Tell Senators to vote YES on the Disability Treaty!
Learn what the “Disability Treaty” is and why it matters via this handout: http://bit.ly/CRPD1Pager (The “Disability Treaty” is called the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, CRPD).
Calling your Senators is usually the most powerful way to act. Senators count calls more heavily than they count email messages. If you need a script to guide you through your phone calls, or if you would rather communicate via email or Twitter, visit the Action Center at http://disabilitytreaty.org.
We passed a MAJOR hurdle on July 22 when the CRPD was finally passed out of committee. This is an accomplishment that the disability community has been working toward for the past 18 months. Now that the CRPD is out of committee, Senator Reid can choose to schedule a floor vote on the treaty at any time. If he does this as early as next week, then the next two weeks will be especially crucial. If he misses next week, then the CRPD would have to wait until after the August Senate recess to be scheduled. Either way, things may move very quickly from here. I try to post things to Tumblr when I can, but sometimes there’s so much happening I can’t get to it. Therefore, the best way to make sure you don’t miss future opportunities to take action is to sign up for the CRPD Action Alert mailing list by completing the form at this link: http://disabilitytreaty.org/app/register?1&m=10254
NEWSFLASH for everyone reading this who is within reasonable distance of Washington DC: There will be a Rally for the Disability Treaty in Washington DC at 12:15 pm on Tuesday, July 29, 2014. Visit the Disability Treaty Rally Facebook event page to learn more detail, to RSVP, or to help invite those of your Facebook contacts who live in the DC area. Please make sure that people you know in DC are aware!
We are in the process of ironing out technical details so that we can (we hope!) put out a live streaming web cast of the rally on Tuesday. We will post more information about this at the Disability Treaty Rally facebook event page when we are able.
(Source: youtube.com, via withasmoothroundstone)
