THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR ACCESS LIES WITH THE EVENT PLANNERS. IT IS NOT THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE INDIVIDUAL ATTENDING THE EVENT.
The issue of disability rights is often either ignored within the larger human rights dialogue or treated with outright hostility. Too often events are either held in inaccessible locations, or the way space is used, in [...]
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Accessible Event Planning
Posted in Art and Activism, Building Community, Calling out the liberal left!, Disability Rights, Full Inclusion, Human Rights, Women's Lives on September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Anatomy of a Blacklisting: A Thread in Two Blogs
Posted in ADL, Anatomy of a Blacklisting, Building Community, Calling out neo-liberalism, Calling out the liberal left!, Cross Referencing Emmalandia, Disability Rights, Dissident Jewish Voices, Don White, Education, Human Rights, Human rights rhetoric in the service of empire!, In Bed With Frida Kahlo, Israeli Apartheid, Palestine, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Stand With Us, U.S. empire, UTLA, Zionist Campaign Against Free Speech on June 28, 2009 | 5 Comments »
For the last three years I have been documenting a series of events within United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), around disability rights, Palestinian rights, union democracy and blacklisting, which started as a strange power play within the Human Rights Committee apparently around disability rights, but in my estimation, may have merely been the utilization of [...]
Counterpunch using Anti-Jewish Antipathy to Advocate an Anti-gay Anti-disability Agenda.
Posted in ADL, Calling out neo-liberalism, Calling out the liberal left!, Disability Rights, Full Inclusion, Human Rights, Human rights rhetoric in the service of empire!, Israeli Apartheid, Shoah, Simon Wiesenthal Center, U.S. empire, Zionist Campaign Against Free Speech on May 8, 2009 | 5 Comments »
The Counterpunch article below claims that the Hate Crime Bill of 2009 will result in criminalizing speech that is (specifically?) critical of Israel, Jews, Christianity, or that questions the Holocaust. The article follows my commentary.
1. The hate crime legislature is quiet specific. It limits hate crimes to acts of violence, and simply extends the protections [...]
House Votes to Expand Civil Rights for Disabled
Posted in Disability Rights, Full Inclusion, Human Rights on February 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
By an overwhelming 402 to 17 vote, the House yesterday passed a major civil rights bill that would significantly strengthen the Americans with Disabilities Act, overturning a number of Supreme Court decisions that had restricted ADA coverage.
June 26, 2008
House Votes to Expand Civil Rights for Disabled
By ROBERT PEAR
WASHINGTON — The House [...]
Tropic Thunder” Controversy TODAY on “The Largest Minority” Radio Show
Posted in Art and Activism, Disability Rights, Full Inclusion, Human Rights on August 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
11am EST, WBAI
If you missed the broadcast, catch it here:
http://archive.wbai.org/files/mp3/080821_110001thurs11amtonoon.MP3
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[SDS] Tropic Thunder” Controversy TODAY on “The Largest Minority” Radio Show, 11am EST, WBAI]
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Perplexed as to why people are peeved about the word “retard?” Mystified
about why disability advocates are all worked up over a movie?
Listen to WBAI [...]
Boycott Tropic Thunder
Posted in Art and Activism, Disability Rights, Full Inclusion, Human Rights on August 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Groups that advocate for people with disabilities called on Sunday for a national boycott of the Ben Stiller comedy “Tropic Thunder,” citing what they say is its negative portrayal of people with intellectual disabilities.
“We are asking people not to go to the movie and hope to bring a consciousness to people about [...]
¡Don White Presenté!
Posted in Anatomy of a Blacklisting, Building Community, Disability Rights, Education, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Israeli Apartheid, Obituary, Palestine, The Americas, U.S. empire, UTLA, Zionist Campaign Against Free Speech on June 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
¡Don White Presenté!
We were shocked and saddened to hear of the death of Don White, revolutionary dreamer and activist. He seemed imortal. What a hole he has left in the Los Angeles Peace and Justice movement. Don was a tireless activist and advocate, an internationalist who understood the connections between racism, imperialism, [...]
Audition Notice for Wheelchair Dancers
Posted in Art and Activism, Disability Rights, Full Inclusion, Human Rights on April 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dancing Wheels Company & School
America’s Premier Physically Integrated Dance Company
Audition Notice for Wheelchair Dancers
The Dancing Wheels Company is currently seeking dancers, apprentices and trainees for employment in the 2008-2009 Season.
Dancing Wheels works with national and internationally acclaimed choreographers each year. Most recent works include full-length pieces from Rosalind Newman, David Rousseve, Rebecca Darling of Pilobulus, [...]
The silence of the left: When is police brutality an acceptable reality?
Posted in Disability Rights, Education, Full Inclusion, Human Rights, Prison Industrial Complex on February 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Posted to several relevant listserves
While this story of a disabled man dumped from his wheelchair by a deputy while in custody, hit the disability rights lists right away, and the major news networks carried the story, there was NO discussion of the issue, not one post, not one email on the matter [...]
NO ACTIVIST LEFT BEHIND: MAKING EVENTS HANDICAPPED ACCESSIBLE
Posted in Disability Rights, Full Inclusion, Human Rights, Resources on May 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Scroll down to find links to several documents to assist non-profit and community organizations in providing full inclusion. The WE Project is available to assist groups in their transition to non-disciminatory event planning.
Current law requires “reasonable accommodations.” Beyond that, disability rights groups are advocating for universal design and full inclusion.
If people with disabilities are not [...]
