The Coalition of Montanans Concerned with Disabilities: CMCD

The Coalition of Montanans Concerned with Disabilities: CMCD - Missoula Area Chapter

NOTICE - As of January 2003, CMCD Missoula is suspending monthly meetings. Energy is being used to lobby the legislature with our allied organizations. This site and its links are still being maintained. Latest update was on April 21, 2007. You can find the most current news items at cmcd3.blogspot.com and, most recently, at the old reliable Usenet newgroups (revived by Google Groups) at http://groups.google.com/group/News-for-CMCD-folks

Breaking News and Alerts

What does 'Million Dollar Baby' have to do with you and me?

Center for an Accessible Society - a fine place to search for current news and cites about disability activism

Legal issues important to PWDs

Justice for All mailing list archives

Not Dead Yet's TRUTH section

UCP's Washington Watch

Award-winning site for everyone aging and/or living with disability

National Senior Citizens Law Center's Washington Weekly: headlines of interest to advocates

NSCLC's alerts

And don't miss the CMCD blog for newer news

Advocacy and Politics; includes useful government links

Your home -- not a nursing home!

Home- and community-based services links for Montana

Disability Resources: Montana Vocational Rehabilitation's pages on disability services and resources available to Montanans

Contacting your representative in Helena = and other state legislative news

Missoula Aging Services: useful links for all of us

Bazelon Center's analysis of the ADA's strengths and how it is now being challenged in the courts

Thinking about the Labor Day Telethon

Families USA : working to ensure health care for all

National Clearinghouse on Managed Care and Long-Term Services and Supports for Adults with Developmental Disabilities and Their Families

Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund

Official site of the U.S. Access Board

Americans with Disabilities Act Home Page

Contemporary Independent Living - article by Josie Byzek

Register to vote online

Congress at Your Fingertips

CP's Advocacy Connection

NotDeadYet and ADAPT disability advocates fight the 'right to die' movement

Disability Rights Activist

David Ferleger's Disability Links

Lubin's disABILITY Information and Resources (a *treasure trove* of links)

Politics of DisAbility

Montana Advocacy Program - MAP

Summit Independent Living Center, for PWDs in Western Montana

Women with disabilities.gov site

Rural Institute on Disabilities at the University of Montana

MSU's Montana Center on Disabilities

State of Montana programs for people with disabilities

Montana Legislative Branch

Montana League of Women Voters site: Let your will be known : state and local issues

Housing and Adaptive Environments

Universal Design and accessibility

Center for Inclusive Design & Environmental Access

Center for Universal Design: Environments and Products for all People

Accessible Home Designs

National Association of Homebuilders fights ADA access guidelines

Resources about MiCASSA on the World Wide Web

Resources about the Garrett decision on your freedom to live in the community

Your home; not the nursing home!

Medicare's ratings of nursing homes in your area

The movement for universal 'visit-able' homes

Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum exhibition 'Unlimited by Design'

Updated housing links from the DRM Guide

Housing publication for the disability community

Housing options (from Agenet.com)

Adaptive Environments Site

MCIL ramps manual

Home Controls (Automation in the home)

Family and Sexuality Links

The Beach Center on Families and Disability

A Global Community of Disability-related Resources

Parenting with a Disability

Email chat for parents with disabilities

Curbcut's Sexuality Listings

Homosexuality, Bisexuality and Disability

Disability partners

Education, Working and Money Links

Disability and the Workplace: An Internet Primer

Online learning for disability and gender equity - secondary level

Headlines on learning disabilities

Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, Inc

Free full-text books to use online

ADSUM : Alliance for Disability and Students of The University of Montana

Archives: Disabled Student Services in Higher Education discussion group

Disability Services for Students Office, University of Montana, Missoula

Links to Disability Employment Sites, Presidential Task Force on Employment of Adults with Disabilities

President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities - Related Job Sites

Job Accomodation Network

Small business and Self-Employment for People with Disabilities

Social Security Administration

Social Security protection for PWDs

Information on applying ADA provisions to employment; plus, how to file complaints

DisAbility Culture Links: Writing, Music, Design, History and People

A new way of thinking about the same old news ...

Disability's Social History - heroes links

The working dog pages

What is Disability Culture?

National Arts and Disability Center

The arts inviting PWDs

Personal pages on disability advocacy

Disability Studies Web Ring (list all)

DAWN: Disabilities Awareness Webring Network

Mark O'Brien's page: he's featured in the film Breathing Lessons

Stephen Drake's pages

On a Roll Talk Radio

The Rest of the Best

Institutionalization remembered

Uppity Disability internet Resources: Politics, Art, Culture

Disability cool

Humor and Community Links

Callahan's Cartoons Online: View if you are not easily shocked

Wheelchair Stuntman cartoons

Onward and upward with our British friends

Out of control: The Bizarre World of Managed Care (serious items and a little humor about managed "care")

Douglas Zachary's Disability Links

The Geocities Disability Community: interlinked pages from individuals and groups

Women and Disabilities

Bob Mauro's Good Sites

Goodwin's The Rest of the Best

Society for Disability Studies Links

Disability Culture Links: Writing, Music, Design, Sports, Recreation, History and People

Disability's Social History - heroes links

Sydney and Salt Lake Paralympics

Outdoor recreation resources for people with disabilities

The online connection for amps with an active lifestyle

When you can't do the sport you loved

Team and individual sports coverage

What is disability culture?

A new way of thinking about the same old news stories ...

Sharing information, opportunities, and special events in art and disabilities, nationally and internationally

The arts inviting PWDs

Personal pages on disability advocacy

Disability Studies Web Ring (list all)

Society for Disability Studies Links

DAWN: Disabilities Awareness Webring Network

Mark O'Brien's page: he's featured in the film Breathing Lessons

Stephen Drake's pages

On a Roll Talk Radio

The Rest of the Best

Institutionalization remembered

Laura Hershey's weekly "Crip Commentary"

Uppity Disability internet Resources: Politics, Art, Culture

Disability cool

Invisible Disabilities (count us in!)

Technology Links

Alliance for Technology Access

The 07/14/99 telecommunications access victory

How high-tech devices let you build independence

The MonTECH Program: assistive technology site for Montanans

Indexes journal articles on assistive technology

Assistive technology - a technical-assistance site

Using the TDD/TTY device to make phone calls

How closed captioning works

Designing more usable computers and software

Web accessibility testers that you can try out

WAI Page Authoring Guidelines

UCP's Assistive Technology listings

UCP's Augmentative Communications listings

Designing accessible web pages for the Internet

Center for Information Technology Accommodation (CITA)

National Center for Accessible Media

Project Do-It

Sites Using the Web Access Symbol

How does a web site look with a Lynx browser?

Our MagazineStandLinks

Mouth magazine

Ragged Edge magazine

New Mobility magazine

ICan online: weekly and daily fresh news and lifestyle articles

An international perspective on PWDs

Access Life: News, information and products for the disability community

Half the Planet (that's us and ours)

Disability rights news stories within an inclusive civil-rights site

RALPH magazine : The Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy and the Humanities - edited by Lorenzo Milam

Mainstream - the Magazine of the Able-Disabled

The ARC/UPC Report

Ability Magazine - Canada's cross-disability magazine

Political news and lifestyle articles for us

WeMedia's magazine, associated with good community-building utilities: chats, messageboards, etc.

One Step Ahead's working links to publications

ADAPT's Incitement

Cathy's Newsstand: including special selections for people who use screenreaders

Our Reference Links

Back to Basics: Where to Get Help

Resources for Montanans and other useful general sites

Directory of services and groups in Missoula County

Central site for U.S. government material of interest to PWDs

National Council on Aging - good set of links on services and policy on aging

State of Montana's materials on 'senior and long term care'

The WebABLE! Library: Access issues viewed from all angles

Library of Congress lists of newspapers, periodicals and news resources

Constantly updated news on most topics of interest, including news from your zipcode

Newspapers and magazines access page: from Deaf.org

Tracking utility: follow bills in the U.S. Congress

Montana legislators and their work - how to contact them!

