Judith E. Heumann is an American disability rights activist, and served as U.S. Department of State special adviser for international disability rights.
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I decided I wanted to become a disability rights lawyer.
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In the Trump administration, attacks on disability rights have accelerated.
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The only serious candidate without a detailed disability rights plan?
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Disability rights advocates have been pushing back against this practice.
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Disability rights has long been a passionate cause of Sen.
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The protest was organized by ADAPT, a national disability rights organization.
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Many of those countries are making real progress on disability rights.
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Eatsa and Disability Rights Advocates were not immediately available for comment.
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STEPHEN F. GOLD Philadelphia The writer is a disability rights lawyer.
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More than a dozen disability rights protesters were arrested outside Sen.
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Some disability rights groups are unhappy with Starbucks's plastic straw ban.
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But disability rights lawyers and advocates said the concerns were misplaced.
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Janni Lehrer-Stein is a disability rights advocate and retired attorney.
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Leaders in the disability rights community have unequivocally condemned Harris's plan.
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The dolls' new looks are a hit with disability rights activists.
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The right leadership will elevate the Office of International Disability Rights; put a much-needed disability lens on State's everyday work; and give international disability rights its rightful place in leadership conversations on funding, resources and inclusion.
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How can an Education Secretary not know about disability rights in education?
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Susan Henderson, executive director of the Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund, agrees.
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Not all disability rights campaigners are in favor of the German proposals.
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The Capitol Crawl launched by Keelan and other disability rights activists worked.
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We are approaching almost a half century of federal disability rights law.
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Ms. Keys is a lawyer in Columbus, Ohio, for Disability Rights Ohio.
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He also never presented a plan for disability rights on his campaign website or responded to a campaign questionnaire from the political disability rights organization RespectAbility, despite other Republican candidates such as John Kasich doing their due diligence.
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Disability Rights Advocates, representing a coalition of disability rights groups, has also challenged the accessibility of the city's subway system in two discrimination lawsuits against the Metropolitan Transportation Authority over the scarcity of elevators and their frequent breakdowns.
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I've been an activist with the Disability Rights group ADAPT for 10 years.
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Labour also gained two disabled MPs, both of whom are disability rights activists.
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David M. Perry is a freelance journalist covering disability rights, history and education.
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Adam Prizio, manager of Government Affairs at the Center for Disability Rights Inc.
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This categorical thinking threatens disability rights even though Trump rarely speaks of disability.
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Access to mainstream education was a key feature of the disability rights struggle.
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Finally, it's not just disability rights specifically that the community is worried about.
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Mr. Kennedy is a disability rights lawyer and a state senator in Connecticut.
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Judith is a legend in the disability rights movement and an artistic icon.
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It is a much-needed reminder that Civil Rights must include Disability Rights.
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"It's just ironic," said Christina Brandt-Young, a lawyer for Disability Rights Advocates.
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Age 51 Occupation Disability-rights lawyer Tell me about your all-white look.
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Disability Rights Ohio, a legal group representing inmates, said that's not its role.
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Disability rights activists, as a result, are appalled by the per capita cap plan.
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She's a veteran member of ADAPT, a grassroots community that organizes disability rights protests.
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Dara Baldwin is the Senior Public Policy Analyst at the National Disability Rights Network.
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So do environmentalists, immigration reform proponents, feminists, racial justice fighters and disability rights advocates.
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Looking for ways to support disability rights, well here's how you can get started.
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However, what the ADA did do was cement disability rights as a bipartisan issue.
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EDT Updated with comment from Christina Brandt-Young, managing attorney at Disability Rights Advocates.
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However, disability rights was apparently not important enough to roll out before voting begins.
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In short, the U.S. needs to be doing more — not less — on disability rights.
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Health Ministry officials told Disability Rights International that seven of the girls were pregnant.
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We must pursue the fight for women's rights, for gay rights, for disability rights.
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A massive backlash ensued, led by the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund's Pat Wright and the Disability Rights Center's Evan Kemp Jr. The ultimate result: More than 40,000 cards and letters from disabled people and family members sent to the White House.
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And the United States could improve its own record on disability rights without the convention.
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Past examples have included raising public awareness in China about air quality and disability rights.
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Congress has since passed more than 10.73 laws expanding disability rights, forever changing public attitudes.
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This helps explain why disability rights activists are appalled by the per capita cap plan.
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Although the partisan divide in Washington has often seemed unbridgeable, disability rights long united lawmakers.
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It is just the latest Republican betrayal of the historic bipartisan support for disability rights.
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The Republican Party's turn against disability rights is a rejection of those core American values.
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In a tight Democratic primary race, disability rights has emerged as a leading issue. Sens.
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In several other states, the law is silent on the disability rights of voucher students.
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But lax enforcement has led disability rights advocates to take matters into their own hands.
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Special Books by Special Kids was originally set up by disability rights advocate Chris Ulmer.
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In a first-of-its-kind partnership, disability rights advocates, the City of Portland, Ore.
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A spokesman for Disability Rights New York did not respond to efforts to reach him.
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Robyn Powell is a disability rights attorney, PhD candidate at Brandeis University, and freelance writer.
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The first two nights of the convention included an unusual level of disability-rights content.
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She's also advocated for broader social and economic issues, like feminism, disability rights, and climate change.
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The Vermont senator also promised to use executive action to advance disability rights if elected president.
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Most disability rights activists view assisted-suicide laws as dangerous invitations to discrimination against disabled people.
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UNINDENTIFIED FEMALE: Women, again, and young people are marching for women&aposs health and disability rights.
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That document included disability rights, and our inclusion under the intersectional umbrella is an important achievement.
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Around the same time, a coalition of 11 major disability rights groups issued a similar warning.
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However, Sessions has also expressed a particular position on disability rights that is cause for concern.
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To the Editor: Ross Douthat's "abortion extremism" has now co-opted the language of disability rights.
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Smith, the disability rights advocate with brittle bones disease, is holding one in their apartment building.
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It's worth noting that billionaires Tom Steyer and Mike Bloomberg don't have disability rights plans, either.
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There's still time for Biden to release his disability rights plan — it's not Super Tuesday yet.
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He used that role to chide world diplomats for failing to make disability rights a priority.
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"It goes back to the old disability rights movement mantra: 'Nothing about us, without us,'" she says.
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That's something Tifanei Ressl-Moyer, a legal fellow with Disability Rights California, is very well aware of.
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Some disability-rights groups, including Not Dead Yet, agree and have fought state aid-in-dying legislation.
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I'm not okay with Trump's stance on disability rights and the cuts that he's going to make.
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As a liberal disability rights activist who continues to fight Trump, these people are normally my allies.
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The decree shutters long-standing councils for disability rights, rural development, biodiversity, and LGBT rights, among others.
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Tuesday's lawsuits were filed by Disability Rights Advocates on behalf of several nonprofit groups and three individuals.
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Disability rights activists are concerned about several potential factors that may collide to force people into institutions.
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And the ardent disability-rights activists leading the backlash against Me Before You understand that exceptionally well.
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Disability Rights New York began its investigation in June 2016 after fielding reports of abuse and neglect.
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Disability rights, gay rights, women's rights — That people with disabilities were still victims of segregation and discrimination.
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Many were from the disability rights group ADAPT, who traveled across the country to attend the meeting.
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As they craft their disability rights plans, the 2020 candidates are consulting the people they would affect.
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During a confirmation hearing last week, Democrats raised questions about Scalia's positions on LGBT and disability rights.
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Does spending so much time maintaining my body make me an inspiration, or a disability rights failure?
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Last year I wrote a profile of Haben Girma, a disability rights activist and deaf-blind lawyer.
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In that context, the consistent emphasis placed on disability rights at the Democratic convention was immensely encouraging.
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"The suspects, who are from an upper-class family, have not only managed to evade prosecution, but they continue to threaten the survivor's family," said Nidhi Goyal, a disability rights activist and consultant to the disability rights division at Human Rights Watch, a global nonprofit human rights organization.
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Similarly, Disability Rights Florida evaluated and reported on the Homestead temporary shelter, a tent camp housing 1,350 children.
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I am genuinely terrified about women's rights, disability rights and especially people of color's rights in Trump's America.
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Disability rights activist Jeeja Ghosh was deboarded from a SpiceJet flight in Kolkata to Goa in February 2012.
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She says education advocates and disability rights groups urged officials to keep all 72 guidance documents in place.
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And the political party that seems to be pulling ahead on disability rights is still far from inclusive.
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Yet the same liberals who support the killing of these children hypocritically pride themselves in supporting disability rights.
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Same goes for the women's movement, the gay rights movement, the disability rights movement, and the antinuclear movement.
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Disability Justice is a direct response to the exclusionary, white-focused fields of disability rights and disability studies.
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Watch: Netflix's feel-good documentary "Crip Camp" recalls a Catskills summer camp that fostered American disability rights activism.
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The bipartisan consensus favoring disability rights represented the best of America's ideals of equality, opportunity, and fair play.
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Mx. Smith, 30, has a support network and expertise that many don't: They work for Disability Rights Iowa.
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Janni Lehrer-Stein is a disability rights advocate, served two terms in the Obama Administration on the National Council on Disability and currently serves on the Boards of the Foundation Fighting Blindness, Disability Rights Advocates, and the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine Forum on Aging, Independence and Disability.
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Several disability rights activists started the campaign on Twitter this year to encourage engagement in the 2016 presidential election.
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"Security has been wrapped up with accessibility since the beginning," says Lainey Feingold, a disability rights lawyer and author.
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At the Democratic National Convention on Monday night, disability rights advocate Anastasia Somoza responded to Trump's mocking of Kovaleski.
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Among those testifying against it Wednesday were Marilyn Golden, senior policy analyst for the Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund.
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Disability Rights Advocates, a nonprofit organization, filed the suit claiming that the negligence is a civil rights violation. bit.
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Woodward is also an ADAPT organizer, as well as the director of advocacy at the Center for Disability Rights.
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Ives-Rublee, along with other activists, also successfully pushed to get disability rights included in the Women's March platform.
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Some disability rights groups also argued against the rule on the basis that it perpetuated stigmas about mental illness.
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In this way, support for disability rights is similar to the act of expressing perfunctory thanks to military veterans.
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Simply having a disability does not make someone an expert on disability policy or an advocate for disability rights.
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The lawsuit was filed on Tuesday in State Supreme Court in Manhattan by Disability Rights Advocates, a nonprofit organization.
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A headline last month proclaimed that disability rights are a "major campaign issue" for the first time in 2020.
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Marshall said her online platform has given her the opportunity to spread awareness about disability rights, ASL, and deafness.
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In the new Congress, we and other disability rights groups will be closely scrutinizing the language used upon re-introduction.
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My activism began when I was 19 and I started working for the Center for Disability Rights as an intern.
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She emerges a supporter of physician-assisted dying, though she writes eloquently about disability rights and religious objections to it.
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Many disability-rights organisations oppose screening, as they believe it is inimical to adequately valuing the lives of the disabled.
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For Casar Jacobson, a deaf Canadian medical student and UN disability rights campaigner, projects like this could be life-changing.
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The Arc, a major disability rights group, told the story of Soojung and her daughter Alice, who has Rett syndrome.
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Disability rights advocates expressed concern that the move would mean that customers with disabilities could face difficulties drinking iced beverages.
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But it is just long enough to reveal a troubling pattern in the Republican Party's emerging approach to disability rights.
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Some of the real heroes: Disability rights advocates have been out in force protesting the GOP's health care overhaul effort.
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In 1982, I was progressively blinded by retinal degenerative disease, which initiated my life's work as a disability rights advocate.
