General News
Gemino's financing of school torturing students with disabilities
The Gemino Healthcare Finance has recently pledged $7 million to the Judge Rotenberg Center even though this school has been condemned for 30 years by the US disability rights community and even the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture for its abusive practices, in particular. The Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) in the US is now asking for people to email Gemino decision makers directly with messages asking them to cut its funding to the JRC. (They had a petition earlier this week at Change.org, but now Gemino has blocked the Change.org server so that emails no longer go to them when a new person signs the petition. So now people need to send emails directly to Gemino leaders. I blogged about this at http://RamblingJustice.wordpress.com and also "Tumbled" it at http://andreashettle.tumblr.com So if you like tumbling, Tweeting or Facebooking web links, you can use either of these. But for your convenience, I also am copy/pasting the full text of this blog post here to provide an overview of the situation, to provide the list of email addresses people can use when contacting Gemino, and even the full text of the petition ASAN had started so you are free to copy/paste it into your email. (or you can add your own personalized message, which often has more of an impact): Email Gemino DIRECTLY, re, stopping its financing of the torture of students with disabilities
For the past 30 years, the Judge Rotenberg Center has starved its students, restrained them, and otherwise traumatized them in the name of behavior control. What has caught the most public attention is their use of electroshock โtreatmentsโ. This is purportedly used only to โcontrolโ serious self-injuring behavior. But once it is approved for a particular student, typically its use expands rapidly to cover many other things. Parents allow this because many genuinely believe that their children have no other hope. But although some JRC parents are their strongest advocates, there are also many parents of former JRC students who have joined dozens of disability rights advocacy organizations in trying to shut down the JRC.
You can find more information about JRCโs treatment of its students at http://www.autistichoya.com/p/judge-rotenberg-center-resources.html.
Additional Information
Country: Africa
Website: http://www.autistichoya.com/p/judge-rotenberg-center-resources.html
Email: N/A
Phone: N/A
Contact Person: N/A
Source: N/A
When: 12/4/2013
