Subject: 🍂 ASAN September Update 🍂

From	Autistic Self Advocacy Network <[email protected]>
Subject	🍂 ASAN September Update 🍂
Date	September 30, 2020 8:12 PM

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ASAN September Newsletter
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Dear friends,
This has been a hard month.
The failure to indict the officers who murdered Breonna Taylor [[link removed]] painfully illustrates the systemic racism in the U.S. court system and our society’s inadequate response to police violence. Police violence affects people with disabilities, especially Black people with disabilities, every day, and the disability community must work against it. This month, ASAN worked with the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities on their statement about police violence against people with disabilities [[link removed]] , supporting solutions to police violence that center disabled people of color, reduce law enforcement’s power to do harm, and redistribute resources towards community-based, high quality, trauma-informed mental health services for people in crisis. This includes supporting legislation such as the Counseling Not Criminalization Act [[link removed]] , which would divert federal funding away from police in schools to pay for counselors and other positive supports.
This month, ASAN also continued our advocacy on other crucial issues facing the disability community, including our right to equal COVID-19 Treatment [[link removed]] . We released comments demanding that when a COVID-19 vaccine becomes available, people with disabilities have equitable access to it. We are also protecting our right to medical supporters in hospitals [[link removed]] . Even with social distancing policies in effect, people with disabilities are always entitled to reasonable accommodations, including in-person access to individualized communication supports and services.
ASAN co-led a joint letter [[link removed]] by disability groups in solidarity with immigrant and reproductive health care and justice groups calling for an immediate stop to the forced sterilizations being performed on immigrant women at the Irwin County Detention Center. We believe the Irwin County Detention Center and all ICE detention facilities must be closed, and call for the defunding of further ICE activity until all ableist, racist, and eugenic immigration policies [[link removed]] are rescinded.
In these difficult times, it’s easy to feel like one person can’t do anything, especially when the government refuses to enact policies that would address the issues facing us. However, there are things each person can do to make our voices heard.
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Ensure
you
are
registered
to
vote,
and
make
your
voting
plan!
You
can
check
your
registration
here
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.
We
have
released
a
new
resource
on
voting
by
mail
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.
We
have
state-by-state
information
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on
how
to
request
a
ballot,
when
to
send
it
in,
and
more!
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Encourage
your
friends
to
register
to
vote!
We
want
people
to
have
their
voices
heard
in
this
election.
If
your
friends
have
questions
about
voting
or
voting
by
mail,
you
can
send
them
our
voting
toolkits
and
guides.
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Complete
the
census!
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The
census
deadline
has
been
extended,
so
make
sure
to
#GetCounted
as
soon
as
possible!
The
census
is
important
because
it
is
used
to
figure
out
how
much
money
state
and
local
governments
get
for
Medicaid,
housing
vouchers,
and
more.
It
also
affects
political
representation,
because
it
is
used
to
determine
how
many
representatives
each
state
gets
in
the
House
of
Representatives.
Don’t
let
your
community
miss
out
on
important
funds
-
get
counted
today
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Even during the most difficult times, your advocacy makes progress possible. This month, we were excited to see the US Commission on Civil Rights’ statement that the subminimum wage for people with disabilities is unethical. [[link removed]] Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act has allowed discriminatory employment practices to continue for far too long. The Commission recommends phasing it out and expanding capacity for competitive integrated employment — jobs in the community where people with disabilities work alongside, are paid the same wages and benefits, and have the same employment opportunities — as their co-workers without disabilities.
We’ve also been preparing for our 2020 Virtual Gala [[link removed]] ! This year’s gala will last several days and is donate-what-you-can. We’re so excited to share the gala with disability community members and allies from across the country and around the world, who usually wouldn’t be able to attend in-person. There will be lots of new, exciting ways for you to participate like twitter chats, panels, and more. Everyone’s welcome. We hope you’ll join us to celebrate self-advocacy [[link removed]] , even in the toughest of times.
We wish you all the best during this period of transition.
Sincerely,
Zoe Gross
Director of Operations
Autistic Self Advocacy Network
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Statement on Reducing Police Responses to People with Disabilities [[link removed]]
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ASAN Comments on Equitable Allocation of COVID-19 Vaccine [[link removed]]
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Disability Community Joint Letter on ICE Forced Sterilizations [[link removed]]
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CPSD Statement on the US Commission on Civil Rights 14(c) Report [[link removed]]
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Register now for ASAN's 2020 Gala! [[link removed]]
Autistic Self Advocacy Network
Autistic Self Advocacy Network
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Washington, DC 20035
United States
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