Disability Rights and Activism Links

  • Ability Index -- Resources for the Disabled (UK) -- "information for disabled and able-bodied with links on disability, health, diseases, books etc."
  • Ability Magazine
  • American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT) -- "There's no place like home, and we mean real homes, not nursing homes. We are fighting so people with disabilities can live in the community with real supports instead of being locked away in nursing homes and other institutions."
  • Barbara Robertson's Disability Research & Activism Resources
  • Center for Computer Assistance to the Disabled -- Their mission is "enhancing the quality of life and employment options of persons with disabilities through the use of modified personal computers, adaptive devices, and custom software".
  • Disabled Peoples International (Winnipeg) -- "The purpose of Disabled Peoples' International (DPI) is to promote the Human Rights of People with Disabilities through full participation, equalization of opportunity and development. DPI is a grassroot, cross-disability network with member organizations in over 158 countries, over half of which are in the developing world."
  • Disability Activism -- a good set of annotated links.
  • The Disability Link Barn - ADA, Disability Rights, Disability Activism links.
  • Disability Net (UK) -- Youreable.com: Information, Products and Services for the Disabled Community
  • Disability Online: The Disability Information Directory
  • The Disability Rights Activist -- "A lot is happening at the federal level with legislation and regulations that affects the lives of disabled people. Unfortunately we are seeing a backlash against the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). There is more and more information available for people to take action in support of the rights of people with disabilities but it is, for the most part, scattered across the Web. The Disability Rights Activist brings together much of the information needed to enable anyone interested in the rights of disabled people to work for those rights."
  • Disability Social History Project - "a community history project and we welcome your participation. This is an opportunity for disabled people to reclaim our history and determine how we want to define ourselves and our struggles. People with disabilities have an exciting and rich history that should be shared with the world. Please email or mail us anything that you would like to see become part of the Disability Social History Project, including your disabled heroes, important events in disability history, and resources."
  • Justice for All Email Network -- "Justice For All and our JFA E-mail Network were formed to defend and advance disability rights and programs in the 104th Congress. One JFA goal is to work with national and state organizations of people with disabilities to get the word from Washington D.C. out to the grassroots."
  • Law Project for Psychiatric Rights (Anchorage, Alaska) -- "has a mission to bring fairness and reason into the administration of legal aspects of the mental health system. The public mental health system is creating a huge class of chronic mental patients through forcing them to take ineffective, yet extremely harmful drugs. The purpose of the Law Project for Psychiatric rights is to promote and implement a legal campaign in support of psychiatric rights akin to what Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP mounted in the 40's and 50's on behalf of African American civil rights on behalf of psychiatric rights."
  • Not Dead Yet Home Page -- "Americans with Disabilities don't want your pity or your lethal mercy, We want freedom, We want LIFE."
  • Ragged Edge Magazine
  • Red Disability (UK) -- "a website for disabled people which promotes disability issues from a left-wing working-class viewpoint. It has the following long-term aims: to inform disabled people about the nature of our oppression and what to do about it, to promote a positive image of disability by promoting disabled people who have contributed to society and culture, and to provide a source of links to disabled self-help groups (both political and non-political)."
  • Untangling the Web: Disability Links -- an extensive set of annotated links organized into categories.

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