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We're a loose coalition of students/staff/faculty working to dismantle ableism at the University of California.

Access & inclusion for disabled students, staff, faculty of the University of California! (For alumni, visitors, customers..everyone!) 33 years is long enough to have met ADA. Let's exceed it!

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Such BS...how can you do research that doesn't question whether the way accessibility is currently being offered is the problem?

This reads more like "Given that we don't want to follow legal bare minimums, how can we put the onus on disabled people & blame them when they 'fall short' as intended?"

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/student-success/college-experience/2024/06/07/4-barriers-accommodation-students-disabilities

https://archive.is/8Xrvx

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The number of students with disabilities has grown 10 percentage points since 2004 to 21 percent of all learners, with large increases in students who have depression (27 percent); a mental, emotional or psychiatric condition (21 percent); and attention deficit disorder (21 percent), according to a May report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office. However, students with disabilities were less likely to graduate from college than their peers (21 percent, compared to 38 percent) and, among those who did complete, they were less likely to be employed full-time compared to their peers. To better support these learners, researchers conducted interviews with staff in disability services offices, students with disabilities and faculty members to understand the most prevalent barriers to student success and some of the solutions institutions are implementing.
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    • ucaccessnow , to AcademicChatter group
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    A mistake many people make is thinking that ADA can only be met through offices of rationing & policing. No. That is how the ableists running UC choose to deny accessibility as the default and make ppl have to beg & eventually sue for accessibility.

    Pushing for more funding for these offices is still granting their premise that doing things this way is being accessible to the public that funds UC. It isn't. #Ableism #Disability #UCAccessNow @academicchatter

    https://dailybruin.com/2024/02/02/its-just-a-fact-understaffed-cae-office-fails-to-meet-students-needs

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    🧵 What is this? After pushing UC for 4 years now to quit designing buildings where inaccessibility is the default, a main entrance to a building is wheelchair accessible?

    What finally convinced UC Davis, one wonders? #UCAccessNow #Ableism #HigherEd @disability @academicchatter

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    What finally convinced UC Davis to make the main entrance accessible instead of putting a narrow ramp out on the side by a trash can?

    Oh.

    @disability @academicchatter What finally convinced UC Davis, one wonders? #UCAccessNow #Ableism #HigherEd

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    Ah, there's the UC Davis we know. Unnecessary steps because you weren't specifically PAID to do your duty under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act nor to actually make a public university accessible to the public.

    @disability @academicchatter #UCAccessNow #Ableism #HigherEd

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    UC's attitude towards disabled people is clear in things like this.

    This July will mark 34 years since ADA became law. UC doesn't do bare minimum compliance (not full accessibility & inclusion, just legal compliance) until they decide they need to do seismic upgrades. Then "ADA compliance" is piggybacked on that.

    It's the very last thing listed. Whoop-de-doo, ADA "compliant" restrooms.

    #UCAccessNow #Ableism #UCDavis @disability @academicchatter

    Large wooden sign board posted outside construction project. Features a bird's eye view of a floor plan. "Completion Summer 2024 Mann Laboratory Seismic Improvements. To provide increased protection for students, employees and the public, this building is being renovated to strengthen its seismic performance.The roof will be reinforced with new roof-to-wall and beam-to-beam connectors. In addition, contractors will complete major upgrades to the electrical system. remodel the restrooms, add AggieAccess to the main entry and corridor doors and update the building’s compliance with fire, safety and ADA codes. For more information, call (530) 754-1111 or visit dcm.ucdavis.edu" "Building Community UC Davis"
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    The right wing is currently manufacturing opprobrium over the fact that UCLA Med School finally has a course about Structural Racism & Health Equity.

    Note that they're not upset about structural racism, they're not upset that there's inequity baked into our health systems...

    They're upset that anyone should become consciously aware of this and do anything to dismantle it.

    Be as vocal in support of social justice as the plutocrats are in complaining about it! (Write to UCLA in support, write op-eds on the subject).

