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Friday, September 19, 2008

Media coverage of ADAPT housing protest

Thanks to Justice for All for this list. Photo from ADAPT Picture Gallery.


  • Barney Frank confronts protesters; 15 arrested (The Hill, Washington, D.C.)

  • Disabled Activists Arrested at Arlington McCain Headquarters (WUSA9.com, Washington, DC)

  • An act of civil disobedience (KOAM TV 7, Kansas)

  • Police Arrest Ten Protesters (McLean Connection, Virginia)

  • Disabled Utahns join protest of HUD (Deseret News, Utah)
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Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
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