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| DAMN 2025 workshop |
| Link to the provincial group's recent surveys page |
| Download latest Recipients' Support Groups sign (GIF format) |
| Flashback - Budget 2006 page |
| "COMMUNITIES UNITING: TALKING ABOUT JUSTICE, DISABILITY AND POSSIBILITIES". Date: Wed. March 19th, 6:30 p.m. Location: PARC (1499 Queen St. West - on Queen just West of Lansdowne). Meal provided. |
| are actively kept out of public culture. Disabled people are imprisoned, impoverished and denied immigration status. The only way this will ever change is if disabled people and our supporters join together to fight for justice for everyone. Join us as several community organizers address the role of disability and disabled people in the struggle for resistance. Help us move forward local efforts against ableism, and brainstorm new directions for Toronto-based organizing. Speakers and topics to incl. |
| Ableism in the Immigration Act and the Case of Kader Belaouni: Jared Will, legal council for Kader Belaouni Disability discrimination is written into the Immigration Act. If you are disabled, it is very likely that you will never become a Canadian citizen because you are considered a 'drain on the system' and possibly a 'danger' to the country. |
| "The realities of disabled people are systemically erased." Though we are an important part of every community, disabled people |
| Ableism and Accessibility: Griffin Epstein, DAMN 2025 DAMN 2025 is a direct action group currently bringing together disabled people, those affected by ableism, and our supporters. We believe that accessibility means more than adding ramps and elevators; accessibility must mean a restructuring of the way we incorporate difference into our everyday lives. It means an active awareness of how different identities intersect and assurance that there will be room for everyone in our struggles. Disabled people must work towards cross-disability organizing to ally us not only with other disabled people, but with all oppressed people. |
| One of the clearest examples of this violent discrimination is the case of Abdelkader Belaouni (Kader), an asylum seeker from Algeria who has been in sanctuary in Montreal for over two years. As people concerned with equity and justice, we demand immediate status for Kader. As a disability organizing campaign, we are particularly concerned with how ableism plays out in his case. He is blind, and his status has been denied, in large part, on the basis of a flagrantly discriminatory policy. Immigration Canada denied his case largely because he was unemployed; however, they failed to take into consideration the reality of systemic discrimination against disabled people. |
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| The Prison Industrial Complex and Disability Poverty, Productivity and Why Disabled People Are Poor: A.J. Withers, OCAP "Help us start this discussion, and talk about out how to move forward from here." |