Reports on Portland Protest
ASAN’s Portland, Oregon chapter organized a protest of an Autism Speaks fundraising walk on Saturday, Sept. 26th, 2009. Watch video from Oregon TV station KPTV-12 and watch video from TV…
September 26, 2009
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Lead Story on Portland TV Station
Following ASAN-Oregon’s protest against Autism Speaks on Saturday, Sept. 26th, 2009, an interview with ASAN-Oregon activist Elesia Ashkenazy was the lead story on the evening news on Portland TV station…
September 26, 2009
TV Coverage of DC Protest
ASAN’s protest against Autism Speaks in Washington DC on October 31, 2009, received local media coverage that included a WAMU news story and an article in The Hilltop Online….
October 31, 2009
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May 29, 2021
ASAN Calls on Sharron Angle to Apologize for Damaging Remarks
…youth on the autism spectrum: “As Autistic adults, we’re concerned by the Angle campaign’s claim that individuals and families ‘falsely label other symptoms as autism’ in order to take advantage…
September 24, 2010
ASAN Opposes Proposed Changes to Section 1557
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August 16, 2019
PETA Billboard Removed
Hello everyone, I am happy to announce that PETA’s recent, “Got Autism?” billboard has been removed by the advertising company hosting it. The billboard misinformed the public about the autism…
October 21, 2008
USA Today Writes About Disability Without Disabled People (Again)
…our community speaks up when Autistic people are left out of conversations about autism, we should be speaking up when other groups of disabled people are excluded from conversations in…
January 8, 2013
Wrap Around Services and other urban myths
By Maddy McEwen; originally published on the blog Whitterer on Autism. This term of art only has meaning in the quagmire of America. Many of us have older autistic children…
March 12, 2009
2016 ASAN Gala, Ally of the Year: Victoria M. Rodríguez-Roldán
…autism spectrum. We collaborated with the National Center for Transgender Equality to fight for the rights of transgender and nonconforming people for self-identity and respect. I’m really proud that we’re…
December 12, 2016