SPREAD THE WORD TO END THE WORD! END THE R-WORD DAY

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SPREAD THE WORD TO END THE
WORD!END THE R-WORD DAY

• MARCH 31st 2009

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I created this bulletin board in effort to help
end the R-WORD. End the R-WORD day which is
sponsored by the Special Olympics is happening
March 31st!Lisa Yanzer, Resident Adviser
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SPREAD THE WORD TO END THE
WORD!END THE R-WORD DAY

• MARCH 31st 2009

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• Our choice of language frames how we think about
  others.
• It is time to respect and value people with
  intellectual disabilities.
• It is time to accept and welcome us as your
  friends and neighbors.

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Join Special Olympics in the campaign to end the
r-word. End the r-word day aims to raise
awareness around the world about the hurtful and
derogatory nature of the word retard(ed). Do
your part and be a fan of humanity. Find the
event on Facebook for more information on getting
involved and spread the word on March
31st. www.r-word.org
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WHAT?

• Spread the Word to End the Word is a National
  Awareness Day to raise the consciousness of
  society about the dehumanizing and hurtful
  effects of the word retard(ed) .
• Encourage people to pledge to stop using the
  R-word.
• The campaign will build up to 3.31.09, a day
  where young people across the country will rally
  their schools and communities to pledge their
  support at www.r-word.org.

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WHO?

• The effort is spearheaded by college students,
  Soeren Palumbo (Notre Dame 2011) and Tim Shriver
  (Yale 2011).
• Led by young people and Special Olympics athletes
  across the country.
• Celebrity activist John C. McGinley of the hit
  show Scrubs is a spokesperson for the campaign.

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WHY?

• Respectful and inclusive language is essential to
  the movement for the dignity and humanity of
  people with intellectual disabilities.
• However, much of society does not recognize the
  hurtful, dehumanizing and exclusive effects of
  the word retard(ed).
• It is time to address the minority slur retard
  and raise the consciousness of society to its
  hurtful effects.

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HOW?

• Visit www.r-word.org to learn how you can Spread
  the Word to End the Word.

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• CHANGE the conversationstop using the R-WORD.
• Learn the new R-WORD
• R-E-S-P-E-C-T

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• Be a fan of dignity,
• acceptance, and
• the human race!

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Join celebrity John McGinely to help end the
R-word

• Actor and activist John C. McGinley, of the hit
  show Scrubs, is helping with this effort by
  making national media appearances on behalf of
  the campaign.

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• LETS STAND UP FOR OUR MOST INNOCENT AND LOVING
  HUMAN BEINGS.
• LETS GIVE THEM THE RESPECT THEY DESERVE
• LETS GIVE BACK TO THEM THE THING THEY GIVE THE
  MOST OF TO USLOVE!
• LETS WORK IN EFFORT WITH PERSONS WHO HAVE
  INTELLECTUAL DISABILITES TO HELP THEM END THE
  R-WORD (A word that hurts ALL)

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• Were asking ALL to help eliminate the demeaning
  use of the R-word (retard)
• a common taunt used to make fun of others. Often
  unwittingly, the word is used to denote behavior
  that is clumsy, helpless, and even hopeless. But
  whether intentional or not, the word conjures up
  a painful stereotype of people with intellectual
  disabilities.
• It hurts even if you dont mean it that way.

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PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES CAN

• People with intellectual disabilities are capable
  and enjoy sharing life experiences
• listen to music, playing video games, watching
  the latest movies, and yes, having fun as well as
  working together toward athletic excellence as
  they do at Special Olympics.
• They can attend school, work, drive cars, get
  married, participate in decisions that affect
  them, and contribute to society in many ways.
• They can do these things and many more with
  greater love, respect, joy, inspiration, and
  dignity then most of us will ever achieve in our
  life.

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• Wouldn't it be a sad world if we made fun of the
  most innocent and loving of allthe sad truth is
  that we live in a society where these things are
  accepted and it is
• TIME TO CHANGE!
• SPREAD THE WORD TO END THE WORD!

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• LIFE IS NOT TRIED IT IS MERELY SURVIVED WHEN
  YOUR STANDING OUTSIDE THE FIRE.
• GARTH BROOKS
• Dare yourself to stand inside the same fire that
  persons with intellectual disabilities put
  themselves in everyday just by getting up and
  showing there love, lets stand up against the
  R-WORD and help make an awareness of acceptance!

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• Take a day to use more accepting language.
• Take a day tell your friends to do the same.
• Take a day to embrace the humanity of all
  people.
• Take a day to end the R-word.
• Spread the Word to End the Word.

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• Im gonna say that I choose to believe that most
  of us are fundamentally good and are unaware that
  the word is offensive and that it hurtswhen
  children stand up go when kids in my school call
  me retarded it hurts you just want to makes
  people stop using that word.
• - Actor on scrubs John McGinely