Commentaries

Alternet.org
Personal Voices: Wheelchairs Against War
A disabled protester participating in nonviolent civil disobedience finds that waging peace in a wheelchair has its advantages.
Posted on Mar 28, 2003

Serve and Protect?
The Detroit police firing of two fatal bullets into Errol Shaw's left side is the latest in a string of killings by cops across the nation involving a mentally disabled person.
Posted on Feb 20, 2001

CounterPunch
Extinguishing Frida Kahlo

The Los Angeles Daily News
Dollars and Death
Sunday April 25, 1999, Viewpoint

Progressive Media Project
Insurance market discriminates against the disabled

Ragged Edge
Dubya's New Freedom Initiative: Just how much "freedom" is that, anyway?

Overlooking the difference between human rights and civil rights
From Marta Russell's dispatch from the United Nations Ad Hoc Committee Meeting on Human Rights and Disability

WorkingForChange.com
Supremely Insensitive
The Justices decision to side with big business over the ADA

Znet
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