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]UK> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [SDS Members] Mr. Kerith Armstrong: URGENT ARCHIVE SAVING REQUEST
 To: [log in to unmask]AC.UK
 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]AC.UK


 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
 [log in to unmask]

   


 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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