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Video description: The 30-second video begins and ends with a woman holding an infant. She and several other people address the camera directly: “I don’t want my kids to grow up with discrimination, or thinking it’s okay to take away people’s rights.”
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From KAY OLSON,
Alas, a blog,
2 Nov 2008
Overwhelmingly sad news today: Harriet McBryde Johnson has died at age 50.
Image description: The photo shows Johnson in a flowered-print navy dress looking toward the camera. She sits in her wheelchair, though the image is a close-up focusing on her ...
From KAY OLSON,
Alas, a blog,
4 Jun 2008
“I think it was perhaps the most important thing that happened to me. It formed me, guided me, instructed me, helped me, humiliated me, all those things at once. I’ve never gotten over it, and I am aware of the force and power of it.”
—Dorothea Lange ...
From KAY OLSON,
Alas, a blog,
8 May 2008
Abnormal Diversity where the theme is Abuse. I submitted a post on something that happened to me about two years ago, and there’s much more to read on the topic. Check it out.
The next Disability Blog Carnival will be on May 8 at CripChick’s. The theme ...
From KAY OLSON,
Alas, a blog,
24 Apr 2008
Older, sicker patients could be allowed to die in order to save the lives of patients more likely to survive a massive disaster, bioterror attack or influenza pandemic in California.
It’s not how nurses and doctors are accustomed to doing things, nor ...
From KAY OLSON,
Alas, a blog,
3 Mar 2008
I’ve heard good things about a new documentary film, , only opening now in a few cities and playing primarily at Jewish film festivals. From the film’s website:
An engrossing, wrenching and tender documentary film, introduces Lior Liebling, also called ...
From KAY OLSON,
Alas, a blog,
29 Feb 2008
A wrongly deported U.S. citizen who was missing for months in Mexico sued the Department of Homeland Security and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department on Wednesday.
Pedro Guzman, 30, who is mentally disabled, was deported last May after he was ...
From KAY OLSON,
Alas, a blog,
27 Feb 2008
After seven years in prison for killing his severely disabled daughter, Robert Latimer will be freed on day parole this week.
The appeal division of the National Parole Board this afternoon overturned a parole board decision last December that rejected ...
From KAY OLSON,
Alas, a blog,
27 Feb 2008
Visual description: A one-pane comic, drawn very simply. A stick figure stands next to a sign posted on a wall that reads “Third Floor Office” with some Braille just below those words. At the top of the comic: “I learned to read Braille a while back, ...
From KAY OLSON,
Alas, a blog,
21 Jan 2008
The latest Grand Rounds, a weekly carnival on medical and health blogging, is a collection around the theme of “Briefing the Next U.S. President.” Check it out at Sharp Brains.
If your submitted comment fails to appear, without even an error or ...
From KAY OLSON,
Alas, a blog,
16 Jan 2008
