Disability rights

<span class="streamer">AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power</span><br> Militant resistance during the AIDS crisis<span class="streamer">AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power</span><br> Militant resistance during the AIDS crisis

<span class="streamer">AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power</span><br> Militant resistance during the AIDS crisis

“ACT UP! Fight back! Fight AIDS!” These words were first uttered in March of 1987, by the organization ACT UP…

March 25, 2024
People with disabilities suffer extreme abuse by prison-industrial complexPeople with disabilities suffer extreme abuse by prison-industrial complex

People with disabilities suffer extreme abuse by prison-industrial complex

Disabilities. Some people are born with them; others acquire them as they grow older. Unless one is wealthy or has…

March 18, 2024
Politicians attack harm reduction programsPoliticians attack harm reduction programs

Politicians attack harm reduction programs

It’s 2024 and people are still buying into anti-addict, anti-houseless politics in the age of the opioid epidemic and record…

February 26, 2024
Syringe Service Programs – an urgent needSyringe Service Programs – an urgent need

Syringe Service Programs – an urgent need

In the early 1980s, an unknown disease was menacing the drug user communities in urban areas on both the East…

February 19, 2024
Pennsylvania prison bans WW article on disability strugglesPennsylvania prison bans WW article on disability struggles

Pennsylvania prison bans WW article on disability struggles

A Workers World article featuring an incarcerated person’s struggles for disability rights is being denied entry into the Pennsylvania State…

February 3, 2024
Hands off the Drug User Liberation Front!Hands off the Drug User Liberation Front!

Hands off the Drug User Liberation Front!

On Oct. 25, 2023, the revolutionary group Drug User Liberation Front experienced severe repression from the Canadian state. This group,…

January 22, 2024
Fighting for disability rights behind barsFighting for disability rights behind bars

Fighting for disability rights behind bars

By Billy Rinick and Joe Piette “The disproportionate incarceration of people with disabilities in the United States is a serious…

January 15, 2024
Reject ‘War on Drugs’ rhetoricReject ‘War on Drugs’ rhetoric

Reject ‘War on Drugs’ rhetoric

Philadelphia Another mayor, another effort to “clean up” Kensington. Except this time, the new mayor, Cherelle Parker, wasted no time…

January 11, 2024
Commentary: No place for old menCommentary: No place for old men

Commentary: No place for old men

Quite recently, during the height of the ravaging COVID-19 crisis, an American health care agency announced a series of projects…

December 1, 2023
Treatment of severe mental illness in the U.S. and Cuba – a comparisonTreatment of severe mental illness in the U.S. and Cuba – a comparison

Treatment of severe mental illness in the U.S. and Cuba – a comparison

Sue Harris is a psychologist who has worked in psychiatric hospitals and group homes and has been in private practice…

September 26, 2023