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
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Been on the receiving end of disability hate crime? Record it here. Video of the official launch of the AWARE project
News about disability hate crime is becoming mainstream as awareness grows: select Read More to view
The story so far - the official launch of the project takes place on Saturday 13th September at Westgate Chapel 11am
It will run through to mid 2015 with contact points every Wednesday at Cafe Oyster and Friday at The Chapel Cafe |
This is the AWare project
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