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Originally Posted by Grummer
what qualifications? but then again pf course we do need qualifications - hmmph - but sometimes i am leery, for it imply a form of comforimity to the hearing world (but again if we want equal treatment we have to be meet half way) but conformity irks me a wee bit sometimes.
Well i guess that we have to 'earn' that respect from the hearing community to speak on our own behalf but sometimes its almost 'begging' for permision to speak? news ideas 'has to rub well' with the hearing - where is our 'real rights'?? coming to that, Disability rights movements, yay great. how so are you involved with human rights?
your human rights model maybe be in different flavour to ours, since that political, economic, and institutional set ups between american and New Zealand are not the same.
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I am from Canada
I am involved in the gay rights, feminism, and disability rights movements over here. I work with several organizations to facilitate change on a national, provincial, and local level. I have done lots of media (google Jen Blaser and you should be able to find some of my queer rights stuff) I have served on advisory boards and focus groups for many organizations, I have sat on panels discussion youth rights within schools and anti-oppression education. I have written many essays on anti-oppression education, one of which was published. I was a member of the accessibility committee for my former town, and I plan to get involved in similar committees in Toronto if possible.
I have also spent many many hours researching and then fighting for my clients in community, and school situations.