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God Forgive America

 
ADAPTed by Elaine M. Kolb
March 18, 2003, as this terrible war began
 
1) God, Forgive America, For starting the Iraqi War,
Once we're in it, We can't "win" it,
& the Blood will stain our Name, forevermore,
In the mountains & the cities, Dying victims will curse our Name,
God, Forgive America, We will deserve the Blame,
God, Forgive America, We will deserve the Blame.
2) God, Forgive America, No longer a nation of Law,
We're ignoring many Treaties,
For a policy of TERROR: "SHOCK & AWE",
Those who are Willing to do the Killing, Will also join us in the Blame,
God, Forgive America, & Those who share the Shame,
God, Forgive America, & Those who share the Shame.
3) God, Forgive America, Have Mercy on Israel, too,
Without a Homeland for Palestinians,
True Blessings can't be sent, with Peace, from YOU,
Forgive the Bombers, for their Suicides, & what Israeli Soldiers Do,
Why can't we live in PEACE, We all pray to YOU,
Why can't we live in PEACE, When we all pray to YOU???
4) God, Forgive America, At home, there's another WAR,
With the Tax cuts, Come more Service Cuts,
Escalating the WAR ON THE POOR,
Against the Young Ones, & the Old Ones, the Disabled & Unemployed,
God, Forgive America, Our Own People are Destroyed,
God, Forgive America, Our Own People are Destroyed.
5) God, Forgive America, Land that I LOVE,
Stand beside Her, & Guide Her,
In the Light of the Truth, from Above,
Help us find ways to end the Suffering & the
Cruelty of every WAR,
God, Bring our troops Home, Grant us Mercy, Evermore,
Please, Bring them Safely Home, With Peace & Mercy, Evermore.

Note: PLEASE share this far & wide. Pray & Work for PEACE & JUSTICE,
with LOVE & RESPECT for EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE...

I was watching BBC News tonight and I heard the story that there are higly paid people in places like Lambeth and Tower Hamlets whilst they are making cutbacks to services for disabled people. The report will be published tomorrow at: http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/news/individual_blog.php?post_id=486 I would like to know what the high pay is for?

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sadly taxpayersalliance is a right wing group campaigning for local
tax cuts and these tax cuts equals cuts in services for disabled people.

tax payers alliance is connected with:

Adam Smith Institute, Andrew Sullivan, Burning Our Money
Civitas, Global Growth, Globalisation Institute
Peter Hitchens, Political Betting, Madsen Pirie
Marginal Revolution, Melanie Phillips, Stephen Pollard

None of the people and groups have a positive attitude to disabled
people or disability rights.

Keith





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wrote:
>
> I was watching BBC News tonight and I heard the story that there are
higly paid people in places like Lambeth and Tower Hamlets whilst they
are making cutbacks to services for disabled people. The report will
be published tomorrow at:
http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/news/individual_blog.php?post_id=486
I would like to know what the high pay is for?
>
>
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sadly taxpayersalliance is a right wing group campaigning for local
tax cuts and these tax cuts equals cuts in services for disabled people.

tax payers alliance is connected with:

Adam Smith Institute, Andrew Sullivan, Burning Our Money
Civitas, Global Growth, Globalisation Institute
Peter Hitchens, Political Betting, Madsen Pirie
Marginal Revolution, Melanie Phillips, Stephen Pollard

None of the people and groups have a positive attitude to disabled
people or disability rights.

Keith

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wrote:
>
> I was watching BBC News tonight and I heard the story that there are
higly paid people in places like Lambeth and Tower Hamlets whilst they
are making cutbacks to services for disabled people. The report will
be published tomorrow at:
http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/news/individual_blog.php?post_id=486
I would like to know what the high pay is for?
>
>
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Last week as I was going down York Road (near County Hall - stolen
from Londoners by M Thatcher) I saw a shop titled "bus souvenirs"
Although I live in London, I would very much like a model accessible
London Transport bus. Imagine my horror when I discovered all of the
buses (including images on the staff's uniform) represent the
inaccessible Routemaster bus which could only be considered 'public
transport' if you exclude all wheelchair users and other people with
impairments.  Sadly the inaccessible Routemaster service  still
operates in London on the no. 15 route, However, now the vast majority
of buses have been desegregated, visitors to London are still denied
the ability to buy souvenirs of accessible London in the 21st century.


Keith

A blind couple who featured in a controversial television documentary
believe they are victims of a hate campaign after more attacks on
their home.

