Access activism
A look at some of the topics in Ragged Edge Online's libraries and archives.
Bring access to your neighborhood! This series of articles from our libraries and archives focuses on grassroots efforts to gain access to businesses.
Do A Sweep! Bring access to your neighborhood -- the Midtown Way! In this article from the Jan./Feb. 2000 issue, Josie Byzek tells how you, too, can get your neighborhood businesses to finally obey the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Related articles:
Midtown Sweep follow-up
Backsliding & Bigotry: Carol Cleigh finds an old access complaint needs renewing.
A Volunteer Ticketing Program by Carol Cleigh
Grassroots activists have filed pro se access lawsuits. Here are three articles that look at the pros and cons of this process:
Pro Se? Nothing to it!
The Pro Se Project: A dissenting view -- a lawyer's perspective from Amy Robertson.
Related blog: John Kelly's NAG.
Be sure to check out our earlier news archives on this or related topics -- or use our search feature to find more articles.
Amy Robertson did a good job on trying to scare anyone away from filing Pro Se. I also think she did us a real disservice. Rather than helping us with additional points of law, she tried to convince us not to even try to file ourselves.
Obviously, she has no idea about the average income of a disabled person. I earn nothing. I live off of the grace of my husband. Should he leave me, I would have no income and no insurance. Social Security provides barely enough for living from what I've heard-certainly not enough for attorneys. The threats of how much a suit can cost us means nothing. We can't afford it. Even filing fees are a push. If we can't do it for ourselves, we can't do it. I have a Master's degree and I would rather try something myself and win than pay someone else to do it. Having a Master's degree sure hasn't given me an income! So if I'm to fight something, it will have to be Pro Se and not with an attorney that tries to scare people into using her services.
Posted by: Eileen Queen | July 24, 2006 02:14 AM