Given #BigDisCo's history of looking the other way at the issues impacting disabled people who are not HCBS enrollees, as well as the troubling trend of weaponizing the ADA against homeless people, can we expect anything other than a strongly-worded sign on letter from them in response to Trump's latest executive order?

The ADA didn't protect Lois Curtis from experiencing institutionalization and neither did #FreeOurPeople. This post is about what did.

A new HCBS waiver was created last week- why isn't anyone talking about it?

The title says it all. It's the focus of this week's blog, as well as our presentation at the Strategy & Solidarity 2025 Global Summit. Be sure to tune in this Wednesday, June 25 at 1pm Pacific- it's LIVE and FREE!

There will never be another George Floyd- but not because the oppressive system has been dismantled and police have stopped killing Black people...

After decades of intimately correlating #BigDisCo’s civil rights movement work to the ability of HCBS beneficiaries to employ their own direct LTC providers and live in the community, not an institution, the current, unmitigated SILENCE on the attack against immigrants on the part of ANY disability advocacy groups or leaders is curious for one significant reason...

The strongly worded letter approach to disability advocacy may reference you, but it's not for you.

Has anyone noticed that #BigDisCo has quietly removed the "A" they fought so hard to tack on to "DEI" during the Biden years?

Victor Perez should be celebrating Autism Acceptance Month. Instead, he's dead as the result of police violence.

Are more PWDs vulnerable to institutionalization or are more WHITE PWDs vulnerable to institutionalization? We unpack the distinction here.

ACL is dead. But, with the exception of Meals on Wheels, you likely have never heard of the majority, if not any, of its programs. Why?

Ultimately, the work you do with nonprofit organizations, including those within the #DisCo, should amplify your power, not usurp it...