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Category Archives: Activism
Cognitive Disabilities
Listen 29 min An informative program about the distinct disabilities of autism and cognitive disorders with two disability advocates. Austin Tam will discuss his observations and insights about cognitive disorders and disability in the Asian/Hawaiian and Pacific Islander community. Tam … Continue reading
Posted in Accessibilty, Activism, Cognitive Disabilities, Eddie Ytuarte, Mark Romoser, Story Telling - Disability
Tagged "Making the Invisible Visible" Disability Summit, Austin Tam, California Renters Power Assembly, Dr Fred Volkmar, Dr Leo Kanner, Silicon Valley Center for Independent Living, Yale
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Renters Assemble & “Telling My Story”
Listen (29 min) Tenants gathered at a Statewide Renters Assembly in Alameda over the September 23-24 weekend. Ava and Fernando Nadal were there, gearing up to lead an attack on the landlord demon law, Costa Hawkins* with ACCE Sacramento. This, … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Adrienne Lauby, Community, IHSS, Politics, Sheela Gunn Cushman, Story Telling - Disability
Tagged ACCE, Air BnB, Ava Nadal, Axis Dance, CURES Act, Fernando Nadal, IHSS, Tenants Together
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Taking a Stand: Helga Spizman & Anita Cameron
Friday, September 22, 2-3 pm PST, KPFA radio Police march down the boulevard chanting “Whose Street? Our Street,†and Oklahoma City police gun down Magdiel Sanchez, a developmentally disabled deaf man, despite neighbors who yell, “He can’t hear you.â€Â  All … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Adrienne Lauby, Arts, Community, Deaf, Developmental Disability, Disability Justice, Josh Elwood, Mark Romoser, Mental Disability, Police Violence, Politics, Protest, Race, Sheela Gunn Cushman, Shelley Berman, Story Telling - Disability
Tagged ADAPT, Anita Cameron, Cassidy-Graham, disability activists, Helga Spizman, Holocaust Survivor, Magdiel Sanchez, Musings of an Angry Black Woman, Pussy hats
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2018 Federal Budget with Lindsay Baran
Listen (28 min) Trump has something special in mind for poor people and the disability community as he moves into the Federal budget season with a tax reform agenda. Cuts! We’re not talking about paring knife slices you usually notice … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Community, Economics, Josh Elwood, Mark Romoser, Politics, Protest, Sheela Gunn Cushman
Tagged National Council On Independent Living
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Homelessness is Local – Sonoma County, California
Listen (28 min) The Myth is that homeless people are older white men with addiction problems. The Reality is that nearly half of homeless people (in one local community – 41%) live with a disability. The Myth is that homeless … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Adrienne Lauby, Community, Housing, Politics, Protest, Story Telling - Disability
Tagged 2017 Homeless Point In Time Count, John Creager, Julie Combs, Myths of homelessness, Santa Rosa California, Sonoma County California
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Disability Protests of TrumpCare
Listen (29 min) If you were inspired last week by the disability activists who sat in Senate Leader Mitch McConnell’s office until they were dragged away from their wheelchairs, you’ll want to hear Anita Cameron of ADAPT talk about the … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Eddie Ytuarte
Tagged ADAPT, Affordable Care Act, dragged out of wheelchair, Musings of an Angry Black Woman, TrumpCare
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Dennis Billups – “Patient No More”
Friday, June 2, 2017, 2:30 pm PST Dennis Billups joins Eddie Ytuarte with a first person account of the historic disability occupation of the federal HEW building in 1977. This protest of the delay of 504 regulations became a precursor … Continue reading
Posted in Accessibilty, Activism, Community, Eddie Ytuarte, Historical Exhibit, History, Politics, Protest, Story Telling - Disability
Tagged 504 Sit In, Dennis Billups, Department of Health Education and Welfare (HEW), Patient No More: People with Disabilities Securing Civil Rights, San Francisco Public Library
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“Red Diaper Daughter” with Laura Bock
Friday, May 19, 2-3 pm PST on KPFA Laura Bock is an extraordinary blind white woman whose new memoir, Red Diaper Daughter tells an extraordinary story of three generations of rebels and revolutionaries. She talks about her communist and anarchist … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Adrienne Lauby, Blind, Community, Deaf, Fat Liberation, Individual disease and identity groups, Josh Elwood, Mark Romoser, Poetry & Prose, Protest
Tagged Al Bock, Berta Karasick, Fat Lip Readers Theater, Laura Bock, Meyer Karasick, Mini Carson, Peggy Dennis, Red Diaper Daughter
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Cripping Capitalism – Cheryl Green
Listen (29 min) (For a transcript of the first 15 minutes of this interview, click here) Capitalism is about money. Capitalism is about the 80% of disabled people who don’t have full time employment. Capitalism is also about how we … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Community, Disability Justice, Eddie Ytuarte, Head Injuries, Politics
Tagged Caitlin Wood, Cheryl Green, Cripping Capitalism, feminism, StoryMinders
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Non-Violent Direct Action Protest and Disability
Listen (28 min) ADAPT is a dynamic direct action group that blocks streets, sits in at the offices of D.C. politicos, and raises hell about the rights of disabled people. They bring hundreds of people with disabilities to their national … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Adrienne Lauby, Mark Romoser, Politics, Protest, Story Telling - Disability
Tagged ADAPT, Bruce Darling, Center for Disability Rights Inc., Disability History
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