Showing posts with label newsletters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label newsletters. Show all posts

Audacity
"Audacity Magazine is a news and entertainment magazine geared toward the disability community in the United States and the world.

As such Audacity covers issues pertaining to life with a disability through the prism of disability to expose the public at large to the attitudes of those with physical challenges.

In addition to covering issues related to disability,Audacity writes stories pertaining to topical issues not directly related to disability per se, those stories give writers and the disability community a
chance to express their opinions.

Audacity Magazine's staff is made up entirely of people with varying disabilities."

Mouth
From the authors:
“Mouth brings the conversation down to street level, where well-intentioned "special" programs wreak havoc in the lives of ordinary people. People talk about calling a spade a spade. We call Jack Kevorkian a serial killer. And when maggots outnumber nurses' aides at what others call a "care facility," we call it a hellhole. We say it out loud: if special education is so darned special, every kid in every school ought to have the benefit of it.

Some folks call the Mouth radical. We think simpleminded is a better ephithet. Remember the other George Bush, when he campaigned in a supermarket and discovered that remarkable new checkout scanning technology? The man hadn't been to the grocery store since he was knee-high to a political consultant. Do-gooders are exactly that much out of touch with the helping system that they themselves operate.

Ask the next do-gooder you meet: Have you checked yourself into a nursing home lately? Tried to board an "accessible" bus in a wheelchair? Filed an ADA complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice? Asked a charity for actual help?

The answer will be no. It's not in their job description to use the godforsaken things.

And so it is that do-gooders go on doing their good about us --- without us.

And along comes the Mouth, roaring up from street level to take their system by the throat. This rude little magazine demands answers from the people in charge, laughs at the lying answers, and occasionally bites down, hard, somewhere near the throbbing jugular.”

Mainstream Online
About...
"For over 25 years, MAINSTREAM has been advocating for disability rights. Produced by, for and about people with disabilities, MAINSTREAM covers news & current affairs, new products & technology, profiles of movers & shakers, education, employment, sexuality & relationships, housing, transportation, travel & recreation."

ParentAdvocates.org
"Through our website, you can learn your rights as a taxpayer and parent as well as to which programs, monies and more your child may be entitled...and why you may not be able to exercise these rights.

ParentAdvocates.org is an online newsmagazine which seeks to inform and empower parents or guardians of children, taxpayers, and people of all nationalities. We believe that we, as a group, must hold our leaders and elected officials accountable for the actions they take vis-à-vis our children and our lives, and we will tell you what those actions are as well as give you resources so that you may pursue what needs to be done to change the system and make it user friendly. When we see corruption in the workplace, in our government, or in our private lives, we must speak up, and we have the right to do this without retaliation. When our children do not receive a free and appropriate education and are ignored by politicians we need to take action immediately and not depend on others to resolve the issues at hand."

Ragged Edge Online

Ragged Edge Online
"The Disability Rag was around for 16 years (see this 1986 article about The Disability Rag from The Washington Post archives), then changed its name to Ragged Edge -- and got a makeover and this website -- in 1997. "

Disability World

Disability World
"Disability World is a web-zine dedicated to advancing an exchange of information and research about the international independent living movement of people with disabilities. The web-zine is the heart of a larger project, IDEAS for the New Millennium, funded in 1999 by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research as a five-year project.

DisabilityWorld is a unique international online magazine (e-zine), dedicated to advancing an exchange of information and expertise about the international independent living movement of people with disabilities. Published by the World Institute on Disability (WID) since 2000 and available only online, DisabilityWorld features a wide variety of news reports, international studies and research, new projects, interviews, book and film reviews. Since 2005, DisabilityWorld has had a focus on initiatives and activities to improve the status of the estimated 400 million children, youth and adults with disabilities living in poor countries. DisabilityWorld has over 30,000 regular readers from 200 countries and received an Ashoka Changemakers Award in 2002. The most recent issues of DisabilityWorld are sponsored by WID, and WID is currently seeking funds to resume publishing DisabilityWorld on a more regular basis.

DisabilityWorld also houses a literature database of more than 800 abstracts of articles primarily covering employment, independent living, governance, disabled women, disabled children, technology and appropriate technology, community based rehabilitation and rehabilitation in developing countries, all searchable by topic or country. However, due to limited resources, no new abstracts have been added since 2004."

Inclusion Daily Express
Chronicling the movement toward full community inclusion around the world since December 1999. . .
From the editor:
Knowledge is power! And even though there's an ocean of information at your fingertips right now, people with disabilities, and their allies in the struggle for self-directed living, often have the least amount of this kind of power.

Our mission is to provide disability advocates with the most up-to-date news, information and commentary about community inclusion, self-determination and social justice, in a way that saves time and is easy to use.

The Riot!
"You found The Riot! The Riot! is an e-newsletter for self-advocates. Self-advocates are people with disabilities who speak up for themselves and others. Self-advocates speak up with spoken words, sign language, language boards or in ways unique to each person.

The Riot! is all about self-advocacy. We also want to make you smile. Every issue focuses on a timely theme, or a particular idea. We also cover life topics, such as dating, health and everyday fun.

Most of all, we want to help people live the life they want with the support they need. We celebrate the strength of self-advocates. We take on the barriers that stand in the way. And we really don't like SILLY rules that service systems sometimes have that just keep people down.

The Riot! comes out quarterly... that's 4 times a year. It is written and put together mostly by self-advocates."