Monday, March 7, 2022
Wednesday, March 2, 2022
3/6/22 #CripTheVote Chat on the Homecare Workforce Crisis
#CripTheVote Twitter Chat
Homecare Workforce Crisis
Sunday, March 6, 2022
7-8 PM Eastern, 4 PM Pacific
Guest hosts: @aijenpoo & @Spirit_SCI
The co-partners of #CripTheVote, Andrew Pulrang, Gregg Beratan, and Alice Wong, invite you to a Twitter chat on the Home Care Workforce Crisis with guest hosts Ai-jen Poo and José Hernandez.
Ai-jen Poo is an award-winning organizer, author, and a leading voice in the women’s movement. She is the Executive Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, Director of Caring Across Generations, Co-Founder of SuperMajority, Co-Host of Sunstorm podcast and a Trustee of the Ford Foundation.
José Hernandez is an Organizer for @CDPAANYS. He experienced a spinal cord injury at age 15, 27 years ago. He became passionate about advocacy after attending an event in DC. He is part of NYC's Civic Engagement Commission appointed by Mayor de Blasio. He is also the President of @NYCSpinal
How to Participate
Follow @GreggBeratan @AndrewPulrang and @DisVisibility as well as our guest hosts @aijenpoo & @Spirit_SCI. When it’s time for the chat, search #CripTheVote on Twitter for the series of live tweets under the ‘Latest’ tab for the full conversation.
If you don’t use Twitter, you can follow along in real time here: http://twubs.com/CripTheVote
If you might be overwhelmed by the amount of tweets and only want to see the chat’s questions so you can respond to them, check @DisVisibility’s account. The questions will be Tweeted approximately 5-6 minutes apart.
Another way to participate in the chat is to use this app that allows you to pause the chat if the Tweets are coming at you too fast: http://www.tchat.io/
Here is a link for people who are new to Twitter on starting an account and how to use it: https://help.twitter.com/en/new-user-faq
Here’s an article about how to participate in a Twitter chat: https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/how-to-participate-in-a-twitter-chat/546805/
Check out this captioned ASL explanation of how to participate in a chat by @behearddc https://www.facebook.com/HEARDDC/videos/1181213075257528/
Introductory Tweets and Chat Questions
Welcome to the #CripTheVote chat on the home care workforce crisis. Remember to use the #CripTheVote hashtag when you tweet. If you respond to a question such as Q1, your tweet should follow this format: “A1 [your message] #CripTheVote
Q1. Before we get started, feel free to introduce yourself. If you are comfortable, please share how you are doing as we enter year three of the pandemic? What brings you joy in these times? #CripTheVote #CareCantWait
Q2. In a pandemic in which the importance of being able to stay in your home has never been more obvious, it has never been harder to recruit and retain home care workers. How difficult is it to find and keep home care workers in your area? #CripTheVote #CareCantWait
Q3. What are some of the causes of this workforce crisis? #CripTheVote #CareCantWait
Q4. Do we value home care workers enough? If not, why? How can the Disability Community be in Solidarity with home care workers? #CripTheVote #CareCantWait
Q5. What are the political, institutional, and historical factors that have shaped this crisis? In what ways has racism, xenophobia, classism, and sexism contributed to the crisis? And how can they be addressed? #CripTheVote #CareCantWait
Q6. What policy solutions might be used to address the home care workforce crisis? Aside from a living wage, what else is needed to end this crisis? #CripTheVote #CareCantWait
Q7. What are the points of conflict and potential opportunities to organize and mobilize the disability community, unions, community organizers, and government in solving this crisis?" #CripTheVote #CareCantWait
Q8. What does the future of home care look like if providers and home care users truly have the support and infrastructure they need? #CripTheVote #CareCantWait
This concludes our #CripTheVote Chat on the home care workforce crisis thank you all for joining us. Please keep the conversation going. A recap of this chat will be up shortly. For more: http://cripthevote.blogspot.com/
Please check our blog, the hashtag or our facebook page as we will be announcing chats for June and July in the coming weeks. #CripTheVote
Monday, January 17, 2022
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
1/16/22 #CripTheVote Twitter chat on pandemic policy
The co-partners of #CripTheVote, Andrew Pulrang, Gregg Beratan, and Alice Wong, invite you to a 30-minute Twitter chat about pandemic-related policies. As the United States reaches the 2-year mark of the COVID-19 pandemic with increasing infection rates, multiple variants, and overextended healthcare systems, this is a chance to hold space together and mobilize.
How to Participate
Follow @GreggBeratan @AndrewPulrang @DisVisibility. When it’s time for the chat, search #CripTheVote on Twitter for the series of live tweets under the ‘Latest’ tab for the full conversation.
