[lbo-talk] Amartya Sen and Wolfensohn on disability

[Marta Russell]

To add more -- I had a conversation with a disabled person employed 
by the World Bank to attend the UN meetings on a human rights treaty 
for disabled persons in New York and pointed out to her that she just 
might be being used by the Bank.  She was quick to reply that she had 
been able to get some things accomplished in her position there.  She 
did not know who Joseph Stiglitz is!! This is, unfortunately, what we 
are dealing with.

The real problem is that there is very little disability "grassroots" 
organization in the poor nations to protest their condition and to 
agitate for betterment of their condition. So naive Americans take 
positions with unclean organizations to try to accomplish what they 
can.  They often have no idea of the record of the IMF or the World 
Bank.
Marta


>No doubt about it Patrick -- but one thing the World Bank is doing 
>now is to see that any construction or reconstruction that gets done 
>is wheelchair accessible.  They hired a disabled activist, Judy 
>Heumann to guide them.  Now I am as suspicious as you might be that 
>this is window dressing for the most part.  However, consciousness 
>raising is important and so I posted the article.
>best,
>Marta
>
>>But Marta, surely you'll want to point out that the most virulent 
>>economic attacks on disabled people across the Third World this 
>>past decade have come courtesy of Wolfy and his amplified and 
>>renamed forms of structural adjustment?
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>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Marta Russell" <ap888 at lafn.org>
>>>[Nobel Laureates] Helping Disabled People Out of the
>>>Shadows
>>>By Amartya Sen and James D. Wolfensohn, The Korea Times
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