{"id":1006335,"date":"2019-09-09T18:23:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T18:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1006335"},"modified":"2019-09-09T18:23:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T18:23:01","slug":"dnc-on-the-passing-of-marca-bristo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-the-passing-of-marca-bristo\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC on the Passing of Marca Bristo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>DNC Chair Tom Perez, DNC Disability Caucus Chair Tony Coehlo, and DNC Disability Caucus Honorary Chair Judy Heumann released the following statement on the passing of disability rights advocate Marca Bristo:<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cEvery time Marca Bristo was told something couldn\u2019t be done, she went ahead and did it. From founding Access Living in Chicago to helping pass the Americans with Disabilities Act, Marca spent her life championing the rights, dignity, and opportunities of people with disabilities. As the first disabled person to chair the National Council on Disability and one of the architects of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, she was a trailblazer who was never afraid to call out inequality and discrimination.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cOur hearts go out to Marca\u2019s family and all who had the fortune of knowing her. At the DNC, we will continue to carry on Marca\u2019s legacy by fighting to expand opportunities for people with disabilities and advocating for the U.S. Senate to ratify the U.N. treaty she helped craft.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWhen she became paralyzed at the age of 23, Marca lost nearly everything: her job, her home, her health insurance. But, she said, she never lost her fighting spirit. Instead, she used that spirit to fight for others and change the world. And we\u2019re all better for it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNC Chair Tom Perez, DNC Disability Caucus Chair Tony Coehlo, and DNC Disability Caucus Honorary Chair Judy Heumann released the following statement on the passing of disability rights advocate Marca Bristo: \u201cEvery time Marca Bristo was told something couldn\u2019t be done, she went ahead and did it. From founding Access Living in Chicago to helping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>DNC on the Passing of Marca Bristo - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-the-passing-of-marca-bristo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-09-09T18:23:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-the-passing-of-marca-bristo\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-the-passing-of-marca-bristo\/\",\"name\":\"DNC on the Passing of Marca Bristo - 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