Disability activists who will be protesting at the Academy Awards Jan. 22 have created The Trouble with Jerry Web site.Ten organizations, including the American Association of People with Disabilities and the Disability Rights Center, have now endorsed the letter from The Trouble with Jerry campaign to the Motion Picture Academy. Those organizations are: ADAPT Montana, American Association of People with Disabilities, Autism Spectrum Differences Institute of New England, Inc., Capital Area ADAPT, Communities Actively Living Independent & Free (CALIF), Connecticut Down Syndrome Congress, Direct Action, Disability Rights Center, Michigan Disability Rights Coalition, and TASH/New England Chapter.
More than 2400 individuals have now signed the petition calling on the Motion Picture Academy to cancel its plans to give Jerry Lewis a humanitarian award. The petition is available on the Web site.
The Web site points to many of the offensive statements Jerry Lewis has made about people with disabilities.
