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
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San Francisco, CA 94132
phone: 415-338-6498 or 415-338-3382
fax: 415-338-7539 or 415-338-0952
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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