Jo
At 03:58 15-09-00 , you wrote:
>Another show of solidarity.
>
>PEOPLE WITH DISABILITY STOP MELBOURNE TRAMS
>
>People with Disability Reminder: Inaccessible trams are Unacceptable:
>CATCH A TRAM ACTION
>Wednesday 13th September 11.00am cnr Swanston & Collins Sts, Melbourne
>
>On Wednesday the 13th September 2000 a peaceful demonstration by people
>with
>disability stopped Melbourne's Trams for two hours as planned. Eighty
>people
>were there: people with disability who use wheelchairs, people with
>disability that don't use wheelchairs, friends, allies, supporters and
>advocates. One woman who uses a wheelchair managed to get on a tram for the
>
>first time in her life. She was laughing the whole time, even while three
>Police Officers carried her off the tram. Everyone got to Catch A Tram as
>a
>whole fleet of trams queued away from the intersection.