Gregory Mansfield
@GHMansfield
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Disabled Lawyer. Disability Rights and Disability Justice. Gregoryhmansfield at gmail.
NYC
Joined October 2011
Man at bus stop seeing me, a wheelchair user: “I don’t have time to wait for a wheelchair to get on.” Wheelchair users know about waiting.The resistance to us riding buses kept them inaccessible for years. Your wait is minimal. Our wait for access persists.
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When you equate disabled people with burden, the lives of disabled people are always in jeopardy.
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When I see a delivery bot parked on a sidewalk, I worry about wheelchair access. My worst fear came true in Miami Beach near Lincoln Road. I walked up & even pushed this—it didn’t budge. Do all of these endanger the lives of wheelchair users by pushing them into the street? #ADA
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A dad spent ages preparing to care for his disabled son at home. Then ICE took him into custody.
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Heury Gomez eagerly awaited the day he’d bring his disabled son back home to his Manhattan apartment, but his plans collapsed five months later when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detai…
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Don’t assume that you know the access and accommodation that disabled people need. Ask disabled people.
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Queens library agrees to major accessibility upgrades after disability rights lawsuit https://t.co/h1zDaWaZdp via @gothamist
gothamist.com
The Hunters Point Library in Long Island City will undergo renovations to make all areas accessible to visitors with mobility-related disabilities, following a class-action settlement.
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Special needs students pay as Tr*mp guts Department of Education | by @EricMGarcia
independent.co.uk
Employees tell reporter Eric Garcia that they fear that students with disabilities will go without vital services after Trump’s recent layoffs in the federal government
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Access for disabled people is not a burden. It is the excluders rightfully bearing the cost of eliminating the barriers that exclude disabled people.
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Where’s the line between protest and lawbreaking? In this week’s InfluenceWatch Podcast, Michael Watson, Sarah Lee, and Robert Stilson discuss how tax-exempt nonprofits push activism past the point of legality—and what it means for accountability.
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Once you have called disabled people a burden, you have facilitated the devaluation, dehumanization and death of disabled people.
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Once you have called disabled people a burden, you have facilitated the devaluation, dehumanization and death of disabled people.
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Tr*mp’s mass firings strike a hammer blow against Americans with disabilities | by @EricMGarcia
https://t.co/G01VlboWj2 via @MSNBC
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The GOP once supported special education programs. Recent dismissals at the Education Department put an end to that support.
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‘Get your a** on-site or find another job’: Disabled employee sues company over unyielding return-to-office mandate - The Independent
apple.news
Exclusive: John Waudby, who has a prosthetic leg, claims he was further told, ‘The company does not care about your ADA accommodation.’
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Tr*mp’s New Layoffs Hurt Disabled Kids | by @metraux_julia Source: Mother Jones
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"This is absolutely a violation of federal law."
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Majority of special education staff in US education department laid off – report
theguardian.com
Layoffs ‘decimating’ office responsible for protecting rights of infants, children and youth with disabilities, says worker
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American Airlines refused to accommodate blind employee, then fired her: lawsuit
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The EEOC is suing American Airlines, alleging the Fort Worth-based company violated the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Hospital employee to me, a wheelchair user: “You’ll be happy. We are building a ramp here for disabled people.” Access for and accommodation of disabled people is not a gift or advantage. It is the remedy to combat the past and continuing exclusion of disabled people.
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For a half century, people with disabilities made steady gains. Now, it’s collapsing.
jsonline.com
Now, a government shutdown has begun with health care funding for the poor and disabled taking center stage.
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Opposition to euthanasia & assisted suicide is not a left or right thing. People with very different worldviews share this perspective. They are always thoughtful - very unlike the breathless reacting, emoting & projecting of proponents. Good read. https://t.co/1jPzZ0MaJF
politics.co.uk
The Terminally Ill Adults Bill has its second reading in the House of Lords today. I was devastated when it was passed by the House of Commons earlier this year. I’m not ashamed to say that my...
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For disabled people, access is not a benefit, gift, extra or advantage. Access is the undoing of barriers and exclusion and the provision of entry and opportunity to disabled people, who constitute approximately 25% of the population.
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I'm quite happy with launch. We now have the best multi-chain gaming app available in Defi. Providing revenue on the daily to SolidX foundation and it's partners. From 3 different chains, soon 4. Really happy with performance and dedication of my dev team. We are developing
xgame.io
Get ready for insane gains!
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Limited or partial access for disabled people is not access. It is exclusion.
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