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• Not Everyone Is Happy about Glee

  
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  From the AP (11/10/09): `Glee wheelchair episode hits bump with disabled By LYNN ELBER LOS ANGELES – The glee club members twirl their wheelchairs to the tune of "Proud Mary" and in joyful solidarity with Artie, the fellow performer who must use his chair even when the music stops. The scene in Wednesdays ...
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• Schools Back Blind in Fight for Kindle

  
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  From the Washington Post (11/11/09): Schools Shun Kindle, Saying Blind Cant Use It By RACHEL METZ SAN FRANCISCO -- Amazons Kindle can read books aloud, but if youre blind it can be difficult to turn that function on without help. Now two universities say they will shun the device until Amazon changes the ...
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• Join Us: Inaugural Organizers Forum - Working Cross Disability

  
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  JusticeFor All Action Network (JFAAN) presents...   ORGANIZERSFORUM! Thisis a monthly one-hour call, open to all disability organizers , to provide ideasand resources to each other to support and expand community organizing amongpeople with disabilities! Wellhave a conference call the 3rd ...
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• Disability Coalition Supports Health Reform that Includes Home and Community Based Services and Supports

  
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  From the JFA Moderator: Last Friday, November 6, in anticipation of the House vote on Health Reform, the Justice For All Action Network (JFAAN), a coalition of diability-lead organizations and allies, sent the following letter to every member of the House of Representatives.  >>> For More Information on ...
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• Interfaith Coalition Supports Long Term Services and Supports in Health Reform

  
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  From the JFA Moderator: Last Friday, November 6, the Interfaith Disability Advocacy Coalition (IDAC) sent a letter (read full text below) to Congress supporting the inclusion of two important long-term services and supports provisions in health care reform, the Community First Choice (CFC) Option and the CLASS ...
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• Disability Coalition Applauds Health Care Legislation that expands coverage for People with Disabilities

  
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  Press Release from the Justice For All Action Network (11/9/09): DisabilityCoalition Applauds Health Care Legislation thatexpands coverage for People with Disabilities HealthCare Reform one of 12 items on Coalition Agenda (WashingtonD.C.) -- TheJustice for All Action Network ...
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• House Passes Health Care

  
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  *** Just In *** The House of Representatives passed the Health Care Reform bill this evening, November 7 shortly after 11pm.  Thank you to all the JFA Readers and disability activists who have been following and taking action to support this legislation.
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• "Special Olympics... a Civil Rights Movement"

  
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  From the New York Times (10/24/09): Work at Eye Level As told by Tim Shriver to Patricia R. Olsen WHEN I was growing up, we lived on a farm in Maryland and had dogs, chickens and cattle. In 1962, my mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, started a summer camp in our backyard for children with intellectual ...
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• CA: Victory! Court Protects Teacher-Advocate-Whistleblower from Retaliation

  
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  Thank you Larry Komar for contributing this information: A new decision, Susan Barker vs. Riverside County Office of Education, (9th Cir., 10/23/09), reversed a federal district courts decision to dismiss the teachers retaliation suit on the grounds that she lacked standing under Section 504 and the ADA.   The ...
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• Join Us: Preventing Medication Mishaps TeleClass

  
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  National FamilyCaregivers Month is proclaimed every November as a time to thank, support,educate and empower all those providingcare to loved ones with chronic ailments/disabilities/frailties of old age A FREE National Teleclass/Webinar forFamily Caregivers Safe & Sound: How to Prevent ...
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• Workplace Flexibility and People with Disabilities

  
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  From the Huffington Post (10/28/09): Workplace Flexibility and People with Disabilities By Robin Shaffert, Senior Director of Corporate Social Responsibility of the AAPD ...Increasingly, companies are recognizing the benefits of instituting flexible workplace policies that allow employees to work part time, ...
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• Federal Olmstead Enforcement by CMS - A New Day?

  
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  From Steve Gold (11/2/09): Federal Olmstead Enforcement by CMS - A New Day?  by Steve Gold Ten years after the Supreme Court issued the Olmstead decision holding that unnecessary institutionalization violated the ADA and nine years after CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) wrote its ...
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• More Post-Secondary Students than Ever have Disabilities

  
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  From the GAO (10/28/09): Higher Education and Disability: Education Needs a Coordinated Approach to Improve Its Assistance to Schools in Supporting Students Research suggests that more students with disabilities are pursuing higher education than in years past, and recent legislative changes, such as those in ...
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• Sidewalks become battlegrounds

  
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  From USA Today (10/25/09): Sidewalks become battlegrounds By Chris Joyner, USA TODAY JACKSON, Miss. — The nations crumbling sidewalks have disabled residents taking their wheelchairs to the streets, a potentially dangerous practice that has cash-strapped cities and disability-rights advocates at odds over how ...
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• AAPD Featured in Times Square

  
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  AAPDwill be featured in Times Square throughoutthe month of November! AAPD’sbrand new 15-second public service announcement will be featured on the CBSjumbo screen on 42 nd Street in Times Square in New York City the entire month of November,and we want you to see it before its debut in the Big Apple! ...
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• Action Alert: Support for CLASS Act Grows, Join in

  
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  As versions of the Health Reform Bills are combined in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, it is more critical than ever to voice our support for the provisions that will increase availability of long-term services and supports for our community. If your organizationis not on the below list ...
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• Meet Sue Wins What Can You Do? Contest

  
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  Press Release from the Campaign for Disability Employment (10/26/09): Best Buy and The Campaign for Disability Employment Announce National Video Contest Winner Blake Watson’s "MEET SUE" wins the What Can YOU Do? Video Contest Flowood MS, October 26, 2009 – Today, Best Buy and the Campaign for ...
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• Obama Nominates Rehab. Commissioner

  
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  From the White House (10/15/09): President ObamaAnnounces More Key Administration Posts President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate thefollowing individualsto key administration posts: ·          Clifford L. Stanley, Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and ...
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• Self-Advocate Speaks on Technology Access and Barriers

  
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  By AAPDs Jenifer Simpson (10/20/09) SABE’s Elizabeth WeintraubSpeaks on Technology before FCC At a recent Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Workshop on October20 that focused on broadband access for people with disabilities, ElizabethWeintraub, former Vice President of Self Advocates ...
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• TN: Youre Invited! Regional Leaders Speak Top Issues

  
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  From NCD (10/22/09): National Council on Disability to Hear Presentations fromRegional Leaders on Issues Affecting People with Disabilities WASHINGTON—The NationalCouncil on Disability (NCD) will hear presentations and discuss employment,health care, and restraint and seclusion issues affecting people ...
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