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UPDATE ON ADAPT AND HUD.
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ADAPT
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UPDATE ON POLITICAL CANDIDATES.
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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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An Interview
with Kristen Cox
By Deborah Kendrick
 When Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich Jr. announced in
late June that his running mate for lieutenant governor in the November
election would be Kristen Cox, news spread rapidly throughout the
disability-rights community. The announcement made Cox, Maryland's secretary of
the Department of Disabilities, the first blind woman ever tapped for that
office. Click here for Cox
Voting Project:
JAMES C. DICKSON: DON’T MOURN: ORGANIZE!
By Kathi
Wolfe
James C. “Jim” Dickson, head of the American
Association of People with Disabilities Disability Vote Project, is a man on a
mission. Dickson, who is blind, not only works to make the world more just, but
he organizes oppressed communities, including the disability community, so that
they, too, can work for justice. Click here
for Voting
COMMENTARY:
Vote: VOTE: YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT!
Last month, my friend Penny, accompanied by her guide dog Tess,
entered her polling place to vote in the Maryland primary. Said a poll worker
when he saw Penny: “We’re so glad you’re here! We were afraid
you weren’t coming!” Why was the Montgomery Village election official
so excited to see her?
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about Vote! Click here.
 NATIONAL
DISABILITY EMPLOYMENT AWARENESS MONTH: By Deborah
Kendrick
Do You VOTE?
By Cliff Perez
Medicare Is
Forty Years Olde.America’s Own Forty Year War
By Eleanor A.
Cantor
CIL
MANAGEMENT By Ron House, Ph. D.
CIL
Mangement Training Calendar ANNOUNCEMENT OF TRAINING COURSES FOR ILCs
My Habitat
By Kimberly White
Money
Follows the Person : NYS Project By Susan Cohen
Disability
in the Movies By Mike Reynolds
Getting Clean From
Old Attitudes By Leslie Underwood
COMMENTARY: Revelations
By Pat Figueroa, Jr.
Part II of the Genesis
of Voluntary Agencies
"Vacations"
News Roundout News
highlights for Sept 2006
By Dave Reynolds, Exclusion Express
Calendar of
Events
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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.
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article.
In Maryland, Kristen Cox says it is an encouraging sign of how
much public perception have changed that she and David Paterson, both legally
blind, are running for lieutenant governor in Maryland and New York this year.
She was picked by current Governor Ehrlich as his running mate
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more.
Almost every day in New York one can find an article in local
newspapers, on the radio or on television about the Help America Vote Act and
the dismal example the state has set concerning its implementation. Many
people, however, may be surprised to learn that advocates have been fighting
for a very long time for the right of those with disabilities to be able to
vote at their local polling places alongside their families, friends and
neighbors.Read the
full voters story
Every July 4th, Americans celebrate the birth of
their nation, the sacrifices made by the Founding Fathers and the courage of
the Continental Army, which helped free the colonists from British rule. When
Thomas Jefferson declared that all men were created equal and had the right to
pursue life, liberty and happiness in 1776, he paved the way for the freedoms
we enjoy today. But equality and freedom haven’t always been extended to
every member of our society. For many years, millions of citizens were denied
some of most basic rights won at the end of the Revolutionary War and spelled
out in the U.S. Constitution.
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"My Right To Vote
Too"
BEYOND THE AP
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Brooke
Ellison Runs For State Senate.
The
Sandwich Generation
Disaster
Preparedness
COMMENTARY: Genesis of
Voluntary Agencies.
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