The Americans With Disabilities Act At 30
Link To The News “...many non-disabled people think that because we have civil rights protections, things are fine...but we need more...
- Jun 26, 2020
- 1 min
WATCH: Intersectional Organizing with People with Disabilities
“...the lack of diverse and intersectional leadership charged with actively lifting up and protecting and loving people with hearing,...
- Jun 17, 2020
- 1 min
Black Disabled Lives Matter March in Detroit
Link To The News “I want you to remember this moment when we all came together in unity. With love. For our Black brothers and sisters....
- Jun 12, 2020
- 2 min
Black Disabled Lives Matter, join us Monday June 11th
Black + Disabled Lives Matter Protest at Spirit of Detroit Plaza, Monday June 11th 2020 4pm-6pm.
- May 29, 2020
- 2 min
Stay Safe & Get Counted!
Detroit Disability Power is partnering with Warriors on Wheels in a census campaign to get members of our disability community counted.
- May 4, 2020
- 1 min
Virtual Book Reading & Conversation Feat. Author Naomi Ortiz & facilitated by William Copeland
Self-Care for Social Justice in the Time of COVID, book reading and conversation w/ Author Naomi Ortiz and facilitated William Copeland.
- May 3, 2020
- 1 min
Adapted in TC: We can’t go it alone
Link To The News “Crip Camp...is not a film about disability as burden or tragedy... [It] is a chronicle of the disability rights movement.”
- Apr 27, 2020
- 1 min
Advocates: Michiganders with disabilities face coronavirus discrimination
Link To The News “...current policies adopted by the state would discriminate against residents with "a severe underlying disease" in the...
- Apr 23, 2020
- 1 min
COVID-19: How are students with disabilities meeting online learning challenges?
Link To The News "The biggest challenges are making sure that all students have the technology needed in order to move forward to an...
- Apr 23, 2020
- 1 min
Dessa Cosma of Detroit Disability Power Speaks About Organizing in Detroit During COVID-19 Pandemic
Link To The News “Locally, a group of about 110 social justice organizations from around the state...has been pushing back to our...
- Apr 22, 2020
- 1 min
Column: We must protect people with disabilities during the COVID-19 crisis
Link To The News “Pandemics force hard decisions. However, people with disabilities have fought for decades to secure civil rights, be...
- Apr 22, 2020
- 1 min
Week of Action
“We shouldn’t have to choose between our lives or our livelihoods.”
- Apr 7, 2020
- 1 min
‘We have kiddos regressing’: What shuttered schools mean for students with disabilities in Michigan
Link To The News “When we’re in crisis, we can’t abandon civil rights. Period.”
- Apr 3, 2020
- 1 min
ARE WE REALLY “ALL IN THIS TOGETHER”? The disability community is being left behind in our country’s
Link To The News “Due to a history of ableism in medicine, public policy, and American culture at large, perceived notions of ‘quality of...
- Apr 1, 2020
- 1 min
Happy Census Day!
Detroit Disability Power are encouraging our members and our community to be counted in observance of Census Day, today, April 1.
- Mar 31, 2020
- 1 min
Community Care Circles RE: COVID-19 pandemic
Our monthly Community Care Circles meet the 3rd Sunday of each month from 2-4 p.m via ZOOM.
- Mar 27, 2020
- 2 min
No Healthcare discrimination
DDP Press Release
HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS MUST NOT DISCRIMINATE AGAINST PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
AND CHRONIC ILLNESS DURING PANDEMIC
- Mar 26, 2020
- 2 min
Protect people with disabilities in the corona virus response
Together, let’s fight the attempts to further marginalize and neglect the disabled, chronically ill, and elderly.
- Mar 25, 2020
- 2 min
Michigan Gov. Whitmer signed the “Stay Home, Stay Safe” executive order translated in ASL.
Michigan Gov. Whitmer signed the “Stay Home, Stay Safe” executive order translated in ASL.
- Mar 11, 2020
- 2 min
Inaccessible Polling Locations in Detroit and Dearborn
Yesterday, members of the People with Disabilities Voting Rights Coalition faced challenges at Detroit and Dearborn Polling locations.