Advocating Change Together (ACT) is a grassroots disability rights organization run by and for people with developmental and other disabilities. ACT's mission is to help people across disabilities to see themselves as part of a larger disability rights movement and make connections to other civil and human rights struggles.
Remembering With Dignity is a coalition of disability rights and advocacy organizations founded in 1994. We are working to honor people who lived and died in Minnesota's state institutions.
Remembering with Dignity has the following goals:
Restoring over 12,500 unmarked graves in institution cemeteries. Graves
currently identified with only a numbered cement block – or with no marker at
all – will be honored and marked with the person’s name, date of birth and
date of death.
Collecting and recording oral histories of people with disabilities, particularly those who have lived in institutions.
Organizing people with disabilities to ensure full integration in community life and to prevent a return to institutionalization.
Raising public awareness about people with developmental disabilities.
Demanding an apology from the State of Minnesota for its treatment of people with disabilities kept in institutions.
Advocating Change Together
1821 University Avenue, Suite 306-S, St. Paul, MN 55104
Telephone: 651-641-0297 or 800-641-0059
FAX: 651-641-4053
Remembering With Dignity is a coalition of disability rights and advocacy organizations founded in 1994. We are working to honor people who lived and died in Minnesota's state institutions.