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The American Civil Liberties Union has pointed out that Gorsuch has a disconcerting record when hearing cases on disability rights.
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In one photo, protesters at a disability rights rally in Germany displayed a model of Lady Liberty in a wheelchair.
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Judy Heumann, a galvanizing force for disability rights in the new Netflix documentary, explains how summer camp set her path.
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Judy Heumann, a galvanizing force for disability rights in the new Netflix documentary, explains how summer camp set her path.
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The sign-language project took off with help from Galuh Sukmara Soejanto, a deaf Indonesian teacher and disability rights activist.
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Meanwhile, legislation that aims to preserve the "sanctity" of a potential disabled life is sometimes championed as disability rights activism.
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The suit is the latest in a string of class-action challenges by Disability Rights Advocates, a nonprofit legal center.
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But the bill faced fierce opposition from disability rights advocates, who staged protests in the House chamber during the vote.
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I was excited to pack my bags and head to sunny California for my new job at Disability Rights Advocates.
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The National Disability Rights Network also issued a statement in support of the Jabara-Heyer No Hate Act on Tuesday.
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Disability rights advocates were dragged from Congress on Tuesday as they protested reforms to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
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Perhaps the most consistently ferocious opposition to the BCRA has been mounted by a national disability rights organization called ADAPT.
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The first openly transgender person to speak at a national convention took the stage, and disability rights were featured prominently.
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And disability rights advocates are now speaking out against the bans, arguing that straw alternatives don't work quite as well.
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If the Trump administration decides to pick a similar fight, expect disability rights advocates to show up in force to respond.
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"Trump Thinks Following Federal Law Makes Him A Champion For Disability Rights," read the headline at the liberal news site ThinkProgress.
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Disability In midsummer, I learned of the death of Laurie Hoirup, a prominent 60-year-old disability rights advocate in California.
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And when characters in entertainment do have a disability, rights activists argue they often follow the same storyline: suffering, then death.
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First as a social worker and now as an attorney and researcher, I have committed myself to fight for disability rights.
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Such attempts to co-opt the mantle of disability rights to ban abortion are not only hypocritical but also deeply offensive.
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From 2009-2011, he led the Department of Justice's disability rights enforcement as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.
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Disability rights are human rights, and the core of State's mission is to advance the human rights of all people worldwide.
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Democrats questioned Scalia's record on LGBTQ rights and disability rights at a hearing last week, questioning past writings and court cases.
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"That position threatens a return to the isolation and segregation that the disability rights movement has fought to overcome," the documents added.
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Stephanie Woodward is the director of advocacy at the Center for Disability Rights in Rochester, New York, and an organizer with ADAPT.
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Matthew Dietz, a disability rights lawyer in Florida, told me that disabled students being arrested for disciplinary offenses are all too common.
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Disability rights advocacy groups claimed Wednesday that they were locked out of bathrooms and that press was denied access to the protests.
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It began Monday night with the remarks of Anastasia Somoza, a longtime disability rights activist who addressed the convention from her wheelchair.
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For instance, Disability Rights Texas is receiving complaints about housing discrimination, Rynders says, with disabled people struggling to find safe, accessible housing.
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She covers disability rights and women's issues and has written for The New York Times, Good Housekeeping, Glamour and Racked, among others.
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Ultimately, we need bold ideas and the dedication of our country's most creative policy experts in aging, disability rights and the workforce.
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Take the Americans with Disabilities Act, which was passed thanks to the efforts of the lobbying group, the National Disability Rights Network.
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BEN MATTLIN Los Angeles The writer is the author of "Miracle Boy Grows Up: How the Disability Rights Revolution Saved My Sanity."
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In college, I read every book I could on feminism, which led me to books and articles on the disability rights movement.
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She was progressively blinded by retinal degenerative disease in 1982 and has been a disability rights advocate for more than 30 years.
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Jameyanne decided to forgo her acceptance to a master's degree program in comparative literature at Dartmouth to become a disability rights lawyer.
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"There has to be somebody who is trying to access the website," said Ms. Hill, who is now a disability rights lawyer.
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Kristine Sullivan, a lawyer for Disability Rights North Carolina, reviewed the 21 years of inspection reports obtained by VICE News/MedPage Today.
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The disability rights advocate Frances Ryan dubiously suggests that abortion rights may be ableist, since pregnancies with abnormal fetuses are sometimes terminated.
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When he learned that a legal center called Disability Rights Advocates was suing Stanford over its leave policy, he asked to join.
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At his confirmation hearing last week, Democrats questioned his record on LGBTQ and disability rights, noting his past writings and court cases.
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At his confirmation hearing last week, Democrats questioned his record on LGBTQ and disability rights, noting his past writings and court cases.
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And yet, for all this exposure, disability rights and disability inclusion have been notably absent from the discussion during the Democratic debates.
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Both parents are 67 and have health problems of their own, although Ms. Ellis still works for a nonprofit disability rights group.
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The plaintiffs, the two families and the nonprofit, Bronx Independent Living Services, are represented by Disability Rights Advocates, a nonprofit legal organization.
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Seth Packrone, a staff attorney at Disability Rights Advocates, said that the group had helped the public advocate's office in its investigation.
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It began Monday night, with the remarks of Anastasia Somoza, a longtime disability rights activist who addressed the convention from her wheelchair.
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As disability rights activist Ari Ne'eman noted at Vox on Wednesday, Democrats haven't always been this tonally on point about disability issues.
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Seen in that light, convention remarks like those of Dynah Haubert, a disabled staff attorney at Disability Rights Pennsylvania, carry special resonance.
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Supporters of the second provision cast it as necessary to prevent abortions for racist or sexist reasons, and to protect disability rights.
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"I am an FDR buff," plaintiff Phil Beder, who uses a wheelchair, said in a statement released by the group Disability Rights Advocates.
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In interviews with survivors, the team from Disability Rights International (DRI) discovered that 800 children were crammed into a home built for 500.
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A second complaint to Outagamie County was sent by Disability Rights Wisconsin last month, according to Lisa Pugh, the group's public policy director.
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Spurred by the widespread outrage at Trump's cruelty, the Democratic National Committee made disability rights a high-profile theme of its 2016 convention.
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Nothing. In a speech on Monday night, disability rights advocate Anastasia Somoza, who has worked with the Clinton Foundation, directly called out Trump.
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Religious groups and disability rights activists fought against the law and tried unsuccessfully to get a referendum on the ballot to overturn it.
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The company recently piloted the system at the headquarters of the Independent Living Resource Center of San Francisco, a disability rights advocacy organization.
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In Japan, the decision to withhold the names has been condemned by a number of disability rights groups, as well as many newspapers.
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She covers disability rights and women's issues and has written for The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Glamour and Racked, among others.
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"It's been thirty years and he needs to demonstrate real understanding and actions advancing disability rights," she told Changing America in an email.
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Though many disability rights activists believe Vision Zero is a positive development, not everyone is happy with the pace or methods of change.
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She covers disability rights and women's issues and has written for The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Glamour and Racked among others.
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This would be truly "compassionate conservatism," rather than a dishonest attempt to use the rhetoric of disability rights to undermine access to abortion.
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However, the special adviser position has been vacant since January 2017, and the U.S. has been noticeably absent from international disability rights fora.
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Jason Boberg, a New Zealand disability rights campaigner and filmmaker, told the people's assembly those with disabilities faced serious threats from climate change.
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The protest itself was organized by members of the national disability rights organization Adapt, a nonpartisan organization that has staged protests for decades.
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He was called "the man who mistook his patients for a literary career" by the British academic and disability rights activist Tom Shakespeare.
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Both the House and Senate are introducing versions of the Office of International Disability Rights Act, which would codify the Office of International Disability Rights at the U.S. State Department (within State's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor); mandate a high-level political appointee to lead the office; and require a State-wide disability policy — something the agency currently lacks.
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Behind the latest bill is an acknowledgment that critical laws resulting from the civil rights and disability rights movements are fatally undermined by arbitration.
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As the father of a boy with Down syndrome and a journalist devoted to covering the struggle for disability rights, I have two requests.
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People with invisible illnesses face unique challenges to even be recognized as part of the disability rights community — or have their disabilities taken seriously.
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A disability rights activist and professor at Fairfield University in Connecticut, Huber lives with a few autoimmune disorders, including rheumatoid disease and Hashimoto's disease.
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Disability rights advocates tell the New Republic that if the bill becomes law, it would roll back much of the progress activists have achieved.
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The European Union, the supranational body to which Croatia belongs, ratified it three years later, giving renewed momentum to disability rights on the continent.
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Crip Camp: This documentary will focus on the stories of disabled teenagers at a summer camp who go on to fight for disability rights.
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Then, I was very fortunate to have been introduced to the disability rights movement in the early 1980s, working at an independent living center.
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The Kovaleski incident shouldn't distract from the insidious ways in which Donald Trump's very being threatens to turn back the clock on disability rights.
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She joined ADAPT, a national grassroots group of disability rights activists, in 20173 and has been arrested 132 times for participating in direct actions.
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In the 1970s disability rights activists fought for curb cuts because it was nearly impossible to cross the street in a wheelchair without them.
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Many are wary of L.G.B.T. rights or the Black Lives Matter movement, but it seems beyond the pale — almost cruel — to oppose disability rights.
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Last week, Ms. Warren released a sprawling plan that touched on health care, education, employment and more, earning widespread praise from disability rights advocates.
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Without the community at Camp Jened, the film suggests, the disability rights movement may never have had such crucial grounding in friendship and love.
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Black Lives Matter has come under much deserved criticism by black and Latinx disability rights activists for lack of inclusion in their "woke" spaces.
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Disability rights, financial services The House is only expected to be in session for a slightly shortened work week before the President's Day recess.
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The case, which was joined by the Justice Department in 2018, is still active, according to Disability Rights Advocates, which is representing the plaintiffs.
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Alaska's move was a surprising win for disability rights activists in a conservative state, making it the first red state to ban the practice.
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"There's been a real sea change," says Robert Dinerstein, a law professor at American University and director of the school's Disability Rights Law Clinic.
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It was the worst mass killing in Japan since World War II. This is the uneasy state of disability rights in the world today.
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This sort of portrayal has come to be known as "inspiration porn," a phrase coined in 2012 by Stella Young, a disability rights activist.
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Disability Rights Advocates, on behalf of the Independent Living Resource Center and two people who use wheelchairs, filed a class-action lawsuit today against Lyft.
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To develop the facility, the duo worked with water park consultants, doctors, therapists, special education teachers, caregivers, and — most importantly — the disability rights community itself.
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"There's been a real sea change," Robert Dinerstein, a law professor at American University and director of the school's Disability Rights Law Clinic, told Vox.
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Disability rights activists and sympathetic policymakers were met with obstacles by subsequent administrations as well as the courts which challenged rights legislation enacted by Congress.
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"The disability vote must hold candidates and incumbents accountable through elections to pressure politicians to use their power to fight for disability rights," said Flanagan.
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And, armed with a new perspective for how the world could be, many of those teens went on to join the radical disability rights movement.
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In 2001, the Disability Rights Commission, a government body meant to enforce and review disability laws, denounced that provision of the law, calling it discriminatory.
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And not only for ourselves — black rights struggles paved the way for every other rights struggle, including women's and gay rights, immigrant and disability rights.
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"Every single day, every move you make across New York City is limited by the city's failure to take disability rights seriously," Ms. Dooha said.
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I reached out to disability-rights organizations, which connected me with lawyers on the ground in Florida who specialize in representing children with special needs.
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"The state's system to help people move out of adult homes is not working," said Cliff Zucker, the general counsel for Disability Rights New York.
