Youre talking about the adapt bus actions and contrast that with the montgomery in alabama bus boycott. Yes. You know, you already spoke about the connection between the Africanamerican Community or people of color and disability and there is still a movement, from what i understand, in the Disability Community with people of color to kind of start bringing those voices into the movement. Yes, and the movement has been very, very wide in terms of its public face and the way that its been presented to the public, i would say. I think its changing. Its starting to there is a lot more work to do and we really were very, very mindful of that and we want to approach it that way. So, for sure, im not saying its all fixed everywhere, but definitely thats a really key part of the story we want to tell. And if i could just relay one little thing. Yesterday, one of the students and a crew went out to interview dennis dillips from the he was one of the 504 demonstrators. Hes one of the key people
Federal buildings that were either occupied or people protested in front of them across the country. Everywhere else, they were starved out. New york, washington, whatever, the police came in or the people in the community refused to help them. In the bay area, what was amazing is you had this coalition of community groups, of politicians, of people that really cared about disability rights. Or if they didnt care, they learned to care. And this was partly because of activism of the disability rights, the organizers at the protest. They had sewn seed all over the community and the bay area. So, you had this amazing phenomena where youd have like the black panthers, ~ safeway, mcdonalds, glide memorial church. All these amazing bay area institutions contributing to the protest in some way, bringing in, in the case of the black panthers, they brought in hot food. They brought in politicians had showers brought in. So, it was possible for it to happen because the local political people rea
That we start thinking about a discussion of some kind of citywide initiative, citywide activities about this. Maybe we think about announcing it as a very special day. Maybe its a very special week. Theres a lot to talk about. I think all ages would be interested in this, as cathy mentioned, a lot of us dont know about this. Even people who are living here in spite of how high profile all the activities were. We were thinking that we can involve many other, you know, activists and artists in the community, access dance and bus buddies and the ada and how it impacted people with aids and so on and have resource fairs. My main point is that i think we can perhaps start thinking about this as a real opportunity to educate and inspire people and this doesnt happen too often. And maybe this puts all of your experience i already mentioned we were thinking about that. Wed love to sub poderth and have a seat at the table when you start planning because, you know, people with intellectual and
Work,. 1979, i started working at the [speaker not understood] ~ colony, arkansas for kid with disabilities. When you get your printout, youll see a work history [speaker not understood] from 792006 at the San Francisco jazz [speaker not understood] local 2 ballpark. I look at all those years, its almost 30 years, will be 30 years in 2009. When i look at your work and when you cannot be respected in disability or been a disabled person and other in this world go, when they took over that building and when you mentioned glide, i have glide on me, i have black panthers on me. It makes me feel a sense that when i find that glide church was once a publishing company, they printed a book called [speaker not understood] the land grab in the city. And, so, i know today im right where i need to be. Ive always knew im a humanitarian. I was born in the month of may. And i know that our purpose in life is to up lift the human spirit and the human ability in this country. And today im going to wal
Discussion of some kind of citywide initiative, citywide activities about this. Maybe we think about announcing it as a very special day. Maybe its a very special week. Theres a lot to talk about. I think all ages would be interested in this, as cathy mentioned, a lot of us dont know about this. Even people who are living here in spite of how high profile all the activities were. We were thinking that we can involve many other, you know, activists and artists in the community, access dance and bus buddies and the ada and how it impacted people with aids and so on and have resource fairs. My main point is that i think we can perhaps start thinking about this as a real opportunity to educate and inspire people and this doesnt happen too often. And maybe this puts all of your experience i already mentioned we were thinking about that. Wed love to sub poderth and have a seat at the table when you start planning because, you know, people with intellectual and disabilities are often kind of