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Joe Bravo: Longtime ILC Chief Still Has
Passion for Job
Though he began his involvement with disability advocacy
in the late 1970s, Bravo, like many people with disabilities of his generation,
had little awareness of disability rights when he was growing up.
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Academy's Humanitarian Award for Lewis Gets
a Big Thumbs-Down
December 10th was also when the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences' Board of Governors announced its decision to give Jerry
Lewis the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, to be presented at the 81st annual
Academy Awards on February 22nd.
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Lewis
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New Advances Revving Up Motor Imagery
My father had a dream recently that he could walk easily
again. The levity that dream lent him was apparent on his face as he told me
how it felt.
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Imagery
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Commentary
Obama Plan Would Empower People with
Disabilities
During the 23-month primary and election campaigns,
President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-Elect Joseph Biden were among
the two strongest and most consistent respondents to questions from the
disability community concerning their stands
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Short-Stature Trio Taking the Long
View
She is a person of short stature, former officer of Little
People of America (LPA) and director of professional development for Kean
University in New Jersey.
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Kelly Buckland Appointed NCIL's New
Executive Director
Buckland will bring with him a career of experience in the
independent living movement and the field of disability rights
New NCIL Director bio
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SABE Chief Plans to Expand Advocacy
Efforts
According to Self Advocates Becoming Empowered (SABE),
self-advocacy organizations are in every state in the U.S
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Famed Disability Rights Lawyer Gold's
Standards Remain High
Gold lost in the district but won in the United States
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in 1995
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Gold.
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Census: 54.4 Million Americans Have a
Disability
About one in five U.S. residents - 19 percent - reported
some level of disability in 2005, according to a U.S. Census Bureau report
recently released
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Conflicts of Interest
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Resources for Not-for-profits
Organizations
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Note to NYC Board of Elections Chief:
You HAVA Major Polling Site Problem!
On arriving at my polling place, I asked if there was a
BMD on site.
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Voting
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| Additional Articles |
 Social Security Cost of Living Increase
Scheduled for 2009 |
New Digital TV Era About to Dawn Beginning
Updated to June 12th, 2009, over-the-air -analog broadcast television will
end in the United States
Many
local TV stations to go ahead with DTV switch |
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