@GulfAdapt

Houston disability justice group

Joined April 2020
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.@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!
Beto O'Rourke
@BetoORourke15 Nov 2021
I’m running for governor. Together, we can push past the small and divisive politics that we see in Texas today — and get back to the big, bold vision that used to define Texas. A Texas big enough for all of us. Join us: bit.ly/30mq3KP
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[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.
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🌸Bibi🌸♿@BibiBlossoms7 Nov 2021
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.
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Replying to @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
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Bob Casey
@SenBobCasey21 Oct 2021
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.
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Bob Casey
@SenBobCasey21 Oct 2021
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.
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"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 youtube.com/watch?v=5AkkHS3C…
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Bob Casey
@SenBobCasey22 Oct 2021
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
@POTUS46Archive22 Oct 2021
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.
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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.
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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 domesticworkers.org/programs…
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"I would go further and ask @Sen_JoeManchin: Is staying alive an entitlement?" -@rachael_scar #CareCantWait cnn.com/2021/10/15/opinions/…

Opinion: For families like mine, the social services in Biden’s budget proposal are a choice...

Rachael Scarborough King, wife of health care activist Ady Barkan (who has ALS), writes the proposed $400 billion in funding for Home and Community Based Services in Biden’s budget package would...

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October is LGBTQ+ History Month where we'll be celebrating the achievements of Black Leaders. . 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.
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AAPD
@AAPD12 Oct 2021
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.
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AAPD
@AAPD12 Oct 2021
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.
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Ari Berman@AriBerman13 Oct 2021
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
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Expanding Medicare to FINALLY cover 👁, 👂🏾, and 🦷 is not only good policy (and it is!), it's great politics too.
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#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. nytimes.com/2021/09/11/healt…
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Sen. Bob Casey Met Disability Rights Advocates at Storytelling Vigil

Senator Bob Casey met with activists and reiterated his commitment to fully fund services critical for the health and well-being of people with disabilities and aging adults.

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