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The devastation in our region is unfathomable. People are suffering and in desperate need. Please donate what you can to these mutual aid efforts across the region. A 🧵:
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Tyre Nichols, who had Crohn’s disease, should be alive.
Half of people killed by police have a disability. 55% of Black disabled men are arrested by 28 yrs old. 2/3 of our prison population are disabled.
Racism & ableism are woven into the system.
Tyre Nichols deserves justice
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We're hiring!
Have a passion for disability justice? Experience with research, advocacy, and community organizing? Want to create change across the South?
Apply to be our Research and Coalition Organizing Manager!
Details 👇🏾
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This country needs to stop criminalizing disability. That means investing in things that actually keep disabled people safe and improve their lives instead of police, jails, and prisons.
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We're hiring!
Have a passion for disability justice? Experience with nonprofit and political fundraising? Want to create change across the South?
Apply to be our Director of Development!
Details 👇🏾
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Today for our Black History Month series highlighting Black disabled leaders from across the South, we're putting the spotlight on our friend Vilissa Thompson! Vilissa does incredible work as an activist and advocate, and we're proud to know her.
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Yesterday afternoon this account had 15 followers. Today we’ve got over 1,400.
Disabled folks in the South are fired up and fighting back 💪🏼
Thank you all for the support!
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#RyanGainer
, a Black autistic child from California, was murdered by police. There is no training or reforming a system which dehumanizes Black disabled lives. And while Ryan did not live in the South, we can’t be silent as this reverberates across the nation. Abolition now.
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We are so proud and excited to announce the launch of our Plain Language Policy Dashboard! The dashboard is a tool that translates complex bills from Southern states into plain language. Take a look!
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Seems like a good moment to once again shout out our friend
@VilissaThompson
. Black disabled women are the backbone of this movement and we honor Vilissa’s work today and every day.
Today for our Black History Month series highlighting Black disabled leaders from across the South, we're putting the spotlight on our friend Vilissa Thompson! Vilissa does incredible work as an activist and advocate, and we're proud to know her.
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There’s no issue more “kitchen table” than giving disabled people home and community-based services rather than institutions.
There’s no better way to “grow Georgia” than increasing pay for care workers.
Disabled Georgians, families, and providers deserve freedom & opportunity.
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New Disabled South is fighting for a South that values disabled people. For too long, policy choices have disproportionately impacted the lives of disabled people in the South.
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The Biden Administration failed disabled people with their new CDC guidance. We are in the midst of the largest mass disabling event in decades—over 22 million newly disabled people, with a huge portion of those folks living in the South.
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Today, as we celebrate the anniversary of the ADA, we also have to recognize where it falls short. Disabled people deserve to vote freely, fairly, and independently, but enemies of democracy have made that harder to achieve. We have to keep fighting for more.
#ADAFloorNotCeiling
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COVID is a mass disabling event, and the pandemic is not over.
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If you’re a disabled person in need, please call the Disability & Disaster Hotline
800-626-4959
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We need to make it easier, not harder, for disabled people to vote.
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We are offering one time payments to folks in the South who are impacted by Hurricane Helene. Please go to for more information and to request support. And please share!
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New Disabled South announced its support for the LaTonya Reeves Freedom Act, which paves the way for disabled Americans to exercise their right to receive long-term care in their community and flourish independently.
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A disabled
#StopCopCity
organizer is being held in DeKalb County Jail. They are one of the three targeted by the state for operating a bail fund. This is political persecution and everyone needs to call to demand their release.
Please share
#CripTheVote
#DisabilityTwitter
🚨EMERGENCY CALL TO ACTION:
Call Delalb County Jail at (404) 298-8195 and demand that they release Adele MacLean. They still do not have their leg braces and have been held in solitary confinement. The bond was paid at 10 am? Their excuse...a fingerprinting issue? Bullshit.
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Mutual Aid Disaster Relief
PayPal: mutualaiddisasterrelief
@gmail
.com
Venmo:
@MutualAidDisasterRelief
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New Disabled South is working toward a vision of liberation for all disabled people in the South. Will you join us?
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As we celebrate Disability Pride Month, and the upcoming 33rd anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, we're using the hashtag
#ADAFloorNotCeiling
all month to remind folks that the ADA was just the beginning. Disabled people deserve more.
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Happy New Year to our disabled community. In 2023, we’ll demand more for our people in the South and hold those in power accountable. We hope you’ll join us.
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It's time that disabled people get care in their homes instead of institutions. It's time that care workers get paid living wages. We can finally get this done.
