Links
- National organizations for persons with disabilities
- American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD)
- American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT)
- If you believe that people with disabilities should live in their own homes with real supports instead of being locked up in nursing homes, then join ADAPT in the fight to FREE OUR PEOPLE!
- ADA Watch
- Not Dead Yet
"Americans with disabilities don't want your pity or your lethal mercy. We want freedom. We want LIFE."
Join Not Dead Yet in the fight against euthanasia and physician assisted suicide.
- Freedom Clearinghouse
- How would you like to spend the rest of your life in a nursing home or other institution? Neither would we. Let's do something about it now. Sign up with the Freedom Clearinghouse to be part of a team of advocates accross the nation.
- DIMENET Network
- The Information Network for Independent Living Centers
- DREDF
- The Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund
- Disability Rights Advocates
- A national and international non-profit organization dedicated to protecting and advancing the civil rights of people with disabilities, DRA pursues its mission through research, education, and legal advocacy.
- Concrete Change
- An international effort to make all homes visitable!
- Support Coalition International
- Psychiatric survivors fighting against psychiatry's civil rights violations.
"Heal Normality!"
- Psychiatric survivors fighting against psychiatry's civil rights violations.
- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR RIGHTS PROTECTION AND ADVOCACY (NARPA)
- They exist to expose abuse, to shed light on coercive and dangerous practices, and to promote real alternatives to a mental health system that even professionals agree is a disgrace. Read about the history of mental health advocacy, and check out the ADA Case of the Week, and more.
- American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD)
- New York City organizations for persons with disabilities:
Brooklyn Center for Independence of the Disabled, Inc. (BCID)
Disabilities Network of New York City (DNNYC) is a
"listserv"
for people with disabilities and puts out a weekly list of what is going on in New York City for people with disabilities.The Anti-Discrimination Center of Metro New York
A nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing and remedying discrimination in housing, employment, education, and public accommodations.
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You can find information for people with disabilities about traveling on MTA public transportation, including a great deal of information about Access-A-Ride
OTHER DISABILITY RIGHTS SITES:
Disabled People's Direct Action Network (D.A.N.)
Britain's disability rights group
They got rid of the telethon and have organized many successful actions!
DDS Group - Democracy Disability and Society Group; Resources and Activism for Inclusion
from Edinburgh, Scotland
USEFUL GOVERNMENT & ADA SITES:
DISABILITY RIGHTS PRESS:
The Largest Minority -- This radio program, heard monthly on WBAI 99.5 FM from New York City, seeks to inform and educate the disabled community as well as our non-disabled friends, about the issues and happenings in the realm of disability rights and disability culture.
THE ELECTRIC EDGE -- The online version of the magazine (formerly known as The Disability Rag)
The Accessible Society Action Project -- Wonderful website by the editors of the much missed Mainstream Magazine. In-depth coverage of issues and discussion of important topics.