Activist group, Not Dead Yet, can be a significant news source
About 500 disability rights activists protested at the American Medical Association meeting in Chicago Sept. 10, 2007. The disability rights group, ADAPT, organized the protest and it has an Action Report on the protest at: ADAPT Action Report
http://www.adapt.org/freeourpeople/aar/.
Other activists participated in the protest, too and have a blog with commentary on their goals for the protest at: http://notdeadyetnewscommentary.blogspot.com/2007/09/disability-activists-make-housecall-at.html. This blog is from the activist group Not Dead Yet, which fights against assisted suicide. Not Dead Yet was founded in 1996 as a response to the acquittal of Jack Kevorkian, after he assisted in the suicides of two women with non-terminal disabilities.
This group should be on any journalist’s source list because Not Dead Yet provides an important voice for people with significant disabilities who are opposed to legalized assisted suicide and euthanasia. Too often the media do stories on these topics and don’t call a source with this significant perspective.
Here’s a source:
Stephen Drake
Research Analyst
Not Dead Yet
7521 Madison St.
Forest Park, IL 60130
Phone: 708-209-1500
For sources from ADAPT on disability rights issues, it has a list of national and local contacts at: http://www.adapt.org/context.htm
Beth Haller, Towson University