FIGHT BACK against the attack on the CRPD! _
Take Action!_
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E-mail your Senator TODAY!
Today, the disability community's key international effort, the UN
Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities, is under attack from
Rick
Santorum and a small group of homeschoolers who think that approving the
treaty will undermine US sovereignty (it will not).
Disability advocates have worked for YEARS to pass the CRPD---and one big
reason the CRPD exists in the first place is because the US led the way in
disability law with the Americans with Disabilities Act. ADAPT, Justin
Dart, and many others led this fight. Unless the US approves the CRPD, America
gets NO place at international discussion on disability policy. The US
needs to ratify the CRPD to take its place in international disability
efforts
and to affirm its commitment to self-determination, access and community
living or people with disabilities.
We only have TODAY to beat back this attack. Then, it is over. It will be
incredibly difficult, if not impossible, to do this again. We need a WIN
for bipartisan disability rights commitment.
Please contact your Senators TODAY before 5 pm EST to let them know we
have to win this fight!
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