Electric EDGE
Web Edition of
The Ragged Edge
Jan/Feb 1998

Electric Edge

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More on the
national fight
against
inaccessible
apartments

California
media raps
deinstitutionalization

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Front Page
GETTING OUR VISION TO THE PEOPLE
Society sees disability through a non-disabled lens. A person reading a newspaper (or watching John Hockenberry on TV) might hear something about gimp culture, but it doesn't make sense. It's too new.

"The biggest part of our campaign is to get to the general public. Somehow," says a disability activist, Bills in Congress would change the vast Medicaid program so people could avoid nursing homes altogether -- but, like gimp culture, the public doesn't understand "attendant services."

Two issues, one problem.


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