    Duck Duck Go insert window of "news" stories on a search about UCLA and "health equity". A stock photo of a thin white-coated medical person wearing a stethoscope and using a measuring tape to measure the bare pale flesh of a fat woman is over the Fox News headline "UCLA med school's mandatory 'Structural Racism and Health Equity' course teac..." A blank icon over a headline from BizPac Review "INSIDER: 'Truly shocking' - UCLA medical school requires course rife...". A photo of two cops wearing campaign hats and a person with blond long hair and pale skin yelling as they're grabbed by the cops is over a Deseret News headline "Are college protesters 'terrorists' - or just impressionable kids?"."
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    At least 3 things missing from UC's Global Accessibility Awareness Day event:

    1. The idea that there's any accessibility issues beyond the type digital technology tools could potentially help with

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    1. Actual diversely disabled UC community leading the event.

    2. Statement up front as to what accessible options are available for this event.

    Keeping the emphasis on digital tools allows abled people to continue their hegemony by simply training to be "experts" on accessibility, keeping jobs & control in abled hands. It allows UC to keep refusing to hire human captioners, human notetakers, as well as keep NOT addressing making things as accessible as possible as the default at UC.

    https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/2024/04/may-16-attend-a-uc-global-accessibility-awareness-day-event.html

    @disability @academicchatter

    What to expect at this year’s event UC tech leaders will share highlights of their locations' accessibility projects during a short panel. Then, UC staff will host lightning talks to share practical accessibility skills, explain the importance of digital accessibility and answer audience questions. Finally, we’ll demonstrate how everyone can have a fun-filled life when technology is accessible.
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    Yet another project we cannot prioritize highly enough with our limited spoons:

    Track the % of times newspapers cover University and HS sports vs the % of times they cover actual important education issues at the same institutions and with the same level of long-term interest and detail.

    @academicchatter

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    Every time there's a new UC Davis event or initiative rushing to shove AI into everything, we remember that this July will mark 34 years since ADA became law and UC Davis still doesn't meet it.

    The contrast in how quickly they adopt AI vs how quickly they adopt accessibility & inclusion is instructive.

    Note the event is in person only in a maskless crowd during an ongoing pandemic, advertised without any listing of accessibility available even for the in-person bits.

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    Detail of HTML email. " Leveraging AI In Your Literature Review Process Date: Monday, April 15th, 12:00pm - 1:00pm Location: Walker Hall, Room 1230 - West Conference Room Register with 1-click here!! This is an introductory level workshop aimed at researchers and practitioners from all disciplines about the potential uses of AI tools in research. The workshop will include an overview of new AI tools, a hands-on session with Elicit, and an introduction to Library resources that AI tools can supplement. Participants should bring a laptop or tablet to participate in the hands-on portion of the workshop. After completing this workshop, participants should be able to do the following with respect to literature searching and reviews: Be aware of major AI research tools and their potential uses Be able to use Elicit to explore literature Know how to use Library resources can be supplemented by AI tools Instructors:"
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    UC Access Now brought UC's lack of accessible emergency planning & inaccessible evacuation routes to the attention of the Regents in July 2020. https://archive.org/details/disability-equity-and-justice-demands

    We let @CalMatters know at that time, along with other media. They did not deem it worthy of coverage because they want to treat things as a human interest story rather than as systemic oppression & systemic failure.

    This could have been dealt with years earlier if media had listened to us when we said this was a systemic problem, not just a problem for one or two disabled students. It shouldn't take a disabled student being in student government to get coverage of these issues. @academicchatter @disability

    https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/college-beat/2024/03/emergency-exits-university-campuses-california/ #UCAccessNow #Ableism #UniversityOfCalifornia #Newstodon

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    What would your university look like if they were good at accessible communication? If you weren't viewed entirely through the cost/benefit ratio of profit-seeking souls?

    @academicchatter #UCAccessNow #AcademicChatter

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    Documents from UCOP Jan 2024:
    Final report of the UC Systemwide Workgroup on Students with Disabilities https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/jan24/a2.pdf

    "Transforming Culture and Practice: serving students with disabilities at the University of California"

    https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/jan24/a2attach1.pdf

    Some campus Academic Senates are supposed to review and reply by April. Overall Academic Senate by May 14. https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/under-review/index.html

    Despite UC Access Now's work alerting UCOP to systemic ableism in July 2020, we were not approached to participate or consult. So expect the progress to be very grudging.

