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Guest Post: Jon McGovern – I Hope To See Y’all at the SUFU Conference
Hi everybody, it’s Jon I will be attending the SUFU Conference event facilitated by SUFU. It will be held September 24th-25th. You get to meet new and old friends and will get to go to some awesome and cool workshops. You also meet and greet people at the SUFU...
Guest Post: Jon McGovern – Join us at Disability Pride Day!
Hi everybody, it’s Jon. I will be attending Disability Pride Day, an event facilitated by our friends at Disability Rights Maine. It will be held on July 19th at Mill Park in Augusta. You get to meet new people and see what new resource tables are available. They will...
Mr. Orlando Goes to Washington – From Marco Orlando – “Final Takeaways/Next Steps/Acknowledgements After Coming Back From Washington”
Throughout my entire journey of self-discovery, especially after flying out of state for the first time to somewhere I’ve never been, I’ve come to accept the fact that even as I slowly become more sure of myself and the kind of person I’m becoming, my “shadow work” is...
Mr. Orlando Goes to Washington – From Marco Orlando – “The Journey Back Home”
4/11/24 – With Jon and his parents taking the train back to Boston, our large group of 10 gets divided into two smaller groups so we can all catch an Uber back to Reagan Airport. One Uber driver completely blows one group off after seeing some of us with our luggage....
Mr. Orlando Goes to Washington – from Marco Orlando “Hotel Crapshoot”
4/10/24-4/11/24 – We get off the subway, and we make our way back to the Westin to grab our luggage. Our new hotel is less than a mile away at the Holiday Inn Express on Rhode Island Ave NW. So, our group is walking less than a mile with our luggage from the Westin to...
Mr. Orlando goes to Washington from Marco Orlando – “Capitol Hill Visit: Ups and Downs and Back-and-Forths”
04/10/24 – Our group had to up and around early this morning for our Capitol Hill visit to meet with the rest of our Congressional delegation. Since we knew we had to change hotels on the last night of our trip, we needed to pack our bags and give them to the...
Mr. Orlando Goes to Washington from Marco Orlando – “Joy and Luck in Chinatown”
04/09/24 – We got back to the hotel from the Museum of Natural History and immediately changed back into our regular clothes, then decided to find a place in the Chinatown District to have supper. We are joined by our friend Eric, who took a bit of a digger while he...
Mr. Orlando Goes to Washington – from Marco Orlando – “Our Work Begins”
04/09/24 – After lunch, we walked the rest of the way to Jared Golden’s office, which wasn’t terribly far from Union Station, and didn’t take us too long to get there once we got going. I’d say the part that took the longest was getting through security and taking the...
Mr. Orlando Goes to Washington from Marco Orlando “Disability Policy Seminar Day 1-1/2”
04/09/24 – We began the second day of the Disability Policy Seminar taking part in a “rap session” led by Tia, who represents Self Advocates Becoming Empowered (SABE), the national self-advocacy organization. A few of us were able to tell other people in other states...
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