10/1 Twitter Chat: Healthcare Activism & Next Steps

Image description: graphic with a yellow background and black text: "#CripTheVote, Twitter Chat Healthcare Activism & Next Steps, October 1, 2017, 4 pm Pacific/ 7 pm Eastern, Details: http://cripthevote.blogspot.com/

This year has been a roller coaster on the attempts by Congress to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Please join us for a discussion about healthcare activism with a look back at the Graham-Cassidy bill and a look to next steps in the future.

Information on how to participate and the chat’s questions below.

How to Participate

Follow @GreggBeratan @AndrewPulrang @DisVisibility on Twitter

When it’s time, 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 volume of tweets and only want to see the chat’s questions so you can respond to them, check @DisVisibility’s account. Each question will tweeted 5-6 minutes apart.

Check out this explanation of how to participate in a Twitter chat by Ruti Regan: https://storify.com/RutiRegan/examplechat

Check out this captioned #ASL explanation of how to participate in a Twitter chat by @behearddc. #CripTheVote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lJ9YRAwOj4

Introductory Tweets and Questions for October 1st Chat

Welcome to the #CripTheVote chat on healthcare activism, next steps & what we can expect in the near future.

We’ll briefly talk about #GrahamCassidy too. 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 Community check-in: How are you doing? What disability issues have you been concerned about lately? #CripTheVote

#GrahamCassidy is a Senate bill that was the latest effort to repeal & replace the #ACA: http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/09/25/553459455/-millions-may-lose-coverage-under-gop-health-bill-says-cbo-analysis #CripTheVote

It’s estimated that 1.4 mil PwDs would have lost #Medicaid if #GrahamCassidy passed https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/poverty/news/2017/09/25/439524/least-1-4-million-nonelderly-adults-disabilities-lose-medicaid-graham-cassidy/ #CripTheVote h/t @amprog

#GrahamCassidy would have cut 4 trillion in spending on healthcare to states:  https://dredf.org/the-dispatch/2017/09/22/episode-one-flexibility-code-cuts-medicaid/ #CripTheVote h/t @DREDF

Q2 What was your response when you first learned about #GrahamCassidy? How would it impact you & your communities if passed? #CripTheVote

As of 10/1 the Senate will have to have 60 votes to pass a bill rather than a simple majority #CripTheVote http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-healthcare-deadline-qa-20170925-story.html

Q3 What bipartisan efforts do you anticipate in Congress on the #ACA? Are you optimistic, or feeling something else? #CripTheVote

Q4 What do you think the next GOP healthcare bill will look like? Your thoughts on other efforts such as single payer? #CripTheVote

Q5 What strategies do you want to see the disability community take defending  #ACA & #Medicaid as these attacks continue? #CripTheVote

Q6 What are some critical messages the disability community needs to send to policy makers about healthcare & the safety net? #CripTheVote

Q7 How do we get people to pay attention to the disability community & healthcare? Is there a disconnect? If so, why? #CripTheVote

Q8 There will be more bills like #GrahamCassidy in future. How do you cope, prepare, & take care of yourself in these times? #CripTheVote

The hour has flown by! This concludes the #CripTheVote chat on healthcare activism & next steps. Thank you for joining us.

A Storify of this #CripTheVote chat will be up shortly. #CripTheVote

Please keep the convo going! You can find updates & more info here: http://cripthevote.blogspot.com/ #CripTheVote

September 19, 2017 #CripTheVote Chat: Education

#CripTheVote Chat on Education

Education has long been pushed as a silver bullet for Social Justice issues, yet many in our community have found and continue to find that the education system is often a barrier to disabled equality and worse actively contributes to our inequality. It is too big a topic for this chat to be comprehensive, but the chat will examine some of the very complex issues our community is engaged with in education.

How to Participate

Follow @AndrewPulrang @DisVisibility @GreggBeratan.

When it’s time, 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 are overwhelmed by the volume of tweets and only want to see the chat’s questions so you can respond to them, check the @DisVisibility account. Each question will tweeted there 5-6 minutes apart.

Check out this explanation of how to participate in a Twitter chat by Ruti Regan: https://storify.com/RutiRegan/examplechat

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 QUESTIONS

Welcome to the #CripTheVote chat on education. Please remember to use the hashtag when you tweet.

We are pleased to have guest hosts @DrSubini @EndInvisibility @SaveRyanWhiteD with us today!

If you respond to a question such as Q1, your tweet should follow this format: “A1 [your message] #CripTheVote”

Q1. What do you see as the top issues facing disabled people at all levels of the Education system? #CripTheVote

Q2. How did Disability & the experience of Ableism shape your educational experience? #CripTheVote

Q3. IDEA has been relatively unchanged since its Introduction in 1975 is it time for an overhaul? What would you change? #CripTheVote

Q4. How do ableism and racism work together in our school systems?

There is overwhelming evidence that Disabled students of color are the primary targets of the school to prison pipeline #CripTheVote

Disabled students of color are also far more likely to be disciplined & removed from school for same offenses as their peers. #CripTheVote

Q5. The administration is fighting for more charter schools. How will this affect disabled students? What can we do? #CripTheVote

Deaf students often come into school w. language development far behind non-Deaf peers a gap which is compounded once in school #CripTheVote

Q6. What are the factors that lead to Deaf students not being kindergarten ready and how can this be addressed? #CripTheVote

Q7. Has a focus on inclusive settings kept us from developing more inclusive teaching strategies? If so what do we need to do? #CripTheVote

Q8 What should we think about homeschooling/opting out of education systems that still fail to treat disabled students properly?#CripTheVote

Q9. How do we insist on higher standards for disabled students without making education too harsh, regimented, test-driven? #CripTheVote

Q10. Despite activists to showing the harm and danger of ABA it is still a 1st choice intervention. Why? What can be done? #CripTheVote

Thank you for joining the #CripTheVote chat on education. Please continue the convo!

Many thanks to our guest hosts @DrSubini @EndInvisibility @SaveRyanWhiteD. #CripTheVote

A Storify from today’s #CripTheVote chat will be up shortly.

#CripTheVote Invitation to Disabled Candidates

The organizers of #CripTheVote invite candidates for office who are disabled to participate in live, scheduled Twitter chats this year and next. These will typically be about an hour long, and structured by questions, about half posed by the organizers, and the rest from #CripTheVote participants. Our aim is to give disabled candidates a disability-centered forum in which to discuss their positions, campaign plans, and how they view their own disabilities in relation to their political goals.

Like all #CripTheVote activities, these chats and this invitation are non-partisan. We do not endorse or oppose any candidate or any party. Candidates can expect to be questioned, sometimes vigorously, on how their policies might affect people with disabilities.

#CripTheVote is an online movement about politics, policy and civic participation focused on disabled people and disability issues. It was started in January, 2016, by Alice Wong, Gregg Beratan, and Andrew Pulrang, to focus attention to disability issues and disabled voters during the 2016 elections. Here is a link to our April 2017 chat on Disabled People in Public Service.

Candidates with disabilities, and / or staff can respond to this invitation by emailing to: cripthevote@gmail.com.

#CripTheVote Organizers

Alice Wong

@SFdirewolf

Gregg Beratan

@GreggBeratan

Andrew Pulrang

@AndrewPulrang