UC Access Now

ucaccessnow@sfba.social

We're a loose coalition of students/staff/faculty working to dismantle ableism at the University of California.Access & inclusion for disabled students, staff, faculty of the University of California! (For alumni, visitors, customers..everyone!) 33 years is long enough to have met ADA. Let's exceed it!Image description: Banner photo is of two UC Access Now logo buttons. Profile photo is the UC Access Now logo, a parody of the UC seal. "Let there be Access > ADA"

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Post #4369620
Doctors at California's second largest employer launch campaign to unionize "Last week, UC doctors gathered outside the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital to announce the launch of a campaign to unionize. The campaign is in partnership with the Service Employees International Union ("SEIU"). The University of California is the state's second largest employer, and serves over two million residents a year across the state." https://www.kalw.org/bay-area-news/2...
Post #3700196
""For us, it's not a huge lift to just be mindful when we're trying to build trail or improve trail to think about the adaptive rider," said Angus McCusker, the Velomont trail director with the nonprofit Vermont Huts and Trails. McCusker is referring to the growing number of disabled athletes who mountain bike with specially designed equipment. "The challenge," said McCusker, "is we're connecting to existing trail networks that were never intended for...
Post #3519616
It's Disability Pride Month. Although we'd write it differently today because our thought has moved on since Fall 2019, read & share The UC Access Now Demandifesto to get a sense of what we could and should be demanding of higher education, especially higher education. It's been plagiarized in one journal article and cited in 3 other scholarly works so far, and many disabled students, staff, and faculty have let UC Access Now know verbally and in writing how influential & a...
Post #3423210
"Imagine a global political summit that shapes the future of our planet where one of the most populated countries in the world does not have a voice? This may seem unlikely, but currently 1.3 billion disabled people (nearly the population of China) do not have formal representation at policy talks held by the UN’s climate change body. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) hosts negotiations to limit global greenhouse gas emissions and address climate change. Ye...
Post #3337570
:boost_requested: 🧵 I started UC Access Now in 2019/2020. I had been physically disabled for 25 years by that point. And my own public university was hurting my health while disobeying federal & state disability law. I figured if I had to fight this hard to get the bare minimum (while also dealing with grad school that's hard even for abled ppl), I wanted it fixed for everyone & wanted to work with other disabled students, staff, and faculty to do so. I did not have a deep backgr...
Post #857045
&quot;California is battling measles outbreaks across seven counties as federal funding cuts gut local health departments and vaccine skepticism fuels spread among unvaccinated children.&quot; https://calmatters.org/health/2026/03/measles-california-counties-surveillance-outbreak/ #USpol #Fascism #InfectiousDisease #PublicHealth
Post #620885
The design of rationing accessibility &amp; policing disabled people has the advantage for systemic ableism of blaming disabled people for any abled people who lie to appropriate the rationed accessibility. It keeps disabled people in a scapegoat position. The right wing anti-education media recently published op-eds complaining about students who get &quot;accommodations&quot; for learning disabilities. As usual, the general media bites at the bait and now anti-ableists are having...
Post #603105
#SanFrancisco #PowerOutage http://sf.gov/power-outages