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  1. 206 people
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    Sign the AAPD Petition for Health Care Reform

    To ensure quality of life and civil rights to individuals requiring long term care, the American Association of People with Disabilities has started a Petition for Health Care Reform that Meets the...

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  2. 92 people
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    Health reform must include single payer, and CCA for the disabled

    House and Senate Democrats are producing a Health Reform bill that should include the essential single payer, and CCA for the disabled, it's universal and largely self-supporting.  Please...

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  3. 221 people
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    End the Perpetuation of Pity

    As April's "autism awareness" is used by charities for fund-raising, depictions of autistic people, usually children, as monstrous, fearsome, pitiable, suffering, and a burden become ever more perv...

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  4. 97 people
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    Single payer health insurance, anybody?

    National attention is now focused on healthcare reform. Washington is holding hearings – yet little is being said about the simplest, least expensive, most effective option: a single-payer sy...

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    Congress, pass single-payer healthcare, now

    Apparently, timidity in both the White House and Congress keeps a single payer health plan off the table. And many legislators receive handsome contributions from the private health industry, the c...

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  6. 89 people
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    Let's hear it for public health option

    While a strong majority of Americans believe that our health care system needs to be fundamentally changed or completely rebuilt, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll, most would be...

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  7. 173 people
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    Oppose the use of alarmist rhetoric about autism

    STATEMENT ON "EPIDEMIC" RHETORIC WITH RESPECT TO AUTISM by Jim Sinclair and Susan J. Golubock The word "epidemic" is commonly understood to refer to a rapid and extensive outbreak of a disease...

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  8. 291 people
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    End the use of aversives, restraints and seclusion

    End the use of aversives, restraints and seclusion on children on the autism spectrum by alerting the media, school teachers, parents, and the general public about the dangers and inhumanity of the...

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  9. 83 people
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    Demand Accessiblity from MoveOn.org

    Disability Rights organization NEXT STEP has been trying to reach out to MoveOn.org about inaccessible events, but keeps getting the form letter treatment.  It's time to reach out past the app...

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  10. 101 people
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    Make Wendy Portillo Accountable of Emotional Abuse

    Wendy Portillo says she was teaching consequences for actions by having classmates vote an autistic boy out of the classroom, but apparently she feels the same lesson does not apply to her.  S...

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