Third Annual National Day of Mourning: Is Your City Holding an Event?

This is a brief and belated call to action.  Saturday, March 1st will be the 3rd annual National Day of Mourning.  To find out whether an event is planned in your area, please go here, where you can also find information on how to hold an event.  We have templates for announcements, press releases and everything else to you need to share our message and call for equal protection of the law.  All you need to be able to add your city to the growing list of memorial vigils is a location.

Saturday, March 1st, the disability community will gather across the nation to remember disabled victims of filicide–disabled people murdered by their family members or caregivers.

For the last three years, ASAN, ADAPT, Not Dead Yet, the National Council on Independent Living, the Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund, and other disability rights organizations have come together to mourn disabled people murdered by their parents or caregivers, bring awareness to these tragedies, and demand justice and equal protection under the law for all people with disabilities. On March 1st, we will come together again, and we ask you to join us. So far, thirty seven volunteers have signed up to serve as site coordinators for vigils across the country. As March 1st approaches rapidly, we ask anyone who might have been waiting to sign up to hold a local vigil to do so now.

Sign up here to hold a vigil in your local community. ASAN will provide a toolkit and information on how to organize a vigil in your local community to all volunteers.