Wit, heumann served in bill Clintons Administration shaping disability policy in the department of education and was appointed by barack obama as the special adviser on disability rights for the state department. She is also a former senior fellow at the Ford Foundation and advisor to world bank. She joins us tonight to discuss her life, work, and new book, being human, an unprepen tent enemy interior of a disability rights activist. She will in conversation with tam la edwards. The science yours. Thank you very much. Thats wonderful. Andy, in the news age of social distancinged a great to see we can get it done and judy it was an honor truly to read your book, running theme in the book how often people tell you, people who should know, say i had no idea and im hopeful that people reading your book and joining in on the conversation tonight will be brought up to speed on what your fight has been about and all the changes you have made, and in fact thats where i wanted to start to give
Think. That is wonderful with social distancing its great to see we can get it done and it was an honor truly to read your book it is a running theme people who should know say i had no idea people joining the conversation tonight on what your fight has been about and the changes you have made to give People Perspective compare and contrast what it was like as a young person coming into the world with a disability and what it is like now. On the one hand the difference is very significant because i had polio 1929 in brooklyn just the beginning of television and to recognize the Important Role so there were no lies that protected the rights of disabled people there werent that were protecting the rights of other minorities there werent that were protecting the rights of other minorities point it was unusual but people were looking at disability as a medical issue and not carrying it so there wasnt a lot of activity going on to look at discrimination as that componen component. So the be
Pamela edwardss, anchor of 6 abc action news morning edition. The screen is yours. Thats wonderful. Andy, in this new age of social distancing its great we can get it done and judy an honor to read your back. A running theme in the book how often people tell you, people who should know, say i had no idea. And im hopeful that people reading your book and joining in on the conversation tonight will be brought up to speed on what your fight has been about and all the changes you have made and in fact thats where i wanted to start to give people a little bit of a perspective. I wanted you to do a compare and contrast what it was like when you were a young person. You opened the back talk about your childhood in brooklyn. What isth it wag like to be a person come thing into world with a disability and what its like now, the differences you see. Guest well, on the one hadnt the differences are very, very significant because when i had polio in 1949 in brooklyn, there was just the beginning o
Government joins forces with retailers to try to prevent panic buying from Grocery Stores as the nation is effectively on lockdown to slow the spread of the virus. Jobs lost supermarkets shot flights grounded economies around the world of badly hit by the pandemic and trying to prevent a total financial collapse. Acts of kindness well take a look at how volunteers are helping people cope during the outbreak. Almost 1000000000 people are not confined to their homes around the world as the coronavirus pandemic tightens its grip that have now been 12000 confirmed killed globally and its italy which continues to bear the heaviest burden its death toll has jumped by nearly 800. 00 a record for a single day most were in the Northern Region of lumber deal with the armies transporting victims out of the hardest hit areas a cemeteries are overloaded and National Death toll is now approaching 5000 meanwhile in the u. S. New jersey has followed 4 other states and told people to stay home close to
Into greece from turkey. So that italy is imposing tough restrictions on a quarter of its population locking down its 2nd largest city and more than 16000000 people to try and stop the spread of coronavirus just had its biggest rise in cases since the outbreak began with more than 1200 cases confirmed on saturday the lockdown includes the entire region of long body where the italian outbreak began and where the most deaths have been recorded home to 10000000 people no one will be able to move in or out of the area and that includes the countrys economic capital of milan the lowdown will also impact several other provinces including venice if 80 another 6000000. 00 people restrictions are set to remain until early april or again be as the latest. In casual in northern italy people rushed to the train station desperate to leave this city before it was put into knocked down but its too good to talk i read 2 hours ago that they may be putting out an urgent to creep putting out a lot in the