The move­ment to defend the rights of peo­ple with dis­abil­i­ties and their fam­i­lies was born in Que­bec in the 1970s, in the wake of mobi­liza­tions by oth­er oppressed and dis­crim­i­nat­ed social groups. A young move­ment, it rapid­ly gained momen­tum and made sev­er­al impor­tant gains in the 80s and 90s. Since the 2000s, like the com­mu­ni­ty move­ment as a whole, it has lost some of its strength, weak­ened both by the neolib­er­al poli­cies of suc­ces­sive gov­ern­ments and by the wan­ing mil­i­tan­cy of dis­abled peo­ple and their parents.

Pro­duced by Mou­ve­ment des per­son­nes hand­i­capées pour l’accès aux ser­vices (PHAS), in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Funam­bules Médias.

Thematics : History, Neoliberalism, Social mouvements