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Tag Archives: people with disabilities
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! 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
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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Readers’ Views, September-October 2013, Part II
Readers’ Views, September-October 2013, Part II Continue reading
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Tagged Access Living, ADAPT, Arab spring, capitalism, Communization theory, counter-revolution, criminal injustice system, Department of Health Care and Family Services, DHCFS, dialectic, Disability Pride Parade, disability rights movement, East German Revolt of 1953, Folsom State Prison, Human rights, Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Karl Marx, Maximus, Medicaid, Middle East, North Korea, Paris Commune of 1871, Pelican Bay prison hunger strike, people with disabilities, political Islam, prison industrial complex, prisoners, queer liberation, revolution, Russia, Vorkuta
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Handicap This! September-October 2013
Solitary confinement in Contra Costa County juvenile hall; New Bedford theater expulsion; Providence school makes disabled students work manual labor for little or no pay Continue reading
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Tagged Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, Contra Costa County California, criminal injustice system, disability rights, education, juvenile hall, New Bedford Massachusetts, people with disabilities, prison industrial complex, Providence Rhode Island, San Francisco Bay Area, school, sheltered workshop, Solitary confinement
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Goodwill sweatshops
Dozens of people gathered outside a resale store in Chicago to demonstrate against Goodwill Industries’ hiring disabled workers at steeply sub-minimum wages. Continue reading
Readers’ Views, January-February 2013, Part 1
From the January-February 2013 issue of News & Letters: RAVAGES OF CAPITALISM SHOW NEED FOR NEW WORLD The article on “Climate chaos and capitalism” (Sept.-Oct. 2012 N&L) is very relevant, especially the conclusion about how capitalism’s contradiction is that the … Continue reading
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Tagged absolute method, African Americans, American Civilization on Trial, Black liberation, capitalism, China, climate change, environment, feminism, Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, G.W.F. Hegel, global warming, India, Japan, Karl Marx, labor, Latinos, Mali, New York City Marathon, New York Stock Exchange, News and Letters Committees, Ningbo, Nuclear power, Occupy Movement, Occupy Sandy Recovery, Occupy Wall Street, Paris Commune of 1871, people with disabilities, racism, Rape, Raya Dunayevskaya, Shifang, Syria, Three Mile Island, Timothy Tang, Trayvon Martin, Tuareg, United States, women's liberation, workers
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