Dears All, Mr. Mobin disability leader in Pakistan, Ex-President Disabled Peoples International (DPI) Pakistan also died in last week in Karachi. He was energetic & advocate of disability rights in Pakistan. He will be remembered in Disability circle at national & International level. He was icon of disability.
Regards
Abid Lashari
CEO
NDF Pakistan
Nawabshah, District Shaheed Benazir Abad
PH & Fax. +92-244366107, +92-3003211876
[log in to unmask], www.ndfpakistan.org
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On Wed, 21/6/17, Allan Sutherland <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Subject: Re: [SDS Members] Mr. Kerith Armstrong: URGENT ARCHIVE SAVING REQUEST
To: [log in to unmask]
Received: Wednesday, 21 June, 2017, 2:51 PM
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I was very sorry to hear of Keith’s death. Keith
was the first person
to accept me as a disabled person, at the workshop described
in the final
chapter of ‘Disabled We Stand’, which led to the
Liberation Network of Disabled
People.
Keith was an important figure in the Liberation
Network. Saving his
papers should be seen as important by anyone interested in
preserving or
archiving the early history of the disabled people’s
movement in the UK.
Keith took up photography in his later years. If
these pictures still
survive they are likely to provide a lot of images of the
activities of such
organisations as DAN and the Campaign for Accessible
Transport.I have informed
NDACA, the National Disability Collection and Archive, but
much of Keith’s
material is likely to have greater bearing on political
struggles rather than
the arts.
Best
wishes
Allan
Allan
Sutherland
'Neglected Voices', four cycles of
transcription
poems by Allan Sutherland, based on interviews with disabled
people.
http://www.disabilityartsonline.org.uk/Neglected-Voices
From: Devva
Kasnitz
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2017 12:17 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: FW: [SDS Members] Mr. Kerith Armstrong:
URGENT ARCHIVE
SAVING REQUEST
This request may interest
historians plus!
Devva
Kasnitz, PhD
Executive
Director
Society for
Disability Studies
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From: Tom Gill
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2017 5:13
PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Mr. Kerith
Armstrong
Dear SDS
team,
Please
forgive me for writing to you out of the blue. I am an old
friend of Keith
Armstrong, who recently died in London aged about 60.
Keith
contracted polio in his infancy and spent his life in a
wheelchair. He was a
tireless campaigner for the rights of people with
disabilities, with a special
interest in mobility issues. For many years he served as an
advisor to local
authorities in London on transport accessibility. He wrote
many papers on
disability/transportation issues, which you can easily check
by looking for his
name at academia.edu.
https://independent.academia.edu/KeithArmstrong
Unfortunately Keith seems to have made no preparations at
all for his death, and
was estranged from his brother and sister, so that a few of
his friends are left
to sort out his estate, which mostly consists of the
contents of a Council flat
in Euston. The flat is crammed with papers, many of them
leaflets and pamphlets
on disability issues, along with Keith's voluminous
correspondence with
government bodies etc. on disability matters.
We have finally
arranged a funeral for Keith on June 29, after which the
flat will be returned
to the GLC (Greater London Council). Presumably anything
left in the flat will
be destroyed. I am writing to you on the off-chance that
somebody at SDS might
be interested in viewing the contents of the flat before
they are destroyed, and
perhaps taking some of the more interesting
materials.
I would be most
grateful if you could circulate this message to the network
of researchers
associated with SDS. I feel sure some of them must have come
across Keith's work
and may perhaps be interested in viewing the
papers.
Just to be
clear, we do not want any money. We just hope that some of
Keith's legacy may be
preserved before it disappears forever.
Please let me
know when you receive this message. Please also advise me of
any other places I
should write to regarding this matter.
I may also be
contacted by phone in the U.K. at +44
(0)772-101-6225.
Yours sincerely,
Tom
Gill
Professor of Social
Anthropology
Meiji Gakuin
University
Japan
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