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The MA Stop The Shock Coalition is organizing a Huge Protest @ Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC)
2024-10-05 13:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
Decades of attempts to stop Painful Skin Shocks to Control the Behavior of Autistic and Disabled People at the Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) in Canton, MA have hit walls by our legislature, state & federal agencies.
The MA Stop The Shock Coalition is organizing a Huge Protest @ Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC)
Date: October 5, 2024
Time: 1-4 PM
Place: Judge Rotenberg Educational Center
250 Turnpike St
Canton, MA 02021
For more info go to https://stoptheshock.info
In Feb of 2024, Massachusetts House Bill H.180 an act regarding the use of aversive “therapy”, that would have made this practice and all institutional abuse illegal, was sent to study by the Joint Committee on Children, Families and Persons With Disabilities effectively killing the bill.
JRC spent $500,000 in lobbying last year which included money paid specifically to lobby against this bill, some of which was paid directly to committee members who made the decision to send the bill to study.
JRC, which stands as the sole facility in the country to use electric skin shock on the developmentally disabled, currently operates under the protection of a thirty-six year old consent decree. That decree was entered, and has remained in place, after State agencies resorted to pretextual and bad faith regulatory practices to disrupt JRC’s operations in the 1980s and 1990s. Those State agencies that remain bound by the decree have since moved for its termination without success.
In 2013 the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture concluded that the GED violates the UN Convention Against Torture. The Association For Behavior Analyst International (ABAI) stated “we strongly oppose the use of contingent electric skin shock (CESS) under any condition”.
State records obtained by 25 Investigates reveal years of documented abuse. In September 2023 Investigates found Judge Rotenberg Center has had 325 license non-compliances since 2016.
February 2022: EEC found a staffer physically assaulted a resident “8 different times” during an overnight shift when the resident was “non-compliant and refused to stay in bed and go to sleep.”
February 2021: EEC found a staffer abused a disabled adult resident by putting pepper and hot sauce on the resident’s hands. The resident flinched in pain when placed in a shower. And an abuse report wasn’t filed with the state for ten days.
December 2020: EEC said a staffer failed to supervise a child who made a serious suicide attempt.
February 2020: Video footage showed staff pushing a resident into a washing machine, pulling the resident into a room by the arms. While staff tried to restrain the resident, a male staffer appeared to punch the resident’s head, leaving a bruise.
While the JRC contends that they only use the shock device for dangerous behaviors their own literature states they can predict a dangerous behavior and will shock for things as simple as raising a hand. Examples of the abuse inflicted by their General Electronic Decelerator (GED) skin shock device include.
After the center received a hoax phone call alleging that two residents had misbehaved earlier that evening, staff woke them from their beds, restrained them, and repeatedly gave them electric shocks. One of the residents received 77 shocks and the other received 29. After the incident, one of the residents had to be treated for burns.
Andre McCollins, a New York City autistic teenager, was restrained on a four-point board and shocked 31 times over the course of seven hours. The first shock was given after he did not take off his coat when asked and the subsequent thirty shocks were given as punishments for screaming and tensing up while being shocked. In the video, McCollins can be heard shouting “Someone, help me, please!” The JRC staff listed not taking off his coat as a “major disruptive behavior”, for which he was administered a GED shock.
In March 2020, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finally banned the use of Electric Shock Devices (ESD) in particular contexts, saying the devices provide an “unreasonable and substantial risk of illness or injury.” The FDA’s ban only extended to the use of ESDs for treating self-injurious or aggressive behavior, still allowing their use for the treatment of smoking addiction, among other purposes.
On July 6, 2021, In a 2-1 decision the Washington D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the ban stating the FDA’s ban violated federal law by interfering with the authority of healthcare practitioners to practice medicine, paving the way for the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center (JRC) in Canton, Massachusetts, to continue its electric shock therapy.
In December 2022 the FDA was legally granted the right to ban the device in an end of year omnibus bill. As of now they have taken no action.
On September 7, 2023 the Supreme Judicial Court Judge ruled in favor of the JRC in regards to the most recent appeal to the consent decree stating “If the department seeks to get out from under the decree, it must wait for a legislative solution”.
And most recently on February 7, 2024, the legislative solution we have been working on, Massachusetts House Bill H.180, was killed by politicians who sat in the hearing and listened to 40 people testify in favor of the bill including many professionals in the field of treatment who have been successful with positive treatment on similar individuals to those at the JRC, survivors of the shock treatment who were told they would be dead without the treatment but are now in positive environments and are flourishing, autistic individuals who have received negative ABA “therapy” , State agency officials, disability organizations etc..
Most horrifically, despite the state agencies battling to ban the practice, DCF began sending kids taken from abusive conditions to this abusive facility in September of 2020. JRC is a non-profit organization paying no taxes to our state. It costs $291,414 per year to keep ONE resident at
the JRC, paid for in tax dollars. For the fiscal year 2021 the center got $89 million or 98% of its total public support and revenue from state government agencies. By the fiscal year end, DCFS had spent $2.8 million and government grants totaled $4,651,447.
53 intellectually disabled people are currently being shocked to control their behaviors! Some for over 20 years! We must finally end this barbaric practice!
The MA Stop The Shock Coalition is organizing a Huge Protest @ Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC)
Date: October 5, 2024
Time: 1-4 PM
Place: Judge Rotenberg Educational Center
250 Turnpike St
Canton, MA 02021
Free Shirts, Snacks & Waters will be available!
For more info go to https://stoptheshock.info
Sincerely,
Elisa Hunt
Lead Organizer
MA Stop The Shock Coalition
StopTheShockAtJRC@gmail.com
With Official Partners: OccupyJRC, Alliance Against Seclusion & Restraint, ICAPA ,ICARS -Int. Coalition Against Restraint and Seclusion (ICARS), Autistic Self Advocacy Network, The Autistic OT, 11:11 Media Impact, Autism National Committee, Humans Make Art, apexart, Baystate Learning Center, Justice For Our Angels, Autism Career Pathways, New Haven RTC Voices, Lives in The Balance, Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism, The Autistic People of Color Fund, National Youth Rights Association, NAMI Massachusetts, Neurodivergent Liberation Coalition, Massachusetts Assoc. For Mental Health, Restraint Free World , TASH New England, Progressive MA, Citizens Commission on Human Rights, Therapist Neurodiversity Collective, Inc, Wildflower Alliance. Kiva Centers. Law Project for Psychiatric Rights, Neurodivergent Academy, IdeaBlizzard Productions, Disability Policy Consortium, Workers World Party Disability Justice and Rights Caucus, National ADAPT (List in Progress). Disclosure

