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Complaint filed against Uber
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Category: Americans with Disabilities Act
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Enough is Enough: Collaboration for Change
Some photos from "Captioning: Your Rights and Advocacy" Conference at The Ed Roberts Campus
With Arlene Mayerson
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The Beauty of the Americans with Disabilities Act
In the spring of 1977, I took a quarter off from college, quit my job and, with my best friend, bought a 1966 VW camper van to explore the United States. Before we left, we spent a warm April day (California was in a drought and Jerry Brown was governor, how odd!) practicing the manual shift on the hills of San Francisco. We figured that if we could manage the hills of San Francisco in the bus, we could manage it anywhere. Continue reading
Translating “The Power of 504”
The Power of 504 is "an award-winning 18-minute documentary, which captures the drama and emotions of the historic civil rights demonstration of people with disabilities in 1977, resulting in the signing of the 504 Regulations, the first Federal Civil Rights Law protecting people with disabilities. Includes contemporary news footage and news interviews with participants and demonstation leaders." Continue reading
Banned from Bingo
Ann Clinton loves playing bingo, but her retirement community won't let her join her friends to play the game since she moved 
from an independent living apartment to the skilled nursing floor of the Redstone Village Continuing Care Retirement Community in Huntsville, Alabama. She has been excluded from bingo, which takes place on the independent living floor, because she is disabled.
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