- Axis Disability Rights Website - http://www.normemma.com/
Articles, videos, recommended readings on Disability Rights, Inclusive Education,Euthanasia, Abuse, Injustice and other related topics.
- Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities - http://www.c-c-d.org/
A coalition of approximately 100 national disability organizations working together to advocate for national public policy that ensures the self-determination, independence, empowerment, integration and inclusion of children and adults with disabilities in all aspects of society.
- Disabled Peoples' International - http://www.dpi.org/
A grassroots,cross-disability network with member organizations in over 110 countries, over half of which are in the developing world.
- Not Dead Yet! - http://www.notdeadyet.org/
Disability activists opposed to the legalization of assisted suicide.
- Council for Disability Rights - http://www.disabilityrights.org/
Advancing rights and enhancing lives for people with disabilities in Chicago, Illinois. Articles on advocating for yourself and coping with the system.
- TASH - Disability Advocacy Worldwide - http://www.tash.org/
An international association of people with disabilities, their family members, other advocates, and professionals fighting for a society in which inclusion of all people in all aspects of society is the norm.
- Justice For All E-Mail Network - http://www.jfanow.org/
Formed to defend and advance disability rights and programs in the 104th Congress. One JFA goal is to work with national and state organizations of people with disabilities to get the word from Washington D.C. out to the grassroots.
- Support Coalition International's MindFreedom.org - http://www.mindfreedom.org/
For the past 30 years, a very special social change movement has been quietly building internationally despite enormous hurdles: the movement led by survivors of human rights violations in the psychiatric system.
- Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates (COPAA) - http://www.copaa.net.
An independent, nonprofit, tax-exempt organization of attorneys, advocates and parents established to improve the quality and quantity of legal assistance for parents of children with disabilities.
- Auto Workers Press - http://www.angelfire.com/oh3/theautoworkerspress
This site is created to specialize in disabled auto workers rights and to be an advocate for auto workers who are being discriminated against, on the basis of disability, by their employers.
- Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund Inc. - http://www.dredf.org
A national law and policy center dedicated to protecting and advancing the civil rights of people with disabilities through legislation, litigation, advocacy, technical assistance, and education and training of attorneys, advocates, persons with disabilities, and parents of children with disabilities.
- Self Advocates Becoming Empowered (SABE) - http://www.sabeusa.org/
To ensure that people with disabilities are treated as equals and that they are given the same decisions, choices, rights, responsibilities, and chances to speak up to empower themselves; opportunities to make new friends; and to learn from their mistakes.
- Bear's Society - http://members.tripod.com/todd.clark
About a self advocate who is currently People First President in Ridgecrest, California, making a difference.
- Making Advocacy Work In Your Community - http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~thompso/
Links to information about advocacy, self-advocacy, self-determination, consumer involvement, and self-help as it relates to disabilities.
- Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI) - http://www.childrenshospital.org/ici/
U.S. organization that advocates for personal choice, self-determination, and social and economic justice for people with disabilities.
- Disability Advocacy - http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/disability_advocacy
Articles and links to help people with disabilities advocate for themselves.
- LRM'S Place: Disability, Health Care, Advocacy...and More - http://www.geocities.com/dhcpolwnk
Personal web site of public policy analyst Laura Remson Mitchell. Primary focus is on health-care reform and disability policy. Includes original articles and commentary as well as advocacy links.
- Mental Disability Rights International - http://www.mdri.org/
General information, standards, publications and witness website dedicated to advocacy for the rights of children and adults with mental disabilities.
- National Disabled Students Union (NDSU) - http://www.disabledstudents.org
Cross-disability organization in the United States working for full participation, full equality, full justice, and full dignity and respect.
- Advocacy, Inc. - http://www.advocacyinc.org/
An Austin, Texas based non profit organization that represents the disabled community, including special education.
- Disability and Business - http://www.b4business.info/
Works with disabled entrepreneurs toward business owned and managed by them, using various services and raising disability awareness. News and information on transcription services.
- Freedom Clearinghouse - http://freedomclearinghouse.org/
Materials to change the system to home and community based services -- our homes, not nursing homes.
- NICHCY - http://www.nichcy.org/
NICHCY is a national information center that provides information on disabilities and disability related issues, focusing on children and youth, birth to age 22.
- Sprint Project Connect - http://www.sprint.com/community/communities_across/spc.html
A wireless phone donation and recycling program, to raise money and support for people with disabilities.
- Center For People With Disabilities, Inc. - a 501-c-3 not-for-profit - http://home.earthlink.net/%7emmjournal/cfpwd/
The Center For People With Disabilities, Inc. website (dba: Center For People With Disabilities)is an Education and Resource website focusing on the areas addressed by the Center, which is a 501-c-3 not-for-profit organization incorporated in Texas, USA.
- Center For Education Advocacy - http://home.bellsouth.net/p/s/community.dll?ep=16&groupid=156387&ck=
Special education advocate in Miami, Florida with emphasis on individualized services.
- Dana Lear, Ph.D. - http://www.negotiatingthemaze.org
Berkeley special education advocate.
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