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Introduction
Introduction
Disabled people have always been organizers - from the 504 Sit-Ins to ADAPT's direct actions to current disability justice movements. But organizing while disabled requires different strategies, accessible tactics, and community care approaches. This module provides tools for building powerful disability justice movements while sustaining disabled organizers and ensuring that our organizing is as accessible as our vision for the future.
Learning Intentions: Learn disability justice organizing tactics, build skills for emergency response, connect to ongoing resistance movements, and understand accessible organizing practices.
Content
Content
Core Content (Essential Reading/Viewing)
Core Content (Essential Reading/Viewing)
Beyond the Conversation: Putting "Nothing About Us Without Us" into Action - Administration for Community Living
Disabled Activists Crawl Up the Steps of the Capitol — History Honors 250 - HISTORY
Disability Justice Organizing 101 - Sarah Lee - Number Analytics
Supplementary Content
Supplementary Content
Historical Organizing:
Disability History: The 1977 504 Sit-In - Disability Rights Florida Blog - Disability Rights Florida
The History of the Independent Living Movement - Peer2Peer Resources for People with Disabilities - Northeast Independent Living Program, INC.
Current Organizing:
Accessible Organizing:
Making Protest Accessible: Tips and Checklists for Actions - The Commons Social Change Library
Creating an Accessible Digital Future - Judy Brewer - TEDxMIT
Disability Justice and Collective Care: A Movement by US, for US -Clayre Sessoms Psychotherapy
Reflection & Engagement Options
Reflection & Engagement Options
Journal Prompts
Journal Prompts
What issues affecting disabled people in your community feel most urgent to you? Why?
What organizing skills do you have? What skills would you like to develop?
How can you support disabled-led organizing, whether or not you identify as disabled?
What would victory look like for disability justice movements?
Discussion Questions for Learning Communities
How do disability justice organizing tactics differ from traditional advocacy approaches? What arethe benefits and challenges of each?
How can movements for racial justice, economic justice, and environmental justice better includedisabled people and disability analysis?
What role should non-disabled allies play in disability justice organizing? How can they avoid takingover or speaking for disabled people?
How do we build sustainable movements that don't burn out disabled organizers?
Creative & Artistic Engagement
Visual Arts:
Create protest signs and banners using disability justice principles
Design accessible infographics for organizing campaigns
Make artwork that shows accessible organizing in action
Performance & Movement:
Create accessible chants and protest performances
Develop a community theater about organizing victories and challenges
Write and perform pieces about disabled resistance and power
Music & Sound:
Write protest songs and organizing anthems
Create audio guides for accessible protest participation
Design sound systems that work for deaf and hard-of-hearing organizers
Digital & Tech:
Build accessible organizing platforms and communication tools
Create digital security guides for disabled activists
Design virtual organizing tools and online action platforms
Community Art:
Organize accessible community events and actions
Create organizing resource maps for your community
Start disabled activist art collectives or cultural organizing
Writing & Documentation:
Write organizing guides that center disability justice principles
Document local disability organizing history and victories
Interview disabled organizers about their strategies and experiences
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