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Event by Students for Justice in Palestine VCU

Friday March 28th 6-7:30pm

MASKS REQUIRED
An event flyer, it says APARTHEID WEEK '25 DISEASE AS A WEAPON INTRODUCTION TO DISABILITY JUSTICE DISABILITY JUSTICE X PALESTINE COMMUNITY HEALTH CONVERSATION 3/28 LAMPLIGHTER 116 S ADDISON ST 6:00PM-7:30PM RICHMOND, VA Kid Friendly | Masks Required | Dates & Water
March 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Everybody’s saying it…
aschewholesin* @aschewholesin The idea that vengeance against evil makes you just as bad as the evil you're taking up arms against feels very much like something the bad guys would make up and spread across popular culture to make sure we don't shove their head in a guillotine, just saying. 9:55 AM • 09 Dec 22 • Twitter for Android
March 14, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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bossybb.bsky.social
Excerpts from Forgotten Crimes: The Holocaust and people with disabilities by Suzanne E. Evan's

These passages speak on how after murdering hundreds of thousands of disabled folks, the Nazis not only got away with it but never even paid restitution to the disabled community or even apologized.
Not only did most of the men and women involved in committing the euthanasia murders escape justice, but the atrocities committed against disabled people in Germany, Austria, Poland, the former Soviet Union, and other regions during the Nazi era have gone largely unrecognized and uncompen-sated. Because of neglect by historians, as well as the political powerlessness and economic deprivation of people with dis-abilities, no memorial center or museum specifically for survivors with disabilities exists anywhere in the world today. Without a memorial dedicated to people with disabilities, there are no reminders to the world of the horrors inflicted on people with disabilities during the Nazi era. Without these reminders, the specter of a recurrence of this nightmarish victimization remains. Moreover, while there are thousands of Holocaust museums and memorials internationally, it is exceedingly rare for any of them to give more than a passing reference to people with disabilities. Most do not even mention the horrors inflicted on men and women with disabilities during the Holo-caust. In Yad Vashem in Israel, among the acres of memorials and the tens of thousands of pages of text, there is only a single brief reference to the murder of people with disabilities. After the war, disabled victims were not recognized as persons persecuted by the Nazi regime. Survivors received no restitution for time spent in the killing hospitals nor for their forced sterilization. Although the sterilization law had been declared invalid by the Allies, the postwar German state did not recognize sterilization under the Nazi era law as racial per-secution, and postwar German courts held that compulsory sterilization under the law had followed appropriate proce-dures. Men and women with disabilities who challenged such rulings lost their cases in court when they could not prove that the finding that had led to their sterilization had been "med-ically" wrong. Thus the appeal of a sterilized deaf person was denied in 1950 after two court-appointed physicians certified that the original finding of congenital deafness had been accu-rate. In 1964 the appeal for restitution from a sterilized person, who during the Nazi period had been a student at the former Israelite Institution for the Deaf in Berlin, was denied. The postwar German court found that while the appellant as a Jew belonged to a group recognized as persecuted under the restitution law, his sterilization as a deaf person did not constitute Nazi persecution. To this day the German state has not fully recognized and compensated people with disabilities, including the deaf, for their persecution during the Nazi period.23 One reparations court declared that disabled victims were "people below the level of ciphers." Another court refused to punish those who acted in the euthanasia program because euthanasia had its supporters before the Nazi era, therefore the act was not punishable as a specifically Nazi crime. From time to time efforts were made to expand German law so as to provide for those who were victims of the sterilization and euthanasia policies. All these efforts failed 24 This neglect continues today. For example, people with disabilities were designated as one of five victim groups but Were ignored in the notice process of In re: Holocaust Victim Aret, Weishaus, et al. V. Proos Bank of Switzerland, et al. The notice in the Holocaust Victim Assets litigation may have been the most expensive and extensive ever given. The notice administrators anticipated spending $2.3 million on notice for Jewish organizations alone. Another $500,000 was allocated to reach Romani organizations and media. In contrast, not one dollar was allocated for organizations serving people with disabilities. In addition, no provision whatsoever was made for Braille notice, audio notice, TTY, diskette, large type for the vision disabled, or accessible computer technology for people with disabilities. The plan also provided for contact with more than six thousand Jewish organizations worldwide and perhaps as many as five hundred Romani organizations. But no disability organizations were ever consulted or informed about the planned notification procedures.25 THE PERSISTENCE OF NEGATIVE ATTITUDES AND STEREOTYPES Discrimination against people with disabilities did not begin with the Holocaust. Nor did it end with the defeat of the Nazis. On the contrary, people with disabilities throughout the world continue to be the subject of many of the same myths, dehumanizing stereotypes, and falsehoods that made their sterilization, exploitation, and extermination possible during the Nazi era. As Hugh Gallagher notes: "The Germans are not 'different' from Americans in any critical sense. •.. How they treated their insane, handicapped and retarded during the Third Reich was certainly extreme behavior-tragic and appalling-but it was not inconsistent with patterns of social behavior that can be traced throughout the history of the disabled over the centuries." And, "in fact, there is no reason to believe that the attitudes of the Germans in the 193os toward the disabled and chronically ill were
February 28, 2025 at 10:50 AM
tantalustortured.bsky.social
Said goodbye to a real one today. My little buddy Velcro lived a long life. Even after she got mad at me with bringing home Pin, she still sat beside me when I needed her.
Daya holding Velcro a elderly Russian blue in a tie dyed rainbow blanket. Upclose of Velcro in Daya’s arms in a rainbow blanket A plastic white candle in front of a sign that reads “If this candle is lit someone is saying goodbye to their beloved pet. We ask that you speak softly and with respect during this difficult time. Thank you for your patience and kindness”
February 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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February 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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bossybb.bsky.social
Section 504 is under attack. Disability rights are under attack.

