[nfb-talk] Fwd: {Single Payer} Disabled protesters dragged from McConnell's office! So where our blind organizations?

[Karen Rose]

The issue is not the show but the facts of what happened

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> On Jun 24, 2017, at 9:40 AM, Judy Jones via nfb-talk <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Sorry, but the Rachel Madow show is not the bastian of accuracy, I would read no further.
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> Judy
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> From: nfb-talk [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jack Heim via nfb-talk
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> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Fwd: {Single Payer} Disabled protesters dragged from McConnell's office! So where our blind organizations?
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> If you want to hear the whole thing, you should listen to the podcast of the Rachel Madow show for last night, June 22.  I don't know how to point you to just that one show but you can subscribe here:
> http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/the-rachel-maddow-show-podcast
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> Those protests outside Senator McConnells office were organized by the same group, ADAPT,  that organized a huge protest in 1974 in Denver over inaccessible buses. That whole story is on that same Rachel Madow podcast. They snarled traffic in Denver for a day and a half to protest the fact that they couldn't use city buses. It made me think of all the debates I have had on this list with people who feard a "backlash" from pushing for our rights.
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>> On 06/23/2017 06:48 PM, Karen Rose via nfb-talk wrote:
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>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>> From: Claire-Elizabeth DeSophia <desophia.politics at earthlink.net>
>>> Date: June 23, 2017 at 4:38:09 PM PDT
>>> To: therapists for Single Payer 
>>> <single-payer-therapists at googlegroups.com>
>>> Subject: {Single Payer} Disabled protesters dragged from McConnell's office!
>>> Reply-To: single-payer-therapists at googlegroups.com
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>>> Outrageous!!!  And I can’t find a story on it in the NYTimes and don’t watch TV; I hope it was on everywhere!
>>> What has our country come to?!?!!
>>> ==Claire-Elizabeth
>>> Disabled Protesters Just Showed Senate Democrats How It's Done 
>>> Friday, June 23, 2017 By Kelly Hayes, Truthout | Op-Ed
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>>> A disabled demonstrator is dragged from her wheelchair outside of the 
>>> offices of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, as people gathered 
>>> to protest Medicaid cuts, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, DC, June 
>>> 22, 2017. (Photo: Doug Mills / The New York Times)
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>>> In times of great injustice, independent media is crucial to fighting back against mi