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	<title>Disability News &#124; PatriciaEBauer.com &#187; hate crimes</title>
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		<title>Column: In celebration of hate crime law</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/11/05/obama-hate-crime-bill-25090/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From McClatchy-Tribune News Service in the Baltimore Sun: Kathi Wolfe, who identifies herself as a legally blind lesbian, says the president should be praised for signing the hate crime bill, which enlarges the definition of federal hate crimes to include those involving sexual orientation, gender or disability. Wolfe rejects claims that the law will inhibit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK charity: 9 percent of disabled people say they&#8217;re crime targets</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/11/05/hate-crime-data-25018/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the [UK] Guardian: In response to a survey by a UK disability charity, 9 percent of respondents with disabilities reported that they have been the victim of a hate crime. The charity, Leonard Cheshire Disability, asked respondents whether they had faced a crime which they felt was motivated by their disability. The charity said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama signs hate crimes bill</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/10/29/hate-crimes-bill-signed-24845/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From AP, CNN (with video), the Washington Post and elsewhere. Transcript from the White House blog: President Obama signed hate crime legislation Wednesday that extends protections to people based on gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and disability. From the transcript of the President&#8217;s remarks: No one in America should be forced to look over their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congress expands hate crime protections to include disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/10/23/hate-crime-24550/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, AP/Washington Post: Congress yesterday approved a major expansion of federal hate crime law to include penalties for assaults motivated by a victim&#8217;s sexual orientation, gender, disability or gender identity. The president is expected to sign it. The 68-29 vote was seen as a victory for civil rights groups. Attorney [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fifth suspect convicted in kidnap, torture of disabled man</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/10/20/conviction-24417/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[abuse]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carolyn Hamilton]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the [Minneapolis-St. Paul] Star Tribune: A fifth and final suspect has been convicted in last year&#8217;s kidnapping and torture of a man with disabilities in rural Minnesota. Twenty-two year-old Jonathan M. Diepold was convicted of six violent crimes and a misdemeanor in the attack on Justin Hamilton 25, who has fetal alcohol syndrome. Prosecutors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hate crime law may soon cover people with disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/10/09/house-vote-hate-crime-23735/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the New York Times, AP/Washington Post, Los Angeles Times: Over the objections of Republicans, the House Thursday voted to broaden the federal hate-crime law to prohibit violence against people because of their disability, sexual orientation, gender or affiliation with the military. The measure, which now goes to the Senate, was attached to a $680 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>British inquest finds family of disabled girl was hounded to death</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/09/30/hounded-to-death-23234/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Associated Press, [UK] Telegraph and elsewhere: A British inquest jury ruled this week that years of abuse and terror at the hands of neighborhood toughs had led a despairing single mother to kill herself and her 18-year-old disabled daughter, and that police inaction contributed to their deaths. Fiona Pilkington had called police dozens of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hate crimes measure passes Senate</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/07/17/hate-crimes-20252/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Associated Press: The Senate on Thursday approved the most sweeping expansion of federal hate crimes law since Congress responded four decades ago to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. The measure Thursday would extend the federal protections of the 1968 hate crimes law to people who were physically attacked because of their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>300 gather to support disabled teen after violent attack</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/06/18/violent-attack-18697/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[criminal justice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seattle police say Hannah Geiger was the victim of a hate crime From the Seattle Times, KOMO-TV: Crowds rallied in Seattle to celebrate the life of Hannah Geiger, a 19-year-old Special Olympics athlete, two weeks after she was beaten unconscious near her home by men who accosted her because of her race and disability. No [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attorney General calls for new hate crime law</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/06/18/ag-hate-crime-18623/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[abortion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Associated Press/CBS News: Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday that recent killings demonstrate the need for a tougher U.S. hate crimes law. Holder said recent attacks that killed a soldier, an abortion provider and a guard at the U.S. Holocaust Museum were examples of &#8220;violence masquerading as political activism.&#8221; In order to stop [...]]]></description>
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