    If you're disabled Senate Faculty, read & comment before the deadline. @academicchatter

    ucaccessnow , to AcademicChatter group
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    UC President Drake just announced they've appointed Catherine Spear to head UC's new Systemwide Office of Civil Rights (which will include a Systemwide Office of Disability Rights under it).

    The announcement does not go into what their lived experience qualifications might be.

    https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/2024/03/catherine-spear-appointed-to-lead-ucs-systemwide-office-of-civil-rights-socr.html @disability @academicchatter #Ableism #Disability #UCAccessNow

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    @disability @academicchatter " Hiring Catherine is one of a series of steps we are taking to provide centralized oversight for these campus functions and a more consistent approach to how the University responds to allegations of discrimination and harassment." ⬅️ These framings continue to give the game away. For them it is not about NOT discriminating. Not about NOT being inaccessible and toxic places for marginalized parts of the public that funds them to be. It's simply about responding to allegations and trying to keep from getting sued too hard. #Racism #Sexism #Ableism #Disability #UCAccessNow

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    UC trains pre-med and med students, medical researchers, and runs medical centers. It is crucial that University of California dismantle its ableism. We gave them a template to use in our Demandifesto.

    Does anyone know how many of this brief's authors are disabled?

    "Anti-Ableist Medical Education: Meeting the Challenges"

    https://www.thehastingscenter.org/anti-ableist-medical-education-meeting-the-challenges/ @disability @academicchatter #Ableism #UCAccessNow

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    This ought to be good. Is this the same Pablo Reguerín who was sitting alongside Chancellor May at an interview with The California Aggie's editorial where May lobbied for the student fee supporting NCAA athlete perqs by likening NCAA athletes to disabled students by saying they too needed "special" supports? And didn't say anything about that? That Reguerín?

    Do you know who was among the chancellors who never replied to hundreds of emails regarding UC's ableism? Chancellor May of UC Davis!! @disability @academicchatter

    #UCAccessNow #Ableism #UCDavis #DavisCA

    Please forward the following information to students - especially anyone interested in learning more about how the University of California is supporting students with disabilities. Next Monday, March 11th at 11 am in Walker Hall 1220 (Gibeling Room) we will have the first session of the Chancellor's Leadership and Development Speaker Series (CLDS). This session will feature Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Pablo Reguerín, who will share his professional journey and information about a University of California systemwide report focused on increasing support for students with disabilities. Anyone interested is welcome to join and can register for the event at https://tinyurl.com/cldsmar24. See the flyer attached to this email as well.
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    The ableist analogy Chancellor May made.

    Disabled students don't only PAY to be on campus - no free ride disability scholarship - UC has a legal obligation it continues flouting to be fully accessible to the public funding it. Arguing that the student body should pay fees to support a small % of students who are given special tutors, a special health building, and other perqs already is not only patently ridiculous, but by likening it in this way to how UC chooses to segregate disabled students instead of being highest common denominator of accessible by default is bound to further encourage resentment of disabled students as a "cost"!

    https://theaggie.org/2021/12/02/editorial-board-meets-with-chancellor-may-uc-davis-administrators-4/ @disability @academicchatter #Ableism #CivilRights #UCDavis

    Detail from The Cailfornia Aggie editorial. "anymore, so it’s not like this is a strange way of doing things in American society. That aside, you have to think, many of those 700 student-athletes come from marginalized communities and would not be able to go to a university without that scholarship support. We have examples of other fees that only benefit specific student populations. For example, should we extract these because there are only a small number of disabled students on campus, should we not charge the fee that funds the Student Disability Center?"
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    @disability @academicchatter If you want to know how UC Davis is treating disabled students, ask us.

