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May 15, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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#disabilityrightsca #sb634 #homelessness #unhoused #pressconference | Disability Rights California
Thank you all who joined us for the SB 634 Press Conference! We have stood in support of this bill and will keep pushing it forward to ensure people who are assisting individuals experiencing homeless...
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May 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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September is Deaf Awareness Month! Learn more from our friends at @disabilityrightsca.bsky.social
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September 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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It is crucial we work to ensure individuals with disabilities have a voice in shaping accessibility policies and park improvements.

#DisabilityRightsCA #OutdoorAccess #StateParks #CaliforniaLegislature #SenateCommittee #ParksAndRecreation
June 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a deeply alarming legal opinion that takes direct aim at one of the most important disability civil rights principles in modern American law: the rights of people..

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June 21, 2026 at 7:54 AM
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THE RIDE AHEAD follows Samuel Habib, a typical 21-year-old, itching to move out, start a career and find love. But no one tells you how to be an adult, let alone an adult with a disability.

#DisabilityRightsCA #TheRideAhead #PBS #SamuelHabib #Documentary #FilmRecommendation
July 25, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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What’s going on with Medicaid? Today, the Senate is voting on a budget resolution that orders massive cuts to Medicaid. We must stop the Senate from advancing these devastating Medicaid cuts and protect care for millions.

#HandsOffMedicaid #ProtectMedicaid #Medicaid #DisabilityRightsCA
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April 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Disability Rights California (DRC) will be pausing services for the upcoming Winter holidays.

DRC will be closed from Wednesday, December 24, 2025 to Friday, January 2, 2026.

#DisabilityRightsCA #IntakeLine #Client #Winter #Holiday #DecemberHours #PhoneLine #DRC #NewYear
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December 16, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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The IMPACT fund will bolster that work, making it easier for us to mobilize the people who are working with us to build power. We hope you’ll consider making a contribution and help us spread the word! In solidarity and gratitude.

#DisabilityRightsCA #Donate #Fundraiser #AndyImparato #IMPACTfund
August 11, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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(3/3) Next, the bill will move on to the Assembly and then the Governor’s Desk for approval.

Read the full press release at the link: www.disabilityrightsca.org/press-releas...

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Senate Bill 634 Protecting Service Providers Assisting Unhoused People Passes off the Senate Floor | Disability Rights California
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June 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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24 Hour Medicaid Livestream - Watch Now!

Join Caring Across Generations in DC and online for a #ProtectMedicaid vigil.

Visit the link to join the livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBo0...

When: May 7 at 10am PT to May 8 at 10am PT

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May 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Over 450 organizations, including DRC, have joined the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) Letter to Congress to express strong opposition to the restructuring of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

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April 1, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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All who seek to participate in sports should be able to do so.

Today we celebrate and ask for more sports accessibility!

#SpecialOlympics #Anniversary #Birthday #Chicago #Olympics #DisabilityRightsCA #AdaptiveSports
July 20, 2026 at 9:20 PM
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Let's honor those who fought for and secured disability rights via #Section504 in 1977 by continuing to advocate for our community's rights today💪
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April 6, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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Together they speak at length about the importance of protection and advocacy organizations and their findings at the Cerritos College Hospital facility

#DisabilityRightsCA #Podcast #Committable #CollegeHospital #Cerritos #Facility #MentalHealth #IDD #Investigation #Report #Restraint #Neglect
September 19, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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We're incredibly proud to share SB 634 (Pérez) has passed the Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee! Next, the bill heads directly to the Assembly Floor for consideration!

#DisabilityRightsCA #SB634 #CAassembly
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July 17, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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DRC has collected helpful immigration related legal services for those of you affected by raids across the cruel and inhuman ICE raids across California.

Visit the link to explore legal services: www.disabilityrightsca.org/publications...

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July 15, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Today April 2nd marks Autism Awareness/Acceptance Day! The entirety of April is Autism Awareness/Acceptance Month, so join us in celebrating and uplifting the talents, contributions, and diversity within the autism community.

#AutismAcceptance #AutismAwareness #DisabilityRightsCA
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April 2, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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There is much to dissect from the budget as it currently stands, so we hope you'll join this virtual event to stay informed!

