This weekend -- Labor Day -- we're coming OUT OF OUR HOUSES to protest the Jerry Lewis Pity-Thon

Click here for ideas about protesting the Telethon locally

To people with disabilities who want the right to LIVE INDEPENDENTLY and SPEAK FREELY, those are fighting words! Jerry Lewis thinks that pity is the ONLY appropriate response to disability, and that people with disabilities who don't want pity should stay hidden away.

This Labor Day weekend, we will NOT stay in our houses! Instead we'll be out on the streets, challenging the Telethon's false portrayal of people with disabilities.

Click on one or all of the links below to get involved in the movement AGAINST pity and bigotry, and FOR equality and dignity for people with disabilities.

• Step-by-Step Guide to Protesting the Jerry Lewis Telethon
• Email the Muscular Dystrophy Association and urge them to STOP using Jerry Lewis and the Telethon as fundraising tool
• Frequently Asked Questions about the anti-MDA Telethon campaign
• Contact corporate sponsors of the MDA Telethon
• What Disability Rights activists want from MDA
• Other obnoxious quotes by Jerry Lewis
• Anti-Telethon Statement from South Carolina AFL-CIO
• How CBS tried to rehabilitate Jerry Lewis' image, erasing his insulting comments from its replayed profile
• Press coverage of 2001 Telethon protests