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<body onload="preloadImages();" background="../resources-pl/bgbfc_an2.gif" bgcolor="#ccffff" text="#006600" link="#990099" vlink="#cc66cc" alink="#ff3300"> <div align="center"> <center> <center> <a name="anchorplt02fs"></a> <table width="725" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="middle" width="40%"> <div align="left"> <font size="1"><a title="Barrier-Free Planet" href="../index.html" target="_parent"><img src="../resources-pl/banners/bfplanet-wave.gif" alt="This is our BarrierFreePlanet wave.Clicking it returns you to the BarrierFreePlanet Home Page." name="goldwave_sm2" width="270" height="27" align="absmiddle" border="0"></a><br> <img src="../resources-pl/banners/tt-por2il.gif" alt="... 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Get to know others who have "been there."</font><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><br> </font></b></font><font color="#006600"><img src="../resources-pl/banners/sections/dispub-w.gif" alt="Disability-Focused Publications & Blogs" width="507" height="43" border="0"></font></div> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="725" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" align="center"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="left"> <b><font size="2" color="#006600" face="Arial">Discussion of current important social issues ...<br> </font></b><img src="../resources-pl/res-topics/betterway.O7.gif" alt="Illustration:A woman reading a book." width="327" height="280" align="right" border="0"><b><font size="2" color="#006600" face="Arial"> Keep informed! Check these resources often!<br> </font></b><img src="../resources-pl/7x7-spacer.gif" alt="" width="7" height="7" border="0"><br> <b><font size="3" color="#dc0099" face="Verdana">Important Online Publications:<br> </font></b><img src="../resources-pl/7x7-spacer.gif" alt="" width="7" height="7" border="0"><br> <b><font size="2" color="#006600" face="Verdana"><a title=""Disability Rights Online News"" href="http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/disabilitynews.htm" target="_blank">"Disability Rights Online News"</a></font><font size="2" color="#006600" face="Arial"> is published monthly by the U.S. Department of Justice, and details the Department's progress in securing and expanding the legal rights of Americans with disabilities. This is a very interesting resource because it chronicles the progress of a major civil rights movement. Archived issues go back about three years, and cover court decisions and settlements which have greatly increased accessibility and fair treatment for all. Available in both HTML and PDF formats.<br> </font></b><img src="../resources-pl/7x7-spacer.gif" alt="" width="7" height="7" border="0"><br> <b><font size="2" color="#006600" face="Verdana"><a title=""Mouth"" href="http://www.mouthmag.com/" target="_blank">"Mouth"</a></font><font size="2" color="#006600" face="Arial"> ... the "voice of the disability nation" brings the conversation down to street level, where well-intentioned "special" programs wreak havoc in the lives of ordinary people. People talk about calling a spade a spade. "Mouth" calls Jack Kevorkian a serial killer. And when maggots outnumber nurses' aides at what others call a "care facility," "Mouth" calls it a hellhole. The people at "Mouth" say it out loud: if special education is so darned special, every kid in every school ought to have the benefit of it. Print version is published bi-monthly. Samples and excerpts are available online.<br> </font></b><img src="../resources-pl/7x7-spacer.gif" alt="" width="7" height="7" border="0"><br> <font size="2" face="Verdana"><b><a title=""New Mobility"" href="http://newmobility.com/" target="_blank">"New Mobility"</a></b></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><b> encourages the integration of active-lifestyle wheelchair users into mainstream society, while simultaneously reflecting the vibrant world of disability-related arts, media, advocacy and philosophy. Their stories foster a sense of community and empower readers to: </b></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><b>Participate in all areas of life, including education, work, love, sex, home ownership, parenting, sports, recreation, travel and entertainment; </b></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><b>be informed of and take charge of health concerns; </b></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><b>obtain appropriate technology; and </b></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><b>assert their legal rights. Published monthly</b></font><b><font size="2" color="#006600" face="Arial">.<br> </font></b><img src="../resources-pl/7x7-spacer.gif" alt="" width="7" height="7" border="0"><br> <font size="2" face="Verdana"><b><a title=""Ouch"" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/" target="_blank">"Ouch!"</a></b></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><b> is the BBC's online disability magazine that reflects the lives and experiences of disabled people in the UK. It has regular columns, features, quizzes, a monthly near-cult podcast, a blog or two and a community messageboard and a lot of other stuff. All contributors, well, 99% of them, are disabled - and Ouch's editorial team is rather "wonky" (off-center), and deserve big fat special diversity badges too. With its droll sense of humor, this site is definitely British.<br> </b></font><img src="../resources-pl/7x7-spacer.gif" alt="" width="7" height="7" border="0"><br> <font size="2" face="Verdana"><b><a title=""The Ragged Edge"" href="http://www.raggededgemagazine.com/" target="_blank">"The Ragged Edge"</a></b></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><b> is an online publication devoted to disability rights and other social issues which concern disabled Americans. It has been published in its present form since 1997, and before that, it was published under the name "Disability Rag". If you want to get a taste of that early disability rights publication, The Ragged Edge anthology offers you the disability experience from the pages of the first 15 years of The Disability Rag. The Ragged-Edge archives contain articles dating from 1997.