One does need well argued thery behind every successful movement, just how
long did Marx spend in the library of the British Museum, dreaming of gold
bathtaps between researching his endless writings?
The social model did not spring newly minted as a slogan on a protest, and
indeed when it becomes no more than a slogan it has lost it's meaning.
Legislation does not come simply because one demands it, one has to have
ones experts to draft it properly.
Picture this. There is a drought and the police stand rigid guard over the
hydrants in the streets.
"Turn on the taps", the crowd demands ...
"We will" answer societies guardians, as thirsty as anyone else in the 'mob'
"as soon as someone shows us how" !!!!
Perhaps I am becoming a turncoat with one arm in the sleeve of an academic
gown, when I defend this position, but the answer is not to demolish the
ivory towers, but to become there occupants.
One can demolish the motor cars of our oppressors and even string them up
from a lamppost with little learning at all, but to demolish there arguments
one needs logic, and that does not grow on trees (and certainly not on
lampposts)
The fact is that disabled people are far too busy being actively disabled
than to "ma" the proverbial barricades.
There are those who would argue (with quotations from Chairman Mao no less)
that demonstrations and protests are not enough and taking a leaf from the
tea tax protestors argue that the only disabled force to be reckoned with
would be one armed with a Kalashnikov, because one cannot just chant down
Babylon.
Incidentally when the lumpenproletariat seized hold of the hydrants on my
estate this summer, nobody had any water at all because it all trickled away
down the drain, now there is a moral for you ... give someone a Kalashnikov
and the first person to get shot will be you because the aim is off.
Larry
> -----Original Message-----
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> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Colin REvell
> Sent: 27 March 2009 09:11
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: disability and radical movements
>
> Mitzi et al
>
>
>
> The fact of the matter is that disabled people have no time within DAN and
other radical
> movements to be writing anything within the Disabled Peoples' movement,
because they
> are continually on a daily basis in arguments with all the public bodies
and/or protesting on
> the streets embattled to voices their anger that they are being denied
basic human rights and
> civil liberties by Governments and public bodies to access all services,
aids, equipment and
> assistive technology and support (including advocacy) to enable inclusive
living.
>
>
> This takes up all your time, energy and takes it toll being an 'ACTIVIST'
as one knows at
> personal and professional costs in one's life for 'whistleblowing' and
'speaking out', under
> 'Nothing About Us, Without Us'.... I have all the scars to prove it!!!
>
>
>
> FREEOURPEOPLE
>
> Colin Revell
>
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