(Photography by Nolan Trowe)
I did not know that ADAPT members in wheelchairs protested the cruel budget cuts that the House passed, by flooding the office of Kevin McCarthy, the House speaker. Not until I came across a single article in The New Yorker, here: E. Tammy Kim, The Debt-Ceiling Fight's Collateral Damage, The New Yorker (May 19, 2023), https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-debt-ceiling-fights-collateral-damage.
"Perhaps because G.O.P. budget-slashing is commonplace, and perhaps because righteous demonstrations are, too, the latest ADAPT action got no press." Kim, The New Yorker May 19, 2023.
How many times has a person in a wheelchair not been seen or heard?
How long will attention not be paid?
Not much longer, now. Even if this blog and The New Yorker are the only places that this story of the devastating effects of budget cuts on disabled persons is told, there will be many more places telling this story. Share The New Yorker article with your friends. Post it on Facebook. Submit it to your newsletters and newspapers and ask them to print it. Publish it on your own website. Spread the word.
Change is coming.
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