Three more incidents prompted father-of-six Paul Craig, of Leach Road,
Bicester, to plead yesterday for help in catching the culprits.

Vandals lobbed stones at his house, threw a car battery leaking acid
over his fence and glued the locks of his house while his family were
asleep inside.

The incidents are the latest in a string of attacks against the
family's home.

Last month, vandals thew paint bombs at the house and over Christmas
their locks were glued twice in a week.

Mr Craig, 39, lives with his pregnant wife Amanda, 37, and their six
children - Louise, 13, Jenny, 10, Daniel, seven, Matthew, four,
Richard, two, and Nigel, one.
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He said: "We had the fire brigade out who dealt with the car battery
for us and took it away.

"Our locks were glued for the third time - the front door and the back
door.

"We were inside and we were able to get out, but then I noticed it
when I came back home. I went to unlock the door and I couldn't get
the key in the lock."

Mr Craig added staff from Charter Community Housing, which owns the
property, came out to change the locks.

He said: "It's distressing considering Amanda is 16 weeks pregnant. We
had stones thrown at the house the other weekend. The battery was
thrown over while Amanda and the kids were at home.
"It's distressing considering Amanda is 16 weeks pregnant. We had
stones thrown at the house the other weekend."
Paul Craig

"It could have hit them."

Last month, the family featured on a Channel 4 documentary called Aged
12, and Looking After the Family, which sparked dozens of complaints
to social services.

The programme showed Mr and Mrs Craig smoking and drinking beer while
their children did the housework.

At the time, Mr Craig called the documentary "biased" and warned it
could lead to increased attacks against his family.

But this week, he said he thought the attacks could be prompted by
people resentful he had been given a four-bedroom house.

Mr Craig: "I don't think it's anything to do with the documentary, I
just think people have got it in for us.

"I thought they had just given up, but obviously not.

"The question is what is going to be next?"

Police spokesman Victoria Bartlett said: "Offenders have returned to
this address and glued the locks again and we are keeping an open mind
as to the reasons behind this.

"The potential danger these thoughtless actions could have caused is
of great concern, as it may have prevented a rapid escape in the case
of fire which could have led to loss of life."

She added: "Officers have visited the address and the details have
also been passed on to the neighbourhood team for their information."

By Ellie Simmonds

8:42am Tuesday 20th March 2007

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hey i am glad that i could join your group if any body wants to talk
to me here is my yahoo id it is georgia_lady2007@...

Hello georgia_lady:

I lost my right leg 3 years a go.
I came here, some time ago,
looking forward conversatión whit friends.

My English are not very good, but I can have a
conversation with you, if you accept  to read me.

I live in Aguascalientes, where are you??

José Manuel Ezeta
ezeta_2000@...
Aguascalientes, México

--- georgia_lady2007 <georgia_lady2007@...>
escribió:

> hey i am glad that i could join your group if any
> body wants to talk
> to me here is my yahoo id it is
> georgia_lady2007@...
>
>
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Hello georgia_lady:

I lost my right leg 3 years a go.
I came here, some time ago,
looking forward conversatión whit friends.

My English are not very good, but I can have a
conversation with you, if you accept to read me.

I live in Aguascalientes, where are you??

José Manuel Ezeta
ezeta_2000@yahoo.com.mx
Aguascalientes, México

--- georgia_lady2007 <georgia_lady2007@yahoo.com>
escribió:

> hey i am glad that i could join your group if any
> body wants to talk
> to me here is my yahoo id it is
> georgia_lady2007@yahoo.com
>
>
>




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to me here is my yahoo id it is georgia_lady2007@yahoo.com

Hello Dear Louise:

Thank you for your answer.

Please call me Manuel, no Jose.

No Louise,
I´m not working in help others and I now are very
important, for me me nad perhaps to others.
I´m a AA whit tears in the 12 steps programs and I now
the importantce to help others.
Thats the best way to don´t cry for my self.

Yes I have interest un that program to help others.

Manuel Ezeta
Aguascalientes, Mexico.

