Abstract:Th is paper examines political protests related to disability issues which occurred since 1970. It examines almost 700 protests outside the US and over 1200 within the US. Th e data come from media reports and organization websites. Results show that US protests increased after 1984 while non-US protests increased substantially after 1989. Th e largest numbers of non-US protests occurred in the UK and Canada. US protests are proportionally more likely than non-US protests to be cross-disability or to relate to… Show more
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