#cripthevote

[lilypadd23]

[smithbrainz]

Nerds RULE, y'all.

[whenweallvote]

The disability vote is on the rise! Let’s continue to make those numbers ⬆️ Our vote has the power to ensure the laws and leaders we choose work for — and not against — us. Register to vote at weall.vote/partner during Disability Voting Rights Week!

[bcdisabilitycaucus]

In Canada, disability is the most frequently cited ground for human rights discrimination This discrimination is widely ignored or downplayed by political bodies and relevant influential decision makers What will your party do to combat disability discrimination? Federal Election 2021Image description: Nondisabled person holding briefcase being chosen ( large hand figuratively lifting person up) over a person with a briefcase in a wheelchair. A large hand is preventing the person in the wheelchair from going further.#HumanRights #CRPD #Article28  #nspoli #ontpoli #abpoli #nlpoli #skpoli #mbpoli #NWTpoli #qcpoli #nspolitics #peipoli #cdnpoli #bcpoli #ableism #disabilities #cdnpoli #discrimination

[autisticadvocacy]

Tuesdays with Liz: Overcoming Voting Barriers

You can VOTE! Learn all about overcoming voting barriers for people with disabilities with Liz. Liz discusses how to get to the polls and how early voting mi...

Learn all about overcoming voting barriers for people with disabilities with Liz! Liz discusses how to get to the polls and why early voting might be the right option for you.

[matchgirl42]

Bernie Sander’s plan for disability rights - this is HUGE

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Have you read Bernie Sander’s plan for disability rights?!?!?!?!

https://berniesanders.com/issues/fighting-for-disability-rights/

Some choice excerpts:

Guaranteeing health care, including mental health care and home- and community-based services and supports without waitlists, asset or income restrictions, as a human right to everyone in America.

Protecting and expanding the Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income programs by reversing the Trump Administration’s attack on SSDI/SSI, ending the massive disability application backlog, putting a stop to SSI’s draconian asset test and marriage penalty, and raising the SSI benefit level to 125 percent of the poverty level, lifting millions out of poverty.

Aggressively enforcing the Supreme Court’s Olmstead decision, including for people with mental illness. As President, Sanders will work to enforce the Supreme Court’s landmark Olmstead decision protecting the rights of people with disabilities to get support in the community. The plan places particular priority on the humanitarian crisis in our country created by the incarceration of people with mental illness, leveraging Olmstead to ensure states fund the voluntary, community-based mental health services that can save lives and keep people in the community.

Using executive authority to reject both renewals of and new proposals from states to place disability and aging services under the control of for-profit managed care organizations, including reversing Iowa’s disastrous experiment with for-profit Medicaid privatization.

Create a National Office of Disability Coordination, run by a person with a disability, focused on coordinating and making disability policy to advance the full inclusion of people with disabilities, including ensuring every aspect of our public resources are ADA compliant and that the civil rights of people with disabilities are protected and expanded.

Ending subminimum wage for workers with disabilities while guaranteeing jobs and living wages in the community for all.

Prioritizing accountability in law enforcement interactions with people with disabilities. All too often, people with disabilities, especially people of color with disabilities, face violence from law enforcement. This requires more than just training – it requires accountability. Approximately half of all people who die in police-involved shootings have a disability. In order to protect the rights of people with disabilities, we intend to make discriminatory law enforcement interactions with people with disabilities a major enforcement priority of the Civil Rights Division and dedicate staff to focus specifically on this problem.

Require and fund police officer training on implicit bias, cultural competency, de-escalation, crisis intervention, adolescent development, and how to interact with people with mental and physical disabilities.

Work with teachers, school administrators, and the disability rights movement to end restraint and seclusion in schools through passage of the Keeping All Students Safe Act.

Stop the criminalization of homelessness and spend nearly $32 billion over the next five years to end homelessness. This includes doubling McKinney-Vento homelessness assistance grants to build permanent supportive housing, and $500 million to provide outreach to homeless people to help connect them to available services. In the first year of this plan, 25,000 of the Housing Trust Fund units will be prioritized for housing the homeless.

Bernie Sanders has been listening to us.  It’s right there in his plans.  This is...I’m gonna cry.

In the upcoming primary elections, if you care about disabled people at all, please please please vote for Bernie Sanders.  As a disabled person, I’m telling you: we need people like him in power.

#CripTheVote

[thatchronicfeeling]

VOTE

Today (12th December 2019) is the UK general election. Please vote. If you have already voted -- well done. I voted for a local candidate with a good record on campaigning for disabled people’s rights. #cripthevote

[ogrefairysonarest]

My US friends and followers, #Vote if you haven’t already!! If you need accommodations, make sure to take advantage of what they have and make a big fuss if they are not prepared! It is your right to vote!! [Image description: a selfie of Ogrefairy sitting in car. She is holding up a peace sign and wearing a cut off t shirt that says “The Future Is Accessible” and has an “I voted sticker on her chest.]