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From: Bill.Scarborough@f18.n382.z1.fidonet.org (Bill Scarborough)
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Subject: Re: Two points
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Date: 3 Oct 90 14:33:19 GMT
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     Welcome to the conference, Charlotte.  I am sure you have found 
out already that this is a warm and inviting conference where many 
people of different persuasions and classes of disability, etc., discuss 
lots of things and get along quite well.

     You are quite correct of course about the ILC you worked for. 
I (and Mike Rose) noticed that the ILC board was not responsive to 
the disability community-- there was little accountability to the disabled 
community at large.  Even among those with genuine disabilities, those 
chosen for Board membership were not representative of their communities.

     In a labor union, the union board of directors is supposed to  
have and honest and fair election--  Landrum-Griffin Act.  Each member 
is entitled by law to the proper services of the union-- it is illegal, 
for example, to give lesser service to a loser in last year's board 
election.  Such protections have yet to be written into specifications 
for ILC's

    So now the ILC here won't do attendant referral at all.  Or so 
I have heard.

   But there is a bright spot here. ADAPT is thinking of having an 
office-- sort of like an ILC, but without the bull-corn-- here in Austin.
So, we may get things worked out after all.

        Check the news.  ADAPT is in Atlanta right now, preparing to
demonstrate in behalf of attendant services.

     I am still getting over my heart surgery. (An AICD implant.)  
But things are looking good.  In two weeks, I'll be back at my job 
again. 

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