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However, she said, disability rights advocates have consistently raised the issue, advocating a rule requiring airlines to provide an accessible lavatory on single-aisle aircraft.
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And he hopes that impact is felt not only in the Washington disability rights community, but for all people who could benefit from outdoor accessibility nationwide.
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"Riders either face very long wait times or can't get rides at all," Rebecca Serbin, a staff attorney for Disability Rights Advocates, said in an interview.
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So does Disability Rights Texas, which inspected shelters in 2018 to determine if disabled children were being housed there and whether they were receiving adequate care.
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Yet, he says, that's not what Disability Rights California has seen in the detention facilities it reviewed, like the Adelanto Detention Facility in San Bernardino, California.
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She reportedly met with Matthew Cortland, a disabled, chronically ill disability rights lawyer, and other advocates last week after many emailed and called her Senate office.
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However, several disability rights groups have voiced concern, arguing that Bolen's case should be treated as one of suicide prevention because her disease is not terminal.
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It's galling to face the prospect of President Trump in the same year that brought landmark advances in the visibility and priority placed on disability rights.
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The protesters were members of the national disability rights group ADAPT, who said the controversial health care bill is a direct threat to people with disabilities.
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The evidence underscores the long-running battle between disability rights groups and the ride-hailing companies over the availability — and economic viability — of wheelchair-accessible vehicles.
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Opponents of the measure include disability-rights, religious and pro-life organisations, several of which are backing a legal challenge to the California law in court.
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The groups taking legal action include the League of Women Voters, Disability Rights Wisconsin and Black Leaders Organizing for Communities, as well as three Wisconsin voters.
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"These are eugenics-era cases," said Samuel Bagenstos, a law professor at the University of Michigan specializing in disability rights and regulations, said of the citations.
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The state's Office for People with Developmental Disabilities said it was reviewing the report and would meet with Disability Rights New York to discuss the findings.
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As someone who works for a disability rights group, she says that she regularly hears stories about people in her community being denied access to mammograms.
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Sid Wolinsky, a senior supervising attorney for Disability Rights Advocates, said that while many cities have inaccessible curbs, the problem is particularly bad in New York.
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Crip Camp follows the crooked path of these disability rights leaders from the woods of upstate New York to a triumph on the White House lawn.
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"We don't think there's systemic approaches to solving the inaccessibility of the causes for many marginalized people," said Jane Hudson, executive director of Disability Rights Iowa.
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At the core of the civil rights movement, Black Lives Matter and the disability-rights movement is the idea of autonomy and agency over one's life.
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A high-level disability position and International Disability Rights Office also facilitates the empowerment of organizations and programs committed to elevating the rights of disabled persons.
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Historically, aid in dying has generated fierce resistance from the Catholic Church, from certain disability-rights activists, and from others who cite religious or moral objections.
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Britain's government said it was a recognized world leader in disability rights, and almost 600,000 disabled people had moved into work in the last four years.
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So the department has formed the Advisory Committee on Accessible Air Transportation, which comprises industry representatives, disability rights advocates and other experts, to look into it.
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Ben Tarnoff: One of the phrases of the disability rights movement is, "nothing about us without us," which perfectly encapsulates a more democratic approach to technology.
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For disability rights activist Kelly May Perks-Bevington, sex was a way of showing able-bodied people that she was more than her spinal muscular atrophy.
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"Disability Rights Ohio is not an enforcement agency and has no ability to pursue criminal investigations or charges," said its director of advocacy, Kerstin Sjoberg-Witt.
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That year, Ecuador became the 20th country to ratify the United Nations' disability rights convention, pushing the pact past the threshold needed to go into effect.
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"Eatsa has configured its systems so that the [screen reader capability] is not usable on the iPad," Disability Rights Advocates attorney Rebecca Serbin told the website.
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Somoza got a major platform to argue for the key principle of disability rights: that the disabled don't need pity; they need services and fair treatment.
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"Crip Camp": A documentary project about a summer camp for disabled teenagers that in the early '70s transformed lives and set in motion the disability rights movement.
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Susan Mizner, senior attorney with the disability rights program at the ACLU, also said that people with mental illnesses are more likely to be victims of violence.
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Earlier this month, Disability Rights Advocates, on behalf of the Independent Living Resource Center and two people who use wheelchairs, filed a class-action lawsuit against Lyft.
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Disability rights activists coined the phrase "super-crip" to describe the forever-striving, idealized disabled character who serves as a fount of inspiration and possibly has superpowers.
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In March, Disability Rights Advocates, on behalf of the Independent Living Resource Center and two people who use wheelchairs, filed a class-action lawsuit today against Lyft.
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IN OCTOBER, a disability rights activist with cerebral palsy was returning home from San Francisco, where he'd delivered a speech on the need for more accessible transit.
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"To say people will die under this law is not an exaggeration," Mike Oxford, an organizer for disability rights group ADAPT, said in a statement last week.
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When Massachusetts established a commission on idiocy in the mid-1840s, it appointed Dr. Samuel G. Howe, an abolitionist and early disability rights advocate, as its chairman.
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However, the movement has drawn some criticism from disability-rights activists who say the bans could unintentionally discriminate against people who need plastic straws to consume beverages.
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The National Council on Independent Living, a nonprofit advocacy and disability-rights organization, has tracked the number of candidates with disabilities running in the 2018 federal elections.
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I'm saddened — as were many others with S.M.A, and some disability rights groups — to think others might grow so weary or apprehensive that they follow her example.
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In 2008, Congress finally addressed these assertions with the ADA Restoration Act specifically targeting a series of perverse court interpretations that undermine congressional intent in disability rights.
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"So these are the children who manage to get in who are being suspended," said Diane Smith Howard, senior staff lawyer at the National Disability Rights Network.
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Disability-rights advocates have pointed out that this ending — and many similar ones we see in movies — implies that life with a disability is not worth living.
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The unprecedented backlash against Me Before You might be remembered as a sort of tipping point in disability-rights activists' fight for fair representation in pop culture.
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Nearly 30 of Alabama's poorest school districts, with support from disability rights groups, civil rights organizations and the American Civil Liberties Union, filed suit against the state.
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According to Disability Rights New York, the child later said in an interview that the staff had intentionally placed their elbows around his throat to choke him.
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Zayid is a vociferous part of a small, dedicated movement calling attention to disability rights in entertainment, which are consistently overlooked in the quote-unquote diversity conversation.
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But it was only when I went to college in the 1970s that I came of age politically and really thought about the issue of disability rights.
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It happened after I heard Judith Heumann, a disability rights advocate who contracted polio as an infant, give a speech and call disability a civil rights issue.
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An earlier version of this obituary misstated the name of the organization, now known as Disability Rights Texas, that argued Ms. Tatro's case before the Supreme Court.
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I was performing at the Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund's 40th Anniversary Celebration in Berkeley, California, when Jim rolled up to me and shared an incredible secret.
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We'd see mainstream feminism support movements ranging from disability rights to labor activism because it would understand that every issue that impacts women is a feminist issue.
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I believe that the disability rights community has never gotten substantially involved in the issue because some of the people have been charged with very horrific crimes.
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And do you remember the viral moments from the save-Obamacare movement, like the disability-rights activists visiting Congress or the citizens speaking up at town halls?
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Among those you mentioned: Adapt and other disability rights activists, including those who were arrested in their wheelchairs; MoveOn; the Protect Our Care coalition; and Planned Parenthood.
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Growing up before disability rights and with a mother who berated her for being flawed, my mom had perfected her own strategies and blazed her own trail.
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Liz Weintraub, who worked in a sheltered workshop assembling shopping guides for grocery stores before becoming a lobbyist for disability rights, said her workplace was incredibly isolating.
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Fewer than 25 percent of New York City subway stations have elevators, according to Disability Rights Advocates, a non-profit that provided legal representation for the plaintiffs.
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People told me they were marching for a range of issues, including police brutality, equal pay, healthcare access, indigenous land rights, LGBT discrimination, climate action, and disability rights.
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Crip Camp This feature-length documentary, which THR reports is currently in production, is about a summer camp for disabled youth that helps spearhead the disability rights movement.
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He has built some of the largest digital advocacy campaigns in the world, driving millions of actions on issues like criminal justice reform, disability rights, and internet privacy.
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For this reason, some disability rights advocates have asked for a compromise, which requires businesses to provide plastic straws to those who request them, similar to Starbucks' plan.
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He is known as a champion of disability rights, a single-payer health-care system and the rights of victims of sexual assault and battery in the workplace.
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Yet when asked by our skeptical Josh Horowitz if lobbyists were good or bad, Curtis Decker, the executive director of the National Disability Rights Network, put it perfectly.
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It can also nominate special rapporteurs for countries where human rights violations are taking place, or specific topics which need attention, such as disability rights or extrajudicial executions.
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"She had to make a very big transition from the big independent disability rights movement, where the idea of living in an institution is objectionable," Mr. Plum said.
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Those were among the findings of a blistering report by Disability Rights New York, a program mandated by federal law to protect and advocate for individuals with disabilities.
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"We have, unfortunately, devalued disabled people forever, which means we devalue their suffering," said Curt Decker, executive director of the National Disability Rights Network, a nonprofit advocacy group.
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With the passage of the Act, America can once again lead the world in international disability rights, and disabled people can take their rightful place in communities worldwide.
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"What concerns me as a disabled woman of color is the lack of diversity on both shows," says disability rights advocate and founder of Ramp Your Voice, Vilissa Thompson.
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On Capitol Hill, activists with the disability rights group ADAPT crashed the offices of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, screaming and getting dragged out of his office by police.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - A Chicago-based disability rights group on Thursday filed a federal lawsuit against Uber Technologies Inc alleging that the ride-hailing company has violated wheelchair accessibility laws.
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He's won endorsements from the current Democratic governor and Democrats across the country for his progressive positions on Medicaid expansion, equal pay, increasing the minimum wage, and disability rights.
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Accordingly, skinny repeal's defeat is a win for disability rights activists and everyone else relying on Medicaid, and fighting to preserve it in the face of the repeal effort.
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The hashtag #TheBarriersWeFace, which disability rights activist Dominick Evans just started in October, allows people with disabilities to talk about the everyday obstacles they navigate on a regular basis.
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When the advocacy organization RespectAbility asked candidates to fill out a questionnaire about disability rights, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and at least three of Trump's erstwhile Republican rivals responded.
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"Without explicit inclusion of accessibility in the development of technology, their potential for bringing independence and increasing inclusion diminishes," Susan Henderson of the Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund argued.
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"It absolutely happens," says Claudia Center, a senior staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union in San Francisco who's worked in disability rights for more than two decades.
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"Serious and pervasive abuses" were found in 13 private and government-run orphanages across the country visited by the Disability Rights International (DRI), the group said in its report.
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A lack of education about their sexual and reproductive health and rights puts them at greater risk of exploitation, unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, say disability rights campaigners.
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Faith Njahira, a disability rights advocate, said the government should utilize information collected by community health workers from households - which includes disabilities among family members - to compile disaggregated data.
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"For a minute, I worked at the Western Law Center for disability rights, writing up briefs to put safety things in public bathrooms," she told Dame Magazine in 2012.
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The protest was organized by the disability rights group ADAPT, which has been holding protests around the country to oppose the GOP health care bill and cuts to Medicaid.
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Crenshaw also concentrated his efforts on military funding, disability rights and international affairs, including helping to found the Millennium Challenge Corporation, an independent government agency focused on foreign aid.
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School officials in Maryland are developing a school curriculum that would include teaching about the history of the LGBT and disability rights movements as part of standard history courses.
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For Kat Perez, who is the co-founder of the National Coalition for Latinx with Disabilities (NCLD) and has a mental disability, immigrant rights and disability rights are inseparable.
