The news impacts the disability community just like everywhere else. By Maria Samuels, Executive Director All too often, the news erupts with a story that compels you to take a side. The latest is the death of George Floyd. Many… Read More »Having a Disability Does Not Mean Life in a Vacuum
By Maria Samuels – WDOMI Executive Director For the first time, there is an accessible absentee ballot option available to qualified people with disabilities. For Westchester County, this applies to the June 23rd Democratic Presidential Primary only. Due to a lawsuit by… Read More »HISTORY MAKING ACCESSIBLE ABSENTEE BALLOTS AVAILABLE – For June 23rd Primary Only
By Maria Samuels [pullquote] “Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.” – Rikki Rogers OVERCOME THE THINGS YOU ONCE THOUGHT YOU COULDN’T DO, BY DOING IT DIFFERENTLY. [/pullquote]By now,… Read More »OUR DISABILITY IS OUR STRENGTH
This is the first of 2020 tributes to the icons of the Disability Rights Movement. Here’s to the misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of… Read More »HELLO JUDY!
Emmanuel Segarra-Otero, Fair Housing Investigator from Westchester Human Rights Commission, talks about housing laws and protected classes at our May Monthly Housing Workshop. At a recent event, a person in the audience vented his frustration at me. He was angry… Read More »TACKLING WESTCHESTER’S HOUSING CRISIS – ONE APARTMENT AT A TIME By: Maria Samuels
DISABILITY RIGHTS LEADER FATHER OF INDEPENDENT LIVING MACARTHUR FELLOWS (“GENIUS GRANT”) RECIPIENT GOOGLE DOODLE HONOREE “The greatest lesson of the civil rights movement is that the moment you let others speak for you, you lose.” – Ed Roberts Every field,… Read More »A HERO FOR THEN, NOW AND ALWAYS: ED ROBERTS
Sometimes our staff wants to share a personal story about someone who affected them. Magdalena, a healthcare program coordinator, does the first entry in what we hope is a series about a few of the many memorable people that our… Read More »41 DIARY FROM THE FRONTLINES “Marco’s Story” by Magdalena Klodnicka
To what word am I referring? HANDICAPPED. What has triggered this reaction, one might ask? First let me say that I usually don’t walk around calling folks to task over their choice of language, even if I find it offensive.… Read More »Please Don’t Use That Word
Written By: Melissa Lopez-Robles, B.B.A. – Housing Specialist A housing subsidy is a form of economic assistance sponsored by the government. It is aimed towards alleviating housing costs and expenses for needy people with very low or low to moderate… Read More »Housing Subsidies: Difficult to Impossible To Get
by Mel Tanzman, Executive Director These are the closing inspirational words to our Nation’s Pledge of Allegiance. However, as a disability and civil rights activist I know that those in power in our nation have not shown adequate allegiance to… Read More »INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL