Fwd: Students to Rally Against Discrimination

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>Subject: Students to Rally Against Discrimination
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>STUDENTS TO RALLY AGAINST DISCRIMINATION
>By Dave Reynolds, Inclusion Daily Express
>April 13, 2001
>
>CHICAGO, ILLINOIS--Students with disabilities around the country will be
>making a statement against discrimination next Tuesday, as they participate
>in a nation-wide "Leave-Out".
>
>The action is being organized by the National Disabled Students Union, a
>grass-roots group that in just nine weeks has gained members from primary
>and secondary schools and colleges and universities across the country,
>along with independent students.
>
>"In two months, we've gone from being an idea in a few students' minds to
>having members on more than sixty campuses," says Sarah Triano, NDSU's
>co-founder and disability studies student at the University of Illinois at
>Chicago.
>
>NDSU was founded on February 21, 2001, in response to the U.S. Supreme
>Court's ruling in Trustees of the University of Alabama v. Garrett et. al.
>that state employees facing disability discrimination at work cannot sue
>their employers for damages.
>
>"The Garrett ruling will make it harder for today's students with
>disabilities to become tomorrow's workers," the group claimed in a press
>release. "The Census Bureau reports that 50 percent of non-institutionalized
>disabled people in America are unemployed, and those who do have jobs make
>less money than the nondisabled."
>
>NDSU has scheduled the action, in which students with disabilities and their
>allies will be leaving their classrooms and libraries, for 1:00 p.m. Eastern
>time, Tuesday April 17.
>
>"The people's right to equality comes before the states' right to
>discriminate," says Triano. "We're building momentum and pride, and we will
>insist on equality."
>
>For more information, you can contact Triano at 773-463-4776 or by email at:
>strian1@uic.edu
>---
> >From the Friday, April 13, 2001 edition of Inclusion Daily Express
>the disability rights daily news service.
>http://www.InclusionDaily.com
>Dave Reynolds, Editor
>News@InclusionDaily.com
> 


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