Sample Press Release

Send this press release out on the day of your bus stop to all the local media organizations.  You can send it a day or two early if you tell them it is embargoed until the day of the bus stop.

  Press Release

For Immediate Release                   Contact:        NAME

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Nationwide Bus Tour to Raise Disability Awareness Makes Stop in PLACE

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DATELINE – The Road to Freedom – a year-long, 50-state, cross-country journey and multimedia exhibit of disability history, community, and technology – will be stopping in LOCATION on DATE for EVENT DETAILS. [Elaborate, if needed, but keep first paragraph to WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, WHY…]

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The landmark Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) – passed with overwhelmingly bi-partisan support in Congress over 15 years ago – was created to ensure that people with disabilities could access the same services and opportunities as people without disabilities. For the most part, the ADA has been a success, resulting in more open doors, greater community integration of people with disabilities, and further protections against unlawful discrimination.

With all of its successes, court decisions have also resulted in stripping many of the protections Congress intended the ADA to provide. Barriers to equal access to places of business and public services also remain more than 15 years after passage of the ADA. The Road to Freedom tour seeks to alert Americans to these problems and alert them to the need for Congress to pass ADA Restoration, effectively restoring the protections that have been eroded over the years.

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The Road to Freedom is a national awareness campaign traveling across the United States to engage audiences in the story of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the history of the disability rights movement. Through this year-long, cross-country bus journey, we hope to mobilize Americans to keep the promise of the ADA – freedom, inclusion, and opportunity for children and adults with physical, mental, cognitive and developmental disabilities. For more information, please visit www.roadtofreedom.org.

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