#CareCantWait
#sotu2023
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Today we honor
#Juneteenth
with a reminder that we can’t have disability justice without racial justice. Disabled people won’t be liberated until all Black people are liberated. Our region’s stained legacy of enslavement and oppression continues on, and we fight to dismantle it.
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Judy Heumann paved the way. Her legacy will live on as we all continue to fight for better for our community. May her memory be a blessing.
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Throughout the South right now, there are a number of bills that would expand private school voucher programs under the guise of “school choice.” Like
#SB233
in Georgia or the PRICE Act in Alabama.
But students with disabilities don’t have a choice.
A 🧵:
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Trans health care is a disability justice issue. We are fully opposed to SB140 in Georgia and any legislation in the South that limits access to gender-affirming care for trans people, no matter their age.
The Senate Health and Human Services Committee just voted 10-4 to pass
#SB140
out of committee despite clear evidence that the bill is unconstitutional and overwhelming opposition from parents, advocates, grandparents, and Trans Georgians.
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We’re hiring for a Field Organizer - Labor Rights, Tech, and Disability!
Are you an experienced field organizer interested in the intersection of worker rights, technology, and disability? We’re looking for you!
More info in this 🧵👇🏽:
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The states with the highest poverty rates are in the South, and disabled people live in poverty at more than twice the rate of nondisabled people.
It’s time to
#DemolishDisabledPoverty
in the South and all across this country.
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We're collecting stories from disabled people throughout the South, and we want to hear from you! If you're interested in talking with us via Zoom or phone about these questions and more, submit your info & we'll be in touch.
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The world is watching. We stand firmly against this genocide/ethnic cleansing and stand in solidarity with all oppressed people on this planet. We call upon disability leaders and all people of conscience to do what is right. Donate to help here:
american
#disabilityrights
orgs+“leaders”—many whom were just choppin it up w joe @ the WH days ago—are mighty quiet on this genocidal maiming/disabling/traumatizing, starving (food+water+electric), bombing campaign.
#FreePalestine
#DisabilityJustice
#DisabilitySolidarity
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🏘️ Work from home!
💵$75,000-$85,000, commensurate with experience
💼4-day, 32-hour workweek (Fridays off!) with flexibility to work how, when and where you want
🏝️Unlimited Paid Time Off/Sick Leave policy
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We want to hear from you! We're looking for disabled folks in the South who are passionate about accessibility to participate in a video campaign on social media to mark the upcoming anniversary of the ADA! Check out the form here:
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Hydeia Broadbent spent her life in HIV and AIDS activism—raising awareness, fighting to eliminate stigmas that surround it, and educating people on the reality of life with the AIDS. Broadbent's work began at the age of 6, and she never, ever stopped fighting. Rest in power.
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Today we wanted to uplift the 10 Principles of Disability Justice. This framework was developed by Patty Berne, Mia Mingus, and Stacey Milburn, and it is something we follow every day in the work we do. [continued in comments]
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Adding Upstate Food Not Bombs in South Carolina
Venmo:
@UpstateFNB
Cashapp: $UpstateFNB
And Harvest Hope Food Bank in SC
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Today we acknowledge
#IDPWD
with some reminders:
•Celebrate disabled lives every day
•We don’t exist to inspire you
•Collective liberation is the goal
•Our ability to produce within an oppressive system does not determine our worth
•Nothing about us without us
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Georgia has over 7k disabled people on a waiting list to receive care in their homes instead of in institutions, and across our states, that number is over half a million total. We’ll be fighting in Georgia and across the South to get these wait lists fully funded.
#CareCantWait
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Needs for Upstate Food Not Bombs and Harvest Food Bank, both in SC.
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Kids with disabilities, particularly Black and brown children, are more likely to be arrested at school.
We must stop criminalizing disability.
"Don't make a wrong move," an officer said as he pinned a struggling second-grader to the ground, ultimately for 38 minutes. "Period."
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We’ll be introducing you to our team in the coming weeks, but right now we want to highlight our Advisory Council! We’re thrilled to have these disabled and nondisabled leaders working alongside us for disability justice in the South. Here they are in alphabetical order.
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Thank you
@staceyabrams
for talking about Georgia's HCBS waiver waiting list and shouting us out on GMA today!
#CareCantWait
#DemolishDisabledPoverty
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Disabled kids need support and care in their communities, but instead those in the foster system are too often put in institutions. It’s time to get rid of these systems that harm children with disabilities.
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Disability Voting Rights Week exists because our community faces significant barriers to democracy. Disabled voters deserve to participate fully in elections, full stop.
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Today, we placed a full page ad in the
@ajc
telling Georgians that our government can afford to fund the 7k+ waiting list for home and community-based services.
We’ll be holding a press conference at the Capitol in just a little bit, and we’ll be testifying this afternoon.
