Paul/Anita
Is this event happening with the US? id yes, can I assume that due to ADA
it will (reasonably accessible ?
If yes, will anyone be going?
Maria
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From: "Paul K. Longmore" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 6:58 PM
Subject: Re: rhetoric of inclusion
> Gregor,
>
> You, Anita, and Maria, all have made the valid and valuable point that
> there are many places within the program in which disability issues could
> and should be addressed. We certainly want to see disability issues take
> their proper place on such an agenda.
>
> You may be right that this mention of "disability and discrimination" was
> just an afterthought of the program planners. At the same time, two things
> seem to me important for us to note about this program. First, it has
> mostly been the case that disability issues have not even been an
> afterthought on the agendas of progressive meetings and organizations.
> We should be encouraged that in meetings and forums and on agendas, not
> only on the left, but in general, disability issues are more and more
> getting attention.
>
> Second, it is significant that this program item declares that the subject
> is "disability and discrimination." In other words, they will not be
> looking at disability issues from the perspective of medical and social
> pathology. I find that very encouraging.
>
> So, let me suggest a way of approaching the organizers of this forum.
> Any of us who contact them should begin by commending them for including
> the issue of "disability and discrimination" on the agenda. Then we
> should ask them if they or the organizers of particular sessions intend to
> include disability issues in those other places. Here we might list the
> areas that you, Anita, and Maria pointed out. Assuming that the
> organizers have not thought about that broader inclusion, those who
> contact them could well ask that they do so. What leaders in the
> international disability rights movement have they contacted or invited to
> participate? We could suggest some names.
>
> I am grateful that you three have brought to the attention of all of us
> this program and its inclusions and omissions. They indicate how far we
> and the world have come and how far we all have to go.
>
> Best,
>
> Paul
>
> Paul K. Longmore, Professor
> Department of History
> San Francisco State University
> 1600 Holloway Avenue
> San Francisco, CA 94132
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>
>
> On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Gregor Wolbring wrote:
>
> > Paul,
> > yes there is the one time mention of disability and discrimination.
> > But it look more like an afterthought. It could of course be argued that
> > disability is included under the term marginalized and disadvantaged.
> > However as the disadvantages and problems for women (and I assume that
> > relates to non disabled women) is much more explicit and in detail
> > listed it could be argued the same should be for disability.
> > Because the disabled for sure fill the term disability and
> > discrimination with quite a bit different content than most non
disabled.
> >
> > May be people from this list should write a lmore detailed list and
> > swend it to them so we haqve our own subsection ;like the gender
> > subsection they have.
> > Cheers
> > Gregor
> >
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