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1 Micah Fialka-FeldmanMicahff@aol.comI have signed the petition thank you for letting me sign Micah
2 Jesse Asciotimerlin102887@yahoo.comOBAMA FOR PRESIDENT!
3 Jennifer Jonesportellorosso@gmail.com
4 Mardge Cohenmardge.cohen@gmail.comgreat work!
5 Ashley Franklinredazalea04@hotmail.comGO OBAMA!
6 Karen LeitsonKarenLeitson@aol.com
7 Richard Feldmanruaw@aol.comA new movement is emerging to create inclusive community and 21 century citizens. It is our responsibility to become activists and leaders in our community so we can create a new self-governing America that respects the humanity of all people: " A Community that excludes even one of its members is no community at all" Let your voices be heard and be the leadership for all!
8 Ellen Bates-Brackettellenbb720@aol.com
9 Roslyn Schindlerrozschind@aol.com
10 Carly Faheycarly_fahey@tmail.com
11 tamar Paulltamarpaull@gmail.com
12 Amy Brackettamy_jacobs@hotmail.com
13 Ryan EasterlyRyEaster3@aol.com
14 Neal Schindlerneal.schindler@hotmail.com
15 Jenny Grabelskyjgrabelsky@wesleyan.edu
16 Debra Hartdebra.hart@umb.edu
17 Lore Schindlerlschindler@mac.com
18 Joseph A. Stramondostramond@msu.edu
19 Alex Cherupancherup@oakland.edu
20 Heather Strgillteagan_27@yahoo.comI'm a young community leader/activist from Cincinnati that is disabled, and I intend to vote for Barack Obama. Honestly, my first choice was Kucinich. Since Barack is the closest to Kucinich, he will get my vote. As a leader with integrity, I hope he continues to make choices that are best for ALL the people...not just the rich.
21 AnonymousAnonymousI wholeheartedly believe in the hope and promise that Sen. Obama provides me, the disability community and the Country. This is why I am supporting this wise man's canadency!
22 Janice Harrisjanicemharrris22@yahoo.com
23 Christina Millsadvocacy1977@yahoo.com
24 Alon Mariealonbill@aol.com
25 Michael Murraymike_in_christ@yahoo.com
26 Michael Murraymike_in_christ@yahoo.com
27 AnonymousAnonymous
28 AnonymousAnonymousThanks to E. H. for educating me about this wonderful candidate who will make a difference in my son's life!
29 Scott EveloffdocSEE22@aol.com
30 Kris Martone Levinekris-levine@rcn.com
31 Virginia Despardvdespard@gmail.com
32 James C. "JAKE" Billingsleyjakeb@ctesc.net1) ASAP Housing Vouchers for Homeless & Disabled veterans 2) Raise minimum on SSD up to the poverty level it is now one third less than poverty level 3) Create one Office for the Disabled for all sevices, training, education, housing, support, issues, etc. so to eliminate the complex impossiblility which now exists
33 Brian J. Coppolabriancoppola@comcast.netWe also need a "No Disabled Person Left Behind Act," as it relates to getting assistive technology into the hands of us youngsters who still have life ahead of us. This is a problem, because the assistive technology market chooses to run a closed market, thus, counting on more elderly people getting disabled. The statistics of disabled, including the blind is that of the elderly generation, as opposed to that of people in my generation. Obama, when elected please see to it that the young disabled americans are taken care of with their assistive technology needs as the prices are very high, some of the products that we need being in the thousands of dollar range, such as accessible PDA's Note taking devices and special bar code scanners, and most of all, reading machines that enlarge text and special eye glasses and hearing aids for us to see and hear. The older generation had gotten away with their "set in their ways," attitude for too long. Wealthy sons and daughters had been allowed to support those of retirement age and yet, still healthy enough to perhaps take courses in the new technology and yet, they get to claim them as dependents on their taxes. Your "No Disabled Person Left Behind" policy should include equipping senior citizen centers with assistive technology and at the first year of retirement, so long as the senior does not have any serious illness or lack of cognititve ability or some other brain disorder which prevents learning, than if they are claimed as dependents on their sons' or daughters' taxes and the sons and daughters are making more then $50,000.00 in gross income, than these individuals who are being claimed as dependents must go to a senior citizen center and learn the newest computer technology, including adaptive technology or the son or daughter claiming them as dependents must pay 15% of what they are claiming them on their income taxes. This should be used to generate a fund to issue an assistive technology stypend or assistive technology ecconomic stimulous package that is untouched by both Social Security and suplemental security income. This would help open up the assistive technolgy