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theautisticagender:
I know I’m a broken record but if you are a disabled person and you live within the political boundaries of the USA, please get acquainted with your state/territory/Indigenous Nation’s protection and advocacy organization. You can find yours at ndrn.org/en/ndrn-member-agencies.html.
The protection and advocacy system is extremely powerful and should be used more. One of the basic things P&As do is document abuse at schools, colleges, institutions, nursing homes, prisons, and anywhere else disabled people live/work as well provide technical or even legal assistance to disabled people.
They are empowered to monitor conditions through an act of congress. The power to do that is termed “access authority.” County jails, for example, can not deny a P&A from using their access authority to document abuse in county jails at any time and the P&A does not have to schedule their visit.
Disability Rights Texas, for example, was able to sue for federal access authority to monitor and document the conditions children with disabilities were facing in Trump’s concentration camps (”immigrant detention centers”). Disability Rights Washington has a team called Amplifying the Voices of Inmates with Disabilities (AVID). AVID has produced numerous reports on jails and prisons across the state, taken a leading role in making sure incarcerated transgender people get necessary transition-related healthcare, and as part of the De-escalate Washington Coalition, passed an initiative to lower the standard for prosecuting killer cops.
tl;dr: the protection and advocacy system in the USA is invaluable to the disability rights movement, does intersectional work, and can help you if you face ableism and an intersecting issue
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theautisticagender:
I know I’m a broken record but if you are a disabled person and you live within the political boundaries of the USA, please get acquainted with your state/territory/Indigenous Nation’s protection and advocacy organization. You can find yours at ndrn.org/en/ndrn-member-agencies.html.
The protection and advocacy system is extremely powerful and should be used more. One of the basic things P&As do is document abuse at schools, colleges, institutions, nursing homes, prisons, and anywhere else disabled people live/work as well provide technical or even legal assistance to disabled people.
They are empowered to monitor conditions through an act of congress. The power to do that is termed “access authority.” County jails, for example, can not deny a P&A from using their access authority to document abuse in county jails at any time and the P&A does not have to schedule their visit.
Disability Rights Texas, for example, was able to sue for federal access authority to monitor and document the conditions children with disabilities were facing in Trump’s concentration camps (”immigrant detention centers”). Disability Rights Washington has a team called Amplifying the Voices of Inmates with Disabilities (AVID). AVID has produced numerous reports on jails and prisons across the state, taken a leading role in making sure incarcerated transgender people get necessary transition-related healthcare, and as part of the De-escalate Washington Coalition, passed an initiative to lower the standard for prosecuting killer cops.
tl;dr: the protection and advocacy system in the USA is invaluable to the disability rights movement, does intersectional work, and can help you if you face ableism and an intersecting issue
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