[Disabilityscoop.com] New Group To Raise Cash For Disability-Friendly Candidates

Posted by The Farm Team on Jul 18, 2010 in Statewide | 0 comments

A group of politically connected disability advocates is forming what’s believed to be a first-of-its-kind organization to bankroll political candidates who support disability issues.

The Disability Power & Pride Political Action Committee, or PAC, will host its first fund-raiser on Monday after forming little more than a week ago. Already, however, organizers say they’re garnering broad support. Backers include American Association of People with Disabilities head Andrew Imparato, National Council on Disability chair Jonathan Young and former Congressman Tony Coelho who helped push the Americans with Disabilities Act through Congress.

“People in the disability community are incredibly interested,” says Stephen Bennett, who serves as the PAC’s chairman outside of his day job as head of United Cerebral Palsy. “The disability rights movement has always been a second class citizen, but I think people are waking up.”…

[Salon] Sarah Palin’s grab for feminism

Posted by The Farm Team on Jul 14, 2010 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

If the left doesn’t fight for the word, it will go to whoever wants it most, even if they’re Republican
By Rebecca Traister

Sarah Palin has been making the moves on feminism again, talking in mid-May to the antiabortion Susan B. Anthony List about an “emerging feminist coalition” of conservative women, women she calls “Mama Grizzlies,” telling the crowd that they were helping to return “the woman’s movement back to its original roots … You remind us of the earliest leaders of the woman’s rights movement: They were pro-life.” Harking back to (an imagined version of) first-wave feminism, Palin has been distorting second-wave ideology with a dastardly Opposite Day formulation in which those who support reproductive rights do not believe women capable of mothering and working simultaneously. (What happened to the old feminist bats forcing women to “have it all” against their will?)

Join Us — Richmond Farm Team Happy Hour

Posted by The Farm Team on Jul 14, 2010 in Richmond | 0 comments

Join the Richmond Chapter of the Farm Team for happy hour on Monday, July 26th.
Come out and get to know everybody!
5:30-7:30 PM
Bank Restaurant – Upstairs
1005 E. Main St
Richmond, VA 23219

Click here to RSVP or email farmteam.va@gmail.com.