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Aditya Chakrabortty The Guardian, Monday 20 October 2014 21.40 BST "The coalition has so thoroughly vilified “scroungers” that hate crimes against people with disabilities are rising year on year: up 13% since 2011. Forty per cent of incidents are violent. Take the visually impaired man walking in Brighton last year, who was asked by a stranger what it was like to be blind – before being set on fire. Campaigner Paula Peters tells me she’s been spat at in the street, while friends in wheelchairs have been shoved into oncoming traffic." http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/20/disabled-lord-freud-austerity News about #HCAW2014 can be found at http://www.stophateuk.org/hate-crime-awareness-week/ also Sophie Lancaster Foundation http://www.sophielancasterfoundation.com for news of a conference 26th November 2014 at Burnley Mechanics Institute 9.30am – 4.30pm [email protected] Access Dorset is a third party reporting centre for Disability Related Incidents and Hate Crimes - link |
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