Category Archives: ADAPT

Disability Integration Act To Be Reintroduced on M.L. King’s Birthday

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NDY’s Director of Minority Outreach Anita Cameron is leading ADAPT’s organizing efforts for the reintroduction of the Disability Integration Act (DIA) in Congress on M.L. King’s Birthday, Tuesday, January 15th. Anita has been an ADAPT organizer and activist for decades and has the distinction of having been arrested for nonviolent civil disobedience for disability rights … Continue reading Disability Integration Act To Be Reintroduced on M.L. King’s Birthday →

Anita Cameron: In Disasters We Lose

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I have been involved on a voluntary basis in emergency management and preparedness for 15 years in various areas around the country. My passion is getting people with disabilities involved in disaster preparedness because our community knows that during those times, we lose. Why? Because jurisdictions do not include people with disabilities in their disaster … Continue reading Anita Cameron: In Disasters We Lose →

Open Letter To American Medical Students Concerning Assisted Suicide

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Over the years, I’ve had a number of opportunities to provide presentations on disability related topics to university medical students. Instructors invited me to speak because they saw a problem in the fact that medical education included very little training on disability and independent living. That always struck me as odd considering the higher need … Continue reading Open Letter To American Medical Students Concerning Assisted Suicide →

NDY & ADAPT Submit Public Comments To Virginia Commission Opposing Potential Assisted Suicide Legislation

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The Virginia Joint Commission on Health Care has requested public comments by close of business on October 15 concerning several policy issues, including one option that would recommend the introduction of assisted suicide legislation. It’s called  Policy Option 2, worded as follows: Introduce legislation to amend the Code of Virginia to include a Medical Aid-in-Dying statute … Continue reading NDY & ADAPT Submit Public Comments To Virginia Commission Opposing Potential Assisted Suicide Legislation →

Anita Cameron – ADAPT and Not Dead Yet: In Solidarity

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Not Dead Yet works with disability organizations around the nation in the fight against doctor assisted suicide. One of these organizations is ADAPT, a national, grassroots disability rights organization working to ensure the civil rights, liberty and freedom of disabled people of all ages to live in our own homes in the community, rather than in nursing … Continue reading Anita Cameron – ADAPT and Not Dead Yet: In Solidarity →