FRIEDEN OUT AS NCD CHAIR
By Mike Ervin
President George W. Bush has decided he no longer wants
renowned disability rights activist Lex Frieden to serve as chair of the
National Council on Disability. Click here for more
ADAPT: "NO MORE EXCUSES"
(Note: Mike Ervin is a member of
Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs Today, a group that works for the
civil rights of people with disabilities. This is his account of a recent
"action" in Washington, D.C.)
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ADAPT
The Elections and What it Means to You
By
Pat Figueroa
The results of the November 7th mid-term
elections seem far in the past by now. But the takeover by the 110th
Congress is upon us. The two chambers of the Congress, the Senate and the
House, will have a Democratic majority for the first time in nearly 20 years.
As usual in mid-term elections, the party in power lost a few seats. In the
recent elections, however, Republicans not only lost the majority but did so in
a big way.
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Election story
Gallaudet interim chief calm amid storm
By Kathi Wolfe
On December 10th, Robert R. Davila was appointed interim
president of Gallaudet University, the country’s premier institution for
people who are deaf and hard of hearing. Davila, an educator and former U.S.
Department of Education Assistant Secretary who is deaf, took office January
2nd following his appointment by the Washington, D.C.,
university’s board of trustees.
To
read the entire coverstory, click here
Doctors: Whose Side
Are They On?
By Mike Ervin
In my reeling state of frustration, I wondered
what the hell it is about doctors. How can so many of them attain so much
education and remain so oblivious to the basic humanity of people with
disabilities? Might there even be something about the detached manner in which
they are educated that makes them more susceptible than most to disability
bigotry? Read the full coverstory here.
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