Good morning! We're live on #DisabilityFilibuster
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Right now we have Tracy Odell who is President of Citizens With Disabilities - Ontario (CWDO) and 2nd Vice President of the Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD). Tracy has a Masters degree in Critical Disability Studies.
Born with SMA Type 2, Tracy grew up in an institution, worked in adult literacy, special education policy and accessibility, anti-racism and inclusion.
Tracy raised two daughters with her husband, volunteered on boards of directors, published articles and appeared in videos to raise awareness of issues relating to disability.
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Join @erinunleashes , Author, artist, adventurer. She has a flying wheelchair and is doing a complete reading of her book, If You Really Love Me Throw Me Off The Mountain
"I'm a sex icon because I care." @erinunleashes talking about the objectifying gaze of inspiration porn, autonomy of disabled sexuality and sensuality, and invasive nature of unwelcome "helping" hands. #DisabilityFilibuster
Disabled people do so much work from hospitals and bed! @erinunleashes reading about her experiences with planning her show and having sepsis. #DisabilityFilibuster
.@biopoliticalph Whether it be data collection, Covid vaccines, housing or income security, disabled Canadians - who have been disproportionately dying from the pandemic - have been left out.
"Neo-eugenics bio-politics"
.@biopoliticalph is explaining what a total institution is and why nursing homes are total institutions.
This video is very helpful for anyone not familiar with the term. #DisabilityFilibuster
.@cloudylilbaby Transitioning from youth to adult home care there was no information anywhere.
Pre-pandemic lived on campus.
Went through three appeals. Had to be assessed constantly.
Talks about the how dehumanizing and degrading the assessment process is. #DisabilityFilibuster
.@cloudylilbaby Social worker came to home of her parents. Asked so what happens to people who don't have people in their life who can be back-up.
Social worker very non-nonchalantly said: Oh well then we would just put you in a home. #DisabilityFilibuster
We are busy working today to get the #DisabilityFilibuster back up and running after two concurrent 'zoom-bombings' by hateful people.
We have already made progress in this regard and things are in motion. We'll keep updating.
We are disgusted with Liberal Party and Bloc's plan to invoke a time allocation "guillotine" to shut down debate on amendments to #BillC7 that were made in February by the Senate. These amendments radically expand an already expansive Bill further.
Contrary to what Liberal Party and Bloc are suggesting there has not been months of debate on these amendments to #BillC7
Very little debate has in fact taken place about them. The original bill did not include mental illness as sole criteria for state administered death
This is a thread about the Disability Filibuster on #BillC7
Disabled Canadians and our allies around the world plan to leave it all on the field in the final days of the Bill C7 debate
A live Zoom solidarity broadcast running round-the-clock, 24/7 beginning before Parliament sits
on Monday, March 8 and not stopping until the Prime Minister withdraws #BillC7 and returns to
the drawing board.
Parliament is scheduled to sit March 8-12 and March 22-26. Somewhere during that interval, it
appears that the Prime Minister is planning to pass #BillC7 – likely sooner rather than later.