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	World Survivors Day NSAC December 2, 2011 http://nationalsurvivoradvocatescoalition.wordpress.com/editorials/ Yesterday was World Aids Day. We don’t begrudge the attention on those who suffer from this awful disease and those working to eradicate it. We do hope that someday there will be a World Survivors Day where attention is heavily and rightly focused on the courage of those who came and come forward, those who remain in their silence, the families of those who committed suicide and those who were murdered. “Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don’t give up.” – Anne Lamott from Bird by Bird. In the midst of the Ireland reports where even a Church panel has had to conclude that devastating choices were made in a cleric over child culture, and less than a week from Pope Benedict’s hubris in his remarks to the New York bishops that all institutions should be held to high standards regarding sexual abuse of children, we think it’s a good idea to pause and remember who really has been hurt, whose lives are plagued, and whose spirits and bodies bear the scars daily. We salute all survivors and their families, the families of those who committed suicide and those murdered. We honor all of you who have nobly made it possible for those chained in a sorrowful and debilitating aloneness to know comfort in companionship. In doing this we hope that someday will become a closer day where sorrow is lifted, heaviness is banished, flashbacks are obliterated, and justice spreads across the years. In this spirit, we ask our readers to think out being in Bostonthe weekend of January 6-8 to mark the 10th anniversary of the beginning of the massive media attention that came to be known as theBoston incarnation of the scandal. Here’s the blog for more details: www.10thanniversarycelebration.blogspot.com There are early bird rates. — Kristine Ward, Chair, National Survivor Advocates Coalition (NSAC) — Contact: KristineWard@hotmail.com 937-272-0308/
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