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Tuesday, January 24th 5:30-6:30 - online discussion Civil Rights: Disability Community and Youth with Anita Cameron and Yordanos Gebreamlak
Kate Deccio original art of Anita Cameron a black woman wearing a black hat over her dreads in a red shirt, in the left foreground there is a photo of her wheelchair with a megaphone a wearing a purple top and jeans with an American flag and right foreground her arrested on the ground. Text : Civil Rights are not given you must fight to get them, then fight to keep them.
Anita Cameron is a Civil Rights Activist & Director of Minority Outreach for Not Dead Yet and Yordanos Gebreamlak (WA State OEO Deputy Director) joins SCPTSA in a conversation about the Disability Community and Disabled Youth. Co-President Sam Fogg will host the conversation
The focus would be on disability, the disability community, and youth.
Please submit questions in advance (Link)
If you need accommodations including language or interpretations, please reach out to president@scptsa.org
ABOUT ANITA CAMERON : Anita Cameron is a Civil Rights Activist who is actively engaged in creating change and amplifying voices of the disabled people in our country. She is the director of Minority Outreach at Not Dead Yet, a grassroots, national disability rights group.
For over 35 years, Anita’s engagement centers on the intersection of Black, Marginalized, Feminist, and Disabled people and at the forefront of Disability Rights Movements, and has been arrested over 130 times for her activism.
She was invited to the White House on two occasions, has met three sitting U.S. Presidents and two Vice-Presidents helped to organize a national march, and was published in a book by the late award-winning writer and historian, Howard Zinn.
You can learn more about Anita here at the links below and I'm also attaching the poster that OEO commissioned of her (free for public use). She is a major historic figure and is included in the book Voices of A People's History.
Pushblack podcast "The Erasure of Black Disabled Voices with Anita Cameron" Listen here https://youtu.be/3Vgwi1JmdEc
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When: Jan 24, 2023 05:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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