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Throughout history, epidemics have marked inflection points: Polio catalyzed public health infrastructure for vaccinations and fueled the disability rights movement; AIDS amplified activist voices in drug development and treatment.
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Of the disability rights cases that have been filed, most have remedied violations in individual businesses or facilities, helping patrons of those businesses but not necessarily spurring widespread change.
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Disability rights advocates organized sit-ins against Medicaid cuts, refusing to leave until they were dragged from their wheelchairs by police in conscience-jarring moments caught indelibly on camera.
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The Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, National Immigration Law Center and International Refugee Assistance Project have all reported an outpouring of support, too.
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These stances have earned them the understandable ire of disability rights activists, as well as objections from anti-abortion religious conservatives, some of whom protested Singer's hiring at Princeton.
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Disability Rights Ohio, a nonprofit legal group representing the inmates in the class-action lawsuit against the Franklin County jail, however, said its role is not to seek charges.
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Yet, on disability rights, Mr. Moreno has spoken with tremendous passion, and there is much he can do to make the world easier to navigate for people like himself.
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"RCA will never recommend detention to an individual with a special vulnerability unless subject to mandatory detention," ICE stated in a 2013 presentation to the National Disability Rights Network.
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"The Memorial was built very recently, decades after the ADA, and New York State should know better," Michelle Caiola, litigation director at Disability Rights Advocates, said in the prepared statement.
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As the anti-straw movement picks up momentum, disability rights advocates are pointing out that a full straw ban would make life substantially more difficult for some people with disabilities.
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Earlier this year, Disability Rights Advocates filed a class-action lawsuit against Lyft alleging the ride-hailing company discriminates against people who use wheelchairs in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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In 1981, the newly sworn-in Reagan administration came to Washington with the stated goal of eliminating pesky federal regulation — and new disability rights laws were squarely within its crosshairs.
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A product of the British disability-rights movement in the 1980s and 1990s, it says that individuals are disabled not by their impairments but by society's failure to consider difference.
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The rule was set to go into effect on New Year's Day but this has now been delayed, resulting in a lawsuit against the administration from a disability-rights outfit.
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And disability rights groups had their own objections to the bill so some liberal groups, including the ACLU, joined with the National Rifle Association in urging Trump to reverse it.
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Humanity and Inclusion, a U.S.-based not-for-profit that promotes disability rights, is taking donations for basic aid and rehabilitation care for tsunami survivors with serious injuries and disabilities.
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In early 70s Berkeley, California, when curb cuts weren't as common, disability rights activists created their own makeshift versions under the risk of arrest to prove how much they're needed.
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Without this information, it's difficult for disability rights organizations to compile the necessary evidence to develop a unified strategy (like a class-action suit) to challenge barriers to electoral participation.
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Haben Girma became the first deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School in 2013 and has gone on to build a career as a disability rights lawyer, author and public speaker.
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Disability rights advocates, airlines and regulators all agreed that some passengers were trying to circumvent the rules and sneak pets and other animals onto planes under the guise of necessity.
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One of the best is the National Center on Criminal Justice and Disability, run by the Arc, one of the oldest and largest disability-rights organizations in the United States.
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According to the Women's March website, organizers follow eight "unity principles:" ending violence; protecting reproductive rights, LGBTQIA rights, worker's rights, civil rights, disability rights and immigrant rights; and environmental justice.
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Employers are prohibited from directly asking anything about your disability; that puts the onus on the employee or applicant to educate the employer, said Eve Hill, a disability rights attorney.
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Employers are prohibited from directly asking anything about your disability; that puts the onus on the employee or applicant to educate the employer, said Eve Hill, a disability rights attorney.
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This delayed attention to disability rights movements has led to a cultural tradition among disabled people: turning their own deaths into blunt political instruments in a final act of activism.
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We should all be fighting for Black Lives Matter, immigrant rights, women's rights, LGBTQ rights, indigenous rights, disability rights, and women's movement, and for all people of color who feel marginalized.
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The disability-rights movement has taken us from a model based on charity towards people with disabling conditions, to one of empowering disabled people by ensuring we have fundamental social rights.
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All major disability-rights groups in Britain oppose any change in the law, believing it will lead to increased prejudice towards them and increased pressure on them to end their lives.
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A Chicago-based disability rights activist has tweeted a touching video of his son, who has Down syndrome, as he joyfully dances along Lady Gaga during her Super Bowl halftime show.
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As officials worried over how to get people to safety, Disability Rights Florida wanted to take action, but also feared the long-term impacts of sanctioning this use of the law.
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In 1994, she earned her law degree from Loyola Law School, and she put her J.D. to use as a disability-rights lawyer before joining her father's firm, Wasser, Cooperman & Mandles.
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The campaign also featured the infamous clip of Mr. Trump in a new ad starring Anastasia Somoza, a disability rights advocate who was born with cerebral palsy and has known Mrs.
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Right before Pressley's opening remarks, several protesters who were advocating for disability rights had to be escorted out of the room after they refused to stop shouting — but Pressley was unfazed.
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" Before I learned about disability rights and disability pride, which I came to by way of the women's movement, I always squirmed out a shame-filled, "I was born this way.
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And this year, Flanagan formed Disability Action for America, a political action committee dedicated to electing leaders who value disability rights, and provide resources for people with disabilities running for office.
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The agency, the Justice Center for People with Special Needs, substantiated problems with the use of physical restraints at Woods Services throughout 2016, according to the Disability Rights New York report.
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DeVos is at the very least ignorant to the legislative provisions set for special education and disability rights in our schools, which in many cases have been in place for decades.
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"I'm not able to move around like I want to on the sidewalk like every other New Yorker," said Mr. Jones, 29, a disability rights advocate who lives in the Bronx.
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Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is rolling out a wide-sweeping disability rights proposal this morning ahead of the Iowa caucuses designed to protect, reform and better enforce current existing disability laws.
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According to the Women's March website, organizers adhere to eight "unity principles:" ending violence; protecting reproductive rights, LGBTQIA rights, worker's rights, civil rights, disability rights and immigrant rights; and environmental justice.
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"If somebody backs into my wheelchair and falls and topples me, I'm going to get very badly injured," Smith, an advocate with Disability Rights Iowa, told Vox in a recent interview.
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Sanders has made disability rights part of his closing argument in Iowa for why he should be the Democratic candidate, even including specific provisions addressing the state's Medicaid managed care disaster.
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According to the Women's March website, organizers adhere to eight "Unity Principles": ending violence, protecting reproductive rights, LGBTQIA rights, worker's rights, civil rights, disability rights and immigrant rights and environmental justice.
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CHICAGO, Oct 13 (Reuters) - A Chicago-based disability rights group on Thursday filed a federal lawsuit against Uber Technologies Inc alleging that the ride-hailing company has violated wheelchair accessibility laws.
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" In a recent interview, Sarah Birdgirl, who performs as Koo Koo the Bird Girl in her touring one-woman show, said that the disability rights movement had "killed the freak show.
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Detractors -- including religious groups, disability rights advocates and some doctors -- argue that such laws could put pressure on vulnerable people and that proper palliative care can ease end-of-life suffering.
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For the past 22020 years, the main goal of disability rights activists has been to help people with disabilities transition out of institutional settings and into their own homes and communities.
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Opioids are a disability rights issue too, in how crackdowns might affect chronic pain patients or how to provide access to effective and supportive treatment for people with substance use disorders.
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Disability rights advocates argue these restrictions run contra to the Americans with Disabilities Act, which says that "reasonable" accommodations must be made so that a person can engage with the democratic process.
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The government joined a lawsuit filed on behalf of the nonprofit Bronx Independent Living Services by Disability Rights Advocates, which last April filed two other lawsuits targeting alleged systemic subway access problems.
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In its role as a P&A, Disability Rights California is entitled to demand access to state and private facilities if it has concerns about the wellbeing of disabled people housed there.
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Leading up to the Sochi Games, Human Rights Watch released a 2013 report, based on interviews with disabled Russians as well as NGOs, about the state of disability rights in the country.
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The anti-abortion movement simply wants a new way to limit access to the procedure, these critics say, and they're hijacking the charged issue of disability rights in order to do it.
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For a disability rights movement that's often seen as the orphan stepchild of progressive advocacy, there's a chance to better integrate disability into the liberal pantheon of diversity, identity, and protected class.
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Singer, perhaps the most notorious of any euthanasia proponent, has argued for the justifiability of early infanticide, particularly in the case of disabled children, drawing the fierce opposition of disability rights advocates.
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After a gap year, K plans on attending law school to become a disability rights attorney before working up the political ladder and becoming the President of the United States of America.
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During a long and often chaotic Democratic National Convention on Monday night, international disability rights advocate Anastasia Somoza came on stage and delivered one of the most inspiring speeches of the evening.
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More from VICE: In Florida, says Carol Stachurski of Disability Rights Florida, elementary schools are often used as evacuation centers, and their new construction makes them less likely to have access barriers.
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Members of Congress came together to work with disability activists and advocates who were now part of a disability rights movement that had emerged following Congress' enactment of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act.
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Members of ADAPT, a disability rights group, staged a die-in at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's office and a sit-in at Colorado Senator Cory Gardner's office, where nine were arrested.
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Inspiration is a loaded word to use when discussing disability rights, as it's almost always deployed with the condescending assumption that any task a disabled person manages to accomplish is somehow extraordinary.
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Michelle A. Caiola, the litigation director for Disability Rights Advocates, which is representing the plaintiffs, said the legal challenge comes after many futile attempts to achieve a resolution with the transit agency.
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There are certainly things to fix in a State Department whose mission has grown cluttered, with some two dozen special envoys and special advisers for everything from global youth to disability rights.
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Disability rights advocates on Thursday urged election officials to focus on accessibility alongside security for U.S. elections and pushed for more technological solutions that would allow all Americans to cast secure votes.
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Michelle A. Caiola, the litigation director at Disability Rights Advocates, the nonprofit legal group that is representing the plaintiffs, said the group is looking for changes to the park, not financial compensation.
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Disability rights advocates were arrested on Tuesday for disrupting a House Rules Committee hearing to prepare legislation that would create additional requirements for filing lawsuits under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
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The group has also distilled its unity principles into 10 issue areas, including reproductive justice, disability rights, and ending state violence, and formed policy committees to identify specific goals in each area.
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More than 300 health care activists, disability rights advocates, and organizers gathered on second floor of the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Monday morning to oppose Senate Republicans' Graham-Cassidy health care bill.
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Created by disability rights activist Vilissa Thompson, the hashtag hopes to push the media into telling stories of people of color with disabilities instead of overlooking them in favor of a whiter narrative.
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Crip Camp: This is a feature-length documentary focusing on a 1970s summer camp for teenagers with disabilities, just down the road from Woodstock, which helped put the disability rights movement in motion.
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The NORCOR juvenile detention center, meanwhile, was the subject of a 2017 report from Disability Rights Oregon, a nonprofit that under federal law has the authority to investigate certain facilities in the state.
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On Tuesday night, which happened to be the 26th anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act, several disability rights advocates took the stage to declare their support for Hillary Clinton.
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Amy Scherer, a staff attorney at the National Disability Rights Network, says that a plastic straw allows people with disabilities to drink a beverage without having to rely on other people for assistance.
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Activists from the grassroots disability rights group ADAPT disrupted the hearing multiple times, causing Senator Hatch to briefly recess the hearing and prompting Capitol Police to arrest protestors, some of them in wheelchairs.
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"Right now in the state of Pennsylvania we are facing a $3 billion — with a "b" — deficit," Nancy Murray, president of disability rights group The Arc of Greater Pittsburgh/ACHIEVA, told VICE News.
