New Disabled South, and their advocacy arm, New Disabled South Rising, are fighting for disability rights and justice in 14 states. Those states are Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.

The 10 Principles of Disability Justice

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Intersectionality: Many disabled people experience other forms of oppression in addition to ableism. The experience of disability is shaped by race, gender, class, and more.

Leadership of the most impacted: The most oppressed lead our movement because they know the most about how systems of oppression work.

Anti-capitalist politic: We don’t conform to capitalist systems that profit from us. Human worth does not rely on how much a person can produce.

Commitment to cross-movement organizing: We work with other movements to shift views on ableism and disability.

Recognizing wholeness: We have value beyond capitalist standards of work. Disabled people are whole people.

Sustainability: We work at a pace that promotes ongoing justice and liberation and values the teachings of our lives and bodies.

Commitment to cross-disability solidarity: We join together to accomplish more. Isolation harms us all.

Interdependence: We help each other achieve liberation for all living systems and the land. Government solutions control us more.  

Collective access: We share the responsibility to create community with each other by making access a way of life for all.

Collective liberation: No one is left behind; we need each other to achieve freedom.

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