITED KINGDOM Preston, Lancashire |
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