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#FreeThemAll includes folks incarcerated in psychiatric facilities + nursing homes. Abolition of our institutions must not leave behind our Disabled, mad, sick, and elderly community members — trapped and left to die inside of congregate + carceral settings.
1/3 of all COVID deaths in the US are nursing home residents or workers (particularly Black and brown folks). While we don’t have accurate numbers for folks in psychiatric facilities, we know COVID has disproportionately affected “patients” and workers at these facilities.
Make no mistake. This is eugenics. This is genocide. There is no reform. The answer is to #FreeThemAll and abolish these institutions.
Mass ACT is working with advocates at the Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee + the Disability Law Center in Mass to launch a class-action lawsuit against the state for its poor management of facilities. Connecticut + the District of Columbia have also filed.
#FreeThemAll
#FreeThemAll
On 5/17, Mass ACT organized a car protest outside of Shattuck Hospital and Tewksbury State Hospital — the two largest state-run psychiatric facilities in Mass; both of which have been heavily impacted by COVID-19 (13 residents have died, two of them on the hospital grounds).
Project LETS is organizing to support campaigns to #FreeThemAll from psychiatric institutions + all congregate settings, but we need your support. Learn more + get involved: http://www.LetsEraseTheStigma.com/advocacy
News Source: @leahida, @Mad_In_America
[“Free Our People!” Ex-Psychiatric Patients Demand COVID-19 Accountability in State-Run Facilities] https://www.madinamerica.com/2020/05/free-our-people-ex-psychiatric-patients-demand-covid-19-accountabilityy-in-state-run-facilities/
[“Free Our People!” Ex-Psychiatric Patients Demand COVID-19 Accountability in State-Run Facilities] https://www.madinamerica.com/2020/05/free-our-people-ex-psychiatric-patients-demand-covid-19-accountabilityy-in-state-run-facilities/
@leahida also wrote a 2-part piece for Mad in America — Life Inside Psychiatric Facilities During the Pandemic — Part 1: https://www.madinamerica.com/2020/04/americas-psychiatric-facilities-incubators-covid-19/
Part 2 of Life Inside Psychiatric Facilities During the Pandemic @leahida https://www.madinamerica.com/2020/04/mismanagement-response-eyewitness-accounts/
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