    But a clue is in the fact that this is an in-person only talk. And that the advertisement of the talk contained no accessibility info even for the in-person part! #UCAccessNow #Ableism #Disability #UCDavis

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    UC Santa Cruz folks:

    https://news.ucsc.edu/2024/03/sab-winter-forum.html

    @disability @academicchatter #UCAccessNow #Disability #Labor

    The Staff Advisory Board's Virtual Winter Forum Wednesday, March 6, 2024 1:00 pm to 2:00 p.m. Link: https://video.ibm.com/channel/f9THz4H4RSq Our guests are members of different departments on campus that deal with discrimination, harassment and dispute resolution, as well as disability accommodation requests and complaints. They are: De Acker Campus Ombuds Scott Kasper Labor Relations Manager Julie Lewis Title IX Director Kelly Roberts Disability Management Services Manager Nubyaan Scott ADA Officer Mohamed Shahin ADA Officer Cristy Sorenson Lead Employee Relations Analyst Samara Winbush EEO Director In order to allow for as many questions as possible to be addressed within the limited time, we are soliciting questions ahead of time via this Google form. This form is the only way to submit questions and will be available for the time leading up to the forum through the end of the event. For privacy reasons, we can not ask questions about specific cases or issues pending outcomes. (Note: though we are not collecting identifying information, you must be signed into your UCSC email account to access the form.) For the best chance of having your question addressed in the forum, we encourage you to submit your questions before the event The forum will be recorded and available after the event, along with recordings of other past events, on the SAB website If you have further concerns or questions, please reach out to the Staff Advisory Board at any time: ucscSAB@ucsc.edu
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    Not only does UC Davis continue doing the "it's UC Davis, but it's not UC Davis" when it comes to student housing (nest of private-public "partnerships"),

    not only did they install cycle racks we pointed out to them 4 years ago are inaccessible,

    not only are the accessible EV chargers not under shade like the inaccessible ones, but

    you pay market rate for NO HOT WATER

    This is grad student housing at UC Davis.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AJZ0MjjRAU #UCAccessNow #NeoliberalHellhole #Housing @academicchatter

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    It seems like to be another compliance-focused approach rather than proactively trying to be an accessible, equitable university for all of us.

    Despite UC claiming it did this "proactively", it actually did it in response not just to our activism and other grassroots activism, but likely because of rising pressure from Dept of Education Office of Civil Rights due to complaints.

    "“The scope of the work for the SOCR will be focused on policies that pertain to protected categories, as defined by state and federal law,” said Rachel Zaentz, senior media relations officer from the UC Office of the President, in an email.

    The SOCR will house three subunits: the existing Systemwide Title IX Office — which prohibits gender discrimination in any federally funded education program or activity — a new Systemwide Anti-Discrimination Office and a new Systemwide Disability Rights Office."

    https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/administration/uc-president-drake-announces-systemwide-office-of-civil-rights/article_48f5e7d2-d20d-11ee-bf57-8fae4594544b.html

    @academicchatter #UCAccessNow #Accessibility #Ableism #CivilRights

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    The American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD)'s Fall Internship Program is open for applications now.

    "The AAPD Fall Internship Program is a professional and career development opportunity for disabled students and recent graduates. Interns explore career opportunities, gain leadership skills, and connect to the broader disability community.
    ...
    will be completely virtual. Ten interns will be placed in remote internships at placement sites in either Congressional offices, federal agencies, non-profit, or for-profit organizations. Interns will work part-time for 15 hours a week. The program will be 14 weeks long. It will run from September 3 to December 6, 2024."

    https://www.aapd.com/fall-internship-program/ @academicchatter @disability #Disability

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    "Aontas na Mac Léinn in Éirinn (Union of Students in Ireland - USI) National Council unanimously passes motion against Proctorio"

    More academic organizations should be taking this stand. @academicchatter @disability @blackmastodon #Ableism #Racism #Surveillance #UCAccessNow

    “Being monitored in this way places extraordinary stress on students, at a time when young people’s mental health is in crisis worldwide, and this may affect academic performance as well as general welfare,” the motion explains. The motion identifies that “discriminating factors with software like Proctorio include economical, gender, culture, race and disability status”. It states how Proctorio is “biased against certain skin colours” and “it has been reported that it struggles to recognize people of colour”.