--- lm murray <lmm789@...> escribió:

> Hello Jose and welcome!
>
>   Glad to have more people to talk with/share ideas
> with all the time.  How are things in beautiful,
> hard-working Mexico these days?  What's it like
> where you are?  What are you up to?  Do you do any
> advocacy work for people with disabilities where you
> are?  This group has plenty of ideas and concerns
> that are wonderfully applicable worldwide.  And we
> all seem to enjoy battles with government for
> improved services. What I've learned here the last
> three years or so from e-pals rivals any
> encyclopoedia.
>
>   Louise
>   Vancouver, B.C.
>
>
>
> Manuel Ezeta <ezeta_2000@...> wrote:
>           Hello georgia_lady:
>
> I lost my right leg 3 years a go.
> I came here, some time ago,
> looking forward conversatión whit friends.
>
> My English are not very good, but I can have a
> conversation with you, if you accept to read me.
>
> I live in Aguascalientes, where are you??
>
> José Manuel Ezeta
> ezeta_2000@...
> Aguascalientes, México
>
> --- georgia_lady2007 <georgia_lady2007@...>
> escribió:
>
> > hey i am glad that i could join your group if any
> > body wants to talk
> > to me here is my yahoo id it is
> > georgia_lady2007@...
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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Madrid - Spanish police pulled over a man in a electric wheelchair who
was riding along on an expressway after he got lost while looking for
a brothel, police and local media said Wednesday.

The 42-year-old man, who is tetraplegic, drove the specially-designed
wheelchair which keeps him in a stretched position with the use of his
chin and mouth, regional newspaper El Ideal Callego reported.

He was stopped by police while travelling "at considerable speed"
overnight on Friday on the highway linking Ferrol with As Pontes in
the north-western Spanish region of Galicia, it said.

A police officer in the town of Naron in Galicia told AFP the man was
not driving at excessive velocity, "but he nonetheless posed an
obvious danger to traffic and to himself".

May 09 2007 at 10:51PM

more goto:
<http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=29&art_id=nw20070509221459\
998C294750>

Madrid - Spanish police pulled over a man in a electric wheelchair who
was riding along on an expressway after he got lost while looking for
a brothel, police and local media said Wednesday.

The 42-year-old man, who is tetraplegic, drove the specially-designed
wheelchair which keeps him in a stretched position with the use of his
chin and mouth, regional newspaper El Ideal Callego reported.

He was stopped by police while travelling "at considerable speed"
overnight on Friday on the highway linking Ferrol with As Pontes in
the north-western Spanish region of Galicia, it said.

A police officer in the town of Naron in Galicia told AFP the man was
not driving at excessive velocity, "but he nonetheless posed an
obvious danger to traffic and to himself".

May 09 2007 at 10:51PM

more goto:
<http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=29&art_id=nw20070509221459998C294750>

Hy to everyone in the group!

 

I'm Anca, I'm from Romania and I'm interested in knowing more about the disability field. I'm also a disabled person (Little's disease). Please if anyone wants to share materials on disability (research papers, studies, surveys, interviews, any other related papers) do not hesitate to contact me. I'm especially interested in knowing more about the severe disabled people. Is here anyone a social worker or a psychologist?

 

Thank you very much!

Best regards, Anca.

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ROLLOVER is Johnny Crescendo's 4th album and the first for 10 years.
Johnny Crescendo is probably the worlds leading Disability Arts singer
songwriter. This exciting long awaited new work deals with war
veterans, disabled mothers who have their children taken away, being
too embarrassed to dance, the disabled people's fight against being
put into institutions, disability pride, taking action and freedom. On
the CD is a 16 page publisher file newsletter with all the words pics
and more. Made with his collaborator of over 15 years, Andy Morgan
from Hackney London On the album is Johnny at his best both vocally
and on the harmonica where he explores the instrument in new
directions in particular on Wheelchair waltz. If you've never heard
Disability Arts here is the master. If you want to know what disabled
people are really thinking here it is. The CD is an excellent
educational resource for 13 yrs and up teachers who can use the words
and music to raise important disability issues in the classroom. Get
it on Ebay at
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Hiya - thought that you might be interested in this.....

stephen

-----Original Message-----
From: The Disability-Research Discussion List
[mailto:DISABILITY-RESEARCH@...] On Behalf Of Colin REvell
Sent: 15 May 2007 16:30
To: DISABILITY-RESEARCH@...
Subject: Socio-Ecological Perspective (model) of disability

Taken from following souce:-
-http://www.hrsdc.gc.ca/asp/gateway.asp?hr=/en/hip/odi/documents/Definitions
/Definitions003.shtml&hs=hze

PART I - DISABILITY PERSPECTIVES AND DATA SOURCES
Conceptual Models and Classification Systems

Ecological Perspective

The ecological perspective arose in the 1970s, but became more prevalent in
the mid-1990s in response to criticism of the impairment and functional
limitations perspectives. Like the latter perspective, the ecological
perspective rests on three distinct disability concepts: pathology (or
abnormality), impairment and disability. However, it sees disability as
resulting from the interaction of impairment, activity limitations and
participation restrictions in a specific social or physical environment such

as work, home or school.

