Why is ACT's work needed?

Change is needed. Thanks to the self-advocacy movement, life today for people with developmental disabilities is better now than it was 40 years ago. But anytime you’re fighting oppression, you have to keep going forward or you’ll go backward. Today’s problems:

• Power teeter totter

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  One side is always up and the other down. Guess who's usually down?

• Little red hen

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  Self-determination is trendy, but who’s building leaders? We are.

• Need to organize

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  No one listens if one person squawks. But they listen when 300 of us show up at the Capitol.