Gulf Coast ADAPT

Houston disability justice group

[Little Lobbyists @LittleLobbyists]

.@BetoORourke has a record of supporting the policies our disabled children need to survive and thrive.

Happy to see him continue working for the good people of Texas!

[Gulf Coast ADAPT @GulfAdapt]

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[Gulf Coast ADAPT @GulfAdapt]

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[Charis Hill | they/them | 🇵🇸 😷 @BeingCharisBlog]

[Airline ableism]

"Flying while disabled could result in loss of life or limb. Fly at your own risk."

This shouldn't be the inferred regulatory approach, but here we are.

[🌸Bibi🌸♿ @BibiBlossoms]

Wheelchairs aren't just tools. They're a part of us. When they get damaged or completely destroyed. It causes us direct damage. It like crushing our legs and without proper care. It can hurt us and even kill us. So it's really messed up that airlines are allowed to destroy them.

[I believe the women @mpopov1229]

@SenBobCasey @MaryKayHenry @POTUS DO what's needed to invest in home services and also improve the quality of lives/livelihoods for the people doing this work please. #reconciliationact #Progressives #BuildBackBetter @AspenWorkforce

[Bob Casey @SenBobCasey]

Millions of Americans rely on home & community-based services to receive the services they need to live in their own homes and communities. This is a once-in-a-generation chance to make needed investments in home care & the caregivers who provide it.

[Bob Casey @SenBobCasey]

I’m grateful that @POTUS could join me & several PA recipients of home & community-based services & workers who provide them in Scranton yesterday. Since the President proposed a historic investment in these services, I’ve traveled across the PA, listening to stories like theirs.

[Autistic Self Advocacy Network @autselfadvocacy]

"People with disabilities, they belong in the community just like anyone else, truly, because we all get a voice and we all get a life to live." #CareCantWait
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[Bob Casey @SenBobCasey]

Home & community-based services keep seniors & people with disabilities like Brandon living independently in their homes.

It was an honor to be in Scranton yesterday with @POTUS to hear the personal stories of what these critical services mean to Pennsylvanians. #CareCantWait

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

I’m fighting every day to pass my Build Back Better Agenda for folks like Brandon. His story is like so many I’ve heard across the country. Folks are just looking for a fighting chance and to be treated with the dignity they deserve – and that’s what my agenda is all about.

[Domestic Workers @domesticworkers]

Storytelling. Art. Activism.

A new set of @domesticworkers murals in Georgia combines all three by celebrating Dorothy Bolden, the mother of the domestic worker movement and highlighting the essential nature of care work today. #ThankYouDomesticWorkers https://t.co/nqHVbMXJCu

[The Patients Union @Patients_Union]

"I would go further and ask @Sen_JoeManchin: Is staying alive an entitlement?" -@rachael_scar #CareCantWait https://t.co/rAUHtUW6wo

[Black Voters Matter Fund @BlackVotersMtr]

October is LGBTQ+ History Month where we'll be celebrating the achievements of Black Leaders.
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Bayard Rustin was an leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights. He was also the main organizer of the March on Washington in 1963.

[AAPD @AAPD]

What happened to Clifford Owensby is wrong. The police violence experienced by Mr. Owensby is a part of a long-term pattern of abuse experienced by disabled people, who make up 50% of those killed by law enforcement.

[AAPD @AAPD]

Black people with disabilities are treated even more severely, with their risk of arrest being twice as much as white disabled people. Racism and ableism are intertwined and reinforce one another.

[Ari Berman @AriBerman]

Texas House passed extreme gerrymandered GOP state House map at 3:30 am last night. Democracy quite literally dying in dark

Whites 40% population but control 59% districts

Hispanics 39% of population but control 20% districts

Blacks 12% of population but control 2.7% districts

[Rep. Pramila Jayapal @RepJayapal]

Expanding Medicare to FINALLY cover 👁, 👂🏾, and 🦷 is not only good policy (and it is!), it's great politics too.

[Gulf Coast ADAPT @GulfAdapt]

@ahcancal @DebbieMeade14 What about the 186,000 + disabled people who died solitary deaths because of negligent corporate practices based on greed and incompetence during the pandemic?

[Gulf Coast ADAPT @GulfAdapt]

#AHCANCAL21
'Diversity' and 'inclusion' IS NOT segregating disabled people in substandard warehouses and drugging them in order to maintain dangerous understaffing levels so that your corporations can profit.
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