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San Francisco's Cannabis Patients' Union Targets Common Issues

Last summer, a small group of Medical Cannbis Patients in San Francisco begin studying our peers to see how well they were being treated in our community. We called the group, The San Francisco Cannabis Patients'...

Barcelona Artists and Journalists for people with disabilities

This Sunday May 20 was held in Barcelona, ​​a protest for the right to work of disabled people and also against the cuts that are having this group of people. Artists and journalists have been present and in...

Veterans in the backlog -- they're dying out there

If they stay there too long, the backlog will diminish by shear fate. It’s a part of the “get sick, die quick” policy to which Republicans endear themselves. Congress can clean this up and so can the...

SPORTS ‘N SPOKES Wheelchair Recreation Magazine Readers Enjoy Lif

The September 2011 issue of SPORTS ‘N SPOKES, the sports and recreation magazine of the Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA), features the results of a contest they initiated this summer with the nonprofit program Life After Spinal Cord Injury (LASCI). The joint outreach...

Social Security Disability Program

Come off vacation and tend to business If you have a verifiable disability, and are unable to work or to find employment because of it, assistance is not an option. When you reach retirement age and based on your...

Dreams and Visions comes to The Lit Chick Show

Dreams and Visions is a book by Dr Shamaela Munir that aims to create disability awareness throughout the world by recounting the story of Dr Munir’s younger brother, Ali. Ali suffers from disabilities, and this...

Jury is out on fairness of Social Security

I can tell you that dealing with Social Security has made me mad as hell. I have written about it. If I complain directly to the agency, I fear retaliation by the unknown. There is a woman administrator whose...

Encounter with disability – wake up call

The past eight days, I have been suffering from hearing loss, apparently due to a middle ear infection for which doctors are still in discovery mode. I want to share the experience because I think many people enter...

Ronald Hunt Caught Working for HGTV, After Claiming Disability

Ronald E. Hunt, 56 was caught working as a designer on an HGTV show by a man working for the insurance company that was paying him disability. Ronald Hunt had claimed more than $147,000 in disability payments after saying he couldn't work anymore, but an employee saw the...

Autistic People Protest Autism Speaks Walk at OSU in Columbus OH

There are many reasons why Autistic People are at odds with the mega-charity "Autism Speaks". I could detail them here, but others have already so eloquently done so, that it makes more sense to offer links:Not Autism SpeaksWhy Autistic People Hate "Autism Speaks" Why "Autism...

If you ever need proof that GOPers are lying - read on...

I must admit I didn't get that email - but boooy do I wish I had. For many, and by that I mean way too many, wingnuts think that the USA is the centre of the universe. But when you have people spouting about, not eminent, but esteemed scientists like Stephen Hawking and using...

India, China have 1/3rd of world's population over 65

Why Old Age is treated as Problem? Well there is economic reason behind that.But same economy particularly pharmascutical projects its growth base on the same principle of making you live longer than natural limit.Insurance and Pension scheme are at two opposite end.Well the...

Apotemnophilia, Gerontosexuality: Hastings on hate crimes

Congressman Alcee Hastings today voiced his support for the Local Law Enforcement Hate Prevention Act of 2009 saying that this was a positive move to expand federal law that includes protections for crimes that...

Michael J. Fox Slams Rush Limbaugh VIDEO

" Calling Rush Limbaugh’s attacks on him “cartoonish,” Michael J. Fox delighted audience members of “The Daily Show” with his thoughts on the controversial conservative radio host." During the 2006...

One hand giveth and the other taketh away

Programs to support people with developmental disabilities to get boon from the Feds while Colorado cuts The Democratic leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives, working with President-elect Barack Obama, just released its long awaited second economic stimulus...
 

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