conventions, like the american public transit association convention. hey, meet your wheelchair using would be customers if you would freaking make it possible for them to get on and off the bus. these were militant tactics with a very simple, very understandable demand. and police were oftentimes quite flummoxed with how to deal with this with people disabiliti disabiliti disabilities, particularly in wheelchairs. this is from the democratic convention held that year in san francisco. this city is pretty blah say about demonstrations but when 50 disabled people took to the streets in their wheelchairs demanding their rights and sometimes disrupting traffic, it caught people by surprise. they feel they ve been isolated from society for too long. they want more opportunity for education and jobs.
make it so i can use it, not letting this guy off of the hook. that was in 81. 82 another woman in a wheelchair getting arrested at the transit offices in denver. you see the cops surrounding her there. and the tactics they pioneered in colorado started taking off in places across the country as well. the week after that first protest in july 1978 in denver, the very next week, same kind of protest happened in san francisco. again, this simple demand. let us ride the freakin bus. we re taxpayers. we pay for it just like everybody else does. make it accessible for us. we are citizens. you saw similar protests in new york city. you saw similar protests in washington, d.c. you saw protesters in wheelchairs turn up at particularly relevant national conventions, like the american public transit association convention. hey, meet your wheelchair using would be customers if you would freaking make it possible for