Disability Filibuster 2022
We are a grassroots network of disability activists across Canada. One year ago, in 2021, we produced a ROUND THE CLOCK Zoom broadcast , featuring the diverse voices, art, scholarship, thoughts and lived reality of people with disabilities from coast-to-coast-to-coast.
To make this broadcast 100% accessible, donors like you enabled us to pay ASL/LSQ interpreters, translators, tech professionals and other enabling folks to help us produce a DISABILITY FILIBUSTER AGAINST BILL C-7. And the fight continues. Bill C7 's Track 2 now provides disabled people with "special" or "privileged" access to a medically assisted death even though we're not dying! This is dangerous, discriminatory and wrong.
Our message has been consistent: We don't want assisted death, we want supported LIFE!
Our ultimate goal is to repeal this law and instead start funding the things we need to live a dignified life:
- community housing supports,
- income supports, including equitable COVID-19 relief
- personal care supports; technology supports
- education, employment and transportation supports
- mental health services
- pain management
- suicide prevention measures
- equal access to palliative care when we are, in fact, dying.
Kill Bill C7's Track 2, not US!
To make this broadcast 100% accessible, donors like you enabled us to pay ASL/LSQ interpreters, translators, tech professionals and other enabling folks to help us produce a DISABILITY FILIBUSTER AGAINST BILL C-7. And the fight continues. Bill C7 's Track 2 now provides disabled people with "special" or "privileged" access to a medically assisted death even though we're not dying! This is dangerous, discriminatory and wrong.
Our message has been consistent: We don't want assisted death, we want supported LIFE!
Our ultimate goal is to repeal this law and instead start funding the things we need to live a dignified life:
- community housing supports,
- income supports, including equitable COVID-19 relief
- personal care supports; technology supports
- education, employment and transportation supports
- mental health services
- pain management
- suicide prevention measures
- equal access to palliative care when we are, in fact, dying.
Kill Bill C7's Track 2, not US!
