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Following my request for articles etc on capitalism and disability (many thanks to everyone who responded) I came across an excellent book by Marta Russell called 'Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract'. I'm sure some of you are familiar with it. If you're not, I highly recommend it, although you'll need to tolerate the American terminology. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beyond-Ramps-Ending-Social-Contract/dp/1567511066/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1315558007&sr=8-1 I'm only a couple of chapters in, but I've already had my mind changed on the issue of assisted suicide. Bendygirl's article is a pointer to why. And some of the statistics provided in Russell's book are horrifying. Paraphrasing. "In an entrepreneurial society, unscrupulous people will see a business opportunity in assisted suicide". My revised view is that until disabled people are fully valued and included, and until Independent Living has been fully implemented in practice, no society is qualified to decide on the issue of legalising assisted suicide. Even when we do have IL and social inclusion, no non-disabled person should have any involvement in assisting disabled people to die. In the current socio-economic-political climate we need to keep a close eye on extreme right wing groups finding justification from the past for disability hate crime. Paul Swann Policy Officer (Independent Living) Disability Wales / Anabledd Cymru t: 02920 887325 f: 02920 888702 e: [log in to unmask] w: disabilitywales.org<http://www.disabilitywales.org/> [cid:image001.jpg@01CC6ED6.08B8FEA0] [cid:image002.jpg@01CC6ED6.08B8FEA0] DW is campaigning for a National Delivery Strategy on Independent Living for Disabled People in Wales. About Us<http://www.disabilitywales.org/aboutus> Events<http://www.disabilitywales.org/events> Membership<http://www.disabilitywales.org/membership> News<http://www.disabilitywales.org/news> DW on Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/pages/Disability-Wales/93329022150> DW on Twitter<http://twitter.com/DisabilityWales> Disability Wales/Anabledd Cymru is a Registered Charity, No. 517391 and a Company Limited by Guarantee, No. 1998621 From: The Disability-Research Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Colin REvell Sent: 07 September 2011 09:45 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: To Disabled People of Great Britain... Importance: High From: [log in to unmask] To: [log in to unmask] Subject: for inf Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 18:33:05 +0100 HI Colin - this is some Green Party stuff... Thanks, Shan Bendygirl points out that long before the Nazis went for the Jews, they went for the most vulnerable members of society:, the sick and disabled<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEdNFoJ4Ijk&%3bfeature=related>. She should know. Those of her mother's Jewish relatives who remained in Nazi Germany were wiped out. She also points out that David Cameron knows better, and before Danny Alexander got into coalition government, he presented himself as championing the cause of disabled people in the face of what are now coalition policies. She also cites the example of Rosa Parks. Your colleague Alan ________________________________ From: Shan Oakes <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> today Thanks Alan. Yes - I've just finished a very long phone call with a local guy with aspergers who has been harrassed by the local authority and police for years....and is now housebound, isolated and powerless. He feels they have made him like this and they want him like this. Our big challenge is how we get the general public to understand these issues if its not directly affecting them. I always think of Martin Niemoller's famous statement about the inactivity of German intellectuals following the Nazi rise to power : ' First they came for the communists and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist ...etc....until 'then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me'. Best Shan ________________End of message________________ This Disability-Research Discussion list is managed by the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds (www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies). Enquiries about list administration should be sent to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Archives and tools are located at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html<http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html> You can VIEW, POST, JOIN and LEAVE the list by logging in to this web page. ________________End of message________________ This Disability-Research Discussion list is managed by the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds (www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies). Enquiries about list administration should be sent to [log in to unmask] Archives and tools are located at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html You can VIEW, POST, JOIN and LEAVE the list by logging in to this web page.