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The Plenary Hall hosts the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, with the reading of a protest manifesto on the part of the Murcian federations and associations of the collective.
José Ballesta: "From the City Council we put ourselves at your service to realize that right to equality and full inclusion."
The Plenary Hall hosted this afternoon the institutional act on the occasion of the International Day of People with Disabilities, which is commemorated today, an occasion that more than fifty representatives of different federations and Murcia associations belonging to this group wanted to take advantage of to claim , through the reading of a Manifesto, "that our rights over ignorance or prejudice prevail" and the defense of "universal accessibility, since without it there are no human rights for people with disabilities".
The mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, together with the Councilor for Social Rights, Conchita Ruiz, presided over this event in which the representatives of the following entities took the floor: Federation of Deaf people of the Region of Murcia (Fesormu), Federation of Associations of Families with Intellectual Disability (Full Region of Murcia), Federation of Associations of Relatives of People with Alzheimer's in the Region of Murcia (FFDARM), Federation of Families of Deaf People (FASEN), Mental Health Federation of Murcia Region (Feafes ), Federación Predif Región de Murcia-Platform representative of people with physical disability, Spanish Federation of Diseases (FEDER) Delegation of Murcia, National Organization of the Spanish Blind (ONCE), Federation of Murcia Associations of People with Physical and Organic Disability (FAMDIF) , Murcia Parkinson Federation (Fepamur), Committee of Representatives of People with Disabilities CERMI Region d
e Murcia.
The mayor said that "the Constitution states that all Spaniards are born free and equal in rights and obligations, and although it seems that much progress has been made in freedom, not so much in equality" and addressed the attendees stating that "you are the responsible to remind us that we are all the same, regardless of our physical or intellectual abilities ".
"There are not capable and not capable people, but people with determination willing to reach their goals with effort and courage, which are the qualities that characterize you," said José Ballesta, who added that "your dignity and illusion is exactly the same as that of Any other Murcia and from the City we want to put ourselves at your service to realize that right to equality and full inclusion. "
Musical interpretation of ONCE harpist Miguel Alcantud
The institutional act on the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities included the musical opening of the group of CEOM 'The Revoltosos', after which Councilwoman Conchita Ruiz intervened, who argued that "all people have value in themselves and right to develop a life project, to participate and contribute something to society, and recalled that "most people will experience some type of disability, whether transient or permanent, at some point in our life cycle."
After reading the Manifesto, it was the turn of the poetry of Vanessa Legrand, of Fesormu, interpreting Carmen Conde's poem, 'I do not ask you where are you taking me'.
The closing came with the performance of Joel Abraham Toapanta Bombón, from ASPANPAL, who performed a work by the German composer CWGluck.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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