Lissette Garcia: Pageant Champ Has Lovely Attitude

By Kathi Wolfe

It's not every day you get to speak to the "Queen of the World." But one November afternoon, Independence Today spoke with Lissette Garcia, who was crowned Miss Florida in 2010 and finished in the top 15 in the Miss USA pageant last summer.

...From a young age, Garcia has had pain. At age 12, she learned that she had been born with spina bifida.
Read Lissette's full story

Dr. Oz to PWDs: Nutrition,
Diet Extremely Important

By Amy Halloran

Dr. Mehmet Oz, the heart surgeon host of "The Dr. Oz Show," recently addressed questions about diet and nutrition for people with disabilities (PWDs).
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Judge Mandates Accessible Taxis in NYC

By Terry Moakley

The year 2011 ended with two wins in the same week for wheelchair-accessible taxi advocates in the Big Apple.
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Many Disability Rights Activists
Occupying a Place in Movement

Nadina LaSpina was arrested at the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protest on November 17th in New York City.
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Product Testing

'Sturdy' MV-1 Making Inroads Into Accessible Transportation

By Alan St. James

....the MV-1 took eight years to develop and was conceived and created by some of the foremost minds in the disability and transportation fields.
Read the entire MV 1 article

Managing Your Fear

By Peter S. Kahrmann

There are people who know about my life and my efforts on the advocacy front who think of me as fearless. I am anything but. In fact, I deal with fear on a daily basis...
Reat the entire managing your fear article

For 5 Disillusioned Voters, Obama is No 'Man of Steel'

By John M. Williams

Jason Carson, Mary Baker, Caroline Andrews, Will Dougherty and Mark Franks share many traits. Each one has a disability. All are college graduates. All are unemployed. All are married. They are advocates on disability issues. They are Democrats. In 2008, they enthusiastically voted for Barack Obama for president. And, in 2012 they are considering not voting for anyone for president.

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We Remember...

Matthew P. Sapoli

Ricky Wyatt

Karl Slover

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Commentary

'Get the Black Guy Out of the White House'

By Peter S. Kahrmann

Historians will someday confirm that the title of this essay accurately represents the largely unspoken and perhaps primary reason for the fanatical efforts on the part of the Republican Party to get President Obama out of the White House.
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Group: Get All PWDs Aboard Accessible Technology Train

By Mike Ervin

A lot has changed since the day Jenifer Simpson and her 5-year-old son, Joshua Chartienitz, sat on the south lawn of the White House and watched President George H.W. Bush sign the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990.
Joshua is now 26 years old. And most consider it mind-boggling how communication technology has evolved over the last two-plus decades into the enormous role it is playing in improving the lives of people with disabilities (PWDs).
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By John M. Williams

Eight years ago, using a closed-circuit TV, he read Twain's literary masterpieces "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer." In the past two years, he has reread both novels as well as John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath," Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises," F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury," Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird," Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye" and Norman Mailer's "The Naked and the Dead." Kinney read the books electronically.

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