News tagged with "disability-rights-movement"

Confirm Supreme Court Nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor

With the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee having set July 13th as the date for the start of confirmation hearings, ADA Watch’s president and founder, Jim Ward has indicated that Judge Sotomayor will receive the full support of ADA Watch, National Coalition for Disability Rights (NCDR) and many of their coalition partners. For nearly a decade, the ADA Watch coalition of national, state and local disability, mental health, education, civil rights and social justice organizations has educated the disability community and the general public regarding the impact of the judicial nominations process on the civil rights of people with physical, mental, developmental, sensory and cognitive disabilities.

National Agenda for Disability Rights

Hundreds of disability, civil rights and social justice organizations are uniting to promote shared values and goals for the disability rights movement. Help us create a common agenda for community organizing and coalition-building within the disability community. Contact us at info@ncdr.org to add your organization as a supporter of the National Agenda for Disability Rights.
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Preserving and Promoting Disability History

NCDR engages in public education and the promotion of programs and initiatives to preserve disability rights history. NCDR joins forces with those educating communities about disabilities and disablity social history for the purpose of eliminating discrimination, implementing disability rights and increasing responsibility for disability rights. We seek to preserve disability rights social history to foster [...]

West Virginia: Exhibit Highlights Disability Rights

http://sundaygazettemail.com/section/News/200710295
By Eric Eyre
Staff writer

A national bus tour exhibit about the disability rights movement will make a stop this weekend at the South Charleston Wal-Mart on Corridor G. West Virginia leads the nation with more than 27 percent of residents reporting they are disabled, according to national health surveys. Nearly 10 percent of West Virginians have [...]

Connecticut: Road To Freedom Visit a Success!

The fifty—state Road to Freedom Tour visited Connecticut last week, and due to the outstanding effort of several dozen individuals and organizations it was an unqualified success. The three-stop visit was coordinated by the Disability Advocacy Collaborative.
The Tour concluded with a rousing welcome at the State Capitol the afternoon of Monday, October 15 attended by [...]

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Support Community Choice Act

The ADAPT Community wants you to Kick-Off the Introduction of the Community Choice Act on on March 24th! We want YOU to celebrate the introduction of the most important health care reform for people with disabilities in this country — Community Choice Act!

We intend to give all of you the opportunity to be connected directly to the chamber [...]

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