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Category Archives: Changing Perceptions
Remarks from Julia Bascom at the DC DDOM Vigil
Thank you all for coming here today and bearing witness with us to all of the lives taken from us before their time. A theme we heard strongly at last year’s vigils, and that we have continued to hear since, is that these murders and atrocities are a reflection...
Posted in Autistic Community and Allies, Blog, Changing Perceptions
Tagged day of mourning, ddom, disability day of mourning, dom, julia bascom, remarks, speech, vigil, vigils
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ASAN Statement on Gun Violence Prevention Following Parkland Mass Shooting
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) joins the nation in mourning the loss of the seventeen men, women, and children who were murdered on February 14, 2017 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. As in all mass shootings, these deaths were tragic, senseless, and preventable. We...
Posted in Changing Perceptions, News, Statement
Tagged Congress, florida shooting, gun crime, gun safety, gun violence, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, parkland, parkland mass shooting, statement
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ASAN Condemns White House Autism Proclamation
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network strongly condemns the President’s regressive World Autism Awareness Day proclamation, and the announcement that the White House will be participating in Autism Speaks’ “Light It Up Blue” campaign. After a decade of progress in which public conversations about autism have increasingly shifted away from...
Posted in Changing Perceptions, Disability Rights and Neurodiversity, News, Statement
Tagged Autism Speaks, l, White House
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