If you don’t use Twitter, you can follow along in real time here: http://twubs.com/CripTheVote
If you might be overwhelmed by the amount of tweets and only want to see the chat’s questions so you can respond to them, check @DisVisibility’s account. The questions will be Tweeted approximately 4-5 minutes apart.
Another way to participate in the chat is to use this app that allows you to pause the chat if the Tweets are coming at you too fast: http://www.tchat.io/
Here is a link for people who are new to Twitter on starting an account and how to use it: https://help.twitter.com/en/new-user-faq
Here’s an article about how to participate in a Twitter chat: https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/how-to-participate-in-a-twitter-chat/546805/
Check out this captioned ASL explanation of how to participate in a chat by @behearddc https://www.facebook.com/HEARDDC/videos/1181213075257528/
Links to background information
Disabled Americans Feel Abandoned by CDC. Now, CDC Is Desperate to Make Amends, Rolling Stone, January 11, 2022.
‘Abhorent’: Disability Advocates Slam CDC Director for Comments on ‘Encouraging’ Covid Deaths, Rolling Stone, January 10, 2022.
U.S. hospitalizations surpass last winter’s peak, The New York Times, January 10, 2022.
How to get insurance to pay for at-home COVID tests, according to the White House, NPR, January 10, 2022.
Update …
On Friday, January 14, representatives from 9 disability organizations met with Rochelle Walensky, Director of the Centers for Disease Control, to discuss how the CDC’s messaging and policy on the pandemic and people with disabilities and chronic illnesses.
Meeting recap from the American Association of People with Disabilities, January 14, 2022.
Welcome to the #CripTheVote chat pandemic policy. Remember to use the #CripTheVote hashtag when you tweet and any others you'd like to add. If you respond to a question such as Q1, your tweet should follow this format: “A1 [your message] #CripTheVote”
Q1: Here we are, at the start of 2022. Before we get started, feel free to introduce yourself. If you are comfortable, please share how you are doing now and what 2020-21 has been like for you. What brings you joy in these times? #CripTheVote #HighRiskCOVID19 #NoBodyIsDisposable
Q2: There’s a lot to discuss about pandemic policies. Let’s start local. What is happening in your city or region that concerns you as a disabled person, especially if you are high-risk and/or immunocompromised? #CripTheVote #HighRiskCOVID19 #NoBodyIsDisposable
Q3: What are some immediate and long-term policy changes you want to see from the Biden administration and/or state govts (ex: messaging, mask mandates, testing, vaccines, quarantine, treatments, paid leave, free tests & masks)? #CripTheVote #HighRiskCOVID19 #NoBodyIsDisposable
Q4: What other specific changes in pandemic policy need to take place to protect people of all ages (ex: education, healthcare, employment, public spaces, transportation)? #CripTheVote #HighRiskCOVID19 #NoBodyIsDisposable
Q5: How do we hold institutions & public servants accountable? What strategies and approaches would be effective in reasserting the disability community’s priorities? Aside from voting, how do you make your views known? #CripTheVote #HighRiskCOVID19 #NoBodyIsDisposable
This concludes our #CripTheVote chat on pandemic policy.Please keep the conversation going. A recap of this chat will be up shortly. For more: http://cripthevote.blogspot.com/ #HighRiskCOVID19 #NoBodyIsDisposable
Tuesday, September 28, 2021
Thursday, September 9, 2021
9/19 #CripTheVote Twitter Chat on Immigration
Graphic with a white background and a black Twitter bird icon on the left and a graphic of two people talking with speech bubbles on the right. Text: #CripTheVote, Immigration, September 19, 2021, 7-8 pm Eastern, Guest hosts: @sdpavithran @Conchitahdz @DownToTheStruts
The co-partners of #CripTheVote, Andrew Pulrang, Gregg Beratan, and Alice Wong, invite you to a Twitter chat about immigration with Sachin Pavithran, Executive Director of the US Access Board, Conchita Hernandez Legorreta, a disability rights advocate and Doctoral student at George Washington University, and Qudsiya Naqui, a blind attorney and host of the podcast Down to the Struts.
For more about all three guest co-hosts:
Episode 78, Hate Crimes with Sachin Pavithran, Disability Visibility podcast
https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2020/06/01/ep-78-hate-crimes/
Episode 90, Disabled Immigrants with Conchita Hernandez Legorreta, Disability Visibility podcast
https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2020/11/15/ep-90-disabled-immigrants/
Disabled Immigrants: Living on the Edge of Barbwire, Qudsiya Naqui, Disability Visibility Project
How to Participate
Follow @GreggBeratan @AndrewPulrang @DisVisibility and @sdpavithran, @Conchitahdz, and @DownToTheStruts. When it’s time for the chat, search #CripTheVote on Twitter for the series of live tweets under the ‘Latest’ tab for the full conversation.
