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From: Chita.Cazares@p0.f501.n202.z1.fidonet.org (Chita Cazares)
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Subject: Re: N F B Versus My Rehab Counselor
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Date: 23 Feb 90 18:10:48 GMT
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I read your comments to Vixen about various social worker types trying 
to discourage their clients from joining "militant" groups. Frankly, I 
don't know ZIP about these various groups except what I've learned in 
this echo the past year, but no matter WHAT groups these people are 
putting down - I consider it a blatant violation of the disAbled 
person's civil rights to discourage their joining up. 
 
As for the "militance" of these groups, I can't see where any of them 
have gotten two cents worth of action for their constituents, so it's 
obvious they aren't being militant ENOUGH! Which is not to say, mind 
you, that I have agreed with everything I've heard by way of demands 
and political ideas. But they should be HEARD and openly discussed with 
and by the people most concerned: the disAbled themselves.
 
Gallaudet University did the right thing and I think the effects were 
quite salutory on the general population. I'm absolutely sure that more 
people were more aware of the hearing impaired community after the 
protests at GU than any social action since the release of Children of 
a Lesser God. 

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