Znet "Disability Rights Watch"

[Marta Russell]

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

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