The Quebec disability production process model (processus de la production
du handicap) was developed by a team at Université Laval in Quebec, led by
social scientist Patrick Fougeyrollas. The Quebec model, which contributed
greatly to the review and eventual improvement of the ICIDH, rejects the
linear cause-and-effect explanation of disability. This model presents
disability as the interaction of three kinds of factors: personal factors
(age, sex and cultural identity), environmental factors (the social context
in which the person lives) and life habits (the person's daily activities).
The Quebec model shifts the focus from a fixed impairment that is part of a
person's organic system to other, more changeable factors that affect that
person's participation in society. In the Quebec model, disability depends
on the environment in which a person lives and carries out daily activities.

If the environment is adapted to the person, the disability can change or
even disappear.

There are many variations of the social model, but all portray disability as

a social construct created by ability-oriented and ability-dominated
environments. The social model rejects the linear causality. According to
the social model, even though impairment has an objective reality that is
attached to the body or mind, disability has more to do with society's
failure to account for the needs of persons with disabilities.

The human rights model is a distinct subgroup of the social model. It
understands disability as a social construct. The model is primarily
concerned with the individual's inherent dignity as a human being (and
sometimes, if at all, with the individual's medical characteristics).

In response to criticism leveled at the ICIDH classification system, the WHO

revised it, releasing the latest revision in May 2001 under a new name, the
International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF).
The ICF illustrated a clear shift: from describing disability, impairment
and handicap in terms of diminishment to describing body structure,
functioning, activities and participation in an objective way.

The general term functioning refers to all body functions, activities and
participation while the term disability, is understood to encompass the
interaction between impairments and externally imposed activity limitations
or participation restrictions.

One of the ICF's main objectives is to establish a common language for
coding a wide range of information on health and health-related conditions,
including disability. This standardized language makes it easier to compare
conditions across nations, disciplines and sciences. Although the ICF is
still relatively new, it has become accepted worldwide as a substantial
improvement over the ICIDH. Many disability organizations and persons with
disabilities participated in the development of the ICF.

2 Saad Z. Nagi (1965). "Some conceptual issues in Disability and
Rehabilitation". In M. Sussman (ed.). Sociology and Rehabilitation.
Washington, DC: American Sociological Association. PP. 100-13.


Read wikipedia information  'Ecosystem model/ecological models' link:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_model

You may also want to access following links:-

http://www.isec2005.org.uk/isec/abstracts/papers_m/mcilroy_g.shtml

http://rtc.umn.edu/self/sddefinition.asp

http://ocw.jhsph.edu/courses/SocialBehavioralFoundations/PDFs/Lecture2.pdf

https://www.haworthpress.com/store/Toc_views.asp?TOCName=J198v03n04_TOC&desc
=Volume%3A%203%20Issue%3A%204

http://www.goldlearningcentre.com/conference1.html

http://www.anzhealthpolicy.com/content/1/1/4

http://informationr.net/ir/5-4/paper79.html

http://mtdh.ruralinstitute.umt.edu/Publications/Model.htm

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_ui
ds=9161925&dopt=Abstract

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0825/is_n1_v62/ai_18562559

http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~chip/pubs/disappearance.shtml

http://vaw.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/7/1/60

http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.js
p?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=EJ581236&ERICExtSearch_SearchType
_0=eric_accno&accno=EJ581236

http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2788.1997.tb00690.x

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/cdso/2000/00000015/00000001/a
rt00009?crawler=true

http://psy.st-andrews.ac.uk/people/personal/mc1/resources/modules/vuneralbil
ity.pdf


Yours

Colin Revell

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Dear Louise,

Thank you for repling to my request.

I'm not very familliar with the Lyme Disease. But as you said in your message it looks hard enough for the people in this "category". I could say that in Romania-Bucharest (Europe) the people confronting with this kind of disability are almost entirely "invisible".

 

My main interest is on people, especially young, with (severe) physical disabilities and what alternatives they have after their parents will not be able to take care of them. I'm willing to know more about studies or research on this particular issue.

  

PS Sorry for my poor English.

Best wishes,

Anca.

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