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Don't forget to #vote on May 1st. We need to close the #disability voting gap and show Labour #disabled people matter, even if they deem us burdens. Don't like their plans to deprive disabled people, and other people in desperate need, of support? Let them know with your vote. #CripTheVote #NEISVoid

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Once again no representatives from the CPC party at the Debate on Disability Issues. Thank you to the Canadian Liberals, NDP and Green parties for sending representatives and showing up. I urge everyone to Vote accordingly! #CripTheVoteCAN #CripTheVote #AccessibleCanada #CdnPoli

"If you are aware of inaccessible places previously designated as polling stations, contact your local authority as soon as possible to request they explore alternatives." www.inclusionlondon.org.uk/campaigns-an... #Disability #DisabilitySky #CripTheVote #LocalElections

Accessible Voting: Upholding t...

🚨 Disability rights are under attack in 17 states! 🚨

There’s a lawsuit trying to get rid of Section 504, the law that protects disabled people in schools, workplaces, and public spaces. If they succeed, it means:

❌ Schools wouldn’t have to provide accommodations (no extra test time for ADHD, no wheelchair access, no diabetes care in class).
❌ Workplaces wouldn’t have to adjust for disabilities (no remote work, no flexible scheduling, no accessibility requirements).
❌ Public spaces could ignore accessibility needs (buildings, buses, and services wouldn’t have to be usable for disabled people).

📍 These 17 states are trying to gut 504 protections:
Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia.

If you live in one of these states, contact your state reps & governor! If this lawsuit succeeds, other states could follow, or it could reach the Supreme Court and hurt everyone.

More details here: https://dredf.org/protect-504/

📢 Please share this! More people need to know.

#Protect504 #Save504 #DisabilityRights #DisabilityJustice #StopTheRollback #AccessibilityMatters #EqualAccess #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #DisabilityAdvocacy #CripTheVote #ADAProtections #CivilRights #HumanRights #Alabama #Arkansas #Georgia #Indian #Iowa #Kansas #Kentucky #Louisiana #Mississippi #Missouri #Nebraska #Oklahoma #SouthCarolina #Tennessee #Texas #Utah #WestVirginia
#AlabamaPolitics #ArkansasPolitics #GeorgiaPolitics #IndianPolitics #IowaPolitics #KansasPolitics #KentuckyPolitics #LouisianaPolitics #MississippiPolitics #MissouriPolitics #NebraskaPolitics #OklahomaPolitics #SouthCarolinaPolitics #TennesseePolitics #TexasPolitics #UtahPolitics #WestVirginiaPolitics

My polling place is a public school, has a ramp, and there were access-a-ride vehicles outside bringing people to the polls. #CripTheVote

Covid amped mass disability

2008-2019, about 10,000 disabled people died annually waiting for determination

It takes more than a few years to fix the biggest cuts to staff in decades, funding cuts, office closures — Project 2025 promises more cuts still #CripTheVote https://www.npr.org/2024/06/08/g-s1-3475/social-security-ssi-asset-limits

“We will survive him” 30,000 disabled people died waiting for their SSDI/SSI cases to be processed in 2023 after massive SSA cuts in 2017-2021

Biden’s SSA appointee couldn’t catch up fixes

Do you want voters to survive if you’re not even wearing a mask? #CripTheVote
https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2024/04/30000-died-fiscal-2023-waiting-disability-decisions-social-security/395796/

It’s not too late to vote! Disabled folks— they need to hear from us! #CripTheVote

#CripTheVote

Current results from the #CripTheVote 2024 U.S. Election Disability Issue Survey:

https://cripthevote.blogspot.com/2024/11/2024-cripthevote-issue-survey-results.html

But it seems that the survey is still open - here's the link:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/9DSFZ99

#USPol #Election2024 #Disability #Disabled #DisabilityVote

Vance floats new health plans for chronically ill, reopening ACA debate

"Vance floated an idea to group chronically ill patients together in health-insurance pools based on their elevated risks. That would reverse a shift driven by the Affordable Care Act, which largely ended the practice of shunting chronically ill patients into what are known as high-risk pools and provided new protections for patients with preexisting conditions."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/vance-floats-new-health-plans-for-chronically-ill-reopening-aca-debate/ar-AA1qTCO1

#CripTheVote

@ascentale @meganL To me #CripCycling fits with the spirit of #CripTheVote but I say that as a non-crip wanting to support #OwnVoices. When I did a Twitter #BikeSchool related to this topic Gabrielle Peters chose #WheelsMoveMe to represent the overlap of cycling and assistive devices. http://bikestylespokane.com/2019/12/10/welcome-to-our-twitter-chat-bikeschool-moveequity-wheelsmoveme/

#BikeNite #BikeTooter #disability #MoveEquity #MobilityJustice #cycling #accessibility

#CripTheVote
https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/@cbccanada_mirror/111349094769988113

@beadsland Sorry you went through this!

I'm lucky that Oregon is a full "vote by mail" state since I can't vote in person (illness). Ballots are automatically sent to all registered voters.

A tiny % of ballots are cast in person, but most vote at home and return ballots via mail or take them to drop box.