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LGBTQ+ folks deserve to be safe wherever they go, but especially in queer spaces like Club Q.
We have to stop normalizing mass death in this country. It’s long past time to do what the vast majority of Americans want and stop gun violence.
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“Our message to the state of Georgia is simple: every human on this planet can become disabled at any moment. You may be free to make whatever decisions you want, but you are not free from the consequences of those decisions.” -
@the_tattooedjew
Read more:
The Georgia Court of Appeals essentially decided that the ADA doesn't count for state employees, citing the 11th amendment. This is a dangerous precedent for disabled GA govt workers.
The ADA is federal law.
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Thankful every single day for our disabled elders and ancestors, the ones who taught us to be proudly and unapologetically interdependent, for a vision of liberation for all disabled people thriving in community and not alone in institutions.
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The 33rd anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act is coming up on July 26th. We know that the ADA was always just the beginning, but we want to hear from you—why do you think the ADA is the floor, not the ceiling? Tell us your story!
#ADAFloorNotCeiling
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Here we are once more, commenting on a mass shooting in the U.S., and more specifically in the South. This time, it's Atlanta—where our organization is based. Gun violence is a disability issue. It is an issue we should all care about.
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Trans health care is a disability justice issue
trans people deserve insurance providers that will help cover the cost of gender-affirming care.
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👩👩👧👦Parental Leave: 6 months FT paid and another 6 months part time hours, FT paid
🛌🏽2 month paid sabbatical after 4 years of service
🏢Over 3 weeks in office closures, including a 2 week winter break and 1 week summer break
💪🏾Discounts and perks on gym memberships -- and more!
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We fight every day for change. We fight for the promise of Olmstead and the legacies of Lois Curtis and Elaine Wilson; to one day ensure that no disabled person has to live under an oppressive care system ever again.
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👩👩👧👦12 weeks paid family leave
🛌🏽2 month paid sabbatical after 4 years of service to NDS
🏢Over 3 weeks in organization-wide office closures, including a two-week winter break and 1 week summer break
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We're looking for disabled artists in the South! We are hosting our first annual gala in November, and we're looking to commission artists to design elements of the event, including centerpieces and more. Interested in learning more? Email us at info
@newdisabledsouth
.org.
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@patriciamdavis
What’s very dangerous to others is making a generalization about a disability that looks different for different people.
“Most people with schizophrenia are not any more dangerous or violent than people in the general population.” -
@APApsychiatric
⬇️
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#SB221
in Georgia would outlaw ballot drop boxes. Drop boxes make voting more accessible for many disabled voters. Disabled voters face enough barriers as it stands, and now this makes it even more difficult for our community to vote freely and independently.
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"The truth: the ADA, passed on July 26, 1990, isn’t enough to defeat ableism—and it never has been."
Our COO/co-founder Kehsi Iman Wilson penned this piece for
@inthesetimesmag
to wrap up Disability Pride Month.
#ADAFloorNotCeiling
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Interesting that
@Disney
scored a 100% on
@DisabilityIN
's 2022 Disability Equality Index and was named a top place to work for disability inclusion, yet they actively discriminated against a disabled worker in Florida.
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Source on Tyre’s Crohn’s diagnosis:
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Yesterday we held a press conference at the Georgia Capitol urging our lawmakers to both fund the waiting list of over 7k Georgians with disabilities waiting for home and community-based services, and give our care providers a pay raise. This is a solvable crisis.
#CareCantWait
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Thank you all for your support and incredible excitement the past week!
We heard many of you about expanding our work to Virginia. We’ll now be working in 14 states, including Virginia 💪🏼
In the South and want to join our coalition? Email coalition
@newdisabledsouth
.org
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Today we celebrate this landmark decision. As Medicaid programs across the country continue to fail disabled people, the right to sue is a massive step towards justice and change.
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Many disabled people rely on methods like absentee ballots to exercise their right to vote. Restricting absentee voting is unconscionable.
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❤️🩹Platinum Medical Insurance (100% of premium covered for employees; 50% of premium covered for dependents)
👓Dental, Vision, Life Insurance (100% of premium covered for both employees and dependents)
👩🏿💻$1,000/year professional development stipend
💻Work from home stipend
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To mark the 33rd anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, our CEO/co-founder Dom Kelly penned this piece for Philanthropy News Digest calling on donors to invest in disability.
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On this
#EarthDay2024
, this is a reminder that environmental justice is also a disability justice issue.
In the South, Disabled people are disproportionately left vulnerable to extreme heat, hurricanes, tornadoes, and flooding. 1/2
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TW: Policing and incarceration of Black autistic youth
An all too common experience that disabled young people of color face, especially in the South. Corruption, racism, and ableism at play. None of these systems keep people safe, and there is no reforming them.
