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In this chapter three artists/activists of color with disabilities write about their lives, activism & cultural work around police brutality against poor people & people with disabilities before, during and beyond the occupy “movement.” You will read the popular response after police brutality cases against people with disabilities and how this response has been repeated over and over again. The three authors will share their answers toward this issue and talk about the need for increasing cultural work from poetry to Hip-Hop to visual arts by not only disabled community but also from the artists arena. Lisa ‘Tiny’ Gray Garcia, Emmitt Thrower and Leroy Franklin Moore Jr. have come together to serve up another vision on the drastic real growth of police brutality against people with disabilities and poor people.
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If you liked reading this chapter by Moore, Garcia, and Thrower, and are interested in reading more about disability community’s participation and response to the Occupy Wall Street Movement, we recommend Chap. 2 “Krips, Cops and Occupy: Reflections from Oscar Grant Plaza” by Sunaura Taylor with Marg Hall, Jessica Lehman, Rachel Liebert, Akemi Nishida, and Jean Stewart and Chap. 15 “My World, My Experiences with Occupy Wall Street and How We can go Further” by Nick Dupree. If you are interested in reading institutional ableism and responses and resistance from disability communities, we recommend Chap. 10 “Neoliberal Academia and a Critique from Disability Studies” by Akemi Nishida.
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Moore, L.F., Gray-Garcia, T.L., Thrower, E.H. (2016). Black & Blue: Policing Disability & Poverty Beyond Occupy. In: Block, P., Kasnitz, D., Nishida, A., Pollard, N. (eds) Occupying Disability: Critical Approaches to Community, Justice, and Decolonizing Disability. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9984-3_21
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