[NFB-Talk] Civil rights advocate, Judy Heumann, dies at 75

Tue Mar 7 21:23:27 UTC 2023

Who gets to speak for the blind?  If it's the NFB, then the blind speak for ourselves.  I think this is the deeper truth, and constructs about how we should have landed on any particular issue matters far less than taking control of our own lives and the services we use.

Jim Marks
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Why is a question that’s going to open a huge can of worms and a lot of debate, but it’s a fact that we did. Ditto truncated domes. I’d say at least part of the opposition had to do with the state of the art at the time of APS, which were, in general, not great. They have improved *a lot* in the years since, just as traffic patterns and signaling have become more complex and dangerous. 

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> On Mar 7, 2023, at 1:41 PM, Karen Rose via nFB-Talk <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Hi John. Just wondering why we would have a posed accessible pedestrian signals??
> 
> Karen Rose MFT/LPCC www.career-therapy.net
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>> On Mar 7, 2023, at 9:29 AM, John Heim via nFB-Talk <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> We need to change the culture in the NFB. Years ago, the Access Board was going to propose a regulation requiring cities to install accessible pedestrian signals whenever an intersection was built or rebuilt. The Access Board can't just impose regulations like that. It would have had to go through channels. But had it been approved, by now there would be millions of these things around the country. And probably dozens of lives would have been saved. But the NFB organized protests to stop it and the Access Board dropped the idea.
>> 
>> We need to change the culture so that kind of thing can never happen again. We should have been out there organizing sit-ins to make it happen, not fighting it.
>> 
>> 
>>> On 3/7/23 10:26, broanna49--- via nFB-Talk wrote:
>>> John thank you so much for sharing this information on the list. Judy Heuman was a staunch activist for those with disabilities. I am also of the firm belief that we need to fight for our rights. The National Federation Of The Blind should join advocates in fighting for our rights.
>>> 
>>>> On Mar 7, 2023 11:01 AM, John Heim via nFB-Talk <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>> I think Judy Heumann's life story is a lesson for members of this list.
>>>> Please watch/listen to this:
>>>> 
>>>> https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/because-she-made-a-fuss-j
>>>> udy-heumann-made-everyone-s-life-better-164606021818
>>>> 
>>>> Rachel Madow makes a point there that I have tried to make many 
>>>> times on this list. By advocating for our rights, we make everyone's life better.
>>>> When we choose not to push for reform, we are damaging society as a whole.
>>>> 
>>>> Judy Heumann was once part of a cit-in at a federal building that 
>>>> lasted
>>>> 28 days. As messy and inconvenient as that was, it was a huge boon 
>>>> for our society as a whole. Judy Heumann is a hero.
>>>> 
>>>> We need to change the culture within the NFB. We shouldn't have 
>>>> fought accessible money and accessible pedestrian signals. Yes, I 
>>>> know those issues came up a long time ago. But the culture within 
>>>> the NFB is the same as it was back when we made those mistakes. We 
>>>> need to start believing that when we fight for our rights, we're helping our society.
>>>> We're correcting a mistake. That helps us all.
>>>> 
>>>> 
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