Can't sleep. Watching my child sleep with gratitude. He was swatted by someone and Southaven police arrested, handcuffed and put him in juvenile detention for three days. I am LIVID. We've hired lawyers. The police had NO EVIDENCE. The judge that verbally ok'd the arrest warrant
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Saturday marks 25 years since the ruling in the Olmstead v. L.C. Supreme Court case. As our own Dom Kelly writes in
@thehill
today, with more than 690,000 people on Medicaid waiver waitlists across the country, the promise of Olmstead is unfulfilled.
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Today, the city of Atlanta confirmed they plan to use exact match as part of their verification process for petitions to get
#StopCopCity
on the ballot.
Exact match is an ableist, racist tool for voter suppress, and it disproportionately disenfranchises disabled voters. (1/)
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We are thrilled to announce the first of our four New Disabled South: In Conversation panel events on April 6th! This one is virtual and free to anyone who wants to attend. Moderator:
@RJMitte
Panelists:
@maryfashik
@Rasheeradiara
@sheabutterfemme
[1/3]
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🏘️ Work from home!
💵$115,000 annually
💼4-day, 32-hour workweek (Fridays off!) with flexibility to work how, when and where you want
🏝️Unlimited Paid Time Off/Sick Leave policy
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Georgia, tomorrow is the last day to vote in the runoff election! We’ve partnered with Georgia ADAPT and
@AAPD
to organize accessible rides to the polls. Need a ride tomorrow? Check out the link below 👇🏼
#CripTheVote
#DisabilityTwitter
#GaPol
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We need a reenergized movement in the South. We need to hold those in power accountable for disabled death. We need to tear down the structures and systems that harm disabled people and imagine a world where we can be free from institutionalization, poverty, and oppression.
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Our very own Dom Kelly and our Comms Director Sean Kelly were recently on the excellent Proud Stutter podcast! They talk about about the work NDS is doing across the South, growing up with stutters and cerebral palsy, and more. Check it out wherever you get your podcasts!
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This month, we thought it was important to highlight the beautiful disability pride flag created by disabled artist Ann Magill. Here's what you should know about this powerful flag.
#ADAFloorNotCeiling
#DisabilityPrideMonth
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We're so excited to announce our Disabled Voters Rising: Political Education and Training series! The first date is coming up on June 18th - you can register here!
ALT text attached to image.
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We will get the more than 7,000 people with disabilities in Georgia off the waiting list for home and community-based services, and we will get livable wages for our state’s direct service professionals.
We will never stop fighting for liberation for all of our people.
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We're thrilled to honor
@VilissaThompson
of South Carolina for her years of advocacy! Her work has made an incredible impact on the disabled community both in the South and across the nation.
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Allison, from Little Rock, Arkansas, has Cerebral Palsy and is a forearm crutch user. As a filmmaker and creative—and in her day-to-day life—she often faces misconceptions and assumptions about her disability when working and interacting with others.
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the deprioritization of affordable and accessible health care by those in power, and more, disabled people – particularly those who are multiply marginalized – are literally fighting for their lives, all in the middle of this ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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Today’s Election Day Georgia! If you need an accessible ride to the polls, go to this link and we’ll get you set up!
@AAPD
@RevUpCampaign
@revupgeorgia
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Georgians deserve healthcare regardless of their ability to work. Work requirements only make it more difficult.
Full Medicaid expansion is a must in Georgia and the 7 other Southern states that have yet to take this life-saving action.
Georgia is set to become the only state to have work requirements for Medicaid coverage.
#gapol
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Police in Knoxville, TN accused a disabled woman of faking, treated like a rag doll, and mercilessly mocked her while she was actively suffering a stroke. She died in custody.
Police don’t keep disabled people safe. Knoxville police killed Lisa Edwards.
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The TLDR is that disabled students don’t benefit from voucher programs, and private schools are often able to discriminate against them with no repercussions. They don’t have to follow federal law, and they don’t have to accommodate students’ individual needs.
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Whether it’s the been through the perpetuation of systemic racism, ableism, misogyny, homophobia, and anti-trans violence by state & local lawmakers, the destruction of coastal Southern towns due to a lack of action on climate change, the construction of new barriers to voting,
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Far too many Disabled people have died from the Biden administration‘s COVID policy already, primarily Black and brown disabled people, and this new guidance doubles down on eugenics.
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Not our Paxlovid nor our sick days nor our disability insurance or long term in-home care.
Disabled people are fighting for our lives, and the Biden Administration is killing us.
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