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    It's ridiculous how much attention is given to those complaining about restrictions that haven't existed for over 2 years.

    Meanwhile, complete silence about excluding disabled and higher risk people from most of society indefinitely due to the current lack of COVID protections.

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    @luckytran It's courses and conferences not being accessible.

    It's your fellow students constantly leaving you out of student association events and governance.

    In a world that isn't a meritocracy, that is still "who you know", you don't get to know people because you're literally segregated. #AcademicChatter #UCAccessNow

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    Temporarily disabled UC Davis students & staff will often use email lists or Freecycle to get a free mobility device. Because mobility devices are expensive and often aren't covered by insurance.

    One of our examples in the Demandifesto proposed a wheelchair/mobilty aid repair center for each campus, with ability to rent/loan equipment. https://archive.org/details/disability-equity-and-justice-demands/page/n17/mode/2up?q=wheelchair

    They do not think of themselves as (temporarily) disabled.

    Some notice how suddenly inaccessible the campus is to them.

    But they forget as soon as they heal.

    Don't forget. Join us in pushing for an accessible University of California. #UCAccessNow #Ableism @disability @academicchatter

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    Good news: UC Access Now's work continue to prod a teeny bit of progress from UC, Associated Students, and others.

    Bad news: Most of the time we point out injustice & present evidence, we are not invited to the table when it comes to decisionmaking.

    Some of the things mentioned here are things the UC Access Now Demandifesto laid out in July of 2020.

    Don't let UC or anyone else erase the work UC Access Now has done.They erase the hard work we've done, which encourages burnout. If they're successful erasing grassroots movements, they extinguish desire to organize for positive change that's an equal seat that the table rather than rationed scraps. @disability @academicchatter

    https://dailynexus.com/2024-02-01/highlights-of-regents-january-2024-meeting/ #UCAccessNow #Ableism #HigherEd #UniversityofCalifornia

    Screenshot from linked article with 4 rectangles drawn around areas that were included in the UC Access Now Demandifesto that was sent to all chancellors and to the Regents. Title of section is "UCOP presents final Advisory Workgroup report on students with disabilities". Outlined sections are: "recognize the rich diversity within the student disability community.” “We also used population averages because we know not all students who may have a disability are sufficiently diagnosed or have the resources and have gone through the process,” "The report recommended the Board of Regents to revise Regents Policy 4400, a policy on the UC diversity statement, to “more emphatically position disability access as a diversity issue.” " "creating a disability-inclusive emergency evacuation plan. "
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    @disability @academicchatter The UC Access Demandifesto is up on Internet Archive for all to read. It's easy to see what we were pointing out through the Demandifesto (and subsequent publications via our social media outlets) and what has filtered down into the language of the UC Systemwide Advisory Workgroup on Students with Disabilities to which we were not invited to contribute.

    The appropriation and erasure contributed to the burnout (i.e. actual worsening of health) by core working members of UC Access Now. Don't let them erase our work.

    We'd write the Demandifesto a bit differently now. Within months after publishing it, we called for the dismantling of the offices of rationing accessibility that UC runs.

    https://archive.org/details/disability-equity-and-justice-demands #UCAccessNow #Ableism #HigherEd #UniversityofCalifornia

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    UC Riverside is looking for a "Student Disability Specialist". You can read the job requirements and ask yourself - is the job to make the public's university accessible to the public by default as much as possible, or is the job about policing disabled people and continuing to resist the public and do only the bare minimum of disability law that is enforced on the university? @academicchatter @disability

    https://archive.is/rDP3a

    #UCAccessNow #Ableism #DisabilityLaw

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    Seeking campus housing at UCSC? Good news for disabled students, especially if you have a disability that affects your ability to fill out forms, you get to fill out an EXTRA one!!

    Yay! /sarcasm

    https://news.ucsc.edu/2024/01/continuing-student-housing-info-24-25.html

    @academicchatter @disability #UCAccessNow #Ableism #Housing

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    "UC Santa Barbara Associated Students’ Commission on Disability Equity announced plans to open a Disability Cultural Center on the third floor of the University Center...

