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	<title>UDW - The Homecare Providers Union &#187; Provider/Consumer Stories</title>
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		<title>Mike Tharp: They thought she would be a vegetable</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Merced Sun-Star, February 4, 2012 What if you had to learn to think again? What if you had to learn to speak again? What if you had to master the act of typing only with your left forefinger? What if &#8230; <a href="http://www.udwa.org/2012/02/mike-tharp-they-thought-she-would-be-a-vegetable/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Disability &amp; Civil Rights Advocate Ed Roberts &#8220;Father of Independent Living Movement&#8221; to be Iinducted Into California Hall of Fame</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 20:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ CDCAN DISABILITY RIGHTS REPORT  CALIFORNIA DISABILITY COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK #197-2011 &#8211; DECEMBER 7, 2011 &#8211; WEDNESDAY   One of 10 Other Californians To Be Honored In December 8th Ceremony In Sacramento Hosted by Governor  Jerry Brown and First Lady Anne Brown  SACRAMENTO, &#8230; <a href="http://www.udwa.org/2011/12/disability-civil-rights-advocate-ed-roberts-father-of-independent-living-movement-to-be-iinducted-into-california-hall-of-fame/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>IHSS Consumer&#8217;s pride &amp; solidarity</title>
		<link>http://www.udwa.org/2011/10/ihss-consumers-pride-solidarity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 01:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Joey Rowland from San Luis Obispo heard about UDW&#8217;s efforts (and victory!) stopping the waste of taxpayer dollars on fingerprinting for timecards (passage of SB930), he wrote us the following email: &#8220;Now this is the U.D.W. Union that makes me proud &#8230; <a href="http://www.udwa.org/2011/10/ihss-consumers-pride-solidarity/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Consumer Shares Poem &#8220;A Little Mixed Up&#8221; by Bart Beck</title>
		<link>http://www.udwa.org/2011/07/provider-sends-poem-written-by-in-home-care-client/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 08:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  On Sunday morning a client of ours called in a panic because his caregiver had not arrived yet to take him to his appointment.  I recognized his voice since I had just spoken to him a few days prior; &#8230; <a href="http://www.udwa.org/2011/07/provider-sends-poem-written-by-in-home-care-client/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Disabled Abandon Wheelchairs, Protest Medicaid Cuts</title>
		<link>http://www.udwa.org/2011/06/disabled-abandon-wheelchairs-protest-medicaid-cuts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ True US History By Rose Aguilar, AbundantHope.net May 28, 2011 &#8211; 5:01:26 PM   When Sheela Gunn-Cushman decided to take part in a die-in at the California Republican Convention at the Hyatt Regency in Sacramento in March, she didn&#8217;t think &#8230; <a href="http://www.udwa.org/2011/06/disabled-abandon-wheelchairs-protest-medicaid-cuts/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Family Caregivers Should be Thanked, Not Ridiculed</title>
		<link>http://www.udwa.org/2011/03/family-caregivers-should-be-thanked-not-ridiculed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 01:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>UDW Newswire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kenneth Jones Huffington Post, March 21 2011 I am a small businessman from California, a retired Air Force Reserve member and a lifelong Republican. I am also a single dad and an In Home Supportive Services (IHSS) home care provider &#8230; <a href="http://www.udwa.org/2011/03/family-caregivers-should-be-thanked-not-ridiculed/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>IHSS consumer John McCauley worried about future of program</title>
		<link>http://www.udwa.org/2011/03/ihss-consumer-john-mccauley-worried-about-future-of-program/</link>
		<comments>http://www.udwa.org/2011/03/ihss-consumer-john-mccauley-worried-about-future-of-program/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8211; After years of cuts, county home care workers fear a replay   By Jason Hoppin &#8211; Santa Cruz Sentinel  Updated: 03/19/2011 04:38:46 PM PD SANTA CRUZ &#8211; With cataracts and vision in one eye down to 10 percent, small tasks &#8230; <a href="http://www.udwa.org/2011/03/ihss-consumer-john-mccauley-worried-about-future-of-program/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Balancing the budget: Making the weak pay</title>
		<link>http://www.udwa.org/2011/03/balancing-the-budget-making-the-weak-pay/</link>
		<comments>http://www.udwa.org/2011/03/balancing-the-budget-making-the-weak-pay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 04:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>UDW Newswire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Ryan E. Smith, Contributing Writer  March 1, 2011 Jewish Journal.com Sylvia Mnuchen has spent her life fighting. First it was cancer that attacked her skin, then her breast. More recently it has been an ailment that has kept her &#8230; <a href="http://www.udwa.org/2011/03/balancing-the-budget-making-the-weak-pay/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>IHSS Provider Terry Walker &#8212; &#8220;God has the last word&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.udwa.org/2011/02/terry-walker-god-has-the-last-word/</link>
		<comments>http://www.udwa.org/2011/02/terry-walker-god-has-the-last-word/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 05:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>UDW Newswire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Terry Walker, a homecare provider from Stanislaus County is face-to-face everyday with clients that will suffer terrible consequences if the cuts go through.  She also works in an institution for Alzheimer patients and knows what it is like when people &#8230; <a href="http://www.udwa.org/2011/02/terry-walker-god-has-the-last-word/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>IHSS Consumer Kelly Alameida Speaks Out</title>
		<link>http://www.udwa.org/2011/02/ihss-consumer-kelly-alameida/</link>
		<comments>http://www.udwa.org/2011/02/ihss-consumer-kelly-alameida/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 22:16:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kelly and her provider made the effort to travel to Sacramento from Placer County on January 27th to protest cuts to IHSS.  She talked with us near the steps of the capitol during the rally.  Here is what she had to say&#8230; &#8230; <a href="http://www.udwa.org/2011/02/ihss-consumer-kelly-alameida/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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