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You should have. I have been harassing you about it for over a day. Here is information:
http://capwiz.com/thearc/issues/alert/?alertid=61553546
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/georgia-inmate-scheduled-die-despite-initial-finding-intellectual-disabilities
Here is the petition again:
http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx?c=6oJCLQPAJiJUG&b=6645049&aid=518634
If you have not signed it, please do so now. His hearing is in fifteen hours and twenty minutes. If you can, contact the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles at this number:
(404)-656-4661
Or this email address:
Clemency_Information@pap.state.ga.us
Thank you for your time.
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The Twitter hashtag for this debacle is #HelpWarren. Sign this petition for the Board of Pardons and Paroles.
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Link reblogged from We Are The Arc
Reports of such incidents should be “minuscule,” said Maureen Fitzgerald, director of disability rights at the Arc, which advocates for people with disabilities. Fitzgerald said when abuses occur, it’s usually because workers aren’t properly trained.
“They are put in situations where they’re not trained, they don’t have the support they need and things get out of control because they don’t know how to manage the kids, and they do whatever they can to keep everybody calm and safe … and that’s when people start getting hurt,” Fitzgerald said.
Fitzgerald’s organization is among several disability organizations seeking passage of a bill by Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, that would prohibit the use of seclusion and allow restraints only in emergency situations and until the danger of serious bodily injury has passed. Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., has a similar bill in the House. Legislation to address the issue sponsored by Miller passed in 2010 but failed to get out of the Senate.
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Quote reblogged from We Survived By The Skin Of Our TeethArticle 19 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities asserts the equal right of all persons with disabilities to live in the community with choices equal to others, and to be fully included and participate in the community. People with intellectual disability, just like everyone else, must learn the skills they need to achieve this successfully, and have the opportunity to develop their own relationships with others, independent of family. This will mean that they, just like everyone else, probably will make mistakes along the way and hopefully they will learn from their mistakes. Many of us, however, disabled or not, never learn from our mistakes and may in fact end up repeating the same mistakes over and over again – how many people, for example do we know who repeatedly make poor decisions about relationships. Family or friends may offer advice when this happens, but we do not and cannot stop them, nor should we unless they break the law. Yet if a person with intellectual disability makes a mistake she probably won’t be allowed to make it again, and indeed it is more likely still that she will never be provided the opportunity to make the mistake in the first place. This will probably be framed as protecting her, but it has the consequence of stopping her from learning what she needs to learn in order to get on with her life. How else will she learn if she is protected and segregated from real life in the community? To become adults in charge of our lives we all need the chance to learn from experience, and to learn the skills we need we all have to given our independence and the chance to live in communities.
My Daughter Is Leaving Home: Reflections On Living Independently (via theskinofourteeth)
I saw some of this working at The Arc of Georgia over the summer.
