Event : Vigil for Sagamihara murdered victims 4th Aug at 4pm

This was started as an event on Facebook. But it came through that some people did not use or want to use Facebook hence I am putting /copying it here.

Event – Vigil Sagamihara murdered victims  outside the

Japanese Embassy 101-104 Piccadilly, London W1J 7JT

(nearest accessible tube Green Park station (Jubilee Line. Travellers from up North or Midlands can get here via Kings Cross/St Pancras Picadilly Line. Also interchange with Victoria line)

Buses which go to Green park station 9; 14; 19; 22; 38; C2; N9; N19; N22; N38; N97. 22. We are not sure about parking )

Access – there will be BSL interpreters but we will not be having many speeches. For people with visual impairments if you need guiding from tube station please send me an email asap eleanor.ila@gmail.com. If you need help with travel expenses in order to get there, please let us know asap too if we can help.

Black is the colour for mourning, we are not sure about candles because it will still be light. We will be bringing calla lilies – one of each of them. Calla lilies are scentless and do not have pollen for anybody who might be allergic. You are welcome to bring other flowers if you so wish. If you wish to tweet to say that you re making your own vigil at home in your own way – the hashtag is #disabilitysolidarity #disablistviolence Disability solidarity because we share in the sorrow and the horror of those affected and that disabilist violence is happening everywhere.

There is an online condolence book if you wish to sign at https://sagamiharacondolencebook.wordpress.com/ from DPAC

イギリスの障害者は日本で2016年7月25日に亡くなりました障害者の家族に心よりお悔やみ申し上げます

We will mourn for our disabled brothers and sisters murdered at Sagamihara for being disabled. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/25/tokyo-knife-attack-stabbing-sagamihara I suggest that we mourn respectfully for their deaths – we can raise questions on their incarceration elsewhere but we want to deliver our condolences so that we show we care about our disabled brothers and sisters. They do not deserve to die in silence. We do not stereotype and blame Eastern or Japanese culture. Eugenics is not an Eastern practice. #disabilitysolidarity#disablistviolence

 

Links to the reports

Knife attack in Sagamihara, Japan leaves 19 dead – video from The Guardian

The knife-wielding attacker who slit the throats of dozens of residents at a care home for people with disabilities on Tuesday cited a belief in the ideology of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler during a brief period of hospitalization in February

Support for disabled people (video)

Relatives and loved ones of those killed in Japan’s worst mass murder in decades are mourning their losses. People laid flowers on Saturday in the front of the disabled care home in Sagamihara City near Tokyo.