2025 has been a devastating year. Disabled oracles Patty Berne, Alice Wong, & now Bob Kafka have all joined the ancestors this year. And yet, they continue, as Wong wrote in her statement at her death, to “light the way to the future.”
#DisabilityJustice
#CripTheVote
#ADAPTandRESIST
#ADAPTandResist saving Medicaid in 2017 (Bob Kafka, ¡presente!)
Ongoing unionization of HCA while HCA shits bricks about it
Electoral politics & governance isn’t my thing, but ppl harassed the fuck out of their senators/reps for being too chickenshit to hold town halls & it was really funny
In my book ILLNESS POLITICS AND HASHTAG ACTIVISM, I write about the 2017 protests organized by disabled activists on Capitol Hill & in state houses across the US that used the hashtag #ADAPTandRESIST.
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#MedicaidIsLife! It supports disabled people to live independently & not be institutionalized.
#ADAPTandRESIST
#NoCutsToMedicaid
#WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid
In my book ILLNESS POLITICS & HASHTAG ACTIVISM, I write about the #ADAPTandResist protests organized by disabled activists in 2017 against Trump's attempts to cut Medicaid & repeal the Affordable Care Act. “As one sign at the Capitol proclaimed, 'Medicaid is life' for many people with disabilities."
In my book ILLNESS POLITICS & HASHTAG ACTIVISM, I write about the #ADAPTandResist protests organized by disabled activists in 2017 against Trump's attempts to cut Medicaid & repeal the Affordable Care Act. “As one sign at the Capitol proclaimed, 'Medicaid is life' for many people with disabilities."
Got bodily dragged out of a House of Representatives hearing room by Capitol police and arrested protesting the Graham-Cassidy bill, which would have gutted the Affordable Care Act. #ADAPTandResist
#ADAPTandRESIST
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19 courageous people changed accessibility In public transportation before the
#ADA
Time to break out the old chants again.
We who believe in freedom will not rest til we save Medicaid, til we save Medicaid, til we save Medicaid, won't rest til we save Medicaid! #ADAPTandResist
This is exactly what Trump & the GOP tried to do in 2017, but disabled Americans put their bodies on the line to resist. I write about this in my book ILLNESS POLITICS & HASHTAG ACTIVISM in the chapter on #ADAPTandRESIST.
Check it out 👉
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The above isn't wrong, but there's a little more to the story as I discuss in my chapter in ILLNESS POLITICS & HASHTAG ACTIVISM on the #ADAPTandRESIST campaign by disabled activists to protest Trump & the GOP's attempts to repeal ACA & cut Medicaid. #IllnessPolitics
This was 3 years after protests by disability activists in Congress led by ADAPT managed to prevent the GOP from overturning the ACA & significantly cutting Medicaid. I write about this in ILLNESS POLITICS AND HASHTAG ACTIVISM in the chapter on #ADAPTandRESIST. www.upress.umn.edu/978151791734...
"Again, Arrested protesting for the rights of disabled Americans right to freedom!
Today we got arrested as we demanded Senator Alexander to put the Disability Integration Act through committee." - German L. Parodi
#ADAPTandResist #rollwithADAPT......
Good question. Where are you, @SenCoryGardner ? #protectourcare #killthebill #copolitics #ADAPTandRESIST
I donated $25 to the disability rights org @NationalADAPT today, in honor of their heroic efforts toward opposing the AHCA #ADAPTandRESIST
Come #Trumpcare, all you'll see in shiny US hospital corridors are yacht owners and the occasional tumbleweed. #ADAPTandRESIST
