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
And, girl, your city so all alone well, you got the skills to make it you got the chance, go out and take it love is all around no need to waste it and i know that youre gonna wake up you might just make it after all oh, city hall you might just make it after all city hall applause okay. Hello, my name is larry juicy edmonds, and i would like to say to lrc i hope that maybe we can advertise in the central city newspaper because this i know the work theyve done and i love what she talked. I feel there is someone who [speaker not understood]. You felt wonderful with this young lady speaking on our behalf. But i think many of us in sros, we dont know it exists. It would be so great if we could have them put in a community calendar, too, in San Francisco. And my other thing is because a lot of us go through a lot of different [speaker not understood] being disabled. We dont have a right that were victims. I think this would be another great agency to work people were talking about how peop
The Longmore Institute of disability and ada silver anniversary. Catherine kudlick, director of the paul k. Longmore institute on disability. [inaudible]. Hello, yes . There we go. Anyway, good afternoon, everybody. I am cathy kudlick. I am director of the paul k. Longmore institute on disability at San Francisco state. Just to give you a brief overview, i know not a lot of you knew paul and worked with paul. He was in this room many times. And the Longmore Institute of San Francisco State University is kind of a it brings together advocacy, academics, culture, and the whole point of it is to get people in conversation that might not otherwise be in conversation and to change attitudes about disability. So, through cultural initiatives, through academic programs, through basically changing peoples minds. And the idea here is that you take Something Like culture and you get people to think about disability as a form of experience on a par with race, gender, social class, all the things
Make it you got the chance, go out and take it love is all around no need to waste it and i know that youre gonna wake up you might just make it after all oh, city hall you might just make it after all city hall applause okay. Hello, my name is larry juicy edmonds, and i would like to say to lrc i hope that maybe we can advertise in the central city newspaper because this i know the work theyve done and i love what she talked. I feel there is someone who [speaker not understood]. You felt wonderful with this young lady speaking on our behalf. But i think many of us in sros, we dont know it exists. It would be so great if we could have them put in a community calendar, too, in San Francisco. And my other thing is because a lot of us go through a lot of different [speaker not understood] being disabled. We dont have a right that were victims. I think this would be another great agency to work people were talking about how people were taking people with disabilitys money. They were gettin