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My feelings about the AHCA are not at all unique: Virtually every single disability rights group — including ARC, the National Down Syndrome Congress, and Autism Speaks — has publicly spoken out against this bill.
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Nancy Pineles, a managing attorney with the nonprofit group Disability Rights Maryland, said a group home took one young adult to a Baltimore ER earlier this year after he hit a staff member.
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Crip Camp focuses on a specific group of teens who attended the camp in the early 1970s (it closed due to financial difficulties in 603) and later joined the radical disability rights movement.
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Cas Shearin, director of investigations and monitoring at Disability Rights North Carolina, recalls a 1988 case in which, during an alcohol-related psychotic break, a man shot four strangers he thought were demons.
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The Trump administration is hacking away at disability rights online and in the workplace, while Trump and congressional Republicans work to gut funding for programs people with disabilities rely on such as Medicaid.
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Perhaps the biggest threat to disability rights isn't even in the realm of civil rights law, but healthcare: the GOP's endless efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act and cut funding for Medicaid.
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On Twitter, hashtags like #ResistTrump, #NewAmericanResistance and #TheResistance document the range of concerns and movements now assembling under one banner: climate change, net neutrality, Black Lives Matter, reproductive and immigrant and disability rights.
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Eric Rosenthal, the executive director of Disability Rights International in Washington, said that officials from the human rights prosecutor's office believed that the girls had been locked in as punishment for the protest.
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Disability Rights Advocates recently filed another lawsuit against New York State and the conservancy that runs the Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island, charging that some of the park's features exclude disabled people.
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Arguing for a more nuanced approach to the topic, Tarnoff offered the disability rights movement as an example of the approach he hopes will be taken by an emerging class of tech socialists.
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Jeff Flake agreed to speak on the phone with about 10 disability rights activists in wheelchairs who had entered his office in Phoenix and refused to leave for more than 10 straight hours.
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After some high-profile settlements and court decisions that favored disability rights, advocates and defense lawyers say that plaintiffs' lawyers, some of whom did not work in this space before, have taken notice.
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In March, Disability Rights Advocates filed a class-action lawsuit against Lyft, alleging the company discriminates against people who use wheelchairs by not making wheelchair-accessible cars available in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Political scientist and disability rights activist Harlan Hahn describes two kinds of anxiety caused by disability: "aesthetic anxiety," or the fear of physical difference, and "existential anxiety," or the fear of becoming disabled oneself.
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"To me, that is the response of somebody who never had the experience of going somewhere and not being able to fully participate," said Christine Yearwood, founder of the disability rights group, Up-Stand.
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The case eventually led to the largest verdict in the history of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, calling for $240 million in damages, and had a big impact on disability rights in the workplace.
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"To me, that is the response of somebody who never had the experience of going somewhere and not being able to fully participate," said Christine Yearwood, founder of the disability rights group Up-Stand.
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NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Disabled women around the world are being denied basic health services from family planning advice to pap smears because they are seen as asexual, disability rights campaigners said on Thursday.
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"Requiring people with disabilities to treat a routine fast food trip as something that requires planning and supplies is an unplanned failure in equity," wrote Disability Rights Washington in its letter to the city.
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Last March, Disability Rights Advocates filed a class-action lawsuit against Lyft, alleging the company discriminates against people who use wheelchairs by not making wheelchair-accessible cars available in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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The members of ADAPT, a disability rights group, are now being held by Capitol Police after staging a protest to decry the Medicaid overhaul proposed in the bill made public by McConnell on Thursday.
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One of the most colorful faces of health care in the news this month has been disability rights group ADAPT, thanks to a series of high profile protests in Washington and across the country.
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My disability is part of my identity and I'm a loud, proud disability rights activist, but there is so much more that defines me (you know, like the stuff I've got in my profile).
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The hypocrisy is stunning: While Ohio politicians are passing abortion bans under the guise of disability rights, Ohio parents of children with disabilities are struggling to afford the services their children need to thrive.
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After the accident, she became an advocate for disability rights — she served on the board of the California Association of the Physically Handicapped — and worked as a counselor at a shelter for abused women.
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"When we think of 'work' or 'labor,' the idea elicits images of paid work and rigid ideas of employment," said Alice Wong, a disability rights activist and sociologist who lives with spinal muscular atrophy.
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I call for members of Congress to support the Office of International Disability Rights Act in both Houses, and for the House Foreign Affairs Committee to mark up H.R. 3373 as soon as possible.
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"I was supposed to do it when I went back to school in September," she recalled in an oral history recorded for the Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement Oral History Project in 2001.
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Several incidents in recent years involving both Republicans and Democrats have aroused the ire of disability rights activists who perceived those figures as mocking disabled people or using them as shorthand for an insult.
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Living with polio seems like jolly good fun in "Breathe," an aggressively tasteful and rigorously cheerful biopic of the English disability-rights pioneer Robin Cavendish (Andrew Garfield) and his devoted wife, Diana (Claire Foy).
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The more we recognize that survivor rights are trans rights are immigrant rights are people of color's rights are prisoner rights are sex worker rights are disability rights, the more powerful we'll all be together.
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But while significant progress has been made over the past half century in terms of increased educational and employment opportunities, when it comes to sex ed, disability rights advocates say we're still far, far behind.
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"Many people with physical disabilities such as cerebral palsy and multiple sclerosis require the use of plastic straws in order to hydrate," representatives from Disability Rights Washington wrote in the wake of Seattle's straw ban.
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Gary Reho says he was fired from his job as an athletic center director in violation of federal disability rights law after he told the school he had been diagnosed with the onset of dementia.
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Critics include the national teachers' unions, parent advocacy groups, disability rights organizations, and a raft of out-spoken celebrities like filmmaker Michael Moore, actresses Amy Schumer and Olivia Wilde and late-night host Jimmy Kimmel.
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Eatsa, a fast-food chain startup known for its nearly human-free, automated self-service technology, is being sued by disability rights advocates for not including accessibility features for the blind in its customer interfaces.
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And disability rights advocates have assailed the council for neglecting to take up legislation that would force Uber to make half its fleet wheelchair accessible, like yellow cabs in New York must do by 2020.
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DENVER (Reuters) - Colorado voters will decide in November whether to legalize physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients under a ballot question approved on Monday, a proposal opposed by some religious and disability-rights organizations.
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In an open letter posted to Facebook by the group Disability Rights Washington after Seattle's decision to ban restaurants from giving out plastic straws and utensils unless requested, the organization touted the importance of plastic.
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Nancy Pelosi (D-California) -- health care and disability rights activist Elena Hung, and Fred Guttenberg, whose 14-year-old daughter was killed in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida Rep.
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Emily Ladau, editor-in-chief of Rooted in Rights, which creates videos and social media campaigns dedicated to disability rights, told The Hill that there is value when presidential candidates address specific disability policy issues.
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Dina TitusAlice (Dina) Costandina TitusThe US needs to lead again on disability rights Krystal Ball: New Biden ad is everything that's wrong with Democrats Top Latina adviser quits Biden campaign MORE (D-Nev.) and Sen.
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If I mentioned that I exercised my legs to avoid atrophy so that I may be able to benefit if there was ever a cure for paralysis, I worried over betraying the disability rights cause.
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Nonprofit group Disability Rights Advocates is suing the company for discrimination against passengers with wheelchairs, alleging that 99.9 percent of its close to 60,000 cars in New York are not usable by people with wheelchairs.
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Most Americans don't even know this loophole exists, but it has been leaving disabled workers to toil in poverty for decades, and disability rights advocates like myself have made repeal a major priority for years.
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"The intersection of disability and immigration is just one of the intersections that's really important to look at, especially right now," said Richard Diaz, who works with Disability Rights California, the state's protection and advocacy organization.
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And a federal lawsuit that a disability rights group filed against Bird, Lime, Razor, and the City of San Diego in January says that scooters are being left in front of wheelchair ramps, curbs, and crosswalks.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Disability rights groups said on Thursday they have asked child protective services to intervene in the case of a severely disabled Wisconsin teenager who suffers chronic pain from her disease and wants to die.
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Even with the many barriers I faced in my schooling, and the many more I'll most likely face throughout the rest of my life, I still have my sights set on being a disability rights lawyer.
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) wants to lead the anti-Trump movement in the 2018 midterm elections, promoting a progressive stance on policy issues like immigration, voting rights, reproductive rights and disability rights, per Politico.
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"Keep in mind that a car that can operate in autonomous mode without driver intervention can make an incredible impact in people's lives," said Susan Henderson, the director of the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund.
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But disability rights groups and civil rights organizations were also concerned that the rule lacked a solid connection to public safety and might serve to restrict the rights of people with mental disabilities in other areas.
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As numerous disability rights organizations have argued, the detention of this child is part of a pattern in which disabled children and adults, despite their particular needs and legal protections, are being abused by the state.
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About 50 disabled people, many in wheelchairs, were arrested at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's office in the Capitol on Thursday for protesting Republicans' health care bill, according to a spokesperson with a disability rights group.
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"I think the huge difference is that now they can't ignore us and they can't get away from us," Lawrence Carter-Long, a disability-rights activist and adviser to the ReelAbilities Film Festival, explained to BuzzFeed.
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A nonprofit disability rights organization filed a class-action lawsuit against Uber, claiming the ride-hailing service discriminates against New York City riders with disabilities by not providing enough access to vehicles that can accommodate wheelchairs.
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In fact, Disability Rights Oregon, whose mission is "to promote and defend the rights of individuals with disabilities," testified last year that it has never received a single complaint about the Oregon Death with Dignity Act.
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"It gives a bad impression of the Americans with Disabilities Act, and it gives a bad impression about the importance of web accessibility," said Lainey Feingold, a disability-rights lawyer whose focus is on digital accessibility.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Uber was sued on Tuesday by disability rights groups that said the ride-sharing company violates New York City human rights laws by failing to make enough of its vehicles accessible to disabled people.
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Nejat Taştan: Human rights activists Taştan has fought for many rights and freedoms, from race, to ethnicity, religion and belief, disability rights, for the freedom of peaceful assembly and association, and the right to a fair trial.
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But "Eatsa has configured its systems so that the [screen reader capability] is not usable on the iPad," said Rebecca Serbin, an attorney with Disability Rights Advocates, the nonprofit representing the plaintiffs in the class action lawsuit.
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Thousands of disabled children in Kenya - abandoned by their parents due to poverty and stigma - are being neglected and uncared for in orphanages across the east African country, according to a study by Disability Rights International (DRI).
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Just as so many Republicans lack the empathy to support things like marriage equality or disability rights until their families need the protections, they can not see that violating the pre-existing conditions promise is grossly inhumane.
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"There has been as much of a revolution in enforcing disability rights since 2009 as there has been for any other group in the county," said Talley Wells, a disability lawyer with the Atlanta Legal Aid Society.
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Democratic senators grilled DeVos at her confirmation hearing last month, and her shaky responses to some questions about education policy and federal laws came up as red flags for some lawmakers, disability rights groups and teachers unions.
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"Other types of straws simply do not offer the combination of strength, flexibility, and safety that plastic straws do," Disability Rights Washington, a nonprofit with offices in Seattle, said in a letter it coauthored to the city.
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Many people who are blind do not use Braille, in part because new technologies have given them different ways to access text, said Mary Rosenberg, a lawyer with Access Living, a Chicago nonprofit that promotes disability rights.
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Jay Ruderman, president of the Ruderman Family Foundation, a philanthropic and advocacy organization for disability rights (it also works to strengthen ties between American Jews and Israel), said Zayid's show could crush enduring stigmas disabled people face.
