Poverty and Disability: the Vicious Circle

Tuesday, February 21st, 2012

I first started to look at disability as a class issue when 18 of our members from Piedmont Peace Project and I attended a national peace movement conference in Atlanta.  Six of us were disabled and three in wheelchairs, including me. No other group had visibly disabled people present, although I’m sure some hidden disabilities were there. We were in an accessible hotel, but when we got dressed up and went to the main event in a nearby historic church, we arrived only to find out we could not enter.  We could not get up the steps or inside the doors.

The Class Nightmare of Disability

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

Seeking instant invisibility? Displacement from society? Separation from the shared life expectations of friends, family and colleagues?
If so, become disabled.