Joseph Shapiro
speaker
255 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 26 Jul
Joseph Shapiro’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The right to be arrested for protesting is an odd right, but it is a right.
You have the right to be taken seriously, and you don't get that right if they don't.
The right to be in the world.
That's what the movement was about.
That is what the movement is about.
Shunned, excluded, barred, and barricaded.
You know, the right sought was the right to be included.
The right to be in the world.
That's what the movement was about.
ADAPT members also began demonstrating for the Americans with Disabilities Act, the ADA, the new federal legislation to protect people with disabilities.
ADAPT will be a landmark first.
Civil rights law for people with disabilities.
I was there that day in 1990 when about three dozen people came out of their wheelchairs and crawled up the 83 marble steps of the U.S.
Capitol.
Each carried a scrolled paper to give the members of Congress with the preamble of the Declaration of Independence.
The demonstration became known as the U.S.
Capitol Crawl, a visual protest of the barriers faced by people with disabilities.
There was also effective behind-the-scenes lobbying from national disability groups.
Every member of Congress got visits from constituents, parents of disabled kids, disabled veterans, disabled people explaining why they needed a civil rights law.
One of ADAPT's big goals was to recreate what Wade Blank had done in Denver to get disabled people out of nursing homes and other institutions, but now all over the country.
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