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Hosting Education Workshops for Community to support and understand the 2023 Legislative platform priorities developed by the Florida Developmental Disabilities that were identified by stakeholders, family members, and self-advocates. Focus of training and community campaign included understanding on why it is important to invest in home- and community-based services to include individuals with I/DD in their communities Prioritizing and scheduling legislative visits about the value of investing in Florida’s Home- and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Medicaid waiver for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). This waiver is referred to as the iBudget waiver to include services that encourage inclusion in the community; a safe, healthy, meaningful life; and help the individual avoid costly, restrictive institutional care. 
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Florida's SB1718 legislation criminalizing anyone who shelters a targeted group. TEXT JOIN US to 58123 #FLRISING  Society of the flora, fauna & friend joined over 380 groups demanding @POTUS terminate family detention permanently
Like ALL detention, family detention centers have a well-documented history of abusive conditions. Immigration detention as a whole is inherently abusive, going against our deepest values. Read the letter: bit.ly/EndFamDetention #EndFamilyDetention #EndDetention  Join the Immigrant Defense Project (IDP) and the Surveillance Resistance Lab in a two-part training series “Be Informed"
Mensaje bilingüe | Bilingual message On March 1st, 2023, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will commemorate its 20th anniversary since its operations began. DHS is agency that has targeted communities of color through surveillance, detention, torture, military occupation, and harmful immigration laws. The Defund Hate and Communities Not Cages Campaigns are taking action against the extensive and well-documented history of harm from DHS against our communities through digital and in-person field actions across the country from March 1st to March 5th. We demand the Biden administration and Congress to take action by defunding ICE and CBP and taking immediate steps to close down ICE immigration facilities. --- El 1 de marzo de 2023, el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS) conmemorará su 20 aniversario desde que inició sus operaciones. DHS es una agencia que ha atacado a comunidades de color a través de vigilancia, detención, tortura, ocupación militar y malas leyes de inmigración. Las campañas Defund Hate y Communities Not Cages están tomando acción contra la extensa y documentada historia de ataques de DHS contra nuestras comunidades a través de acciones digitales y en persona en todo el país del 1 al 5 de marzo. Exigimos a la administración de Biden y el Congreso que tomen acción quitando fondos a ICE y CBP y tomando medidas inmediatas para cerrar centros de inmigración de ICE.  Coalition of Immokalee Workers Build A New World March Saturday, March 18th 11:00 AM Lake Drive Park, Palm Beach  There are still three corporate holdouts - Wendy’s, Kroger and Publix - which refuse to join the Fair Food Program and thus improve the pay, safety, and conditions in the fields for workers.
On March 18th, there will be a 2 mile march through the heart of Palm Beach, home to Wendy’s chairman, Nelson Peltz, demanding he no longer turn a blind eye to modern day slavery. |
AuthorB. Buil is an endorsed Chaplain, DEI Educator, Somatic/Trauma Care Practitioner, Disability Rights Advocate, Environmental and Social Justice Activist Archives
September 2023
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