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#DisabilityRightsCA #Newsom #MayRevision #HHS #IHSS #Medicaid #TownHall #Undocumented #Immigration #CAbudget
June 25, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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(2/4) The Department of Veterans Affairs is expected to decrease staff by over 80,000 people, phase out medical treatments for gender dysphoria, and make further cuts to health care services that many veterans depend on.

#DisabilityRightsCA #VeteranAffairs #Veterans #FederalCuts
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April 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Thank you all who joined us and cheered along the parade route! And a special thank you to Saint Mary's Mariachi Club for their wonderful Spanish singing along our parade route!

Happy pride from all of us at Disability Rights California!

#DisabilityRightsCA #SacramentoPride #Parade #LGBTQIA #June
June 15, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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We applaud the 26 protestors, many of whom live with disabilities, who bravely protested planned cuts to Medicaid and were subsequently arrested. We must continue to apply pressure to those who represent us and demand hands off Medicaid!

#DisabilityRightsCA #HandsOffMedicaid #PressRelease
May 15, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Finally had time to do a big Instagram post for #DisabilityPrideMonth! ♿️ Wanted to post it here because I suspect that a lot of people aren't aware that Disability Pride Month is happening AS WE SPEAK! 😃

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Screenshot of the caption to my Instagram post. It reads: We're halfway through July, and I'm wondering how many people know that this is #DisabilityPrideMonth! Since the beginning of the (still very much ongoing 😘) pandemic, I have learned so much about #disability and #disabilityjustice. I have also seen how little attention is given/effort is put forth on behalf of disabled people as opposed to, quite frankly, EVERY other cause. Sorry! I gotta call it as I see it! My personal theory regarding this imbalance is twofold. First, I unfortunately don't think people view caring about disability as being as "sexy" or "dynamic" as caring about other causes (again, sorry! but I think I'm right! 🤷‍♀️). Secondly, I think people have an underlying fear of disability because, on some unconscious level, they are aware that it is a demographic that any of us can join at any time. Not only that; if we are lucky enough to live to old age, we WILL join it! One thing that I think The YouthsT™ get right is referring to themselves as "pre-disabled," which is factually true for all of us should we live long enough. Masking in essential public spaces (grocery/drug stores; public transportation; etc.) is a small thing we can do to proactively support disabled people *and* reduce our own chances of becoming disabled/increasingly disabled on an accelerated timeline due to Long Covid, which is a mass disabling event. I hope you'll consider doing it for the remainder of Disability Pride Month! ♿️ #covidconscious #maskup 😷 Screenshot of an Instagram slide from @disabilityrightsca that says "2026" on the side and "July is Disability Pride Month" in the colors of the Disability Pride flag. Below this text is a black and white historical photo of disability rights advocates at a protest. The Disability Rights California logo is in the bottom right corner. Screenshot of an Instagram slide that reads: crash margulies x #WorldMaskWeek Wear a Mask at The Big 3 1) Stores, especially Grocery Stores & Pharmacies 2) Mandatory Appointments (medical, government, etc) 3) Public Transit These are places disabled, chronically ill, or even people who may be acutely ill and infectious cannot avoid in order to stay alive. Even if you think wearing a mask in other spaces is too much work, too much to ask, or that disabled and virus-avoidant folks should just stay home, there are often no other people to run errands at these essential spaces. Photo of me and Pierro sitting on the grass in Griffith Park. I am wearing a straw sun hat and an N95 respirator; he has been captured mid-yawn and looks like he is doing a mighty roar.
July 16, 2026 at 1:22 AM
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We are working hard to stop these cuts from hurting disabled Californians, and we need your help! Send a message to your Congresspeople today using the form: www.disabilityrightsca.org/latest-news/...

#DisabilityRightsCA #ProtectMedicaid #HandsOffMedicaid #Congress #Budget
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May 7, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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We are pleased to announce AB 1676 (Stefani) has been pulled from this year's legislative session! Thanks to all who made their voices heard in opposition to this bill.

#DisabilityRightsCA #AB1676 #BillUpdate #Treatment
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April 20, 2026 at 5:37 PM