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• CAPEDS presents Sudan Café in Tsukuba vol.2 – What we found in “Real” Sudan-

  
  TsukuBlog — Authority: 113
  The Alien Times has received the following information from CAPEDS. ————– CAPEDS presents Sudan Café in Tsukuba vol.2 - What we found in “Real” Sudan- What does come up with you,. when you hear the word “Sudan”? Civil war? Terrorism? Yes, they exactly exist. However, will they ever shape the ...
  6 days ago

• Video Relay Abusers Indicted

  
  JFActivist — Authority: 427
  From Jenifer Simpson (AAPD): Abuse of Telecommunications Relay Services Fund:Advocates Applaud Fed Crackdown The US Department of Justice indicted abusers of thetelecommunications relay services fund November 19, 2009 and has advocatesapplauding enforcement of disability laws.  The DOJ charged ...
  1 week ago

• BookBole – Solutions for the Visually Impaired

  
  The Better India — Authority: 395
  We read, we learn, we understand. Sites like the one you are currently reading, along with countless other blogs, books, newspapers make up our reading spectrum. Make us aware, make us improve. But what if we were to be visually impaired? How would we fare with a total lack of reading material? Did you know that most ...
  1 week ago

• College Students with Disabilities - Spend Your Summer in DC!

  
  The Wrightslaw Way — Authority: 411
  Each year, the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) hosts two Summer Internship Programs for College Students with Disabilities in Washington, DC, providing paid travel to and from DC, paid fully-accessible housing, and living stipends.  AAPD is now accepting applications for the 2010 Summer ...
  1 week ago

• Award-winning Filipino children’s story Sandosenang Sapatos (A Dozen Pairs of Shoes) adapted for theater

  
  http://www.papertigers.org/wordpress — Authority: 512
  Our current issue of PaperTigers focuses on the Philippines and recently,while searching for literature events taking place there, I came across this news on OMF Literature’s website: Sandosenang Sapatos (A Dozen Pairs of Shoes) , a Palanca award-winning story that has reaped numerous accolades here and ...
  1 week ago

• Autism In Song

  
  Disabilities Unlimited — Authority: 121
  In an age where people are searching high and low on the internet for information on Autism, here is a short stop to 2007 and a HBO Documentary that has information, but also hope and inspiration. Unfortunately, I don’t see it on the current HBO schedule, so you can look for it later in the schedule or below at ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bar Exam Sued for Refusing to Accomodate Law School Grad Who is Blind

  
  JFActivist — Authority: 427
  Press Release National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE) Discriminates Against Blind & Low Vision Law School Graduates A suit filed November 3, 2009 in Federal court alleges that TheNational Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE) discriminates against blindand low ...
  2 weeks ago

• Country-wide campaign on disability to start Friday

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Nov 12 (IANS) In a unique awareness programme on disability, four different groups, each constituting a disabled person and four volunteers, will travel across the country and sensitise people on the issue through personal conversations. The groups will leave the capital Friday.An initiative of the National ...
  2 weeks ago

• 7236: Disabling Diversity…?

  
  MultiCultClassics — Authority: 506
  From The Chicago Sun-Times… ‘Glee’ casting choice hits sour note with disabled TELEVISION | Putting able-bodied actor in chair sparks debate 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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Obama deserves praise for signing hate crimes law

  
  JFActivist — Authority: 427
  From the LA Times  (11/3/09): Obama deserves praise for signing hate crimes law By Kathi Wolfe As a legally blind lesbian, I celebrated on Oct. 28 when the president signed the Matthew Shepard and James Boyd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act... ...In 1999, Eric Krochmaluk, a man with intellectual disabilities ...
  3 weeks ago

• 1 in 10 People With Disabilities Have been Victims of a Hate Crime

  
  JFActivist — Authority: 427
  From the Guardian (11/4/09): Charity says 9% of disabled people have been victims of hate crime Leonard Cheshire Disability included question on disability-related crime after high-profile incidents in which disabled people had been targeted by Peter Walker Almost one in 10 disabled people in the UK have ...
  3 weeks ago

• Opt Out – What do you think?

  
  SC Access To Justice Weblog — Authority: 116
  There’s an article in the Free Times that features Commissioner Sue Berkowitz . It focuses on the Opt Out idea that is currently circulating in D.C. regarding the Health Care Reform Package. Some statistics from the article: Currently, South Carolina ranks 48th in the country in overall health, according to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Insurers Wrongfully Deny Disabled Workers Claims

  
  JFActivist — Authority: 427
  From the LA Daily Journal (10/12/09): Ill Workers Denied Benefits Face Fight Alone By Evan George ... An investigation by the Daily Journal, which included a review of 576 lawsuits filed in federal court in California against the seven largest disability insurers, found: Insurance companies regularly deny, or ...
  4 weeks ago

• President Obama Signs Hate Crimes Law Protecting People with Disabilities

  
  JFActivist — Authority: 427
  From CBS News (10/28/09): Obama Signs... Hate Crimes Bill President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed and celebrated hate crime legislation that extends protection to people based on sexual orientation, sealing a long-fought victory to gay advocates... The new law expands federal hate crimes to include those ...
  4 weeks ago

• TLC Central Dispatch is Failing to Provide Adequate Services to Wheelchair Users

  
  NYS Assembly Member Micah Kellner — Authority: 488
  Central Dispatch was launched as a two-year pilot program in July 2008 to match scattered wheelchair users looking for a taxi with a limited number of accessible taxis. I was –and remain– very supportive of the concept of the program; I wrote an Op-Ed in the New York Post saying so “( The City Needs Cabs For ...
  5 weeks ago

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