Disability Action Hall
Tell Stories, take action, change lives
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We are a group of people with disabilities and allies! We have been around Calgary, Alberta, Canada since 1998. To learn more about our history, download our booklet. We tell our stories, take action and change lives! Anyone can be a member at the Hall. The Hall is run by a group of self-advocates and allies. (Allies are people who help us with disability rights). Download our brochure. We meet weekly. Everyone is welcome to attend our meetings. Click on our calendar to find out when we meet next. Visit our group on facebook! |
NEWS
We have a plan...a three year plan!!!
Sharing our dream
On March 26, 2009 many of the Hall members shared our three year work plan we call "Our Dream".
We talked about the five most important areas important to people with disabilities. We shared how we were connected as individuals, as a group and in the community. We talked about how our plan came from focused conversations, collaborations and ten years of working on social justice.
D - Disability Pride and Culture
R - Relationships and Networking
E - Enough money to live
A - A 'home' for all
M- My services I need
If you would like to see our plan, click here. For photos of our presentation, visit our blog!
Disabilty Pride and Culture
Speak Out 12 was a huge success! Our co-hosts the Calgary Sexual Health Centre and Right to Love Group shared the love in our city. Click here to see photos.
We also have been an International Day of Disabled Persons organizer for the last four years. To visit photos of recent years, visit our picasa gallery. This year's celebration will be at City Hall on Friday December 3rd.
Relationships and Networking
As a person with a disability, I have the right to:
- Love and be loved by whomever I chose,
- Have sex with whomever I chose,
- Be supported in the choices I make around love and sex,
- Have the support I need to have the relationships I choose,
- Make mistakes,
- Be accepted for who I am,
- Have partners and/or get married,
- Have children,
- Be treated as an equal human being, and
- Be respected as a full citizen!
Learn more about our provincial network "Albertans advocating Change Together' (AACT) and learn about the Self-Advocacy Summit held in October 2009.
Enough Money to Live
One of our goals is to have enough money to live. We also have a petition. Help us raise social assistance to the cost of living! We also support our city adapting a Fair Calgary policy to ensure all its city services are affordable for Calgarians. To learn about more about our initiative Fair Fares, download the brochure here.
A home for all
We are concerned about how much it costs live in our city. Many times we fee like permanent guests in our homes. We call this "My place...My home". We have been travelling the province collecting stories from perspectives of people with disabiltities. We hope to share these stories soon so stay tuned!
My Services that I need
We have also created a 2010 City Election Brochure to tell polticians what Calgarians with disabilities need to be full citizens. To download our election brochure, click here.
We are also collecting messages about how to keep people safe. We recently held a candlelight vigil to help remember the many lives of people with disabilities that have been lost to abuse.
If you would like more information about us, a presentation, please call us at 403.717.7630 or send us a message, actionhall@calgaryscope.org
Read more about our latest work below, on our blog or our facebook group!
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Learn about the Right to Love Group by connecting to our facebook group
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