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tember 2 august 1 may 2 april 3 february 1 january 3 2007 14 november 1 october 1 september 5 july 1 may 4 march 1 january 1 2006 14 december 1 october 1 september 4 august 1 july 1 june 2 may 2 april 1 february 1 2005 9 november 2 october 3 september 1 july 1 june 2 1997 3 october 1 march 1 february 1 about me uppity disability view my complete profile friday february 20 2009 jerry lewis is a loser folks the man is a bigot and he tried to sue me and he is rumored to be accepting the oscar in a wheelchair just to throw a wrench into the protest by over a dozen nationally known activists including myself to ask the academy to recind the humanitarian oscar lewis does nothing but spew hate speech about gay folk disabled folks women and minorities hate speech breeds hate crimes jean hersholt must be spinning in her grave this just in oscar showdown protesters with disabilities confront ampas chief over decision to honor jerry lewis los angeles nearly 50 activists from across the us protested at the academy of motion picture arts and sciences ampas headquarters in beverly hills today demanding to meet with ampas officials and to present a petition signed by over 2600 individuals objecting to the plan to grant jerry lewis the jean hersholt humanitarian award at this sunday s oscar awards ceremony the protesters mostly people with disabilities occupied the lobby and refused to leave finally ampas executive director bruce davis was summoned to meet with the group called the trouble with jerry lewis has long defended the use of pity as a fundraising tactic he has also described disabled individuals as half a person and referred to a wheelchair as a steel imprisonment at both the kodak theater and ampas protesters distributed leaflets to mostly sympathetic pedestrians including stars such as john lithgow and richard libertini as they came to collect their tickets for sunday s academy awards then protesters entered the ampas office to deliver the petition printed on a long scroll of red paper and featuring comments by 2642 people from around the world initially academy officers refused to accept the petition activists continued to occupy the lobby singing songs and chanting no award for jerry lewis ampas officials apparently called the police to eject the protesters but before any arrests were made davis arrived to meet with the group s leadership during the meeting protesters expressed the outrage they felt when they learned of the award after having listened to jerry lewis portrayals of life with a disability as incomplete unsatisfying even wasteful i have my own business my own home and a relationship said advocate and writer gary karp jerry lewis would have you believe that people with disabilities can have none of those things davis admitted to being aware of the longstanding concerns of the disability community about lewis however davis defended the award pointing to the large sums of money that lewis has raised for the muscular dystrophy association davis asked the group whether those funds have not done some good unanimously the protesters responded that the harm done to disabled people s public image far outweighed the impact of the research dollars the issue is how he raised that money author and scholar simi linton told davis jerry lewis trades on our dignity posted by uppity disability at 8 32 pm wednesday january 07 2009 random txt message spam uppity disability dot net has no idea how txt messages are being sent to phone numbers or whatever other spam is being sent really we are subscribed to a few listservs from the domain but the admin uses a gmail account as his primary email account sorry mike r posted by uppity disability at 7 03 pm wednesday november 05 2008 obama raps and wins too upset to discuss the wa state assisted suicide referendum but since president elect obama won i had to smile when i saw this remix of kanye west s stronger posted by uppity disability at 5 03 pm labels assisted suicide barack obama dems rule youtube tuesday november 04 2008 vote as if your life depends on it because it does the title says it all justin dart never uttered such truer words no matter what the bush presidency will be over so today go vote i don t care who you vote for just vote posted by uppity disability at 6 49 am thursday september 25 2008 ada amendents signing coverage or complete lack of it appearently no one besides congress members were present at the signing of the ada amendments act this morning there is nothing on the white house website c span did not have it on the list of events they were covering and i haven t really looked for media but i did find tom harkin s statement so without further adieu september 25 2008 harkin statement regarding ada amendments act becoming law senator who was chief author of original ada attended white house signing ceremony today washington d c senator tom harkin d ia released the following statement today after president bush signed the americans with disabilities amendments act the bill was recently passed unanimously by both the house and the senate harkin was the lead sponsor of the bill in the senate the day 18 years ago when president bush s father signed the original americans with disabilities act into law was the proudest day of my senate career but this day comes close because this new law overturns supreme court decisions that have taken away the rights of people with disabilities and restores the original promise and protections of the ada i think of my brother frank who was deaf and who suffered terrible discrimination and exclusion and i think of millions of other americans with disabilities who face similar obstacles as chief senate sponsor of both the original ada and this new ada restoration act i am deeply gratified that we could work in a bipartisan fashion to ensure that all americans have the right to equal opportunity full participation independent living and economic self sufficiency since the ada became law in 1990 a series of court decisions narrowed the category of who qualifies as an individual with a disability contrary to congressional intent by raising the threshold for an impairment to qualify as a disability these court decisions have deprived individuals of the discrimination protections congress intended to provide the ada amendments act would remedy this problem and restore workplace protections to every american with a disability hopefully some sort of media coverage will show up mike r posted by uppity disability at 11 22 am monday september 08 2008 a profile on me and my nomination to the nscia hall of fame the folks nscia made it really inviting to have a press release for my nomination to the hall of fame too bad i m going to lose to harriet mcbryde johnson but she is incredible as a writer and lawyer and i can not honestly say i m in any way worthy of anything over her my local paper did a wonderful piece on my nomination some cool famous folks even gave their two cents i m quite shocked and amazed and so truly thrilled it is hard to put into words thanks to all those folks who have been supportive over the years i m only as good as the folks around me posted by uppity disability at 12 21 am friday august 22 2008 obamas vp pick waiting for the txt msg ok i thought it was just me getting antsy in the woods of maine wondering when obama would announce his vp pick i had fond memories of reading clinton gore 92 there when i was 18 and a few weeks from entering college