It works well for my disability, but others need different voting methods. Video series on accessible voting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIw7NoQBZ6I

#Voting #VoteByMail #VoteAtHome #CripTheVote

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The Proverbial list Evolved:

#InvisibleDisabilityRights #IDR
#LandBack #Indigenous Kahnawá:ke Nia:wen kowa

Behind and beside: #CivilRights #MentalHealth #EndRacism #LGBTQIA #BLM #WomenRights #EqualPay #StopViolence #StopAsianHate #POC Eater of clean foods Anti-AntiSemitic #EndBigotry for #everyone
#BeYou #BeKind #BePatient
#UnityConquers #TearDownTheWall :solidarity: union.place ✊🏽

Focus: :ir:
#DisabilitySolidarity #DisabledCommunity #EndAbleism #StopAbleistHate #DisabilityAdvocacy #passionate #DisabledVoicesUnite #CrossDisabilitySupport #inclusion #ListeningEar #Here4All #NeurodivergentThinking #neurodiversity
#ConcussionAwareness #TBI #ABI #AnoxicBrainInjury #BrainInjury #SpineInjury #fibromyalgia #LimbDifference #ActuallyAutisic #OrthopedicDisabilities #SticksAndStones #BrokenBones #NaturesPharmaceutical #DisabilityAcceptance #EndAbleistHateCrime #StopAbleistSlurs #DisabilityEconomicJustice #CripTheVote #DisabilityLobby #HumanInterest #NonPartisan #research #Education #Knowledge
#UnityConquers #TearDownTheWall
✊🏽 :solidarity:

Un peu de moi?
Je ne parle pas couramment Français. I like using #HashtagsNobodyWillEverSearch
#FilmMaking #Writing #poetry
Ex-#musician #Songwriter Passé
💐⚘🌺🏵 #GardenCreator extraordinaire. #FlowerGardens #PhotorealisticImagination
Et Bien plus encore.

🙏, ✌️, 💛, :solidarity: #accommodation for "👥👩🏽‍🦯👤👨🏽‍🦽" with #InvisibleDisabilities
Just like many of us, this list is incomplete and still evolving. (he, him)

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Image is a screenshot from a video I took somewhere - sometime. I don't remember right now.

A golden sun paints the horizon orange, as shadows fall across the earth below. Above the leaden clouds make way for light, just as darkness falls upon the day.

A quote in white text is superimposed below the sun reading:

“People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they have not communicated with each other”
Martin Luther King Jr
(Image:OutOfExile_IDR)

I was sick, and you said "You look fine to me".
I was sick, and you cast me off.
I was sick, and you used it against me.
I was sick, and you took my health care.
I was sick, and you battered and killed.
I was sick, and you fought for a wooden hammer.
I was sick, and you fought about blue and red.
I was sick, and you fought as the nations watched with disdain.
I was sick, and you fought the "wrong" while resembling it.
I was sick, as you fought for "all" but, forgot about us.

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My adaptation of Matthew 25:39 inspired by the work below. (Not an endorsement for religion or church)

I was hungry, and you blamed it on the communist
I was hungry, and you circled the moon.
I was hungry, and you told me to wait
I was hungry, and you set up a commission.
I was hungry, and you said "So were my ancestors".
I was hungry, and you said we don't hire over 35.
I was hungry, you said God helps those…
I was hungry, and you told me I shouldn't be.
I was hungry, and you told me machines do that work now.
I was hungry, and you had napalm bills to pay.
I was hungry, and you said the poor are always with us.
Lord, when did we see you hungry?

Adaptation of Matthew 25:37 by Anonymous – 1971

Image by Alex Velazquez from Pixabay https://pixabay.com/users/alex2171-3560452/

#disability #Politics #DisabilityEconomicJustice #CripTheVote #partisanship #humanity #InvisibleDisabilityRights #healthcare #Medicare #Medicaid #MentalHealth #accommodation #understanding #poetry #TearDownTheWall #PoetryNobodyWillEverFind

@disability @disabilityjustice @actuallyautistic

Photograph shows the remains of a large ocean vessel leaning as it rests in shallow water. The hull of the ship is rusted, tattered and demolished. All that remains are rusted beams and scraps metal dangle from the upper deck's carcass. The image is symbolizes the poor and disabled huddled masses, as well as the American political system. Time wasted on bickering and bureaucracy, has taken a toll in many ways.

@flexghost Eight states plus Washington, DC, have "all mail voting" (aka, vote by mail or vote at home). It's pretty hard to keep up the facade that there's a problem with allowing *everyone* to vote by mail, not just disabled folks.

And by the way, vote by mail is not accessible to all disabled folks. Voters with certain disabilities need other accessible methods. One size does *not* fit all.

https://ballotpedia.org/All-mail_voting

#VotingRights #VoteByMail #VoteAtHome #CripTheVote #Accessibility

Screen shot from link in the post:
"Eight states – California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Vermont, and Washington – conduct what are commonly referred to as all-mail elections. In these states, voting is conducted primarily, although not necessarily exclusively, by mail. This article addresses the utilization of all-mail elections in the United States."

RT @Sblahov: The D in ADA stands for disability. The ADA protects:
- Disabled people
- People with a history of being disabled
- People perceived as being disabled

It is harmful and inaccurate to claim that it protects everyone. #CripTheVote #DisabilityTwitter https://t.co/XLfV4SmFIc

The only office on my ballot today is City Sewer Director. I wouldn’t have given this position much thought before, figuring anyone who had technical knowledge could do it. However, due to #COVID and learning how important wastewater data is, you bet I’m deeply researching these candidates.

As they say, “sh*t happens”. 💩 Have a say in who handles it. #NativesVote #CripTheVote

#CripTheVote

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