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• Feds to Track Disability Discrimination in Voucher Program

  
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  From the weekly e-newsletter from State Senator Chris Larson: In a letter released last week, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) told Wisconsin that the state must ensure students with disabilities attending or seeking to attend taxpayer funded voucher schools "do not encounter discrimination on the basis of their ...
  1 week ago

• Maimonides Preached Inclusion, But We Still Don’t Seem To Get It

  
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  This article was originally published in The New York Jewish Week on April 23, 2013. As concerned as we are about economic justice, the American Jewish community has failed to understand, on a gut level, a glaring reality: adults with disabilities in the U.S. disproportionately experience poverty. According the ...
  1 week ago

• Disability is a political issue not a personal one –

  
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  The Right to Not to Work: Power and Disability by Sunny Taylor “The disabled are viewed with sympathy as victims of “bad luck” who will simply have to accept disadvantage as their lot in life, not as an identity group that is systematically discriminated against. Unlike sexism and racism, which are perceived to ...
  2 weeks ago

• The New Battlegrounds for Disability Rights

  
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  New Orleans   Sometimes in organizing we can see bits and pieces that seem isolated from place to place start to come together more firmly into something that might be greater than the sum of some small parts.   Perhaps this is happening now for advocates and adherents of disability rights over the issues of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Hope is NOT a Plan

  
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  Canadians with disabilities are about one and a half times as likely to be victims of violence as other Canadians. People with disabilities in Canada have civil rights on paper but not in practice. Canadian citizens, everyday, have their civil rights ruthlessly violated by their government.  This has to be stopped, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Just Released: Resource Guide on Mental Health and Gun Violence

  
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  The URJ, as a member of the Interfaith Disability Advocacy Coalition (IDAC), is proud to release Grounded in Faith: Resources on Mental Health and Gun Violence . We hope you will use this resource guide to inform your personal, professional and congregational life. “Although IDAC members come from many ...
  4 weeks ago

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