http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Sitting_Position/Daily (or weekly) commentary on the disability community and the able-bodied world from a sitting position. hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Sitting_Position/612575Dear Friends of Disability Rights Activism: The ADAPT Community has just returned from an intense 4-day action in Washington, DC. ADAPT activists sent a message to the Obama Administration and Congress that people with disabilities and older Americans want long term services and supports, including the reform of the institutional bias in Medicaid and Medicare, to be included in any health care legislation. We thought the Obama Administration and the Democratically controlled Congress would be...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Sitting_Position/611462According to ABC News and my friend Rahnee (who posted this to Facebook, where I saw this) Terrified residents at a Corpus Christi, Texas, state school for the mentally disabled were forced to be part of a brutal 'fight club' operated by night shift employees, who made videos of the sessions with their cell phones, the newly released videos show. I always knew institutions were screwed up places to be in, but this is above and beyond my worst nightmare. These poor people. I hope that they're...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Sitting_Position/610587Hi everybody, Sorry I haven't written in awhile. I bruised my knee, and it sent me to bed for a few days. I haven't been out of bed very long since Saturday. How it happened was that on last Sunday (the beginning of my D.C. trip of course) I fell down because I didn't realize the floor was wet. The floor is designed to look like water so you don't always know when water is actually there. My foot slipped and I tumbled landing on my knee. I'm not supposed to do that. Well, no one is but...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Sitting_Position/600416I've had a good day. I figured out how to go to D.C. I'm going to stay the three critical nights (Sunday-Tuesday) in the hotel if I can't get a roommate. On Saturday and Wednesday, I will stay in a youth hostle or maybe I will even call the hotel and ask if they have cheaper rooms for those two nights just so I don't have to move my stuff back and forth. The reason I'm paying the ADAPT rate those three nights is because ADAPT needs the money to feed us all week and buy supplies. I'm doing my...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Sitting_Position/594359I've decided to participate in a disability rights fun run fundraiser. Please support me by clicking on link. Any amount is appreciated. You will be supporting a radical, disability right direct action group. I've opted to support ADAPT youth leader training program, because Massachusetts doesn't have a regular chapter to speak of. If you can, send me a few cents.http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Sitting_Position/591130Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400;...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Sitting_Position/590914They're going to kill them. The AIDS doctors; I mean. According to the Short, Sharp Science blog posted yesterday. I'm outraged. I'm going to do something. I just don't know what that something is. Any ideas, folks? I'm calling and faxing the government of Iran on Monday. I never did it the first time (sorry to admit, although I told tons of over folks, too and think many did; I was just too ill and sore). However, now I'm better and really going to help stick it to the Iranian government. I...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Sitting_Position/589552Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400;...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Sitting_Position/583948Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400;...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Sitting_Position/583134I read this amazing article by Gary Presley. I was forwarded from ADAPT which I would have missed was I not a member of their organizer’s list. Like me, Gary lives a happy, productive wheelchair users’ life. Like me, he finds his electric wheelchair liberating, nor we are not “confined to” it, a demeaning term that some able-bodied people use to describe our life altering mobility equipment. Like me, he says, “I may be sitting down, but I intend to dance through life until hell freezes over.”...