my hope biden he s an elder statesmen he has a relative in maine biden s solid on disability issues and i think i ve met him at some point i so wish i was in denver twittering tweeting denver would be much easier than trying to blog the dnc in boston 4 yrs ago tho the michael moore idea of caroline kennedy would totally be ftw for the win the ap seemed to say txt msg tomorrow am time is saying biden bloggers found this so i m calling obama biden 08 are you out there people who make unknown bloggers famous i called joe biden before the txt msg need a savvy disabled politico lefty blogger uppitycrip at gmail dot com posted by uppity disability at 8 05 pm labels barack obama joe biden vice president thursday may 22 2008 call to save access to powerized mobility today come senators congressmen please heed the call don t stand in the doorway don t block up the hall for he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled there s a battle outside and it is ragin it ll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls for the times they are a changin bob dylan hey i saw him less than a week ago today please call your senators and congress folks and ask them to take complex rehab wheelchairs out of the competitive bidding pool after you make your calls send an email record it at http www vgmdclink com switchboard 1 ask your members of congress to support passage of hr 2231 http www govtrack us congress bill xpd bill h110 2231 and s 2931 http www govtrack us congress billtext xpd bill s110 2931 2 also ask your representative to sign the dear colleague letter http www aahomecare org associations 3208 files house 20medicare 20letter pdf contact information for your member of congress is at http www ncartcoalition org lower left hand of page type in your zipcode background etc http tinyurl com 6a7x5s additional information at http tinyurl com 6hggdk what s new http www aahomecare org posted by uppity disability at 12 41 pm tuesday may 20 2008 today fight for your medical equipment rights today fight for your medical equipment rights by listening to a webinar about drastic medicare cuts on thursday call congress marilyn hamilton the founder and inventor of quickie wheelchairs is leading a national campaign to stop the cutback for medicare reimbursements on power wheelchairs this drastic budget cut is targetted at the most basic needs of any human being the right to move independently while the cost of everything from gas to food the government wants to cut spending for the most severely physically disabled folks the people who need and benefit the most from powered mobility are often the least able to afford it due to disability poverty or other factors the fact that most powered chairs are priced at over 10 grand a manual lightweight chair can easily cost 5 grand medicare dispursement rates are often used by private insurance and state run like maine s dirigo plan to set their own reimbursement rates so it will effect other folks besides those on medicare it will also stunt future research and development on a myriad of other adaptive or assistive mobility equipment critical technology which would filter down in subsequent generations of cheaper chairs will not be developed this may afect you now but as we all age even those paralympians are going to want to give their torn rotator cuffs a break sunrise medical the company which now owns quickie and some other chair brands is sponsoring the event but marilyn hamilton who actually retired from sunrise is one of the disability rights movement s legends and whose history mirrors the drm s history the webinar is today at 2 pm but there will be an archive of the webinar on sunrisemedical com and probably on my site as well as others still pending for info on the webinar about how competitive bidding will impact consumers register here https www1 gotomeeting com register 144768277 may 21st national call in voice your concerns and request help to carve out complex rehab from competitive bidding the webinar will more than likely give this out but the is 202 224 3121 the sponsor list may be completely out of date but a bunch of good folks are partnering with sunrise medical adapt american association of people with disabilities america paraplegia society boston medical center christopher and dana reeve foundation kennedy krieger national council on independent living national spinal cord injury association united spinal association self advocates becoming empowered shepherd center paralyzed veterans association uppity disability dot net ilusa com for more detailed info check out sunrise medical s website more info soon posted by uppity disability at 8 29 am sunday april 27 2008 happy 25th adapt note just a press release we re bummed we cant make it to the events tho adapt25 org may have more historical stuff come to think of it i was at adapt s 20th anniversary i should probably post pics of that tomorrow but my schedule tomorrow is gonna be tight i ll work on that washington d c 25 years ago rev wade blank and mike auberger co directors of the atlantis community a denver center for independent living proclaimed their intent to take their local activism which used direct action to bring about positive changes in the denver community to a national level looking at the rag tag group of two dozen people with disabilities that had shown up for a protest to make denver mainline buses accessible nationally renown organizer shel trapp shook his head and said it will never happen yet over the next 7 years these three men and that rag tag group along with dozens more that came to join with them each year achieved exactly that outcome by forming adapt then known as americans disabled for accessible public transit 25 years later over the course of a week from april 26 to may 2 in washington d c over 1000 people with disabilities and supporters from all over the country will participate in a variety of events to remember adapt s humble beginnings in 1983 celebrate the growth and progress of the disability rights movement during the past 25 years and set the stage for continuing activism in the years to come adapt s humble beginnings grew into a national grassroots activist movement that has changed the face of the disability rights movement adapt has been memorialized in photos by tom olin taken at adapt actions over the years olin s photos of adapt have appeared in the smithsonian are part of the national civil rights museum and show up continually in national press and media in scores of books on posters and in every corner of the world wide web events occurring during the adapt 25 anniversary celebration week include a sunday april 27 fun run roll around upper senate park in washington d c that is open to the public and serves as combination fundraiser and celebration kick off the national fun runner roller is marca bristo executive director of access living in chicago il and one of the founders and former president of the national council on independent living and chair of the national council on disability during the clinton administration three days of activism throughout the washington d c area on april 28 30 including the announcement of the 2008 ten worst states in the provision of home and community based services an april 30 evening showing at the holiday inn capitol hotel of when you remember me a made for tv movie starring kevin spacey ellen burstyn and fred savage the film chronicles adapt co founder wade blank s work freeing young people with disabi...