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Disabled rights
“Don’t dis our ability” summed up the message of Warriors on Wheels and supporters....
Posted Oct 6, 2011
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Chanting “They say cut back, we say fight back!” over 400 disabled
activists and their supporters took over the street in front of the State
Office Building in San Francisco June 23 to “Stop the governor from
slashing programs for people with disabilities, kids, and poor people.”
Seventeen people both in and out of wheelchairs were arrested in a civil
disobedience action....
Posted Jul 3, 2009
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Vida Brown has lived in her home in Sturgis, Mich., since 1992. Sturgis is in
south-central Michigan, near the Indiana border, about 160 miles southwest of
Detroit. The 2000 census recorded the town’s population at 11,285, with
only 1.23 percent African-American residents....
Posted Dec 7, 2008
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The reasons for attacking a disabled person are varied.
Sometimes, however, there is a direct political motive....
Posted Nov 9, 2006
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Oct. 30—Hold your
hands up high, palms out and wiggle your fingers in a silent cheer to celebrate
the victory won by Deaf people at Gallaudet University in northeast Washington,
D.C....
Posted Nov 2, 2006
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More than 400 disabled activists from 40 states
and the District of Columbia recently staged five days of militant action in
Nashville, the capital of Tennessee and a national headquarters of for-profit
health care. Mobilized by Amer ican Disabled for Attendant Pro grams Today
(ADAPT), they demanded an end to policies that force elderly and disabled people
to go into nursing homes for services that they should be receiving in their own
homes....
Posted Apr 1, 2006
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John Crofford, a former
activist with the New York City branch of Workers World Party, died on March 1
at age 70. John was a communist, a gay man, an artist and a disabled worker
living on Social Security. ...
Posted Mar 26, 2006
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Hundreds of activists with the disability rights group American Disabled
for Attendant Programs Today [ADAPT] descended on Washington, D.C., Sept. 17-21
to protest Medicaid cuts and demand housing and personal care for disabled
people. WW reporter Lou Paulsen interviewed Ed Hoffmans....
Posted Oct 6, 2005
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