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Street Art of the Day: A New York City phone booth repurposed as a “communal library”/book drop by architect John Locke as part of his ongoing urban intervention project, the Department of Urban Betterment.
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Street Art of the Day: A New York City phone booth repurposed as a “communal library”/book drop by architect John Locke as part of his ongoing urban intervention project, the Department of Urban Betterment.
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Let your mouth start watering over this. food. farmers. community. the environment. the economy. home. friends.
Andrew Beck Grace will soon present to us his long-awaited film Eating Alabama from ITVS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Andy was my professor for Documenting Justice, an interdisciplinary social justice documentary film program he directs at the University of Alabama. This film is going to be fabulous.
Check out the website for Eating Alabama here: www.eatingalabama.com
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IMPAIRMENT: is the functional limitation within the individual caused by physical, mental or sensory impairment.
DISABILITY: is the loss or limitation of opportunities to take part in the normal life of the community on an equal level with others due to physical and social barriers. (DPI, 1982)
(Disabled People’s International quoted in Goodley 8)
Goodley, Dan. Disability Studies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction. London: Sage, 2011. Print.
Yeah that may be true, but my experience of the impaired is that they do suffer limitations to live a normal life..and so they are disabled.
Firstly, what do you mean by “[your] experience of the impaired”?
Secondly, you misunderstand the author: the above quote does not exist to draw a distinction between two “types” of people, in which some are impaired and some are disabled. Rather, the quote explains how political, economic, social, historical, cultural, relational and other factors dis-able those with impairments (Goodley).
I was born with an impairment: I can hardly hear in my left ear, and my right ear is so-so. You would think this is a disability and that hearing aids would fix me right up, but it isn’t.
Since I have lived with this my whole life, I have adapted. My hearing loss is a cookie bite, which means I am missing a range of tones. These tones happen to be low, such as air conditioners, computers whirring, and such. I’ve gone 21 years without hearing these noises.
I have a pair of hearing aids. If I put them in, all of the sudden I am bombarded with the sounds of cars on the street, music in the grocery store, machines working, fans and vents, the furnace turning on and off. Your brain is used to tuning all of this out. Mine isn’t. My hearing gets worse when I wear hearing aids because all I hear is the static of the world.
My hearing loss is an impairment, not a disability. It’s my hearing aids that disable me. There are people who get annoyed when I can’t hear them and in their ignorance say that it’s my fault, that I should be wearing hearing aids if I can’t hear them. It’s their insistence on phone calls instead of texts or emails (I’ve lost friends because I refuse phone calls. They blame me for being cold because I only text).
I hope this helps to make the distinction clearer?
A perfect illustration for you all.
Anne Lamott might be best known as a nonfiction writer, but Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life affirms her as a formidable modern philosopher as well. The 1994 classic is as much a practical guide to the writer’s life as it is a profound wisdom-trove on the life of the heart and mind, with insight on everything from overcoming self-doubt to navigating the osmotic balance of intuition and rationality.
## This is true of telling stories through documentary film, through words and images of what exists in the world around us, as well.
Short video I made about Un Corazon Un Alabama/One Heart One Alabama Blood Drive to Support the Repeal of HB56, on January 7 at Prince of Peace Catholic Church in Hoover, Alabama. I worked with other volunteers for the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice to put on the event. The event was featured on the local ABC news show and in the Birmingham News.
http://blog.al.com/jkennedy/2012/01/joey_kennedy_alabama_coalition.html
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2012/01/volunteers_give_blood_learn_ab.html
Reporter: Are you going to return to the United States?
Stokely Carmichael: I most certainly am. There are 50 million blacks living in the US and those Africans have to be organized to fight for their liberation
Reporter: Isn’t there a possibility that you might end up in jail upon your arrival?
Stokely Carmichael: I was born in jail.
’I want a world were kids can play and plenty of food to eat / I want a world where I can speak and know that I’ll be free / I want a world just like America / like the USA / ‘cause even though perfect it’s not / it’s the best thing this world’s got.’
And you know we learned those types of songs and we learned not to question our government and be grateful for what we’ve got and we didn’t learn that it was at the expense of many people in our own country and all over the world. Because you’re taught to fear that you don’t have enough. And you want and want and want. And it perpetuates greed. - Erykah Badu
”We’re making the revolution by educating the people to the fact that they should arm themselves in self defense. Educate them as to what the power structure is doing to them. That they made racism the primary objective that the people have to deal with, when we mainly have to deal with capitalism.” - Black Panther educator
No such thing as a free breakfast
…if you’re not free.
“But you see that we are seeing the bad news about America on our own television in the context of living here, of seeing about us evey day the positive aspects. So we have a more realistic perspective of what’s going on in America. Whereas the people in Sweden, people abroad, are not living in America, do not see any of the positive aspects of it and are getting just the bad news. And this is the thing I objected to. …I’m sure the war is as unpopular as it is in sweden, but we’re stuck with it.” - Editor of TV Guide Magazine in response to his critique of Sweden, Holland, and other European negative media coverage of U.S. Affairs, 1971
Interviewer: But you yourself said at one point that you feared for your life in there.
William Kunstler: Well I guess I’m a white, middle-class citizen of this country and I had all the stereotypes about prisoners that any person in my capacity has. I had to learn the hard way that they were decent, honorable men. Much more decent and honorable than the people who went in there to shoot them.
Angela Davis discusses the effects of violence in her community growing up. She explains what happened when bombs went off in her community and killed her neighborhood friends as a child, and how the men in the community were forced to respond, to protect their families. “…so that’s why when someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible. Because what it means that that person who’s asking the question just has no idea what black people have gone through, have experienced in this country since the time the first black person was kidnapped from the shores of Africa.”
“Now, you can’t rally 500 people together for a cause, unless it’s dollars.”
“We live in a society that thinks it can do anything, like go to the moon. But it doesn’t think it can cure a person of a drug addiction.”