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For the 31 percent of inmates in state prisons nationwide who report having a physical or cognitive disability, abuse and neglect can be common features of prison life, according to a recent report by Disability Rights Washington.
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The Trump administration is pursuing far fewer civil rights cases — including hate crimes, police bias, and disability rights cases — than the Obama or Bush administration did, an exclusive VICE News analysis of Department of Justice data shows.
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Actually, the very first piece of legislation the Autistic Self Advocacy Network worked on when I came to Washington was the ADA Amendments Act of 2008, which affirmed that autism qualified for disability rights protections under federal law.
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Already, more than 100 national and state organizations representing interests as far-ranging as biking and walking, transportation reform, the environment, health, disability rights and our nation's local elected officials have signed on in support of the bill.
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"This watchdog mechanism is urgent because of the immense dangers where assisted suicide is legal," Marilyn Golden, senior policy analyst with the Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund, which is partnering with the Patients Rights Action Fund, tells PEOPLE.
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There's this phrase, "Nothing about us without us," commonly used by the disability rights movement, but applicable to anyone whose story is pushed aside due to race, age, gender, sex, religion, socioeconomic status, sexuality, or sex worker status.
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Aaron Philip made history last year as the first Black, trans, disabled model to sign with Elite Model Management, while Jillian Mercado and Mamma Cāx have attained visibility as disability rights advocates, social media influencers, and disabled models.
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"To me, that is the response of somebody who never had the experience of going somewhere and not being able to fully participate," Christine Yearwood, founder of Up-Stand, a disability rights group, told the New York Times.
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The disability rights movement began with the rallying cry, "nothing about us, without us," which implies that decisions regarding the lives and welfare of people with disabilities should not be made without the consultation of disabled people themselves.
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Starting in the 1960s, a broad disability rights movement encouraged legislation and policy that gradually desegregated the institutions and spaces that had kept disabled people out and barred them from exercising the privileges and obligations of full citizenship.
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The problem is some progress or some support doesn't meet the underlying foundation behind disability rights laws, which is to provide people with disabilities an equal opportunity to live, work and be a part of an inclusive society.
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I hope you will join me in reaching out to members of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary to express my concerns and encourage them to thoroughly question Judge Gorsuch on his views related to disability rights laws.
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The ongoing health care fight by the disability-rights group ADAPT -- with its images of Americans in wheelchairs protesting proposed cuts to Medicaid and being removed by Capitol Police -- and others was a powerful moment in our movement.
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Serious concerns have already been raised about flaws in the AV START Act by 40 major safety, consumer, public health, bicyclist, pedestrian, environmental, law enforcement and disability rights organizations as well as families affected by motor vehicle crashes.
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When disability rights lawyer Haben Girma, who is blind and deaf, booked an apartment in London via Airbnb last month, she says the host cancelled her reservation after she disclosed that her guide dog would be joining her.
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Over the course of the VICE News/MedPage Today investigation, both the North Carolina Nurses Association and Disability Rights North Carolina said they were unaware of Park Ridge Health's CMS restraint records, which have been public since 2014.
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"You're creating this great new way of getting around for all these people, but you're completely leaving out this huge segment of the population," said Carol Tyson, government affairs liaison for the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund.
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In July, the Brooklyn Center for Independence of the Disabled, along with other disability rights groups, sued Uber, arguing that the company violates New York City human rights laws because it doesn't have enough wheelchair-accessible cars available.
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"I'm sure some of them have their rough days because if you have serious mental illness, you have rough days," said Cliff Zucker, a disability rights lawyer who led the court case that ended in the 2014 settlement.
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Clients of Matthew Souther, an attorney at Neil Dymott, filed a potential class action suit in March that accused Bird, Lime and the City of San Diego of not complying with disability rights laws to keep sidewalks clear.
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How many opportunities is State currently missing, every day, to advance the human rights of disabled people, simply because there are no disability rights staff with access to the high-level conversations where critical decisions are being made?
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When disability rights activism in America hit its stride in the early 1970s, helmed by veterans' groups like Disabled in Action and the Paralyzed Veterans of America, the movement's most distinct images portrayed front line protesters in wheelchairs.
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Sometimes, counter to the artist's actual focus, audiences assume that the artist's work is intended to educate nondisabled people about disability rights and etiquette, or to nudge people to think differently about disability and equity in the world.
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Jobs in segregated workplaces are exactly the kind that disability rights activists want to abolish — at least for the next generation of workers with disabilities, who now graduate from regular public schools and want to lead normal lives.
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The Soviet Union didn't send a Paralympic delegation until Seoul in 1988, and the Russian Paralympic Committee wasn't founded until 2673, one year before Roza began working on disability rights in the country (she set up Perspektiva in 1997).
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"This is an extraordinarily far-reaching plan, made even more so by its willingness to take executive action on longstanding disability rights priorities stalled in Congress," said Ari Ne'eman, an Obama appointee who advised both the Sanders and Sen.
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Her five-page jailhouse letter, written in meticulous longhand, recounts the background of her love affair with D.J.: the deep commitment of her parents to the cause of disability rights and her own lifelong pursuit of the same ideals.
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She has shown no signs of slowing down, however, and next month she will take the bench for a term that will include cases on the death penalty, redistricting, disability rights and racial discrimination in housing among other issues.
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"As a disabled person, I became a lawyer to advocate that disability is not a problem to be cured, but a part of our identity and diversity," said Dynah Haubert, a lawyer who works for a disability rights organization.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Most of New York City's huge, aging subway system is inaccessible to disabled people, and its operator illegally discriminates against them by failing to fix the problems, disability rights advocates said in two lawsuits on Tuesday.
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"Every single day in 2017 disability rights activists were calling, tweeting, emailing, and visiting members of Congress at home and in Washington to demand healthcare remain a right for the many and not only the privileged few," said Flanagan.
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In the last few months, Uber has also been sued by people who use wheelchairs in Jackson, Mississippi and The Equal Rights Center in Washington, D.C. Last year, a disability rights group in Chicago sued Uber for similar reasons.
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The report, by Robert L. Burgdorf Jr., an expert on disability rights, was issued as part of a federal lawsuit filed by the Eastern Paralyzed Veterans Association, now known as the United Spinal Association, against the city in 0003.
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As Suzanna Gee, an attorney with Disability Rights California (a protection and advocacy agency with counterparts in every state), points out, the law allows two-year extensions as patients approach a "top date," the limit set on their confinement.
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The ruling, issued on Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos in Manhattan, came as part of a lawsuit against the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) filed in 2016 by disability rights groups, joined last year by the Justice Department.
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A TedX speaker and scholar of freak show and sideshow history who has spoken at the United Nations, the performance artist places the contributions of the disability rights movement alongside — not in opposition to — the freak show's complicated past.
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"I think putting the burden on somebody with a disability to prove that they can vote is not only cruel and illogical, but I believe that it violates the Americans with Disabilities Act," disability rights attorney Thomas Coleman said.
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Civil society activists and Putin rarely see eye to eye (he keeps calling them spies), but for Roza, Russian support for the Paralympics in recent years is a sign of just how far the disability-rights movement there has come.
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"It's time for us to acknowledge that disability rights are civil rights, and that a society that does not center the voices and needs of people with disabilities has yet to fulfill its most basic obligations," Sanders said in a statement.
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The lawmakers' group drafted a new version of a bill last year but it has yet to be introduced in parliament, largely because of opposition from disability rights groups who fear it could be a first step toward legalising euthanasia.
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NEW YORK, July 18 (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc was sued on Tuesday by disability rights groups that said the ride-sharing company violates New York City human rights laws by failing to make enough of its vehicles accessible to disabled people.
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This is when I learned about ADAPT, a national grassroots community that organizes Disability Rights activists to engage in nonviolent direct action, including civil disobedience, to assure the civil and human rights of people with disabilities to live in freedom.
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Some disability rights activists have criticized the novel for using disability as a metaphor, with the "freakish" bodies of Oly, Arty, Iphy, and Elly standing in for deviance and social weirdness, but Geek Love is actually a celebration of difference.
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The two-day protest that started Thursday intensified when activists from ADAPT, a national disability-rights organization, decided to block the doors to the ground-floor elevators on Friday in Portman's Columbus office building, according to protesters who tweeted their demonstration.
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Though spearheaded by organizations with disability sensitivity in mind, Mulholland admitted in an interview with ABC News that many members of the disability rights community in the state were a little hesitant at the tone of the campaign at first.
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Dustin Rynders of Disability Rights Texas observes that states are reluctant to provide funds to help disability advocates be proactive about disaster preparedness, which makes it difficult for them to get a seat at the table during policymaking and training exercises.
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Fewer than a quarter of subway stations in the city have elevators, and those aren't always working, says Eman Rimawi, a 34-year-old double amputee who works on the disability rights team at New York Lawyers for the Public Interest.
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"I don't know that most people understand that school districts get about $4 billion a year in Medicaid reimbursement for a variety of services to kids with disabilities," says Curt Decker, the executive director of the National Disability Rights Network.
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Nearly 28503 human rights groups, including the Center for Disability Rights, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Anti-Defamation League, wrote in a Tuesday letter to Pompeo that the commission's members had a history of hostility toward such demographics.
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Sit for a cause: Hundreds of demonstrators from ADAPT, an activist organization for disability rights, have planned a sit-in at the lobby of one of the Senate office buildings in response to the GOP's impending repeal of the ACA.
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VICE News analyzed the public information posted online by five of the division's eight civil rights sections — Voting, Education, Disability Rights, Housing, and Special Litigation — and confirmed with multiple DOJ sources that the data posted by those sections was complete.
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Ms. Hill, the disability rights lawyer, warned that if the government stopped looking at whether a policy disproportionately affects certain groups, it would be harder to make discrimination claims in debates over voting rights, education, health care, transportation and housing policies.
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A disability-rights activist, Kerima Çevik, the mother of a nonspeaking teenager named Mustafa, proposes the establishment of a 911-type number dedicated to handling mental-health emergencies, with community crisis-response teams at the ready rather than police officers.
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Yet in late June, nearly 40 years after the Gang of 19 protests, I experienced a troubling moment of déjà vu as I watched disability rights activists being hauled out of their wheelchairs outside the Denver offices of Senator Cory Gardner.
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DeVos wasn't initially expected to be one of Trump's more controversial picks, but her nomination has been a lightning rod for criticism from both sides of the aisle as well as public school advocates, teachers unions and disability rights groups.
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The changes have already resulted in the dismissal of more than 500 cases filed by a Michigan-based disability rights advocate, Marcie Lipsitt, who had opened more than 2,400 web-accessibility complaints against various educational institutions in the last two years.
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As we know, the president has not merely shown a total lack of awareness of disability rights issues and of the crucial role that people with disabilities can play in an inclusive society — he has been dismissive and rude toward us.
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The disability rights movement has, over the past decades, encouraged people without disabilities to see that many of their reactions to disability are irrational and to treat people with disabilities, large and small, as much as possible like anyone else.
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And most of all, I want to see conversations taking place on that debate stage that will bring disability rights to the forefront and help us move toward the future -- a future that includes true inclusion for people with disabilities.
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They argue that this is a violation of the Americans With Disabilities Act, though disability rights attorneys I spoke to note that the law behind the ADA and websites is complicated, and this may not be an argument provable in court.
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The Civil Rights movement marked the first time in U.S. history the tactic was used widely and to significant effect, but through times of change, sit-ins have been utilized by LGBT and women's rights activists, disability rights activists and antiwar activists.
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This helps explain why disability rights activists are appalled by the per capita cap plan, and have been aggressively protesting the Senate and House bills; about 50 disabled people, many in wheelchairs, were arrested for protesting outside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's office.
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Disability Rights Advocates filed a lawsuit in the State Supreme Court on Tuesday on behalf of a coalition of activists, the New York Times reported, claiming just 100 of Uber's 58,000 cars within city limits are equipped to handle customers who use wheelchairs.
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The disputes now playing out over "wandering" behaviors aren't new: In 2011, disability rights organizations clashed with autism parent groups over a proposal to establish wandering as an official diagnosis in the major coding system used by medical providers in the United States.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - At least half of the world's 65 million school-age children with disabilities are kept out of the classroom because little to no money is budgeted for their needs, disability rights groups said in a report on Monday.
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These kinds of inequities across states are a significant concern to disability rights advocates — and part of why the prospect of a Secretary of Education who does not seem committed to enforcing civil rights law for students with disabilities is so disturbing.
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A 2016 report by the Ruderman Family Foundation, an organization dedicated to disability rights, stated that media depictions of violence against people with disabilities is often presented as being caused by the "hardship" they pose to the able-bodied people around them.
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Crane told me that she and other disability rights advocates are worried that schools are using law enforcement to sidestep compliance with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), which was passed to ensure that students with disabilities received appropriate services and education.
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Because of this interest, I started working in a disability rights office the first semester I was in law school, and began reading investigative reports and other documents going back decades on specific facilities, as well as more general books about the subject.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc was sued on Tuesday by disability rights groups and wheelchair users accusing the ride-sharing company of violating New York City human rights laws by failing to make enough of its vehicles accessible to disabled people.
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We join with members of Congress, former Education Secretary John B. King, The Education Trust and the many other education, child advocacy, medical, civil rights and disability rights organizations to call for an end to corporal punishment in all of America's schools.
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"Sometimes my fingers were so swollen because I had to write 300 to 400 pages of a book," said Nigussie, a senior advisor at Light for the World, a charity that provides eye care services and promotes disability rights in developing nations.
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But a large and growing group of development charities like Catholic Relief Services, Unicef and other United Nations agencies, campaign groups like Disability Rights International and Christian advocates for family care are successfully changing the practices of tourism companies, churches and development agencies.
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"Additional forms of punishment are exacted upon inmates with disabilities across the country on a daily basis solely by virtue of their disability," said Rachael Seevers, a staff attorney at Disability Rights Washington, which called attention to Graham's case over the summer.
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"Safety is a red herring intended to raise fears about our own children," said Eve Hill, a disability rights lawyer at Brown, Goldstein & Levy who worked on the Obama-era discipline guidance while a lawyer in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division.
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The lawsuit, filed by the nonprofit Disability Rights Advocates, alleges that the iPad touchscreens used to order food at Eatsa, as well as the restaurant's automated cubbyhole pick-up wall and mobile app, all lack accessibility features and thus disenfranchise visually impaired customers.
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James LeBrecht, a sound designer and disability rights activist who attended Camp Jened in his teen years, also stars in the documentary as one of many first person voices who traces the roots of his activism back to his experience at camp.
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The fight over the future of the Polk State Center has pit many prominent unions in the state, eager to protect the institution's jobs, against disability rights activists who want the center closed and other arrangements to provide better care for the disabled.
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In an amicus brief, intended to be heard in conjunction with Stubblefield's appeal, the American Civil Liberties Union, joined by various disability rights organizations, said that in exhibiting D.J. to the jury in this manner, the court had failed to protect his rights.
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"The de minimis standard was outrageous and really meant that schools could do nothing and get away with it, so of course we're pleased that the court soundly rejected that," said Curtis L. Decker, executive director of the National Disability Rights Network.
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" Nicole Jorwic, director of rights policy for the Arc, an advocacy organization for people with intellectual disabilities, said a review of Judge Gorsuch's opinions related to people with disabilities "reveals an exceptionally narrow view of the protections offered by federal disability rights laws.
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"These institutions are the last place you would want to put a child who survived trauma," Matthew Mason, the clinical director of the Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development and a member of Disability Rights International's team, said in the report.
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It's symbolic that "a big icon of society like Barbie now demonstrates or shows that there are different types of people ... [who] can be attractive and something kids want to play with," said Curt Decker, executive director of the National Disability Rights Network.
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The default solution was to isolate Americans with disabilities from the rest of the world, writes Samuel Bagenstos, a disability rights lawyer and law professor at the University of Michigan: Children with significant disabilities received separate schooling, if they received schooling at all.
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By intervening in a 163 lawsuit brought by disability rights advocates against the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) and New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA), the U.S. Department of Justice added firepower to a case that could help spur broader changes to the aging subway.
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Having kept vigil over these recent attacks, disability advocacy and social movement groups are accustomed to hopes and let downs; to the giant policy leaps forward like the ADA, and the many steps back that characterize the political history of disability rights in this country.
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The group said that the lawsuit, which it filed with Disability Rights Oregon and the law firm Davis Wright Tremaine, was the first to represent specific populations in foster care, such as disabled children or gay and lesbian youth, in a single class action lawsuit.
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To date, I've also written two books: the memoir, Miracle Boy Grows Up: How the Disability Rights Revolution Saved My Sanity, and now, hot off the presses, In Sickness and In Health, in which I explore interabled relationships through the prism of my own marriage.
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The Brooklyn Center for Independence for the Disabled, along with other disability rights groups, is suing Uber, alleging Uber is in violation of New York City human rights laws because it doesn't have enough wheelchair-accessible cars available to people who need them, Reuters reports.
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In the movie "Give Me Liberty," a dark comedy that will screen this month, at the Cannes Film Festival , one of the lead roles is played by Lauren (Lolo) Spencer, a thirty-one-year-old marketing manager and disability-rights advocate from Los Angeles.
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Disability rights advocate Lawrence Carter-Long notes the bendy straw was an "early example of universal design" — inclusive design that benefits disabled people, older adults, and nondisabled people alike, like the curb cuts that help wheelchair users, people with walkers, and parents with young children.
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A report by the National Disability Rights Network and the Government Accounting Office reveals numerous cases of abuse in special education; a report by the Ruderman Family Foundation shows that half of police shootings have involved a person with a cognitive or physical difference.
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Those were among the details in a report to be published on Wednesday by Disability Rights International, an advocacy organization in Washington whose representatives had gone on a scheduled trip to Guatemala to visit the home and other institutions when the disaster occurred last Wednesday.
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This helps explain why disability rights activists are appalled by the per capita cap plan, and have been aggressively protesting the Senate and House bills; dozens of activists, many with the group ADAPT, have been arrested for protesting at Senate offices and elsewhere on the Hill.
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After she was born with cystic hygroma, doctors didn't think Hannah Vaughn Setzer would live to see her first birthday – but the 28-year-old Virginia woman has defied the odds, pushing past her diagnosis to become a health and fitness blogger and disability rights advocate.
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In response to this widespread discomfort, the Department of Homeland Security Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties has released a guide to help nondisabled people "learn to interact" with disabled individuals, and many disability rights activists continue to write about others' negative reactions to their disabilities.
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Tyler Stolz, a 224-year-old woman with autism and a seizure disorder, was stabilized after a few weeks in a Sacramento hospital, yet she remained there 4003 months, according to Disability Rights California, an advocacy group that described her case in its 2400 annual report.
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An active member of the disability rights group Not Dead Yet, she appeared at numerous forums to express her outrage at what she saw as the implicit suggestion that people with disabilities had such a low quality of life that their lives were not worth living.
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"I've been very happy to see how the voice of badass, kick-ass disability rights activists may be saving our health care system," said Carrie Anne Lucas, an attorney and one of the ADAPT protesters who spent close to two straight days in Gardner's Denver office.
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Tom Coleman, a disability rights lawyer who helped Lopate in his case, filed a complaint with the Department of Justice against California in August to pressure the state into speeding up the voting reinstatement process and to ensure that people are aware of the change in the law.
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Deafblind since birth, the disability rights attorney has nonetheless spent her life breaking the boundaries of what some would assume a person unable to see or hear can do, including scaling ice glaciers, surfing, and in 2013, becoming the first Deafblind person to graduate from Harvard Law School.
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The group said that the lawsuit, which it filed with Disability Rights Oregon and the law firm Davis Wright Tremaine, was the first in the United States to represent specific populations in foster care, such as disabled children or gay and lesbian youth, in a single class action lawsuit.
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Denver: Candi CdeBaca, a self-described anarchist backed by the WFP, won a seat on the city council, joining disability rights activist Chris Hinds and formerly homeless activist Jamie Torres; in the city's school board elections, the left elected Tay Anderson and Brad Laurvick, backed by teachers unions.
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Watch More from VICE: "This was an existential threat to our community," says Gregg Beratan, an ADAPT activist and manager of government affairs at the Center for Disability Rights, emphasizing that many members of the disability community depend on Medicaid, which would be gutted by any Republican plan.
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And Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota released a proposal on Friday — developed with disability rights groups, her campaign said — that would, among other things, expand home- and community-based services, make technologies like speech-generating devices more accessible, increase Social Security disability payments and strengthen anti-discrimination laws.
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These activists were doing the work to keep not just themselves and their communities alive, but to reshape society—Lucas, for example, was arrested multiple times in direct actions with ADAPT, a disability rights group that was heavily involved in the fight to save the Affordable Care Act.
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"I sympathize with (parents); they get driven to deep ends," said Curt Decker, executive director of the National Disability Rights Network, which provides legally based advocacy services to people with disabilities in the U.S. There is a "major, major concern about how their child survives without their care," Decker said.
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Disability Rights Florida found itself embroiled in a debate over the Baker Act, which allows for involuntary commitment—state officials wanted to use the law to get homeless people who refused sheltering and other care into treatment, but the organization was concerned about the threat this might pose to autonomy.
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But the ADA and the IDEA didn't end the struggle for disability rights in the U.S. Republican control of the executive and legislative branches in 2017 has proven just how tenuous these hard-won gains still are, exemplified by the House's passage of the American Health Care Act earlier this month.
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"The Wisconsin Constitution does not provide for the Legislature, let alone a small subset of each chamber acting through committees, to convene itself in an 'extraordinary session,' and neither does any statute," wrote the plaintiffs, who included the League of Women Voters, Disability Rights Wisconsin and Black Leaders Organizing for Communities.
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On Friday, Shandra Benito, an executive director of an arts nonprofit in Salt Lake City and a disability rights activist, asked in a Facebook post if anyone would want to join her in forming a local mutual aid group to help those who can't leave their houses to get groceries.
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We knew we would not only have the folks in the film who are wheelchair users [but also] a lot of excited people from the community coming, and that they would expect that, because it was a film by a disabled activist and about disability rights, that it would be accessible.
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"When you make an argument that the broadest disability civil rights law, certainly in this country, and one of the top in the world, doesn't cover the place where everybody is interacting, that is exclusionary," Lainey Feingold, an author and disability rights lawyer who focuses on digital accessibility, told Gizmodo.
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"We know there is a problem that needs to be fixed — delaying implementation will only hurt children who are already in school and send a message to them that they are not important as other children are," the National Disability Rights Network's executive director, Curt Decker, said in a statement.
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Our continued failure to recognize disabled lives as inherently valuable irrespective of their relationship to nondisabled ones, even as the state of Ohio plans to coerce parents into unsupported roles as caregivers, belies a lack of cohesion as to what "disability rights activism" is and who should be at its center.
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Anita Silvers, a philosophy professor who was a leading voice in the interpretation of the Americans With Disabilities Act, arguing that disability rights should be viewed the same as other civil rights and not as an accommodation or as a social safety net issue, died on March 14 in San Francisco.