market to bring down the prices of the assistive tech so that my generation of disabled people can live in the least restrictive environment possible and also be able to gain gainful employment. Because 70% of us young working aged disabled are unemployed rely on public assistance program, which gives us only a fixed income, which would not afford us the use or the purchase of the adaptive technology that we need to be independent citizens and also productive citizens. The same rules that I suggested that applies to the sons and daughters claiming elderly parents on income taxes as dependents should also apply to any elder in their first year of retirement receiving any form of benefits or services from the state or fedeeral government, whether it be caregiving services, medicare or medicaid or any assistance from the states which helps elders raise their grandchildren. Why this approach? 1. Elderly people do become disabled and could benefit from the assistive technology themselves, thus, easing the burdens on their future caregivers, which only leads to abuse and more crimes against elderly people. 2. It would help them maintain their independence in the least restrictive environment and ease the expenditures on the government and families of nursing home care. 3. As it relates to more and more grandparents raising their grandchildren and also, technology, such as computer technology being required in our schools now a days and thus, the computer becoming a necessary evil for the children of the next generation to succeed and gegt jobs, there is also lurking with it preditory crime, such as sexual crimes in nature. 4. The people raising the children need to know about computer technology in order to keep their children safe. In short, "No Disabled Person Left Behind" would benefit everyone. Disabled or not.
34 Jenna Clarkzero.warmth@gmail.comThis is the chance of a lifetime, the chance to surge forward the disability movement.
35 willdirectcomyec@yahoo.comParatransit fare increase leaves riders with little spare change For Chicagoan Patricia Pratt and other paratransit riders, it’s a choice between paying monthly bills and buying a monthly ADA paratransit pass. Published March 4, 2008 by Christina Zdanowicz | MEDILL NEWS SERVICE MEDILL NEWS SERVICE Seven dollars and fourteen cents. That’s all Patricia Pratt has left this month after paying her bills, paying for doctor’s visits and buying her monthly ADA paratransit pass. The 54-year-old has difficulty getting around. Rheumatoid arthritis has left her with no cartilage in her knees. High blood pressure and diabetes have made regular doctor’s appointments a necessity. When the cost of the Chicago monthly pass doubled from $75 to $150 on Feb. 1, Pratt doled out the $150, but at a high price. She made ends meet this month, but she isn’t sure that her limited income of $630 a month will stretch that far for March. “I just can’t afford it,” Pratt said. “I don’t know what to do. I really don’t know what I’m going to do. That means I’m going to have to stay in the house [in March].” Pratt isn’t the only paratransit rider considering switching to single-ride tickets, which remained $2.25 in Chicago. Sales of the monthly pass dropped by 79 percent this month, from an average of 700 passes sold to about 150 passes sold in February, according to Pace. “We believe it has reduced pass sales, but we’ve seen more of a movement to single-ride tickets,” said Pace Deputy Executive Director of External Relations Rocky Donahue. “That’s the trend we’re seeing. They haven’t left the system, they’ve just gone to purchasing a different fare medium.” Pace decided to double the fare for the monthly Chicago pass and not the others because its sales did not meet the state-mandated farebox recovery ratio of 10 percent. By state law, each transit agency must cover a certain portion of its operating costs with rider fares. Providing door-to-door services costs an estimated $30 per paratransit trip, according to Pace. Only 2 percent of eligible ADA riders purchase the pass, but they account for 20 to 25 percent of trips on the system. “I’m very empathetic to the situation,” Donahue said. “I’m very empathetic to individual stories, but at the end of the day as a government agency and having laws that we must follow, this was strictly to comply with the state law.” Empathy isn’t necessarily what Chicago paratransit groups want. They want action. Members of Independent Movement of Paratransit Riders for Unity, Vehicles, Equality and other concerned citizens originally sought to delay the fare increase when they filed an injunction against the Regional Transportation Authority and several officials on Jan. 29. The request for an injunction was denied, but the issue is set to go before a judge again on March 18. Dr. Ayo