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Category Archives: News
ASAN Statement on Gun Violence Prevention Following Parkland Mass Shooting
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) joins the nation in mourning the loss of the seventeen men, women, and children who were murdered on February 14, 2017 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. As in all mass shootings, these deaths were tragic, senseless, and preventable. We...
Posted in Changing Perceptions, News, Statement
Tagged Congress, florida shooting, gun crime, gun safety, gun violence, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, parkland, parkland mass shooting, statement
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ASAN Condemns President’s Budget Request
Statement: ASAN strongly condemns the deep cuts that the President’s proposed budget would make to Medicaid, Social Security, employment programs, housing supports, and other critical programs for people with disabilities. The President’s profoundly hypocritical proposal would simultaneously slash the critical programs that help people with disabilities find employment, while...
Posted in News, Policy, Statement
Tagged budget, federal budget, fy19, fy19 budget, statement, wh, White House
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ASAN Letter to House Leaders on H.R. 620
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN), the nation’s leading 501(c)(3) disability rights advocacy organization by and for autistic people ourselves, strongly opposes H.R. 620, the “ADA Education and Reform Act of 2017.” H.R. 620 would curtail the civil rights of Americans with disabilities by making it prohibitively difficult for...
Our civil rights are on the line RIGHT NOW – we need your calls!
In 1990, the ADA gave people with disabilities the legal right to access in our communities. 28 years later, businesses are still trying to avoid their responsibility to their disabled customers by lobbying for a bill called HR 620. This bill would erode our protections under the ADA and...
Posted in Action, Disability Rights and Neurodiversity, News, Policy, Uncategorized
Tagged action alert, Americans with Disabilities Act, HR 620, inclusion
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ASAN Tells WA State: No Sterilization Forms!
Dear Ms. Zinn,
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) and the undersigned disability rights advocacy organizations write to you regarding your recent proposal to create court forms specific to sterilization of people under guardianship. Although we share your commitment to ensure that no individual under guardianship is illegally subjected to...
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Tagged letter, sterilization, wa, washington, washington state
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ACI 2018 Applications Now Open!
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network is now accepting applications for the 2018 Autism Campus Inclusion (ACI) Summer Leadership Academy! The ACI Summer Leadership Academy prepares autistic students to do disability advocacy at their colleges. Accepted students will travel to Washington, DC and participate in advocacy training from June 16th...
Posted in Inclusive Education and College, News
Tagged ACI
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