This isn’t my usual year-end post. The mood has been bleak in the US, post-election. The incoming administration is openly hostile to people with disabilities, among many other marginalized groups.
Project 2025 takes a wrecking ball to federal measures that address real issues disabled people face in accessing critical supports and services. If even only some of the policies outlined here are fully enacted or required by executive order, disabled people would face insurmountable hurdles to living and participating in their communities.
- Disability rights lawyer and author Lainey Feingold has written about the threat of Project 2025 to Disabled People.
- Disability Scoop posted about what his presidency could mean for Medicaid and other programs disabled people rely on.
- 10 Reasons a Second Trump Presidency Will Decimate Sexual and Reproductive Health from the Guttmacher Institute
Ahead of the election, a group of talented individuals pulled together illustrated panels explaining the dangers of Project 2025. And the National Urban League also posted about its potential impacts.
Despite Trump’s win, we can’t throw up our hands and give up after inauguration day. It’ll be up to us to push back.
- The ACLU posted Despair and Resignation Are Not A Strategy: How to Fight Back In A Second Trump Term
- The NY ACLU posted We are Ready for the Fight Against Trump
- Most recently, Public Citizen posted a Playbook for Fighting Trump (full PDF download here).
Together we will need to do what we can to protect us. Protect our immigrant friends, family, and neighbors. Protect reproductive freedom and LGBTQ rights. Protect privacy and guard against surveillance. And protect peaceful protest. The 2017 Trump resistance playbook is out. Community organizing is in. We need better plans moving forward. To focus our energy locally. And support mutual aid networks near us.
Update: I came across this helpful resource for Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting