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Tag Archives: disability rights
Readers’ Views, May-June 2014
From the May-June 2014 issue of News & Letters: Readers’ Views LABOR AND IMMIGRATION On April 8, about 100 people, the majority young Latinas/os, gathered in front of Los Angeles City Hall to protest the deportation of immigrants. Obama’s administration … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion rights, Arab spring, criminal injustice system, disability rights, Egypt, feminism, immigrant labor, Iranian Revolution of 1979, labor, Middle East revolutions, patriarchy, Pelican Bay hunger strikers, people with disabilities, prison industrial complex, prisoners, racism, Russia, sexism, Tahrir Square, Ukraine, undocumented workers, women's liberation, workers
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Handicap This! May-June 2014
Hungary’s discrimination; violence against women with disabilities in EU; Jenny Hatch wins right to make her own decisions; death of Michael Anthony Kerr, a North Carolina prisoner with disabilities. Continue reading
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Tagged criminal injustice system, disability rights, Down syndrome, European Union, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, Hampton Virginia, Hungary, International Women's Day, Jenny Hatch, Jim Talbert, Kelly Morris, Michael Anthony Kerr, North Carolina, prison industrial complex, prisoners, Raleigh, UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Violence against women
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Disabled demand services from DHS/DRS
Chicago ADAPT, along with Community Alliance and Northside Action For Justice, held an action at the offices of the Department of Human Services, which also houses the office of the Department of Rehabilitation Services because of the conflicting and confusing information we were getting from the state heads of human services versus the various DRS offices throughout Illinois. Continue reading
Handicap This! March-April 2014
Cops beat deaf man in Hawthorne, Calif.; Assad’s forces torment man with Down Syndrome in Syria; South Carolina abuses mentally ill prisoners; disabled Chicago woman illegally evicted. Continue reading
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Tagged American Sign Language, Bashar al-Assad, Chicago, Cook County sheriff, disability rights, Down syndrome, eviction, Hawthorne Police, healthcare, Jonathon Meister, Manhattan Beach, mentally ill prisoners, people with disabilities, Sandra Lee, South Carolina, Syria, United States
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Legislators let us down
People shared stories about their experiences with Medicaid, the minimum wage, disability rights, and talked about the importance of seeing the human side of issues. The only things the legislators would say was that “revenues were the problem.” Continue reading
Handicap This! January-February 2014
Vigil for Rights of Persons with Disabilities bill in India; 6.5 million refugees with disabilities; Iraq camp for Syrian refugees with disabilities; Georgia: marginalization of children with disabilities. Continue reading
Handicap This! Nov.-Dec. 2013
Bus discrimination in Leeds, England; school sit-in in Pennsylvania; Russia “psychiatric” repression; Montreal voting rights Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, Deanna Lesneski, disability rights, Doug Paulley, Down syndrome, England, First Bus Group, Leeds, Linda Gauthier, Mikhail Kosenko, Montreal, Moscow, psychiatric repression, Quebec, Russia, UK, Vladimir Putin, voting rights, Washington County Pennsylvania, wheelchair
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Catch-22 for prisoner with disabilities
The only way to get out of Administrative Segregation is by attending the Gang Renouncement and Dissociation Process. After many months I was told that I could not attend this program because the units do not house inmates with wheelchairs and don’t have cells or showers for the handicapped. Continue reading
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Tagged Administrative Segregation Unit, Americans with Disabilities Act, criminal injustice system, disability rights, Prison, prison industrial complex, prisoners with disabilities, Rehabilitation Act, Solitary confinement, Texas, Texas Civil Rights Project
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Stop Detroit evictions
Detroit Eviction Defense is fighting to keep Jerome Jackson in his home in Inkster, Mich. Jackson has been a leading fighter in Detroit Eviction Defense, active in many campaigns to keep others in their homes. We fight with the Hernandez and Orozco families in Southwest Detroit fighting Fannie Mae and its out-of-control efforts to throw families from their homes and cause further damage to our neighborhoods. Resistance is growing; join us! We demand no more foreclosures, no more evictions and good housing for all. Continue reading
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Tagged anti-eviction, Community Living Services, Detroit Eviction Defense, disability rights, Fannie Mae, foreclosures, housing crisis, HUD, Inkster, Jerome Jackson, Occupy Detroit, Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street, people with disabilities, United States, Wayne County Michigan
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Work of the Negative: A Marxist-Humanist blog 