If you don’t use Twitter, you can follow along in real time here: http://twubs.com/CripTheVote
If you might be overwhelmed by the amount of tweets and only want to see the chat’s questions so you can respond to them, check @DisVisibility’s account. The questions will be Tweeted approximately 6-7 minutes apart.
Another way to participate in the chat is to use this app that allows you to pause the chat if the Tweets are coming at you too fast: http://www.tchat.io/
Here is a link for people who are new to Twitter on starting an account and how to use it: https://help.twitter.com/en/new-user-faq
Here’s an article about how to participate in a Twitter chat: https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/how-to-participate-in-a-twitter-chat/546805/
Check out this captioned ASL explanation of how to participate in a chat by @behearddc https://www.facebook.com/HEARDDC/videos/1181213075257528/
Introductory Tweets and Chat Questions
Welcome to the #CripTheVote chat on immigration with @sdpavithran, @Conchitahdz, and @DownToTheStruts. Remember to use the #CripTheVote hashtag when you tweet. If you respond to a question such as Q1, your tweet should follow this format: “A1 [your message] #CripTheVote”
An immigrant is someone who makes a conscious decision to leave his or her home and move to a foreign country with the intention of settling there. #CripTheVote
A refugee is a person who has fled their country of origin & is unable or unwilling to return because of past persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution based on 5 protected grounds. #CripTheVote
Q1 It has been a strange and difficult year so far especially with the assault on reproductive freedom, delta variant & the US-made crisis in Afghanistan. How are you managing right now and what’s giving you comfort in these uncertain times? #CripTheVote
Q2 Today’s chat is about immigration, specifically to the United States. What are some unique challenges disabled immigrants and refugees face that most people don’t know about? #CripTheVote
Q3 For years the US incarcerated and traumatized unaccompanied minors who entered the country. Along with the recent policy of family separation, how are these policies a disability issue? #CripTheVote
Q4 In what ways can migration cause or exacerbate a person’s disability, especially if they are fleeing from a conflict zone or displaced by the climate crisis? #CripTheVote
Q5 With the application processes for both asylum and citizenship, what are some of the structural barriers that disabled immigrants face? #CripTheVote
Q6 What are some of the eugenic and ableist ideas that are part of our current immigration policies? What are some ways to effect change to these policies? #CripTheVote
Q7 How can local disability communities support disabled undocumented people, immigrants, and refugees? #CripTheVote
Q8 Is immigration a priority with major disability rights organizations in the US? If not, why is that and what changes would you like to see to happen? #CripTheVote
Q9 What can immigration advocates can do to advance disability justice in the immigration system? #CripTheVote
This concludes our #CripTheVote chat on immigration w/ guest hosts @sdpavithran @Conchitahdz & @DownToTheStruts. Please keep the conversation going. A recap of this chat will be up shortly. For more: http://cripthevote.blogspot.com/
Sunday, September 5, 2021
2021 #CripTheVote Disability Issues Survey Results
Issues - Which broad disability-related issue categories are most important to you? (Rated from 10 most important to 1 least)
Health care - 8.71
Civil rights / discrimination - 7.95
Accessibility - 7.12
Benefits - 5.31
Housing - 5.06
Employment - 4.98
Long term care / personal assistance - 4.44
Education - 4.38
Assistive technology - 2.81
Medical treatment discrimination - 4.39
Earnings / benefits - 4.37
COVID vaccine access - 4.26
Affordable, accessible housing - 4.18
Voting accessibility - 4.16
Police violence - 4.14
Home care funding - 4.11
Marriage penalties - 4.04
IDEA funding - 3.94
Right to home care - 3.92
Pain medication - 3.84
Disability policy - 3.84
Special Ed oversight - 3.82
Which #CripTheVote activities do you find most valuable? (Rated from 5 most important to 1 least)
Scheduled chats - 3.90
Interviews on the blog - 3.76
Candidate chats - 3.32
Live tweeting - 3.06
Online issue surveys - 2.24
Which of the following best describes your connection in disability issues?
There is a disabled person in my family - 121
I work in the disability field - 74
Just interested - 20
Other - 19
What is your race / ethnicity?
Hispanic or Latinx - 7%
Black or African-American - 3%
Asian or Asian American - 3%
Other - 3%
American Indian or Native American - 1%
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander - 1%
What is your age?
25-34 - 104
45-54 - 82
18-24 - 44
55-64 - 44
65+ - 18
Under 18 - 7
What is your gender?
Male - 74
Non-binary - 66
Transgender man - 4
Transgender woman - 1
Other - 13
What type of disability do you have?
Chronic pain / chronic illness - 260
Mental health - 211
Autism - 77
Learning disability - 63
Other - 57
Cognitive / intellectual - 52
Sensory (Deaf / Blind) - 43
Speech - 17