Column: People with disabilities can’t be left behind during the pandemic
Highly prioritizing the disability community means prioritizing vaccinations to all facilities that house people with disabilities,...
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Labor of Love: Behind the most accessible building in Detroit
Link To The News “...the team embraced Universal Design, a philosophy that strives to make the built environment usable by as many people...
Voters With Disabilities Can Change It All
Link To The News “In Detroit, there are 117,000, voting aged disabled adults. That is almost 20% of the population of our city. And so we...
Column: We must make it easier for people with disabilities to vote
Link To The News “All evidence suggests that voting turnout in 2020 will be at record levels. It is a disgrace that so many people whose...
How accessible is voting in Detroit?
Link To The News “We [disabled people] are one of the fastest growing voting blocks in the country, our share of the population increases...
Here’s what happens to your Detroit Ballot if your signature is a mismatch
Link To The News “In many ways, absentee ballots make it a lot more accessible for those with disabilities and our organization is...
Adapted in TC: Casting an independent, private ballot is the goal
Link To The News “Nonetheless, however I vote, I must vote. My vote after all, is my voice.”
Allied Media Projects begins development of Love Building in Core City
Link To The News “Detroit Disability Power is one of several nonprofit organizations that will soon call the Love Building home… ‘We...
Panelists discuss barriers to voting in Michigan ahead of November election
Link To The News “When I went to vote in my wheelchair, there was nowhere for me to vote. I could get in the building, I could get my...
Clap Back Against Worker Inequity: Workers and Activists Join Forces to Reimagine the Economy
Link To The News “For decades, essential workers, who are disproportionately Black, people of color, immigrants, women, and other...
Clap Back Against Worker Inequity. Join Workers and Activists to Reimagine the Economy
“Together we can reimagine and create a new economy that works for everyone, and clap back to ensure that tens of millions of people who...
There is no justice without disability.
Link To The News “Everything that’s wrong with our society was a set of choices, and the beautiful thing about that is we can make a...
CAMPAIGN VIDEO
Link To The Video “We are people with disabilities building power and inclusive social justice movements.”
Reorienting society for people with disabilities ft. Dessa Cosma #DisabilityInclusion
f we actually reorient our society to be good for people with disabilities, every single person benefits. If we were to really radically...
Call to Action #DisabilityInclusion
“We ask for disability access because when we evolve our institutions to be fully inclusive, we can build a world where all are free.”
We stand with Detroit protesters demanding an end to racism and police violence
“It is a time of momentous, intergenerational, mutli-racial unity, and collaboration that defends our human rights, rejects outdated,...
The Americans With Disabilities Act At 30
Link To The News “...many non-disabled people think that because we have civil rights protections, things are fine...but we need more...
Black Disabled Lives Matter March in Detroit
Link To The News “I want you to remember this moment when we all came together in unity. With love. For our Black brothers and sisters....
Virtual Book Reading & Conversation Feat. Author Naomi Ortiz & facilitated by William Copeland
Self-Care for Social Justice in the Time of COVID, book reading and conversation w/ Author Naomi Ortiz and facilitated William Copeland.
Adapted in TC: We can’t go it alone
Link To The News “Crip Camp...is not a film about disability as burden or tragedy... [It] is a chronicle of the disability rights movement.”
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