    The post followed a Senate bill unanimously passed during a Jan. 17 Associated Students (A.S.) Senate meeting that incorporated the DCC into the organization. The Senate bill was co-authored by second-year history of public policy and law major Amelia Rowe and second-year political science major MingJun Zha.

    “I was inspired by [C.O.D.E. External Affairs Coordinator Yao Yao] Xiao’s drive and initiative in addressing the unique struggles disabled students face on campus,” Rowe said in an email statement to the Nexus.

    The DCC has been in development for seven years and was finally presented to Senate this quarter following ongoing conversations on the importance of having this space open for students with disabilities, according to Xiao." https://dailynexus.com/2024-01-26/ucsb-a-s-c-o-d-e-reveals-new-disability-cultural-center/ @disability @academicchatter

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    Gov. Newsom proclaimed today Ed Roberts Day, recognizing late UC Berkeley alum and disability activist Ed Roberts.

    Good time to email or call the Governor asking why he hasn't responded to the hundreds of emails sent in 2020 on asking him to read and enact the Demandifesto Action Steps. University of California needs to dismantle its systemic ableism!

    https://resist.bot/guide

    Governor Gavin Newsom
    1021 O Street, Suite 9000
    Sacramento, CA 95814
    Phone: (916) 445-2841

    @academicchatter @disability
    https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/01/23/governor-newsom-proclaims-ed-roberts-day-2024/ #UCAccessNow #Ableism #HigherEd

    Facsimile copy of Newsom's proclamation. "PROCLAMATION Known as the “Father of Independent Living,” Ed Roberts was a trailblazing advocate for people with disabilities who transformed countless lives in California and across the country. Paralyzed after contracting polio as a child, Roberts was considered “unemployable” by the California Department of Rehabilitation, a prejudiced decision he successfully fought to overturn. Roberts attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he was the first student who used a wheelchair. It was here that he began his lifelong work as an advocate fighting for the rights of students like him. In 1972, Roberts founded UC Berkeley’s Physically Disabled Students Program, creating the model for the Center for Independent Living and similar centers throughout the country. Appointed by Governor Jerry Brown to lead the state’s Department of Rehabilitation – which years earlier had found him “unemployable” – he served the state with distinction until 1983, when he founded the World Institute on Disability in Oakland. The Institute’s pioneering work helped nationalize California’s In-Home Support Services by adding the Home Service option to Medicaid. In 2011, Roberts was inducted into the California Hall of Fame in recognition of his leadership and advocacy on behalf of people with disabilities."
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    @academicchatter @disability

    Although UC and the State of California love to pay tribute to Ed Roberts now that he's no longer alive to keep needling them, our state is still ableist as hell and disabled people are being prevented from going to UC and driven out if they manage to get in.

    The UC Access Now Demandifesto was sent to the Governor, the Regents, and the chancellor of every UC campus in July of 2020. Few have responded and none have moved on the Demandifesto Action Steps.

    If you're not serious about dismantling ableism, you shouldn't be trying to cover it up with Ed Roberts' name and achievements.

    #UCAccessNow #Ableism #HigherEd

    https://archive.org/details/disability-equity-and-justice-demands

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    "When you want to take their books away, they're children. When you want them to work, they're adults." -/u/xFurorCelticax/ on /r/LateStageCapitalism

    https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/194g10g/when_you_want_to_take_their_books_away_theyre/

    #censorship #childlabor

    "When you want to take their books away, they're children. When you want them to work, they're adults." -/u/xFurorCelticax/ on /r/LateStageCapitalism "Florida Republicans are having a hearing about rolling back child labor laws. When asked about the danger to kids and rising child labor violations, bill author Rep. Linda Chaney says: "These are not children. These are 16 and 17-year-olds. these are youth workers."" @MorePerfectUS
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    @pluralistic It's also the classic shell game of systemic oppressions - when you apply to go on disability, you're "not disabled enough", but when you then try to go to the workplaces that have been violating ADA for nearly 34 years so far, you're "too disabled" to hire.

    How hegemons define you is always a shell game.

    #UCAccessNow #Capitalism #Ableism

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