Cape Cod Concerned Citizens Standout
2024-09-28 10:00 - 11:00 | Hyannis Airport Rotary, Hyannis, United States
Cape Cod Concerned Citizens will hold a Trump & Local Candidates Standout on Saturday, September 28 from 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. at the Hyannis Airport rotary.
All candidates and their supporters are welcome.
We will have some candidate signs, but feel free to bring your own. Trump signs will be for sale for $5 each.

Team Trump’s Reclaim America Tour featuring Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Former U.S. Representative Tulsi Gabbard (HI-02) in Las Vegas, NV
2024-09-21 18:00 - 21:00
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Team Trump’s Reclaim America Tour featuring Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Former U.S. Representative Tulsi Gabbard (HI-02) in Las Vegas, NV

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Former U.S. Representative Tulsi Gabbard (HI-02) to participate in a moderated discussion with NASCAR Cup Series Winner, Danica Patrick, at a Team Trump Reclaim America Tour Event in Las Vegas, NV on Saturday, September 21, 2024, at 6:00PM PDT.

Date and Time:
Saturday, September 21, 2024
6:00PM PDT

Venue:
Robert E. “Bob” Price Recreation Center
2050 Bonnie Lane
Las Vegas, NV 89156

Timeline of Events:
4:00PM – Doors Open
6:00PM – Program Begins

General Admission Tickets:
REGISTER HERE

TRUMP STANDOUT - ARLINGTON TOWN DAY
2024-09-21 10:00 - 12:00
https://www.facebook.com/events/876941317703873/

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Arlington Center Standout at Town Day, home to Gov. Healey.Arlington MA Center on Saturday 9/21, 10AM-2PM, Town Day, a family friendly event with over 1,000 people attending, live music, food, booths, book sale, fire, ambulance, and police displays. I hope many Trump supporters can show our pride and chat with folks and be seen by many passing pedestrians, motorists, and cyclists as this is the busy intersection of Rt. 60, Mass. Ave., and the Minuteman bikeway.
Mass Ave. from Pleasant St. to Jason St. will close at 9:15AM for vendors to set up in the street and Town Day activities begin at 10:30AM, when pedestrian traffic picks up. Come early to park at one of the two municipal lots, along Pleasant Street and on side streets, where spaces will fill quickly. Bike, or take the #77 bus. alternatively. Bring the family and enjoy the activities between standout stints! Say hi to folks at the Dem and Republican town committee tables. Arlington Town Day wraps up at 4:30PM with fireworks at nearby Spy Pond at 7:30PM.
I have some banners, signs, shirts, and hats at cost (~$5) if needed, but please bring your own too so we make a hUGE impression in the town where Gov. Healey lives! DO NOT BLOCK any STREETS or SIDEWALKS – all must remain passable. We may need to spread out to one or more of the four corners of the intersection as the area can get quite crowded at times. Collect and share best answers to “Why would you want 4 more years like the last 3.5?” and “Was 4 years of Trump so bad that you fear 4 more? – Low prices? Not enough migrants to spend taxes on?”

