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Save Disability Law
Save Disability
Law
The Ministry of Justice is proposing to withdraw funding for direct specialist legal services for the disability community from June 2013.
This will mean that there will no longer be a community law centre specialising in the complex legal needs of disabled people. There will be no Auckland Disability Law.
Auckland Disability Law is calling for the Ministry of Justice to rethink this proposal.
We think there should be specialist disability law services available to disabled people throughout New Zealand, including Auckland Disability Law.
We Need Your
Help
Key Things You Can Do:
Sign the Open Letter
to Judith Collins, the Minister of Justice as an individual
or on behalf of your organisation (attached and available on
our Facebook page or by email from info@adl.org.nz). Email us to sign the
letter and send your organisation's logo, or come to the
launch Thursday 5 July:
Click here for
Open_Letter_to_Judith_Collins_July_2012.pdf
Come
to the Save Disability Law Campaign and Open Letter
Launch
Show your support for Auckland Disability
Law and send a message about how important access to direct
disability legal services is for disabled people.
When:
Thursday 5th July, 12pm-1pm
Where: Trades Hall, 147
Great North Road, Grey Lynn
Come to the “Save Disability Law”
Community Hui
Send a message to the government
that we are serious about saving disability law through the
continued funding of Auckland Disability Law and extending
specialist legal services nationally for disabled people.
When: Monday 30th July 2012, 1pm till 3pm
Where:
Western Springs Garden Community Hall, 956 Great North
Road
Invited speakers: Mojo Mathers, Sue Bradford, Clive
Lansink
Other Things
That You Can Do to Help
Write your own letter to Justice
Minister Judith Collins
http://www.beehive.govt.nz/minister/judith-collins
Write to the newspapers, or put out
your own press release
Contact us for further
information
Follow us on
Facebook
Search and click the ‘like’ button
on the Auckland Disability Law Facebook
page
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