Showing results for "Disability" in Politics & Government

"Ableism is everywhere, and we cannot continue just burying our heads in the sand. To not stand up to ableism is to contribute to the exclusion and discrimination of Disabled People." Think you know what ableism is? Think again. Welcome to Unlearning Ableism, the book rips the lid off outdated...

Win the benefits you’ve earned... without the guesswork. Host Stacey Chillemi and Attorney Diane C. Haar, founder of Hawaii Disability Legal Services, LLC, break down Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), and VA disability—from first application to appeals and back pay.Every episode slices through the red tape and turns VA/SSA jargon into do-this-next steps—service connection, C&P exams, ratings, TDIU, nexus letters, ALJ hearings, overpayments, and more. You’ll get field-tested strategies for veterans, families, and caregivers across ...

In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for all. Care Work is a mapping of access as radical love, a celebration of the work that sick and disabled queer/people of color are doing to find each other and to build power and community.

With Mental Health, Inc., award-winning investigative journalist Art Levine delivers a Shock Doctrine-style exposé of the failures of our out-of-control, profits-driven mental health system, with a special emphasis on the failures of the pharmaceuticals industry, including the treatment of children with antipsychotics and disastrous PTSD protocols for veterans.

Outspoken disability rights advocate David Lepofsky and AMI’s Jacob Shymanski welcome guests to discuss the latest in disability rights … and wrongs.

An eye-opening portrait of the diverse disability community as it is today, and how disability attitudes, activism, and representation have evolved since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) In Disability Pride, disabled journalist Ben Mattlin weaves together interviews and...

On this inaugural episode of The Game Plan, Eric Harris is joined by Vanessa Ramos, all around kid dynamite and special advisor to DRC’s Investigations Unit. They dive into their mutual origin story opposing the CARE Act, the landmark mental health bill that set off California's current nightmare direction on homelessness and mental health policy, discuss advocating for people with mental health disabilities, Vanessa’s personal connections to her work, and her experience taking an outsider's approach to government. The Game Plan is a space to strategize, organize and posterize for the ...

The first book to cover the entirety of disability history, from pre-1492 to the present Disability is not only the story of someone we love or the story of whom we may become; rather it is undoubtedly the story of our nation. Covering the entirety of US history from pre-1492 to the present, A...

The first significant book on the history and impact of the ADA - the "eyes on the prize" moment for disability rights. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is the widest-ranging and most comprehensive piece of civil rights legislation ever passed in the United States, and it has become the model for disability-based laws around the world. Yet the surprising story behind how the bill came to be is little known.

a podcast about disability and advocacy.

Join Deanne Gagne and Andrew McQuaide as they discuss topics impacting Rhode Island's Disability Community and share practical ways you can use information from each episode in your life. Disability News You Can Use is sponsored by Advocates in Action Rhode Island - Rhode Island's statewide self-advocacy organization.

The Disability Democracy Radio podcast aspires to help you accelerate the Disability Community Revolution by provoking, learning, investigating, and listening to the disability community. We want the disability community to move from being the Forgotten Fifth to the Formidable Fifth. Our focus is on practical answers to questions big and small (because they all matter) ranging from special education to jobs and healthcare. Pride. Respect. Opportunity. Inclusion. We must transform ourselves to change the politics and culture of disability. We need all of us to help all of us get there.

Disability News is a podcast feed dedicated to sharing interview content from Vision Australia Radio's various on-air radio programs and podcast feeds that are of a disability nature. To learn more about Vision Australia Radio and the work we do as a reading print handicap radio service, visit www.varadio.org

Competitive employment and empowerment for people with disabilities is the emphasis of this show. Broadcast live and captioned in real-time for individuals who are deaf and hard of hearing, we discuss how people with disabilities can secure career opportunities, and how employers, organizations and individuals can support employment and empowerment of people with disabilities.

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IN 1986 Edmonton Journal REPORTER Cam Tait TEAMED UP WITH AN OLD FRIEND RANDY KILBURN FOR TAIT TALK ON K-97 RADIO IN EDMONTON. CAM LIVES WITH CEREBRAL PALSY AND CAN BE HARD TO UNDERSTAND. BUT HE LOVES THE SPOKEN WORD AND WRITING. SO HE WROTE A 90-SCRPT AND RANDY READ IT. THE IDEA WAS SIMPLE … TO RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT PEOPLE LIVING WITH DISABILITIES. THE TIMING SEEMED RIGHT .. Rick Hansen WAS WHEELING THE LAST KILOMETRES OF HIS EPIC MAN IN MOTION WORLD TOUR, WHICH ENDED IN ON A SUNNY VANCOUVER DAY IN 1986. THERE WAS AN APPETITE … PEOPLE GENUINELY WERE INTERESTED … AND … MORE ...

This show is not your inspiration porn...though, occasionally, it may be inspirational. In each episode, American scholar and former public school educator, Dr. Andrew Colombo-Dougovito talks with leaders in the disability rights and justice movements, journalists, disabled athletes, policymakers, and other key stakeholders about issues facing disabled people in the sporting world and beyond. Subscribe now, and visit https://media.amcd.wtf for more info.

This podcast is designed to address topics, such as social inclusion, employment, accessibility vs. inaccessibility, voting rights, and more. These topics are important to me because disability rights are civil rights and human rights, as well as an integral part of diversity. This podcast will further the importance of seeing the vital work of advocacy as an ongoing narrative… one that we can all play a part in shaping for the benefit of others. This show was created and hosted by Keith Murfee-DeConcini, a disability advocate. Visit DisabilityEmpowermentNow.com for more content, videos and ...

"Dating With a Disability" is from the December 10, 2016 Lifestyle section of The New York Times. It was written by Wendy Lu and narrated by Fleet Cooper.