We only have TODAY to beat back this attack.
E-mail your Senator TODAY!
Today, the disability community's key international effort, the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities, is under attack from Rick Santorum and a small group of homeschoolers who think that approving the treaty will undermine US sovereignty (it will not).
Disability advocates have worked for YEARS to pass the CRPD---and one big reason the CRPD exists in the first place is because the US led the way in disability law with the Americans with Disabilities Act. ADAPT, Justin Dart, and many others led this fight. Unless the US approves the CRPD, America gets NO place at international discussion on disability policy. The US needs to ratify the CRPD to take its place in international disability efforts and to affirm its commitment to self-determination, access and community living or people with disabilities.
We only have TODAY to beat back this attack. Then, it is over. It will be incredibly difficult, if not impossible, to do this again. We need a WIN for bipartisan disability rights commitment.
Please contact your Senators TODAY before 5 pm EST to let them know we have to win this fight!
Link to TAKE ACTION !!!
http://capwiz.com/rochestercdr/issues/alert/?alertid=61573231&queueid=[capwiz:queue_id]
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