By s.e. smith on 26 October, 2010
Please join Asians and Pacific Islanders with Disabilities of California (APIDC) and the City of Long Beach First Lady Nancy Foster as we hear from service providers, parent support groups, role models, educators, policy makers, advocates, job placement organizations and agencies, and others who share a common vision-of providing consumers the tools to realize their fullest [...]
Posted in signal boost | Tagged Asian and Pacific Islander, California, conferences, United States
By s.e. smith on 22 October, 2010
If you’re a disabled voter in California and you encounter problems at the polls on 2 November, Disability Rights California wants to hear about it! VOTE Tuesday, November 2, 2010! If you are an individual with a disability and encounter problems such as Accessing your polling place Voting Privately and Independently Casting your vote Then [...]
Posted in accessibility, signal boost | Tagged California, elections, polls, voting, voting rights
By s.e. smith on 15 October, 2010
I am, as some readers may be aware, in the process of moving house1 which means that I am skittering about in all directions trying to do things like getting my address changed everywhere and rounding up boxes and impatiently waiting for Moving Day. I try to do as many things online as possible, so [...]
Posted in accessibility, policy | Tagged California, United States, website accessibility
By s.e. smith on 13 September, 2010
Back in May, I wrote about the rampant slashing of the sections of California’s budget pertaining to disability services. abby jean has also written about how California structures social assistance programs and their funding. These are issues seen not just in California, but across the United States, where states are struggling to come up with [...]
Posted in activism, class issues, disability activism, media and pop culture, policy, politics | Tagged Arnieville, California
By s.e. smith on 6 September, 2010
Currently, health care in California’s prison system is under court supervision, in the aftermath of a lawsuit pointing out that conditions were so poor in California’s prisons that an average of one inmate per week was dying due to inadequate health care. Huge numbers of people in California’s prisons are disabled; just for example, people [...]
Posted in events, policy, politics | Tagged California, California budget, disabled inmates, health care in prisons, prison reform
By s.e. smith on 25 May, 2010
The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), passed in 1990, is often pointed to as an example of progressive legislation in the United States that magically solves the problem of discrimination against people with disabilities. It’s a Federal civil rights law that is designed to outline and protect basic rights for people with disabilities for people [...]
Posted in accessibility, work | Tagged California, Deaf, hearing impaired, right to work, state employees, workplace accommodations
By s.e. smith on 20 May, 2010
Does this headline read like deja vu to you? With the global recession is coming a wave of devastating budget cuts for people with disabilities as governments struggle to address funding shortages. Lauredhel just covered the major cuts in Australia’s new budget that impacted people with disabilities, and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California recently unveiled [...]
Posted in class issues, events, policy, politics, poverty | Tagged budget, budget cuts, California, California budget, social programs, welfare
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