Bruce Darling

I am an ADAPT activist fighting to give people an alternative to institutional placement and CEO of the Center for Disability Rights. My tweets are my opinions.

[Bruce Darling @ADAPTerBruce]

@GovKathyHochul Thank you to everyone who spoke at the meeting. You made a compelling and heart wrenching case. You were heard loud and clear.

I spoke on behalf of the Council’s Deinstitutionalization Committee in support of #FairPay4HomeCare. CDR posted my comments. https://t.co/sMYITFC6PB

[Bruce Darling @ADAPTerBruce]

At yesterday’s meeting of the Most Integrated Setting Coordinating Council, every member of the public who spoke during the comment period urged @GovKathyHochul to ensure that home care workers receive a minimum wage of $22.50 per hour. #FairPay4HomeCare

[Bruce Darling @ADAPTerBruce]

@GovKathyHochul Thanks to @NYAIL and @CDPAANYS for organizing today’s event! Here are a couple pics from our post-event War Room visit. This group has a long history of protests in this room and beyond. All are hard core activists and ADAPTers. The information people shared was #powerful!

[Bruce Darling @ADAPTerBruce]

After today’s press conference, a group of folks from Albany, Binghamton and Rochester went to @GovKathyHochul’s War Room. Kim Hill - the Chief Disability Officer - came out to meet with us. People shared why we need the Gov to include #FairPay4HomeCare in the state budget!

[Bruce Darling @ADAPTerBruce]

Fresh-cut fruit is being recalled from @wegmans. #Roc

https://t.co/cBS2WVxMpg

[CDPAANYS @CDPAANYS]

Did you get out of bed this morning?

Are you able to get to the restroom when nature calls?

If your house caught on fire, could you exit to safety?

The home care workforce crisis robs thousands of NYers of these simple things that many take for granted. #FairPay4HomeCare

[Bruce Darling @ADAPTerBruce]

Boris Romantschenko survived four of Hitler’s concentration camps and was killed by Putin.

https://t.co/HMhDUVIe4T

This war in #Ukraine must end. #FreeUkraine

[Bruce Darling @ADAPTerBruce]

Reported by @CNN, the US left a secure satellite phone for Ukrainian President Zelensky. “Initially it took a few days for the Ukrainians to get the satellite phones up and working because the instructions on how to use it were in English, not in Ukrainian.” #facepalm

[Bruce Darling @ADAPTerBruce]

@CDRNYS @MicahLasher @kp224 @KGforNYC @Jihoonie @JeffLewisNY @CramptonHays @CarlHeastie @AndreaSCousins @PhilSteck @JamesSkoufis With money in the budget for this Office, there isn’t ANY reason to let the bill die! Except #Ableism

[Bruce Darling @ADAPTerBruce]

@CDRNYS @JeffLewisNY @adaptanita @brettl111 @GovKathyHochul Hoping @jihoonie saw them as well.

[Bruce Darling @ADAPTerBruce]

@JeffLewisNY @GovKathyHochul @Jihoonie @KathyHochul Killing a bill championed by the Disability Community and passed UNANIMOUSLY by the state legislature makes no sense. Unless she thinks able bodied people ALWAYS know what’s best for Disabled folks. #ABLEIST #ableism

[Bruce Darling @ADAPTerBruce]

@JeffLewisNY The Disability Community has sent you 300 emails urging @GovKathyHochul to sign A3130/S1836 into law. We have publicly asked that she MEET with us before deciding not to sign the bill. NO RESPONSE. Ignoring people is really offensive. #OAPWD #AccessibleNY

[Bruce Darling @ADAPTerBruce]

@JeffLewisNY @GovKathyHochul Adding @Jihoonie TBH - I don’t understand why @KathyHochul would want to cement the legacy of her ableist predecessor with more than 15,000 Disabled NYers dying while he was out promoting himself. Or while Deaf people needed to SUE him for access to COVID pressers.

[Bruce Darling @ADAPTerBruce]

@KathyHochul @DemGovs But NYS forces CDPAS attendants to make such decisions by paying incredibly low wages - only 88% of what they would get at McDonalds under state law. #FairPay4HomeCare @CDRNYS @CDPAANYS #SaveNYHomeCare

[Bruce Darling @ADAPTerBruce]

@CDRNYS @JumaaneWilliams What’s impressive is that we didn’t even reach out to ask for his support! THANK YOU @JumaaneWilliams!

[Bruce Darling @ADAPTerBruce]

An article about this issue, journalist and her work.

https://t.co/KooPpPITGD

Thanks @bgraulau!!!

No one should be forced out of their homes and off their (is)land.

NYers- she has a connection to upstate NY in having gone to @NewhouseSU.

[Bruce Darling @ADAPTerBruce]

Will Puerto Rico stop being for Puerto Ricans soon?

Sharing this great piece https://t.co/aq0ot6KJZE from an amazing INDEPENDENT journalist @bgraulau covering a travesty of gentrification in PR. If your heart doesn’t ache when you watch this, check whether you have one.

[Bruce Darling @ADAPTerBruce]

I followed up on the data requests made at the June 2020 MISCC meeting. https://t.co/wDmgU5R3h0 We were told that the request is being “reviewed by the second floor” referring to @GovKathyHochul I hope that @DrMaryTBassett will work with our Gov to release this information.

[Bruce Darling @ADAPTerBruce]

In June, members of the Most Integrated Setting Coordinating Council made a formal request of NYSDOH.

https://t.co/wDmgU5R3h0

NO RESPONSE FROM DOH.

Ableist AF!

[Bruce Darling @ADAPTerBruce]

The ableism of the NYSDOH contributed to the public health crisis. Disabled New Yorkers tried to work with NYSDOH to save lives and we were ignored. @DrMaryTBassett

[Bruce Darling @ADAPTerBruce]

@GovKathyHochul @KathyHochul @OurAbility_CEO @NYAIL Love that John pointed out that Disabled people are problem solvers. Unfortunately under the last Governor we were considered “the problem” and, for many, the “solution” was death. We had offered a real solution and were ignored. https://t.co/hXEwxHId9L