Znet "Disability Rights Watch"

Marta Russell ap888 at lafn.org
Thu Jul 25 14:06:51 PDT 2002


Difficulty getting around can be viewed in the Mike Wallace sense (pity on those suffering disabled who are "bound" to their wheelchairs and worthy of assisted suicide) or the social model sense (lack of accessible transport, communities built in an inaccessible way, etc. ) Obviously, I come from the second POV. marta


>Wouldn't that be because some disabled have difficulty in getting around,
>making them invisible?
>
>On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 01:49:34PM -0400, Michael Pollak wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Marta Russell wrote:
>>
>> > There are 52 million disabled persons in this nation alone.
>>
>> Really? One in every 5 1/2 people is disabled? How come the visible
>> fraction looks so much smaller at first sight?
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>
>
>--
>Michael Perelman
>Economics Department
>California State University
>Chico, CA 95929
>
>Tel. 530-898-5321
>E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu

-- Marta Russell Los Angeles, CA http://www.disweb.org



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