Edward Yudelovich

Defending disability rights

Activists with disabilities and allies from New York, Rhode Island and Massachusetts gathered at an 1199 Service Employees union hall…

October 11, 2014

Art aids struggle to keep NYC hospital open

On the heels of 12 hospital closings in the last 10 years, a creative new tactic has emerged in an…

January 22, 2014

Stop minimum wage exclusion of people with disabilities

A New York City rally on Oct. 24 commemorated the 75th anniversary of the minimum wage law’s passage and called…

November 17, 2013

Ambiguity, inaccuracy and the ‘mentally ill’

Some people in the community of people with disabilities — including this reporter — who have an emotional, psychiatric or…

August 6, 2013

40 years after Munich Olympics: The big lie about the Palestinians

International Olympic Committee president, Jacques Rogge, bowing to pressure and threats from U.S. and Israeli officials, paid tribute on July…

September 10, 2012

Disabled activists at NYC forum: ‘Support disabled liberation’

Disabled activists at a July 28 forum in New York led a panel discussion to expose abuse of the disabled…

August 18, 2012

Forum on struggle led by people with disabilities

In his 1875 “Critique of the Gotha Program,” Karl Marx wrote: “In a higher phase of communist society, after the…

July 23, 2012