Strategies for Disability Equity, LLC

10/15/2026

Deputy Secretary of State Brendan O’Donnell, Disability Rights Center (DRC) Senior Staff Attorney James Ziegra, and Exeter Voter Fred Fournier discuss accessible voting with the New Hampshire City and Town Clerk’s Association.

DRC offered some great suggestions to raise awareness that polling places are accessible to voters who are elderly or have a disability:

- Let your family, friends, and neighbors know that every polling place has an accessible voting system.

- Polling Place Greeters and Ballot Clerks should remind all voters that they can request to use the accessible voting system.

09/19/2026

Happy Hispanic Heritage Month to our friends!

09/16/2026

Mark your calendars, plan to attend, please share!

We need YOU to show up on Wednesday, September 23 at 10AM at Granite Place. We are calling on advocates to attend the hearing for HB 1763 and tell the study committee: people with disabilities belong in their communities. We want to hear success stories of inclusion, what it means to be a good neighbor, and the importance of community integration.

If you can't make it next week, you can share your story with our Fast Democracy template: https://fastdemocracy.com/campaigns/Ce9iorymr/Stand-Up-for-Inclusive-Communities--Contact-the-HB-1763-Study-Committee/ Link in our Linktree bio as well.

07/28/2026

Mark your calendars!
Thank you ABLE NH for arranging to inform folks on how local zoning impacts housing policy at a town/city level.

Join ABLE NH and representatives of the Office of Planning & Development for an educational session on "Understanding Zoning and Local Housing Policy" on Wednesday, August 19 at 6PM. Register to receive the Zoom link: ablenh.org/zoning/

06/23/2026

Excellent plain language explanation of what the US Dept of Justice memo on Olmstead means. Thank you ABLE NH!

06/18/2026

Patricia Vincent-Piet - thank you again for an amazingly illuminating piece!

How capitalism turns disabled people into a line item, and why the socialism-equals-communism myth keeps it that way.

06/17/2026

The Feds have once again attacked the disability community - they are just doing it with quiet violence; not overt, bloody violence.

They have moved the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) out of the US Dept of Education and into the US Dept of Health and Human Services. It is where the Office of Special Education Programs ((OSEP) lives which monitors and administers IDEA. OSEP provides critical guidance on IDEA to states.

Worse still, they have decoupled OSERS from the Office of Civil Rights which enforces IDEA, OCR is being moved to the Dept of Justice. No law is worth its paper if it isn’t enforced.

“This will leave our most vulnerable students and families who have been shut out of our education system without the services they need and without protection when they face discrimination,” said Rachel Gittleman, the president of A.F.G.E. Local 252. “This isn’t efficiency; it’s chaos.”

Cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, HUD, & now US DOE - health, housing, food, and education - deathly cuts for people with disabilities in every life domain. Become an ally to the disability community!

Special education programs and the civil rights office will be moved out of the Education Department, the most aggressive move yet by the Trump administration to dismantle the agency.

05/14/2026

Read Patricia Vincent-Piet excellent piece on the Nashua Board of School’s recent decision to segregate students they label as “intensive needs.”

I Met With the Man Behind It.

03/21/2026

03/21 - at the 21st chromosome, there is a third replication instead of a pair of genes - this is how a person has the genetic alteration commonly referred to as “Down Syndrome” aka “Trisomy 21.”

Happy World Down Syndrome Day!

Today is World Down Syndrome Day — and we are proud to stand together with our partners the National Down Syndrome Society and the Down's Syndrome Association. 💙🩷

This year's theme — Together Against Loneliness — has touched something deep. People with Down syndrome and their families around the world have told us: this is our story. This is what we live. And this is what we want to change.

Loneliness is not just a feeling. It is a human rights issue. And together, our network of 160+ organisations across the globe is committed to making real change happen — so that every person with Down syndrome feels included, valued, and truly connected.

Today, we celebrate our community. And we renew our commitment to a world where no one is left out. 💛

Together Against Loneliness. Together for change.

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