Fw: David Corn: troubling origins of the anti-war movement

[Chuck0]

Marta Russell wrote:
>> Chuck wrote:
>>
>> I wrote an article today on homeless organizing:
>>
>> D.C. Activists Win Victory for Homeless
>> http://dc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=37559&group=webcast
> 
> 
> 
> Hey Chuck, glad to see this.  One question for you -- is this school 
> wheelchair accessible?  Will they take disabled persons?
> Recently I ran into a fellow crip working for an Independent Living 
> Center who was doing some work on the homeless issue in LA and he was 
> finding that shelters are by and large not accessible to wheelchair 
> users.  There *are* homeless people in chairs. On top of that shelters 
> were turning down disabled persons because they are "liabilities".  I 
> don't think the homeless advocates have addressed that one at all.
> Did you see any of that going on?
> Marta

Those are good questions, Marta. I'll bring this up with an activist friend 
who is working on this issue. The school has been closed for 20 years, so I 
would imagine that it isn't very ADA compliant.

Chuck0

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