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More on the national fight against inaccessible apartments |
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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." |
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