Category Archives: California Budget

CA Budget – Advocacy and Results

Posted on June 23, 2023 by Adrienne

LISTEN Friday, June 23, 2:30 pm PDT KPFA Radio Ligia Andrade Zúñiga A week from today, Governor Newsom is expected to sign the 2023-2024 California state budget.  In this program, we look at the deals that were struck and their … Continue reading →

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Blind Legislative Issues with Jeff Thom

Posted on December 21, 2018 by Adrienne

Friday, December 21, 2:30 pm PST on KPFA radio For information:  SSI/SSP recipients will be eligible for Food Stamps, click here. For  information: A fun accessible dance experience with AXIS Dance, click here. What has happened legislatively and in advocacy … Continue reading →

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Sacramento Politics with Marty Omoto

Posted on November 15, 2018 by Adrienne

Friday, November 16, 2:30 pm  KPFA Marty Omoto watches the inner workings of the Sacramento governmental structure as an advocate/reporter, particularly as it affects people with disabilities.  He advises and reports on this through his California Disability-Senior Community Action Network … Continue reading →

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IHSS Electronic Visit Verification: All We Know – and the things we don’t

Posted on April 19, 2018 by Adrienne

Friday, April 20, 2:30-3 pm at KPFA.org Electronic visit verification is a component of the 21st century CURES Act of 2016. It was a sneaky little poison pill added to the act and no one likes it…Except those who believe … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year’s Budget Season

Posted on December 30, 2015 by Adrienne

Listen (29 min) Due to 12 years of budget cuts, people with developmental disabilities are taking care of aging parents by themselves, dying alone in single occupancy residences (SROs), and facing a host of other problems.  They rallied in six … Continue reading →

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Follow Budget Hearings from Home

Posted on December 29, 2015 by Adrienne

HOW CAN I MONITOR THE  LEGISLATIVE HEARINGS IF I CANNOT ATTEND? People can monitor California  legislative policy and budget hearings in several ways including live cable  televised broadcasts (limited to cable services that offer it); live audio;  and live internet … Continue reading →

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Eli Clare, author of EXILE AND PRIDE

Posted on September 17, 2015 by Adrienne

Friday, September 18, 2-3 pm PDT on KPFA First published in 1999, the groundbreaking book, Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation is essential to the history and future of disability politics. Eli Clare’s revelatory writing about his experiences as … Continue reading →

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Controversy in the IHSS Community

Posted on January 30, 2014 by Adrienne

Listen (28 min) The SEIU-UHW union has proposed a November ballot measure affecting home care workers who work under California Medi-Cal programs. It would 1) Provide home care workers who work under these programs (IHSS) a minimum wage based on … Continue reading →

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Race and Disability

Posted on March 14, 2013 by Adrienne

LISTEN 29 min Free phones Race & Disability.  Two powerful words.  Two reasons for discrimination and prejudice.  Two labels for mass movements that have empowered many to work for change. We broach the topic of how movements for racial equality … Continue reading →

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501c3 Activists

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Adrienne

Listen 28 min How about a state-wide organization with twenty-eight paid workers charged with organizing for big changes on behalf of people with disabilities?  No, it’s not a dream. It runs under the rubric of “Systems Change” and each of … Continue reading →

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