Remember that if you're disabled, you're considered part of the public when it comes to paying taxes, but not part of the public when it comes to building things with those taxes. #Ableism#DisabilityLaw#Camping@disability
UC Riverside is looking for a "Student Disability Specialist". You can read the job requirements and ask yourself - is the job to make the public's university accessible to the public by default as much as possible, or is the job about policing disabled people and continuing to resist the public and do only the bare minimum of disability law that is enforced on the university? @academicchatter@disability
We welcome insider tips on what the new University of California Office of the President's Disability Rights Office is conceived to be, and who they're hiring as leaders/staff.
At the time UC Access Now released the Demandifesto on the 30th Anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the UC Board of Regents had not discussed disability/accessibility for TEN YEARS.
UC Access Now was the 1st org we know of that advocated for a systemic approach to dismantling ableism throughout UC - prior to us, ppl were focused mostly on students, only at their own UC campus. UC brass have ignored us as much as they can, even when cherry-picking things to improve from our analysis.
@disability All along UC has erased UC Access Now from the discussion of disability within University of California and used groups that would not press them as hard as ways to buffer them from critique and from the public knowing that UC Access Now's approach had had an effect. We know we had an effect because people would inform us that we were mentioned....in closed door meetings where we were not invited.
@disability How will this Office of DIsability Rights go? Well, if we don't see UC acknowledging and relying upon the expertise of UC Access Now coalition members, if we don't see them taking the things currently easily within their power - their own communications, events, training programs, and projects begun hereafter - and making them highest common denominator of accessible by default...we know it's just another way of extending people's fights for justice...another delay before having to sue in court. #UCAccessNow#Disability#Accessibility#DIsabilityLaw
@disability Help us find more folks in the University of California anti-ableist community. Urge your friends to follow this account so when news like this breaks, we can make sure folks know more details than they're likely to get in any media coverage. #UCAccessNow#Disability#Accessibility#DIsabilityLaw
On September 26, the White House is hosting a forum on Disability Rights for the 50th Anniversary of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. The virtual event is open to the public. The event will take place from 1:00 – 4:30 PM ET. ASL and CART will be provided.
(ODEP released the Zoom link, but an informative event pages cannot be found at the moment.) @disability