Disabled People Are the Canaries in the Coal Mine
The disabled community has responded to the adversities they face by organizing for legal rights that protect their autonomy and access to public life. But these rights are increasingly under attack.
Environmental activist Monique Harden, whom D&S collective member Ben Greenberg interviewed for our March/April 2006 special issue on Katrina, co-wrote an excellent letter to the editor of the New York Times:
Thank you, Monique and Nathalie, for taking the Times to task for praising this "outsider's" perspective.