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The Medicare for All bill he introduced in the last Congress was better and more generous than his previous one, thanks to his willingness to listen to and respond to the disability rights community, who have long pressured lawmakers to prioritize long-term at-home care for the elderly and disabled.
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Bob CaseyRobert (Bob) Patrick CaseyThe US needs to lead again on disability rights No one wins with pro-abortion litmus test New ObamaCare enrollment period faces Trump headwinds MORE (D-Pa.), who — among many other things — spearheaded a bipartisan, bicameral resolution recognizing the International Day of Persons with Disabilities on Dec.
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The Department of Transportation, which held discussions in 2016 with mental and physical disability rights groups about which animals should be allowed in airplane cabins, said it will monitor Delta's policy to make sure it is in line with the rights of passengers with disabilities who travel with service animals.
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STARBUCKS&apos STRAW BAN QUESTIONED BY DISABILITY RIGHTS GROUPS "New research indicates that avoiding meat is one of the biggest things an individual can do to reduce their personal environmental impact, even more than switching to a hybrid car," co-founder and chief culture officer Miguel McKelvey wrote in the email, per Bloomberg.
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Throughout the 22010s and early 22015s, disability rights advocates tried and failed to convince the Autism Society of America to prohibit the Judge Rotenberg Center — a facility in Canton, Massachusetts, infamous for using electric shock devices on children with disabilities as a means of pain-based behavior modification — from exhibiting at its conference.
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Māori and disability rights campaigner Kera Sherwood-O'Regan (Kāi Tahu iwi from Te Waipounamu) found that as an Indigenous person at the UN climate conferences, organizers would suggest showing support and "passing the mic," but the same people would be the ones taking up space in negotiations and speaking to the media.
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But for most disability rights activists and disabled people I know, the choice to oppose Trump had relatively little to do with his mockery of Kovaleski — or his alleged description of deaf actress Marlee Matlin as "retarded," or even his efforts to kick disabled veteran street vendors off public sidewalks near his buildings.
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"Maybe they feel like they're being inclusive, but I think they're really ignoring a lot of underrepresented people," Jane Hudson, the executive director of the advocacy and legal services group Disability Rights Iowa, said of the Democrats, who are getting most of the attention because the Republicans don't have a competitive race.
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Dina TitusAlice (Dina) Costandina TitusBiden picks up first endorsement from Iowa congressional delegation The US needs to lead again on disability rights Krystal Ball: New Biden ad is everything that's wrong with Democrats MORE (D-Nev.) are the only two members of Congress from early voting states that have endorsed Biden so far.
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Although Ms. Saviola knew that in many ways the push for disability rights is still in its early stages and that the gains made by advocates like her can be undone, in a video interview with The Times in 2010 she noted one clear sign of progress, at least in New York: visibility.
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She hopes to become a disability rights lawyer — "I'd love to see her on the Supreme Court someday," her aide, Christy Robertson, said, tearing up with emotion as Ms. Isbell prepared to study for the bar exam in her apartment last week — but staying independent will be crucial to her professional future.
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My reluctance to embrace this role isn't something most friends or acquaintances can relate to, and neither can a lot of other siblings of special needs people I've met—especially the ones who grow up to be special ed teachers, disability rights attorneys, or publish Chicken Soup For The Soul-esque books and blogs.
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People with disabilities are sexually abused at almost three times the rate of the general population, according to disability rights organizations (other groups say rates of sexual assault and rape are twice as high for those with disabilities; either way, people who live with disabilities are targeted for sexual abuse more often than those without).
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" According to the lawsuit, the advocacy group's report, which ended an investigation that began in June 2016, made 34 recommendations for "corrective actions," but ignored the fact that Disability Rights New York knew — or should have known — that most of the suggestions were already in place, were impossible to install or would "degrade resident safety.
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Writing in her memoir Too Late to Die Young, Harriet McBryde-Johnson, a disabled attorney, author, and delegate at the 1996 Democratic convention, described her disappointment in the disabled actor's remarks, which were praised in the general press but panned by most disability-rights commentators for casting disability as mainly an issue of medical research.
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Beam, a telepresence robot with a screen that a person can remotely control and use to communicate via video, became a breakthrough success in the world of robotics in part because of its role in helping high-profile, but movement-limited, people like Edward Snowden better communicate with the outside world, and disability rights activists meet with world leaders.
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This argument jibes strongly with disability rights activists' arguments against assisted suicide, which focus on the potential for abuse, the potential for family members and doctors to pressure disabled people to kill themselves contrary to their own wishes, and for cases of depression to lead to euthanasia because the depressed party happens to also have a physical disability.
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"Evidence of assisted suicide being recently rejected or coming under heavy bipartisan scrutiny in states like Colorado and Connecticut indicates that legislators are considering its broader public policy implications – how it could endanger many people," Marilyn Golden, senior policy analyst for the Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund and a spokeswoman for Californians Against Assisted Suicide, tells PEOPLE.
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In the last two years, Ms. Lipsitt, a disability rights advocate in Michigan, has filed more than 2,400 complaints with the office against schools, departments of education, colleges and universities, libraries and other educational institutions across the country that have websites that people who are deaf or blind or who struggle with fine motor skills cannot navigate.
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Clinton demonstrated this attitude in her own speech Thursday night, recounting an anecdote from her time working on disability rights at the Children's Defense Fund: I went to work for the Children's Defense Fund, going door-to-door in New Bedford, Massachusetts on behalf of children with disabilities who were denied the chance to go to school.
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Only 317 are equipped with accessible pedestrian signals, and the city has been adding only about 75 each year, according to Disability Rights Advocates, which filed the class-action lawsuit on behalf of the American Council of the Blind of New York, Mr. Golfo and Christina Curry, a Bronx resident with hearing loss who is also legally blind.
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Judith Heumann, a disability rights advocate and lead author of the Ford Foundation's "Road Map for Inclusion: Changing the Face of Disability in Media," said she'd like to see more established people speaking out about their disabilities in essays and on social media, and that she counsels other members of the community on when (or if) to disclose.
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Especially, he said, for people like those in this mission, who rely on caseworkers to help them with the most basic of tasks, "just getting from A to B." Despite what looks like swollen rosters, the current social safety net is largely underfunded, said Micah Dutro, a lawyer at Disability Rights Mississippi, a nonprofit that represents disabled clients.
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Begin by sharing the Unity Principles from this year's Women's March on Washington: Ending Violence, Reproductive Rights, L.G.B.T. Rights, Worker's Rights, Civil Rights, Disability Rights, Immigrant Rights, Environmental Justice Students, working in small groups, will be assigned (or they may select) one principle from the list to research, and they should answer the following questions: • What is the issue?
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Clinton demonstrated this attitude in her own speech Thursday night, recounting an anecdote from her time working on disability rights at the Children's Defense Fund: I went to work for the Children's Defense Fund, going door to door in New Bedford, Massachusetts, on behalf of children with disabilities who were denied the chance to go to school.
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Just like the George W. Bush administration's crusade against same-sex marriage helped to normalize the role of the LGBTQ movement under the civil rights umbrella (and within the Democratic Party's political coalition), it may very well be that disability rights activists will achieve greater solidarity from other progressive groups after four years of shared opposition to the outrages of President Trump.
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"The Commissioner of Education must immediately embrace the corrective actions required by the U.S. Department of Education and take additional steps, in collaboration with stakeholders, to ensure that all students who were previously denied special education services now rightfully receive compensatory services," said Dustin Rynders, the education director at Disability Rights Texas, an advocacy group based in Houston that receives federal funds.
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It comes at a time when Disability Rights Advocates, a national organization, has filed a separate lawsuit against the city over the issue on behalf of the Center for Independence of the Disabled New York, a nonprofit advocacy and service group that has repeatedly called on the city to install and maintain curb ramps and additional markers for the visually impaired.
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"School-based Medicaid programs serve as a lifeline to children who can't access critical health care and health services outside of their school," said the letter sent this week by the Save Medicaid in Schools Coalition, which consists of more than 50 organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union, the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, and the School Superintendents Association.
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Amid all this are a whole host of other independents and minor parties, including the Greens, who have managed to peel away Labor's vote elsewhere, and the left-leaning Dignity Party's Kelly Vincent, who at the age of 21, became the youngest woman elected to any parliament in Australia at the 2010 election while running on a disability-rights platform.
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It's kind of a no-brainer that organizations that work to protect and fight for civil rights, indigenous rights, immigrants' rights, disability rights, women's and LGBTQ rights (especially reproductive health) and the environment could really use a few extra bucks right now, given the orange fascist and the coterie of soulless monsters who are about to improbably assume a staggering amount of power over our everyday lives.
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The partial ADA-repeal bill is only the most overt assault on disability rights - the culmination of a shift that began when, in December 2012, 38 Republican senators denied the two-thirds vote needed for ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which was modeled on the ADA and ardently supported by disabled GOP luminaries such as former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole.
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Crip Camp focuses on a group of teens who went to the camp in the early 1970s (it closed due to financial difficulties in 1977) and later joined the radical disability rights movement, with many of them ending up in Berkeley as young adults, advocating for legislation that would require public places to be accessible to everyone, and that would prohibit discrimination against people with disabilities.
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"Having grown rapidly since it began operating in New York in 2011, Uber provides hundreds of thousands of rides a day in New York City, but for riders who need wheelchair-accessible vehicles, it provides vastly inferior service, or in many cases, no service at all," according to the lawsuit filed in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan on Tuesday by Disability Rights Advocates.
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Even Speechless, despite its many bold and praiseworthy moves toward better representation, has been criticized by some disability rights advocates as being too heavily focused on special needs families without necessarily offering JJ the possibility of a full life as a disabled adult, and disabled TV characters (especially those in top-rated, highly popular shows) are still overwhelmingly white, straight, and male, not yet permitted to occupy multiple marginalized identities at once.
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I put out a quick Twitter poll and found that voters want to hear more about: voting rights; election protection; criminal justice reform; immigration and family separation; the future of work; curbing the rise of white nationalist terrorism; women's rights and reproductive health; gun control; federal courts; education equity; eliminating the electoral college; poverty and Income inequality; veterans issues; affordable housing; addressing police brutality; disability rights; LGBTQ rights -- and the list goes on.
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Yes, but: Given that the auto industry is in the midst of radical transformation, disability advocates such as the National Federation of the Blind, the American Association of People with Disabilities, the National Council on Independent Living, the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, the United Spinal Association and others are working with automakers to push for designs that address the diversity of disability needs, as today's AV prototypes could set a standard for decades to come.
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If the Supreme Court does decide to take the case, and it rules that the lawsuit doesn't violate Domino's due process rights and that the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit was correct in its assertion that this claim has the legitimacy to be heard in the lower courts, that would set a precedent for any circuits that haven't yet decided this issue, disability rights attorney Eve Hill told Gizmodo in an email.
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Pete SessionsPeter Anderson SessionsHillicon Valley — Presented by CTIA and America's wireless industry — Lawmaker sees political payback in fight over 'deepfakes' measure | Tech giants to testify at hearing on 'censorship' claims | Google pulls the plug on AI council Lawmaker alleges political payback in failed 'deepfakes' measure As Russia collusion fades, Ukrainian plot to help Clinton emerges MORE (R-Texas), the House Rules Committee chairman, has personal ties to the disability rights community: His son Alex Sessions has Down syndrome.
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I ask because one message I hear a lot from Haidt is a concern that right-leaning or conservative ideas are not adequately represented in academia, which strikes me as a somewhat different kind of concern regarding academic freedom than trying to prevent the attacks you, McMahan, and Singer have received for your writings on infanticide and disability, which came not from the academic left but a mixture of Catholic social conservatives and disability rights groups.
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