Weekend Actions

by Dora Raymaker · 2009-02-07 11:05:00 UTC
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a crowded protest from above, people have signs but what they're protesting is not clear just from the pictureThere are some actions for the Autism cause that could use your help this weekend. Here they are:

1. On the Education cause blog, GOP: Don't Gut $60+ Billion for Education from the Stimulus Package. This action is related to Kristina's post on Friday, Proposed Funding for Idea to Be Halved. Make sure special education remains funded!

2. Also on the Education blog, tell your policy makers to Appoint Linda Darling-Hammond to a Top DOE Job. This action is related to my post from yesterday, Special Education and the Law. Darling-Hammond is a strong supporter of reform that would be of benefit to special education and kids with disabilities.

3. Right here, I've put up a new pledge to sign a petition to Make Wendy Portillo Accountable of Emotional Abuse. Portillo thought she was teaching consequences for actions by having classmates vote and autistic boy out of the classroom, but apparently she feels the same lesson does not apply to her. Kristina's post on the latest on Portillo: Should Wendy Portillo Still Be Teaching.

4. If you haven't taken action against Action for Children's Monstrous Media yet, please both tell Action for Children and tell the Advertising Standards Authority that demonizing autistic people is not acceptable in the mainstream media. Kristina and Dora have both written about this during the past week, it's been denounced by Tony Attwood, Mitzi Waltz, Simon Baron-Cohen, and yet it's still on the air (?!). The New Republic has been following the story.

Dora Raymaker

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