Disability rights

Revoke police license to kill disabled people!

People with untreated mental illness are 16 times more likely to be killed during a police encounter than other civilians…

February 1, 2021

Legal lynchings soar under Trump

In an unprecedented spree of executions, Donald Trump has executed 13 people in the last six months of his presidency.…

January 18, 2021

Lisa Montgomery’s execution: ‘We cannot let this happen again’

This lightly edited statement was issued by Attorney Kelley Henry on the execution of Lisa Montgomery on Jan. 13 at…

January 18, 2021

Disability rights – and justice

The following remarks were delivered during a webinar hosted by the Peoples Power Assemblies-NYC on Dec. 3 in observence of…

December 7, 2020

PPA Dec. 3 Webinar to celebrate International Day of Persons with Disabilities

New York, N.Y. — The worldwide struggle by people with disabilities for equal rights led the United Nations to establish…

December 2, 2020

Living with addiction and COVID-19

In the countrywide COVID-19 epidemic, it is easy to forget that the most vulnerable among us include those with opioid…

November 25, 2020

Portland disabled Black Lives Matter protesters demand rights under ADA

A claim was filed in U.S. District Court here on Nov. 1 charging that disabled people are being denied their…

November 24, 2020

Montana issues COVID death sentence to prisoners

Montana State Prison reported Nov. 6 that Robert Gonzalez, 70, died Oct. 24 of COVID and that “underlying health conditions…

November 23, 2020

Oppose DEA surveillance plan!

The Drug Enforcement Administration is seeking more control and surveillance in the lives of people who use opioids, particularly people…

November 23, 2020

Wallace family calls for firing of police

The Oct. 26 police killing of Walter Wallace Jr. in Philadelphia was caught on a video that went viral, bringing…

November 10, 2020