<br> </b></font><img src="../resources-pl/7x7-spacer.gif" alt="" width="7" height="7" border="0"><br> <b><font size="3" color="#dc0099" face="Verdana">Blogs Worth Reading:<br> </font></b><img src="../resources-pl/7x7-spacer.gif" alt="" width="7" height="7" border="0"><b><font size="3" color="#dc0099" face="Verdana"><br> </font></b><font size="2" face="Verdana"><b><a title=""Social Security News"" href="http://socsecnews.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">"Social Security News"</a></b></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><b> written by Charles T. Hall, author of <i>Social Security Disability Practice</i> (the definitive textbook for lawyers who specialize in related issues). The blog is updated frequently, and discusses news affecting Social Security issues, laws and policies.<br> </b></font><img src="../resources-pl/7x7-spacer.gif" alt="" width="7" height="7" border="0"><b><font size="3" color="#dc0099" face="Verdana"><br> </font></b><font size="2" face="Verdana"><b><a title=""Crip Commentary"" href="http://www.cripcommentary.com/" target="_blank">"Crip Commentary"</a></b></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><b> Laura Hershey is a knowledgeable consultant, published writer/researcher, and committed advocate who has 25 years' experience working professionally in the disability field. She offers her skills for a variety of projects related to disability policy and social justice issues.<br> </b></font><img src="../resources-pl/7x7-spacer.gif" alt="" width="7" height="7" border="0"><br> <font size="2" face="Verdana"><b><a title=""Edge Centric" " href="http://www.raggededgemagazine.com/blogs/edgecentric/" target="_blank">"Edge Centric"</a> </b></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><b>Written by the editor of "The Ragged Edge", Mary Johnson's blog is a running commentary on disability rights. This is a "ripped-from-the-headlines" resource in which Mary expresses her views on topics such as assisted suicide, disability politics, discrimination, and the wheelchair access battle. "Edge-Centric" makes interesting reading.<br> </b></font><img src="../resources-pl/7x7-spacer.gif" alt="" width="7" height="7" border="0"><br> <font size="2" face="Verdana"><b><a title=""The Gimp Parade"" href="http://thegimpparade.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">"The Gimp Parade"</a></b></font><b><font size="2" face="Arial"> This blog is about social issues, culture and politics relating to disability rights. The author, Kay Olson ("Blue") says that there's some crossover between social issues and "health-relatedness" that may be confusing, especially when she relates specifics of her impairments, hospital visits and such, but those are the details of how social issues, culture and politics come into play. They're the evidence of why disability rights are important</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><b>.<br> </b></font><img src="../resources-pl/7x7-spacer.gif" alt="" width="7" height="7" border="0"><br> <font size="2" face="Verdana"><a title=""Secondhand Smoke"" href="http://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/" target="_blank"><b>"</b></a></font><font face="Verdana"><a title=""Secondhand Smoke"" href="http://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/" target="_blank"><b><font size="2">Secondhand Smoke"</font></b></a><b><font size="2"> </font><font size="2" face="Arial">by Wesley J. Smith. This blog considers issues involving assisted suicide/euthanasia, bioethics, human cloning, biotechnology, and the dangers of animal rights/liberation. Mr Smith's views expressed here, as in his books and other writings, reflect his understanding that the philosophy of human exceptionalism is the bedrock of universal human rights. Or, to put it another way: Human life matters.</font></b></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><b><br> </b></font><img src="../resources-pl/7x7-spacer.gif" alt="" width="7" height="7" border="0"></div> </td> </tr> </table> <center> <table width="725" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <div align="center"> <img src="../resources-pl/7x7-spacer.gif" alt="" width="7" height="7" border="0"><b><font size="2" color="#006600" face="Arial"><a title="Go to the Top of this page" href="#anchorplt02fs" target="_top">Go to the top</a><br> </font></b><img src="../resources-pl/7x7-spacer.gif" alt="" width="7" height="7" border="0"><b><font size="2" color="#006600" face="Arial"><br> If we've missed any of your favorites that should be listed here, please </font><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="mailto:webmaster@barrierfreechoices.com?subject=Disability Pubs & Blogs Suggestion">e-mail us</a></font><font size="2" color="#006600" face="Arial">.<br> </font></b><img src="../resources-pl/7x7-spacer.gif" alt="" width="7" height="7" border="0"></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <div align="center"> <b><font color="#990099" face="Arial"><a title="Click the BarrierFreeChoices Logo to go to our Home Page." onmouseover="changeImages( /*CMP*/'bfcnotelogo2',/*URL*/'../resources-pl/logo/end-logo07_over.gif');return true" onmouseout="changeImages( /*CMP*/'bfcnotelogo2',/*URL*/'../resources-pl/logo/end-logo07.gif');return true" href="http://www.barrierfreechoices.com/" target="_parent"><img src="../resources-pl/logo/end-logo07.gif" alt="Click the BarrierFreeChoices Logo to go to our Home Page." name="bfcnotelogo2" width="80" height="80" align="middle" border="0"></a></font></b><br> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="725" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="695"> <basefont size="4"> <div align="center"></div> <center> <hr width="85%" size="1" noshade> </center> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="725" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="middle" width="33%"> <div align="left"> <a href="http://www.icra.org/" target="_blank"><img src="../resources-pl/i26x25dkb.gif" width="26" height="25" align="MIDDLE" border="0" alt="ICRA - Internet Content Rating Association. 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