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We envision a world in which everyone who has a disability is afforded opportunities to live in their own homes, work in non-segregated places of employment, and make their own choices. This is true community living, and this is the focus of these pieces.

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‘Tis the Season for Inclusive Holiday Festivities

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Why Involving Disabled People in Disaster Planning Saves Lives

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VIDEO: Still Segregated

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Disabled People Have the Right to Live Happily Ever After

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Ensuring Disabled People Return to Community Living After Natural Disasters

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Visibility Will Make Communities More Accessible to the Disabled

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VIDEO: Did Love Win?

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Paying Disabled Workers Fair Market Wage Isn’t Just Ethical…It’s Economical

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Why We Cannot Allow the AHCA to Pull Our Lives Out From Under Us

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The AHCA Would Put the Lives of Millions Like Me At Stake

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VIDEO: The Threatened Legacy of Independent Living with Alex Ghenis

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A group of people with both visible and hidden disabilities is gathered in the Light Court at City Hall. They are holding posters of people with disabilities who have been killed by the police. An ACLU Disability Rights attorney in glasses, Claudia Center, is speaking and gesturing with her hands. A sign language interpreter is to the left, and ACLU Disability Rights attorney, Susan Mizner is to the right, squatting on the floor and holding a sign of an African-American man with a disability killed by police. Other protestors are listening, standing, sitting in chairs and in wheelchairs.

Five Questions for ACLU Attorney Susan Mizner

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How to Make Your Social Justice Events Accessible to the Disability Community: A Checklist

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Healthcare Reform and its Impact on the Disabled Community: Restructuring Medicaid

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Unshoveled College Campuses Leave Disabled Students in the Cold

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