Project 6 – Challenges in Courts – challenging the illegality of regulated obstacles to freedom, equality, and inclusion of IDD people.

The goals of this project are the same as the goals of our Advocacy campaign [Project 1] but it takes another approach. The project seeks to assemble a superb legal team [young and old, pro-bono and pay forward] who would distinguish themselves by successfully challenging in Courts the discriminatory and unjust arrangements that isolate, segregate, and enslave people with disabilities and especially people with IDD. The project also is seeking Grants and Donors to this effect.

The following lists the specific areas where we believe the laws and regulations overstepped the civil rights boundaries of our people.

1. Challenging involuntary institutionalizations as a violation of civil rights [this would become very visible in a post Coronavirus time]. Individual challenges to guardianships and conservatorships.
2. Challenging the legality of ‘Community Settings’ definition – which subverts the legislated right of IDD person “to live in community” by equating it to being institutionalized in the midst of community.
3. Challenging the constitutional legality of “appropriate and least restrictive” loophole in housing, workplace, and in education – what is appropriate for IDD person – shall be same as what is universally appropriate to each and all in our country – “no more no less”. Challenging the constitutional legality of a de-facto lawlessly regulated marriage of “Disability & Restriction”.
4. Challenging ‘Family exclusions’ in health care (Medicaid and waiver Services) on constitutional grounds as illicitly and arbitrarily manipulated to induce institutionalizations .
5. Rights of a child – addressing segregation, isolation, captivity, and diminishment of IDD children within the family, in education, and in the society. Individual challenges on behalf of a child against “war on autism” parents [exhibiting isolation, diminishment, and captivity], segregated “behavioral” schools, and backstairs habilitation.
6. Challenging the denial of access to society via monetary means and regulated segregation of IDD people – Medicaid and HCBS rules, MFP, other.
7. Challenging legality of sheltered workshops [as fitting the definition of slavery]
8. Challenging Autism CARES Act’s distribution of funds to combat natural human diversity [eugenics].

This project is in a process of soliciting ideas for strategy and tactical approaches to advance project’s goal. For further details, participation, and to contribute useful resources contact echolaliaproduction@gmail.com

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