Associated Event: Arlington Town Day –https://www.facebook.com/events/1511282596407289/
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2024-09-14 09:00 - 16:00
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SALEM, NH TRUMP STANDOUT - EVERY WEDNESDAY
2024-09-11 16:30 - 18:00
WEEKLY FLAG WAVE: Wednesdays 4:30 to 6:00 PM in front of the Trump Store 326 S. Broadway, Salem, NH. All are welcome! Very limited free signs available for the next few weeks. Will notify here when more are in stock. The Trump Store has a good variety of signs and offer 25% discount to participants during the flag waves.

UNITED CAPE PATRIOTS 9/11 STANDOUT at BOURNE BRIDGE
2024-09-11 12:30 - 14:30

PLAISTOW, NH TRUMP STANDOUTS EVERY SUNDAY 11 am - 1 PM
2024-09-08 11:00 - 13:00
FROM PETE TOROSIAN REGARDING PLAISTOW/ATKINSON FLAG WAVE:
JOIN ATKINSON PLAISTOW GOP FOR A TRUMP SIGN WAVE SUNDAYS FROM 11 AM UNTIL 1 PM – INTERSECTION OF ROUTE 125 AND EAST ROAD IN PLAISTOW – TRUMP SUPPORTING CANDIDATES WELCOME – WE HAVE SIGNS AND FLAGS!

CHUCK MORSE - SUNDAY 11 A.M. MANCHESTER MEETUP
2024-09-08 11:00 - 12:00
Manchester Meet and Greet
September 8, 2024 11:00 AM
1600 Candia Road – Suite 7

https://www.chuckmorsefornh.com/events/manchester-meet-and-greet

TRUMP STORE UNITED CAPE PATRIOTS STANDOUT RTE 28 CAPE COD
2024-09-07 12:30 - 14:30

President Donald J. Trump to Hold a Press Conference in New York, New York
2024-09-06 12:00 - 13:00
President Donald J. Trump to Hold a Press Conference in New York, New York

President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, will hold a press conference in New York, New York on Friday, September 6, 2024, at 12:00PM EDT.

Date and Time:
Friday, September 6, 2024
12:00PM EDT

Venue:
Trump Tower
725 5th Ave
New York, NY 10022

Timeline of Events:
12:00PM – 45th President of the United States Donald J. Trump Delivers Remarks

ALL THE BIG NAMES IN NEW HAMPSHIRE - EVENT 3:00 PM
2024-09-02 15:00 - 19:00
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2ND, FREE SALEM, NH GOP PICNIC:

From Salem GOP Chairman, Steven Goddu: “The Salem Republican Town Committee is hosting our annual Labor Day Picnic tomorrow, Monday September 2nd. The Picnic is at the Derry Salem Elks, 39 Shadow Lake Rd, Salem, NH and begins at 3:00pm
This FREE event is open to all Republican and unaffiliated voters. We will serve Hot Dogs, Hamburgers, Watermelon, and Soft Drinks.

You will hear from Governor Sununu, Executive Councilor Janet Stevens, State Senator Daryl Abbas, Speaker of the House Sherm Packard, Candidates for Governor Chuck Morse and Kelly Ayotte, Candidates for US congress Vikram Mansharamani, Lily Tang Williams & Casey Crane, and the chairman of Trump’s New Hampshire Campaign Stephen Stepanek.”

August 31st. Trump & Back the Blue Bourne Rotary 12:30 - 2:30
2024-08-31 12:30 - 14:00
August 31st. Trump & Back the Blue Bourne Rotary 12:30 – 2:30
United Cape Patriots

President Donald J. Trump Announces Special Guest Moderator, Tulsi Gabbard at La Crosse, Wisconsin Town Hall
2024-08-29 14:00 - 21:00
President Donald J. Trump Announces Special Guest Moderator, Tulsi Gabbard at La Crosse, Wisconsin Town Hall

President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, will visit La Crosse, Wisconsin for a Town Hall moderated by former Democratic Congresswoman, Tulsi Gabbard on Thursday, August 29, 2024, at 6:00PM CDT.

Date and Time
Thursday, August 29, 2024
6:00PM CDT

Venue
La Crosse Center
300 Harborview Plaza
La Crosse, WI 54601

Special Guest Moderator
Tulsi Gabbard, Former Democratic U.S. Representative from Hawaii’s 2nd Congressional District

Timeline of Events
2:00PM – Doors Open
6:00PM – Townhall Begins

General Admission Tickets
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2024-08-28 17:00 - 18:00
We will hold a standout for Kari MacRae on Wednesday, August 28th at 5:00pm in Plymouth at the corner of Court Street & Samoset Street. We will have signs.
We need your help to get Kari elected. She will truly speak for the citizens of the Plymouth & Barnstable Senate district on Beacon Hill! Hope to see everyone there!!
To see where Kari stands on the important issues that we face, go to karimacrae.com. Early voting is from August 24 – August 30 and primary voting day is Tuesday, September 3rd.
