This week, ADAPT, the national grassroots disability rights group, has been in Washington, DC. Some 500 members of ADAPT – most of whom have significant disabilities – are there to let Congress know that this group of stakeholders knows exactly what’s at stake with current budget proposals, especially the cynical and draconian budget proposal being … Continue reading ADAPT in DC This Week
This just in from Marilyn Golden, Policy Analyst at Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF): (The date for the events below was November 10, 2009) On Tuesday morning, three anti-assisted suicide advocates from the San Francisco Bay Area disability community, Paul Longmore, Walter Park, and myself came to the San Francisco Buddhist Center (which … Continue reading Disability Activists “Greet” Euthanasia Activist in San Francisco
Long-time readers of this blog might remember that Not Dead Yet took part in the blog against the telethon in 2007. Jerry Lewis and the MDA telethon have been powerful producers and reinforcers of negative stereotypes of people with physical disabilities, all of whom get to be the victim of the negative stereotyping. MDA and … Continue reading Sunday Night Oscar Protests Against Humanitarian Award for Jerry Lewis
(Thanks to Mike Reynolds for the “heads up” on this) From Miss Crip Chick (“just your everyday southern, queer disabled woman of color): Jerry Lewis is the host of the Muscular Dystrophy Association’s Annual Telethon, a telethon that occurs every Labor Day to raise funds for cures by using disabled people as posterchildren. Disabled people … Continue reading Action Alert: September 3rd is “Blog Against the Telethon Day”