Maat, coordinator of IMPRUVE, is still battling the fare increase. She has collected about 100 affidavits from paratransit riders and will continue to collect more until the court date. When the time came to buy a monthly pass, Maat boycotted. She began relying on free Medi-car service, non-emergency transportation assistance for disabled riders. Pace is planning on conducting several informational meetings throughout the city in the first two weeks of March. The purpose of the meetings is not to discuss the monthly pass, but to inform the public of the changes to services set to take effect the last weekend in March. Improvements will include better on-time performance, shorter travel times for passengers, more vehicles on the street and quicker response times by phone operators, according to Pace. Riders can partly attribute the service improvements to the reclassification of service areas in Chicago, Donahue said. The city will be split up into three zones: north, central and south. While there are now three paratransit carriers to pick from, riders will now have one carrier designated to each zone. Two additional carriers will join in, providing services for subscription trips, or standing appointments made by riders needing to get somewhere regularly. The problem - as many paratransit riders see it - is that riders traveling from the north to the south zones will now need to transfer. Both Maat and Pratt fear they will have to wait out in the cold or in unfamiliar neighborhoods for their transfers. Donahue said passengers would be allowed to wait in the vehicle until the transfer arrivers. Ninety-nine percent of trips will not require a transfer, Donahue said. For the 1 percent that will have to transfer, subscription trips may be offered to those taking the trip regularly, so they won’t have to transfer. Regardless of the slated service improvements, Pratt is more concerned with all the sacrifices she will have to make if she continues to purchase trips. Visiting her elderly mother on the South Side, taking a video editing class or even stepping out to enjoy a hamburger with friends are luxuries she may have to give up next month. “It’s just the basics of life I’m dealing with just to keep my house running,” Pratt said. “Just to enjoy the little things that I do have, it’s costing me money.” More from Christina Zdanowicz · Grab our RSS feed.
36 Philip B Kirschnerphilk02@optonline.netEX OFFICO BOARD MEMBEr NAMI-NYS NAMI NATIONAL CCEC NYC VOICES
37 Victor Pinedavictor@pinedafoundation.orgI just gave a speech on the ADA generation to the respectABILITY conference. Its central that our community and our generation lead a new coalition a new vision of an inclusive American dream. Lead on, lead on! Victor Pineda Rolling for Obama
38 M. Evansmmevans@woh.rr.com
39 Emily Savareseemsavarese@hotmail.comObama is what ALL people in this country have been looking for!
40 Emily Savareseemsavarese@hotmail.comObama is what ALL people in this country have been looking for!
41 Meg Klinemaccaj@gmail.com
42 Morton Ann GernsbacherMGernsbacher@charter.net
43 David K. Marchdkmnow@yahoo.comGold-plated organizations like MDA, NAMI, the preposterously-named "Autism Speaks," and such -- those people have had their chance and then some to do the right thing. Instead, they have sought to cash in on manufactured pity at our expense. They have failed us, they have harmed us, and they have exploited and harmed all of society. It's time for the ability/disability/difference debate to be led by those who live the life. Nothing About Us Without Us!
44 Mike Liumikeliu@jhu.edu
45 Henry Gosebrinkhgosebrink78@yahoo.comI want to see Barack Obama to recognizes Deaf and Hard of Hearing people's right to choice American Sign Language as their primary language, hope Universal Sign Language in UN disability right, and improves Deaf Education. Not only to Deaf and Hard of Hearing people, Barack is for all people with Disabilities for their needs.
46 Tera Kirkterakrk@gmail.com
47 Edward Janus | Disability Advocate and ActivistEdwardJanus@msn.comI am Edward Janus an Advocate and Activist for the Disabled. All my activities are completed via Internet. I have Cerebral Palsy and I am a permanently disabled amputee confined to a wheelchair. I am a Homebound, Shut-In and I Live Alone. I would contact people by telephone, but I am also deaf. I cannot hear very well on the phone. You can reach me by email or regular mail. Sincerely, Edward Janus | Disability Advocate and Activist 10707 Wrightwood Ave. Northlake IL. 60164 E-mail: EdwardJanus@msn.com Web Site: www.EdwardJanus.net Blog: www.EdwardJanus.spaces.live.com
48 Vicki Forte'littlemamadukes@yahoo.com
49 Sue Swensonsue.swenson@gmail.com
50 Marjorie Irbymrsirby@hotmail.com

 

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