To: ADAPT, Disability Rights Activists and Advocates, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
Pledge solidarity with people with disabilities
We, the undersigned, pledge to help defend and lift up the rights and lives of people with disabilities. To change the systematic structures that keep people with disabilities at the margins, we must all work together. Congress: pass the Disability Integration Act.
Why is this important?
Now is the time to openly and warmly thank disability rights activists for their fierce opposition that helped to defeat Trumpcare, and to commit to helping defend them against this administration.
Disability rights activists--including members of ADAPT--must be recognized for their significant role in blocking Trumpcare and saving health care for millions of fellow Americans.
Trumpcare would have killed people with disabilities. But threats to Medicaid and a president who has openly mocked disabled people and has labeled the Americans with Disabilities Act "oppressive" to business owners--are perhaps just as dangerous in the long run.
Furthermore, the intersection of people with disabilities and people who already have societal odds stacked against them--LGBTQ individuals, Black people and people of color, immigrants, women, senior citizens, the working class and poor, and more--means solidarity is absolutely critical. To change the systematic structures that keep people with disabilities at the margins, we must all work together.
Disability rights activists--including members of ADAPT--must be recognized for their significant role in blocking Trumpcare and saving health care for millions of fellow Americans.
Trumpcare would have killed people with disabilities. But threats to Medicaid and a president who has openly mocked disabled people and has labeled the Americans with Disabilities Act "oppressive" to business owners--are perhaps just as dangerous in the long run.
Furthermore, the intersection of people with disabilities and people who already have societal odds stacked against them--LGBTQ individuals, Black people and people of color, immigrants, women, senior citizens, the working class and poor, and more--means solidarity is absolutely critical. To change the systematic structures that keep people with disabilities at the margins, we must all work together.