{"id":512,"date":"2012-06-03T17:59:30","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T21:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/?p=512"},"modified":"2012-06-03T17:59:30","modified_gmt":"2012-06-03T21:59:30","slug":"end-abuse-and-torture-in-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/2012\/06\/03\/end-abuse-and-torture-in-massachusetts\/","title":{"rendered":"End Abuse and Torture in Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 2, disability rights advocates rallied in Boston and Canton to protest the continued abusive practices at the Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC).<\/p>\n<p>This is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/editorial_opinion\/blogs\/the_angle\/2012\/06\/time_for_mass_l.html\">an excellent write-up<\/a><\/strong> by my friend Lucy Berrington! I was in attendance at the Democratic State Convention at that time, so could not add my body as a JRC protester, but I was there in spirit. I approached several legislators who were at the Convention to support efforts to close down the JRC. One of them told me he had indeed gone there and received the &#8220;Level 1&#8221; (mildest) shock in a demo, and he called it &#8220;horrible!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You will be hearing about other efforts that I and others will be undertaking over the coming months to press for action at both the state and federal level to end this barbaric practice once and for all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 2, disability rights advocates rallied in Boston and Canton to protest the continued abusive practices at the Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC). This is an excellent write-up by my friend Lucy Berrington! I was in attendance at the Democratic State Convention at that time, so could not add my body as a JRC protester, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/2012\/06\/03\/end-abuse-and-torture-in-massachusetts\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,4,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":545,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions\/545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}