If you have not seen Crip Camp, this is a great place to start in getting educated about the disability justice movement in the US.

Become informed, mobilize, and fight for us.

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CRIP CAMP: A DISABILITY REVOLUTION | Full Feature | Netflix
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February 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Photos from yesterday's protest against the removal of transgender children's healthcare by VCU.

#rva
A group of protesters stands outside. Several protesters are holding signs. The signs say things like - " VCU: Grow a spine trans kids matter" and "Spanberger run on trans rights or we stay home " Protesters march across a cross walk. A protestor is in the front of the photo holding a sign that reads " Denial of health care is a death sentence " Protestors are outside wearing medical masks holding signs. One sign reads "you took an oath I shall not let any lesser public or professional consideration interfere with my primary commitment to provide the BEST and most appropriate care available to each of my patients " another sign says "VCU : Grow a spine trans kids matter ". A group of protesters stands outside the Virginia Supreme Court. Two are holding signs. One says "Trans youth are not expendable " the other says "Trans people have always existed and will always exist".
February 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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BREAKING

The Trump administration is maintaining a funding freeze at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in defiance of two federal court orders.

The ongoing freeze was confirmed by an NIH official and internal correspondence reviewed by Popular Information.
Trump maintains funding freeze at NIH, defying court order
The Trump administration is still prohibiting National Institutes of Health (NIH) staff from issuing virtually all grant funding, an NIH official tells Popular Information.
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February 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Outside of VCU Health earlier today.
February 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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All of our flyers were disseminated. People were overwhelmingly supportive. Several people stopped to talk and learn. A researcher on VCU Health staff came out to lend their support. Very happy with the outcome! We'll be back!

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A person in a greenish beige jacket holding a sign reading "trans rights are human rights" in front of the main entrance to VCU Health Me, in a face mask with my cane, holding a sign reading, "HRT SAVES [fist in trans pride colors] young trans lives," standing next to a person in a dark plaid jacket who is holding a sign reading, "First they came for the trans kids AND VCU Obeyed." We are both standing in front of the main entrance to VCU Health.
February 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM