Tennessee Disability Coalition News Blog

REAL PEOPLE.  REAL VOICES.
Disability community and local advocacy organizations unite to stop the state from forcing people into nursing homes.
The Tennessee Health Care Campaign, the Memphis Center for Independent Living, ADAPT of Tennessee, Mid-South Paralyzed Veterans of America, and the ARC of the Mid-South are holding a joint press conference and rally to speak out [...]

For nearly two years, disability rights advocates have traveled the Nation in a modified bus educating citizens and policymakers alike of the pressing need to restore vital civil rights protections of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
Today, President Bush signed the ADA Amendments Act into law and ADA Watch and the National [...]

11 Days before the Health Care Rally on Oct. 6
12 Days before the Presidential Debate

2,500 Reasons to Show-Up!

On Oct. 7, Belmont University in Nashville will host the second of the three presidential debates. Over 2,500 media, not only from Tennessee, not only from the U.S., but from around the world, will be in Nashville for [...]

Did you know?
There are 33.5 million people with disabilities of voting age and research shows that they are 20% less likely than non-disabled peers to vote.  If people with disabilities voted at the same rate as their peers, 5 to 10 million more Americans would cast a ballot.
What stops them?
Come join us for a lunch [...]