- Sign the AAPD Petition for Health Care Reform
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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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206 peopleAct Now!
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92 peopleAct Now!
- Health reform must include single payer, and CCA for the disabled
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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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221 peopleAct Now!
- End the Perpetuation of Pity
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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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97 peopleAct Now!
- Single payer health insurance, anybody?
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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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55 peopleAct Now!
- Congress, pass single-payer healthcare, now
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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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89 peopleAct Now!
- Let's hear it for public health option
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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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173 peopleAct Now!
- Oppose the use of alarmist rhetoric about autism
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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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291 peopleAct Now!
- End the use of aversives, restraints and seclusion
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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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83 peopleAct Now!
- Demand Accessiblity from MoveOn.org
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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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101 peopleAct Now!
- Make Wendy Portillo Accountable of Emotional Abuse
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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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Tom Maxwell
- Los Angeles, CA
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F G
- Highlands, NJ
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Soodle Billy
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