Disability Statistics Center

Statistics on disability in the United States

Terms: disability-related acronyms

Cooperative Library of Texts on Disability Issues

Yahoo index of disability-related sites (comprehensive but quirky)

Cornucopia of Disability Information: Text Version

Fullmer's comprehensive list of Disability-Related Web sites, maintained by the West Virginia Rehabilitation Research and Training Center

Librarians' Guide to Disability Sites and Texts on the Internet : does a current search for you

The virtual librarian: Searching, Sleuthing and Sifting on the Web

Search engine links: use these addresses to search for topics of concern: pick a keyword or two relating to the concept you want to search

Metacrawler: a powerful multi-engine search

Profusion: another powerful multi-tool

Ask Mamma; a meta-searcher

Another site that searches multiple sites and reports in interesting ways

Ask Jeeves

Try Google for a fast search

HotBot search

NorthernLights search

Yahoo's search engine

I_love_the_web: an index-type search tool

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This web site is designed to be accessible for persons using the text-based Lynx web browser and/or speech-reader software. You can examine the standards for universal accessibility at these addresses: http://www.boston.com/wgbh/ncam -or- http://www.infouse.com/disabilitydata/addaccess.html Please send comments on page access and any suggestions for additional disability-advocacy links for this page to alaurie@ism.net

TO CONTACT YOUR NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES: You can find contact information for your local representative by calling your local public library. You can also get the information on the web, using the following URL: http://www.yahoo.com/Government/U_S__Government/Legislative_Branch/House_of_Representatives/Representatives/By_State/ If you prefer to phone, the toll-free number is 1-800-972-3524, but it is usually busy. The Congressional Switchboard is 202-224-3121. When the operator answers "Capitol", you give the operator the name of the representative and they will connect you with that office. information courtesy of: Fred Fay Chair, Justice For All jfa@mailbot.com HTTP://www.mailbot.com/justice

Coalition of Montanans Concerned with Disabilities: CMCD
CMCD is a statewide grassroots direct action organization made up of people concerned with disabilities. Our organizational values statement and mission statement are included immediately below:

CMCD ORGANIZATIONAL VALUES : (Values statement adopted on 11/19/94)
CMCD believes that people with disabilities have traditionally been systematically oppressed and excluded, both intentionally and unintentionally, from full and meaningful participation in society. CMCD rejects all such forms of oppression and exclusion.
CMCD believes that people with disabilities, both individually and collectively, have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness through equal access to all aspects of society, and that people with disabilities should vigorously exercise, protect, and expand these rights.
CMCD is an organization that works for social change for the benefit of people with disabilities; CMCD is not directly involved in the delivery of services to people with disabilities.
CMCD is a direct action organization; activities and campaigns are generally conducted such that the least intrusive methods are used first; tactics will escalate in response to the level of resistance to change presented by the opposition.
CMCD is a cross-disability organization. We believe that the most effective means to achieve significant social change for the community as a whole is through presenting a united front that reflects the entire spectrum of different types of people and disabilities. We also believe that in order for this to occur, strategic alliances with non-disability groups that hold similar values must be developed, maintained, and expanded.
CMCD believes that people with disabilities should pursue and attain decision-making positions and positions of authority in society; CMCD will support such action by members who endorse and pursue the values and principles of CMCD, as expressed in the CMCD bylaws, mission statement, and organizational values statements, as well as the state platform.
CMCD's values, goals, objectives, and principles will largely parallel those of the national disability rights movement, with due consideration to cultural and regional differences unique to Montana.
All CMCD activities will be undertaken in a manner consistent with our belief in the principle of social change through non-violent means.
CMCD will only pursue funding from sources that will not place requirements on such funding that are not consistent with CMCD's mission statement, values, and bylaws.

CMCD mission statement:
To promote the equal participation of all Montanans in all aspects of society through the collective empowerment of people with disabilities.

CMCD site compiled and maintained by:
Anne Sappenfield Laurie, M.L.S.
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Email: alaurie@ism.net
Last updated: May 10, 2007
Copyright 1998 - 2007 Anne Sappenfield Laurie.
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