NCIL Annual Conference 2008

Time for Change: Use Your Power!

Dear Advocates and Friends,

I am proud to announce the 2008 NCIL Conference, “Time for Change: Use Your Power!”  This year’s Annual Conference promises to be one of the greatest, and its focus will be a call to action for IL advocates and people with disabilities everywhere.  We must organize firmly to create the change we all know is needed.  This event will serve as an opportunity for our community to renew our resolve, organize grassroots and national plans of action, and call on Washington to restore our civil and human rights!

It is my sincerest hope that you will join us for this week-long event, especially during this crucial time for our community.  We must end draconian interpretations of the Americans with Disabilities Act.  We must end the shameful institutional bias and corruption of our values.  And, we must end the disgraceful degradation of Independent Living through unceasing budget reductions.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.*

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If we stand together we can realize a world in which people with disabilities are valued equally and participate fully.  Power is not given; but only seized by those who embrace their ability to do so.  Thus NCIL calls on all people with disabilities to use the power of 54 million who have had enough to claim their sovereignty and advance the social, economic, and political power of people with disabilities nationwide.

Please join us for this opportunity to reinforce the resolve that will be needed during the coming year.  NCIL and advocates nationwide must remain firm in our determination, our objective, and the courage it will take to get there.

• We will organize our communities;
  
  
• We will vote;
  
  
• We will demonstrate support for needed legislation;
  
  
• We will free our brothers and sisters;
  
  
• We will fight to strengthen Independent Living nationally and throughout the world;
  
  
• We will exercise our human and civil rights!

Sincerely,

John Lancaster, Executive Director                     

Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe*