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Hi everybody
May be of interest to some? Especially if somone is interested in
collaborations

Just to let you know that I have accepted  an academic tenure track
appointment as an assistant professor  with the University of Calgary,
Faculty of Medicine, Dept of Community Health Sciences,  Program of
Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies (CRDS).

Cheers
Gregor

Gregor what spacificly do you want to collaboration on?

Keith

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wrote:
>
> Hi everybody
> May be of interest to some? Especially if somone is interested in
> collaborations
>
> Just to let you know that I have accepted  an academic tenure track
> appointment as an assistant professor  with the University of Calgary,
> Faculty of Medicine, Dept of Community Health Sciences,  Program of
> Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies (CRDS).
>
> Cheers
> Gregor

Hi everybody
May be of interest to some? Especially if somone is interested in
collaborations

Just to let you know that I have accepted an academic tenure track
appointment as an assistant professor with the University of Calgary,
Faculty of Medicine, Dept of Community Health Sciences, Program of
Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies (CRDS).

Cheers
Gregor

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...like getting your LONG TERM DISABILITY AND SOCIAL SECURITY,
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ANY ATTORNEY or DOCTOR will recommend to you that you do all your
homework and make the best presentation you can, for whomever is
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Report: Treatment Of People In Serbian Institutions Amounts To
Torture
By Dave Reynolds, Inclusion Daily Express www.InclusionDaily.com
November 13, 2007

BELGRADE, SERBIA--"This constitutes a clear case of torture," Eric
Rosenthal, executive director of Mental Disability Rights
International, said this week as the group published a report on
conditions at Serbian institutions housing children and adults with
disabilities.

The lengthy report reveals horrible treatment that MDRI says violates
the residents' human rights. Those include filthy conditions,
contagious diseases, and a lack of health care, rehabilitation, and
activity of any kind.

Most troubling, perhaps, are the number of people who are tied to
their beds, sometimes for years at a time. In one case, investigators
found a 21-year-old man with Down syndrome who had been restrained in
his bed for the past 11 years.

Rosenthal, who has been active in disability rights advocacy for the
past 14 years, said the use of physical restraints on children was
the most extreme he had seen.

"This is the most horrifying abuse I have seen on powerless children,
who are tied to beds and unable to move," he said.

Many of the facilities MDRI visited have been constructed since 1999,
with tens of millions of dollars provided by the international
community.

"The mental institutions have been newly rebuilt with the help of the
West, so the abuse is happening in clean, new buildings built with
foreign money," Rosenthal said.

"This tragedy could have been prevented."

The report notes that the Serbian government's treatment of people
with disabilities violated not only international laws, but also
Serbian laws.

Related:
"Report describes abuses in Serbian state mental institutions"
(International Herald Tribune)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/11/13/europe/serbia.php
Report: Torment not Treatment: Serbia's Segregation and Abuse of
Children and Adults with Disabilities (Mental Disability Rights
International)
http://www.mdri.org/projects/serbia/Serbia-rep-english.pdf

--

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Dave Reynolds, Editor
Inclusion Daily Express / Inclusion Weekly Review
International Disability Rights News Service
http://www.InclusionDaily.com
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.......they do NOT want YOU to know how to make a dynamic CLAIM!!!

...like getting more for damages sustained in ANY type of accident,
because something you may have FORGOT or didn't know to report!!!

...like getting more for damages when filing discrimination and
harassment charges from your employer, because something you may have
FORGOT to or didn't know report!!!

...like getting your LONG TERM DISABILITY AND SOCIAL SECURITY,
because something you may have FORGOT or didn't know to report!!!
(it's fair to say that most people do NOT get their LONG TERM
DISABILITY and/or SOCIAL SECURITY benefits because of their own poor
presentation!!!!! That's why they wind up getting an attorney and
even then, YOU MUST have a "strong" presentation, for those of you
that "think" you got it licked because you have an attorney)

Learn how to bolster your claim, with things that can be said that
you may have never thought..adding to more dollars and better
preserving your life long claim! Remember this... you only get one
shot at this! there's no going back saying, "I forgot this or that"!

ANY ATTORNEY or DOCTOR will recommend to you that you do all your
homework and make the best presentation you can, for whomever is
reviewing you..is looking to deny you!

Where you a victim of an Accident (auto , at work, etc.)?

Applying for Disability?

Is your Disability under review?

Harassed/Discriminated at work?

ORDER NOW

http://www.self-protection.info

---------------------------
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http://www.geocities.com/den261/Deals2.html

Happy Holidays!

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UNITED NATIONS, 19 DECEMBER -- Yesterday afternoon the United Nations
General Assembly renamed the International Day of Disabled Persons,
observed every year on 3 December, the International Day of Persons
with Disabilities.

The 192 Member States of the General Assembly took that decision
unanimously when adopting a resolution on "Implementation of the World
Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons: realizing the
Millennium Development Goals for persons with disabilities". The
Assembly also called on United Nations agencies and bodies engaged in
development, humanitarian assistance and protection of the environment
to ensure that the disability perspective is incorporated in their work.

In a related development, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities is now six ratifications away from coming into force. It
was ratified by Mexico on 17 December, by El Salvador on 14 December
and by Nicaragua on 7 December. Twenty ratifications are needed to
bring the treaty into force. For information, see
http://www.un.org/disabilities/

Also, the "Handbook for Parliamentarians on the Convention on the
Rights of Persons with Disabilities" is available on-line at
http://www.un.org/disabilities/default.asp?id=212 .

Contact: Edoardo Bellando, bellando@...; Daniel Shepard,
shepard@...; United Nations Development Section, mediainfo@....
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<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWAZ-qfWGeg>

Enjoy

Happy New Year


Keith

I have upgraded the video - hence a new link

Bicycles and Manual Wheelchairs: A short history

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9ooaqnaJj4>

Enjoy

Happy New Year !


Keith

I have upgraded the video yet again - final edit - hence a new link

Bicycles and Wheelchairs: A short history

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNkUFj6-7Rg>

Please rate this video and add your comments,

Many thanks.

Enjoy !

Keith

By his own admission, the invention for which P.K. Sethi will be known
was not his idea alone. Rather, Ram Chandra, a craftsman and colleague
at the hospital where Sethi was working in Jaipur, came to him with an
idea for a prosthetic foot after watching a bicycle repair man fix a
flat tire. Together the two men spent several years working on the
design for a prosthetic limb for the poor, which became known as the
"Jaipur Foot", named after the Rajasthani city in which they worked.

The breakthrough with their prosthetic was that, unlike Western-made
models, the Jaipur Foot could be used without a shoe – something
hugely important in a culture where the majority often go barefoot or
wear just sandals. Furthermore the wood and rubber device could be
built for just £15, a fraction of the cost of other models.

Since that breakthrough in the late 1960s, the invention of the
surgeon and the craftsman has been used to help millions of people in
developing nations and countries afflicted by war, ranging from
Cambodia to Nicaragua, and particularly in Afghanistan, where
countless people have been maimed by landmines.

Such was the impact of the simple yet life-altering invention that
India's President Pratibha Patil was moved to honour Sethi on his
death. He and his invention, she said, "helped amputees to continue
their lives without the feeling of inadequacy, for which he shall
always be remembered".

Pramod Karan Sethi, surgeon and inventor: born Varanasi, India 28
November 1927; married 1951 Sulochana Patni (one son, three
daughters); died Jaipur, India 6 January 2008

Andrew Buncombe Published: 09 January 2008

more goto

<http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article3321375.ece>

NASA will debut a new book for blind readers at a media event and
reception 15 January. The agency will unveil ‘Touch the Invisible
Sky,’ which gives blind readers the ability to experience cosmic
images from the agency’s space-based observatories and other
telescopes on the ground. The event begins at 10 AM EST at the
National Federation of the Blind, 1800 Johnson Street, Baltimore.

More goto: <http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/08011020.htm>

Dear fellow list members,

The votes have been counted and the results are in!

Inclusion Daily Express readers have chosen the top disability rights
stories of 2007.

Here is the link to that list.

http://www.inclusiondaily.com/news/top2007.htm

They are in no particular order.

Come on over and take a look.

Dave Reynolds, Editor
Inclusion Daily Express / Inclusion Weekly Review
International Disability Rights News Service
http://www.InclusionDaily.com
News@...

Dave

How come the entire world's top 13 disability rights stories of 2007,
do only three come from outside of the United States?

Is'nt more to do with your readings than the world and disability rights?

Keith


--- In disabilitystudies@yahoogroups.com, "Dave Reynolds" <Dave@...>
wrote:
>
> Dear fellow list members,
>
> The votes have been counted and the results are in!
>
> Inclusion Daily Express readers have chosen the top disability rights
> stories of 2007.
>
> Here is the link to that list.
>
> http://www.inclusiondaily.com/news/top2007.htm
>
> They are in no particular order.
>
> Come on over and take a look.
>
> Dave Reynolds, Editor
> Inclusion Daily Express / Inclusion Weekly Review
> International Disability Rights News Service
> http://www.InclusionDaily.com
> News@...
>

Human Security, Social Cohesion and Disability

Guest Editors: Gregor Wolbring, Program in Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies, Dept of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary;

Anita Ghai, Department of Psychology Jesus and Mary College, New Delhi;

Kirk Allison, Program in Human Rights and Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota;

Human security and social cohesion are two central requisites for the medical and social well being of disabled people. Science and technology (S&T) advances often seen as essential for disabled people also impact on human security and on social cohesion.  Human security according to the Commission on Human Security is concerned with safeguarding and expanding people’s vital freedoms. It requires both shielding people from acute threats and empowering people to take charge of their own lives. The Commission identified economic security, food security, health security, environmental security, personal security, community security, political security, freedom from fear, and freedom from want as primary concerns.

Social cohesion in very general terms means: All that which brings people together (European New Towns Platform). In Canada the following description is in use: “Social cohesion is the ongoing process of developing a community of shared values, shared challenges and equal opportunity within Canada, based on a sense of trust, hope and reciprocity among all Canadians.” (Jeannotte and Sharon, 2001). This has also been articulated complementarily in terms of social capital which has been defined among others as “features of social organization such as networks, norms, and social trust that facilitate coordination and cooperation for mutual benefit” (Putnam 1995).

More about the concepts can be found in the below references:

·        Gregor Wolbring (2006). Human Security and NBICS http://www.innovationwatch.com/choiceisyours/choiceisyours.2006.12.30.htm   

·        Gregor Wolbring (2007). NBICS and Social Cohesion http://www.innovationwatch.com/choiceisyours/choiceisyours-2007-01-15.htm

·        Caroline Beauvais and Jane Jenson.(2002)  Social Cohesion: Updating the State of Research. Canadian Policy, Research Networks, Canadian Heritage, Ottawa.  http://www.cprn.com/doc.cfm?doc=167&l=en

·        European New Towns Platform. (2005). "The Top 8 Specific Challenges for Social Cohesion in New Towns." http://www.newtowns.net/themes

·        Definitions of Social Capital http://www.analytictech.com/networks/definitions_of_social_capital.htm

·          Social Captial Initiative, Working Paper 1, 1998, http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTSOCIALDEVELOPMENT/EXTTSOCIALCAPITAL/0,,contentMDK:20194767~menuPK:418848~pagePK:148956~piPK:216618~theSitePK:401015,00.html

We are honored that the theme for an issue of The Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal will be human security, social cohesion and disability. This topic is chosen because the discourse around human security and social cohesion is of central importance for disability studies and for the well-being of persons with disabilities. At the same time discourses in disability studies can crucially clarify and test the discourses of human security and social cohesion.

Thus, we urge potential contributors, regardless of their fields of training, to articulate their ideas about human security, social cohesion and disability. We especially encourage contributors to envision:

·        Future threats to human security and social cohesion including threats linked to new and emerging sciences and technologies processes and products and their impact on disabled people.

·        How disability studies discourses have generated tools and will continue to generate tools which can be used to minimize future threats to social cohesion and human security.

·        Other possible prevention strategies and fixes to possible future threat to human security and social cohesion.

We encourage the submission of empirical case studies and theoretical models and we especially encourage contributions which cover the topic from a low income country background.

Potential contributors to this Special Issue might consider:

1. What is the “disability,” the discrimination angle of human security and social cohesion?
2. What is the body image angle of human security and social cohesion?
3. What is the importance of the disability studies angle on human security and social cohesion for other marginalized groups, for the marginalized majority of the world?
4. What are potential future threats to human security and social cohesion and what would the impact be on disabled people?
5. What are the cultural angles of human security and social cohesion?
6. What is the role and potential of law?
7. What empirical evidence and theoretical models illuminate the processes and effects?  
8. What is the impact of emerging social concepts such as transhumanism, which is?
9. What is the impact of new and emerging sciences and technologies?
10. What role does or could disability studies be playing in the interaction between new and emerging sciences and technologies and human security and social cohesion?
11. How do or do not the human security and social cohesion discourses serve the needs of disabled people? 
12. What are the connections between human security and violent conflict?
13. What are the relationships between development and poverty reduction, human security, and the prevention of violent conflict?
14. What is the impact of natural disasters on those with disabilities in terms of security and cohesion
15.  How can social capital be discussed in context of disabled people, human security and social cohesion?

Send via email 250-word abstracts, by March 31^st, 2008 to Guest Editors Gregor Wolbring gwolbrin@... ; Anita Ghai anita.satyapal@... and Kirk Allison alli0001@....  Please be sure to send abstracts to all editors.  For those abstracts that are selected, we will request completed articles of approximately 3000-5000 words two months after the note of invitation to submit a full article was sent.  Note that an invitation to submit an article based on an abstract does not guarantee publication of that article in The Review of Disability Studies. 

For more information about The Review of Disability Studies, please go to www.rds.hawaii.edu

-- Dr. Gregor Wolbring
webpage: http://www.bioethicsanddisability.org
biweekly column The Choice is Yours: http://www.innovationwatch.com/commentary_choiceisyours.htm
NanoBioInfoCognoSynbio Blog:http://wolbring.wordpress.com/
My other articles http://www.bioethicsanddisability.org/articles.htm
e-mail gwolbrin@... Starting August 2008 Assistant Professor, University of Calgary, Faculty of Medicine, Dept of Community Health Sciences, Program in Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies; Till August 2008 Research Scientist, Biochemistry, University of Calgary, Faculty of Medicine, Dept of Medical Biochemistry; Member, International editorial advisory board, Journal: Studies in Ethics, Law, and Technology http://www.bepress.com/selt/editorialboard.html Member CAC/ISO - Canadian Advisory Committees for the International Organization for Standardization, section TC229 Nanotechnologies PACT senior research consultant for the Science & Technology Foresight directorate of the Office of the National Science Advisor, Government of Canada
Founding Member and Affiliated Scholar, Center for Nanotechnology and Society at Arizona State University, USA Part Time Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Canada
Former Member of the Executive of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO (2003-2007, term maxed out)
Chair: Disabled People's International Bioethics Taskforce Chair: Foresight taskforce of the International Disability Caucus of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 

A frail 84-year-old man who helped his artist son to sell a selection
of forgeries over two decades was given a two-year suspended sentence
yesterday after a court was told that the Prison Service could not
look after him because of his age and infirmity.

George Greenhalgh, 84, from Bolton - dubbed the "artful codger" - was
told by Judge William Morris at Bolton crown court that if he had been
younger he would have received a three and a half year sentence.

George, who uses a wheelchair, was said to be the principal salesman -
"a nice old man", according to Angela Thomas, the keeper of Egyptology
at Bolton - who revelled in fictional stories of his ancestors.

The artists copied included LS Lowry, Henry Moore, Man Ray, Constantin
Brancusi and Gauguin. There were purported Roman silver and gold
artefacts, Assyrian stone reliefs and Anglo-Saxon jewellery. The
institutions approached included the British Museum, Tate Modern and
Liverpool, Sotheby's, Christie's and Bonhams. The V&A provided funds.

Police suggested that they had a relatively frugal lifestyle. They
lived in the same council house for decades and did not take expensive
holidays. Olive apparently never left Bolton. There was, however, a
fine library of art books.

David Pallister and Helen Carter Tuesday January 29, 2008 The Guardian

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Towards the end of the second world war, Henri Chopin, who has died
aged 85, escaped from a forced labour camp in Olomouc, in what is now
the Czech Republic, after it had been bombed. He then spent time with
the advancing Red Army, until, recaptured by the Germans, he and
inmates of concentration and extermination camps were sent west on a
Nazi "death march".

Thousands died on those journeys and it was then that he listened to
the voices of his fellow marchers, sounds which would infuse his work
for the rest of his life. In the 1950s Henri created sound poetry,
capturing breaths and cries made by his voice and body. He was, said
his friend William Burroughs, an "inner space explorer", but the
Frenchman remained a solitary figure, outside any artistic grouping,
almost the only exponent of his art, and almost certainly the only
poet to record sounds and movements by swallowing a microphone. He
then remixed the results in recording studios in France, and,
following the route of his performances, in Sweden, Germany and Australia.

Taking account of the smallest sounds - like vibrations of his nasal
hair - he turned them into the likes of Les Vibrisses, a vast musical
and poetic fresco. Henri created more than 100 audio poems, recorded
on many discs, including Pêche de Nuit (1957-59), which became the
soundtrack of the eponymous film by the Belgian artist Luc Peire in
1962, Vibrespace (1963), Throatpower (1974), Le Corpsbis (1983), Les 9
Saintes Phonies (1984-87) and the oratorio Copernic & Co (2007).

Henri's work was born in the wake of the French avant-garde movement
lettrisme, a next step after Dada and surrealism. He published his
first volume, Signes, in 1957. In 1964 he created OU, one of the most
notable reviews of the second half of the 20th century, and he ran it
until 1974. OU's contributors included Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Gil J
Wolman, François Dufrêne, Bernard Heidsieck, John Furnival, Tom
Phillips, and the Austrian sculptor, writer and Dada pioneer Raoul
Hausmann. Henri was one of the few people who went to visit Hausmann
in Limoges and he published him, establishing a historic bond to Dada.

Henri was born in Paris, one of three brothers, and the son of an
accountant. Both his siblings died during the war. One was shot by a
German soldier the day after an armistice was declared in Paris, the
other while sabotaging a train.

Henri started work, aged 12, in a hardware store in 1934. In 1940,
with the fall of France, he became one of the refugees heading out of
Paris for the south. This pattern of running and hiding carried on
until Olomouc.

Arriving back in Paris in 1945, he took many jobs, but, unable to make
a living, enlisted in the army in 1948. He was sent to fight in
Indo-China. Invalided out with malaria in 1952, he began working in
Longueil Annel, in northern France, with delinquent youngsters. It was
then that he married Jean Ratcliffe, who was working in France after
graduating in French from Manchester University. His books included Le
Dernier Roman du Monde (1971), Portrait des 9 (1975), The
Cosmographical Lobster (1976), Poésie Sonore Internationale (1979),
Les Riches Heures de l'Alphabet (1992) and Graphpoemesmachine (2006).
Henri also created many graphic works on his typewriter: the
Typewriter poems (also known as dactylopoèmes) feature in
international art collections such as those of Francesco Conz in
Verona, the Morra Foundation in Naples and Ruth and Marvin Sackner in
Miami, and have been the subject of Australian, British and French
retrospectives.

From 1968 to 1986 Henri lived in Ingatestone, Essex, but with the
death of Jean in 1985, he moved back to France. Seven years ago, with
his health failing, he returned to England, living with his daughter
and family at Dereham, Norfolk. Henri was considered by many a new
Antonin Artaud, but head and shoulders above that French playwright,
poet, actor and director. At the time of his death, he was in his
wheelchair still performing works, which will remain great memories
for those who heard him.

He is survived by his daughter Brigitte and son Denis.

Henri Chopin, poet and artist, born June 18 1922; died January 3 2008

Frédéric Acquaviva Tuesday February 5, 2008 The Guardian

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Hi Keith,

Good question.

I'm not sure, but I think it has more to do with where IDE readers live and
what interests them, since the list was selected by readers. (I told them
they had to decide for themselves what made a story a "top" story.)

For whatever reason, those who voted for the top stories did not vote for
the ones I had listed from the United Kingdom, Serbia, Iraq, Afghanistan,
Belgium, Canada, and New Zealand. I thought they were important stories, but
my readers chose differently.

I do make it a point for Inclusion Daily Express to be international in
scope. While only 10 percent of IDE readers are from outside the U.S.,
almost  40 percent of the stories I include come from outside the US.

Last month alone, that included 236 stories or links to stories from
Afghanistan, Angola, Antigua, Australia, Bahamas, Bahrain, Barbados,
Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Ghana, India, Iraq, Ireland, Isreal, Italy,
Jamaica, Japan, Malawi, Malaysia, Nepal, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan,
Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan,
Thailand, Tunisia, Uganda and United Kingdom -- and a total of 404 from the
US.

Take a look for yourself and you be the judge:
http://www.inclusiondaily.com/recent.htm

Thanks,

Dave Reynolds, Editor
Inclusion Daily Express / Inclusion Weekly Review
International Disability Rights News Service
http://www.InclusionDaily.com
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Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 9:54 PM
To: disabilitystudies@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [disabilitystudies] Re: Top disability rights stories of 2007


Dave

How come the entire world's top 13 disability rights stories of 2007,
do only three come from outside of the United States?

Is'nt more to do with your readings than the world and disability rights?

Keith


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wrote:
>
> Dear fellow list members,
>
> The votes have been counted and the results are in!
>
> Inclusion Daily Express readers have chosen the top disability rights
> stories of 2007.
>
> Here is the link to that list.
>
> http://www.inclusiondaily.com/news/top2007.htm
>
> They are in no particular order.
>
> Come on over and take a look.
>
> Dave Reynolds, Editor
> Inclusion Daily Express / Inclusion Weekly Review
> International Disability Rights News Service
> http://www.InclusionDaily.com
> News@...
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To collect Disabled Peoples History throughout the world. Includes
history of aids and similar technology.


http://www.youtube.com/group/DisabledPeoplesHisto

These video images show Deputy Charlette Marshall-Jones pushing Brian
Sterner, 32, in his wheelchair before dumping him on the floor in
order to search him

A Florida prison officer who dumped a paraplegic man out of his
wheelchair in order to search him could be jailed after being charged
with abuse of a disabled person.

Surveillance video footage showing the behaviour of Charlette
Marshall-Jones, a sheriff's deputy at the Hillsborough county
detention centre in Tampa, caused national outrage when it was picked
up by the news channels and posted on YouTube.

After repeatedly having asked Brian Sterner, 32, who has been
paralysed from the waist down since a wrestling accident 13 years ago,
to stand up to be searched, Deputy Marshall-Jones is shown tipping him
on to the floor as if unloading a wheelbarrow. Other officers look on
and one walks away smiling, as Mr Sterner is searched while still
lying on the floor. Four officers, including Ms Marshall-Jones, have
been suspended while the incident is investigated, and the deputy
faces five years in jail if convicted of abuse. She was bailed at the
weekend.

Mr Sterner, who drives a car fitted with hand pedals, had been
arrested for a traffic offence. In a national television appearance,
he said: "Hopefully, that's what will come out of this, that this
negative way of dealing with life and people will change."


By Stephen Foley Monday, AP 18 February 2008

more goto

<http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/officer-faces-jail-for-tipping\
-paraplegic-man-out-of-chair-783559.html>

The Disabled Peoples Video History Group

<http://www.youtube.com/group/DisabledPeoplesHisto>

Has three videos depicting this incident.

Keith



--- In disabilitystudies@yahoogroups.com, "Keith Armstrong"
<keith.armstrong12@...> wrote:
>
>
> These video images show Deputy Charlette Marshall-Jones pushing Brian
> Sterner, 32, in his wheelchair before dumping him on the floor in
> order to search him
>
> A Florida prison officer who dumped a paraplegic man out of his
> wheelchair in order to search him could be jailed after being charged
> with abuse of a disabled person.
>
> Surveillance video footage showing the behaviour of Charlette
> Marshall-Jones, a sheriff's deputy at the Hillsborough county
> detention centre in Tampa, caused national outrage when it was picked
> up by the news channels and posted on YouTube.
>
> After repeatedly having asked Brian Sterner, 32, who has been
> paralysed from the waist down since a wrestling accident 13 years ago,
> to stand up to be searched, Deputy Marshall-Jones is shown tipping him
> on to the floor as if unloading a wheelbarrow. Other officers look on
> and one walks away smiling, as Mr Sterner is searched while still
> lying on the floor. Four officers, including Ms Marshall-Jones, have
> been suspended while the incident is investigated, and the deputy
> faces five years in jail if convicted of abuse. She was bailed at the
> weekend.
>
> Mr Sterner, who drives a car fitted with hand pedals, had been
> arrested for a traffic offence. In a national television appearance,
> he said: "Hopefully, that's what will come out of this, that this
> negative way of dealing with life and people will change."
>
>
> By Stephen Foley Monday, AP 18 February 2008
>
> more goto
>
>
<http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/officer-faces-jail-for-tipping\
-paraplegic-man-out-of-chair-783559.html>
>

A tale involving kidnapping, air travel and agriculture.


<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L7bnR74EJg>

or

<http://media.putfile.com/Triptolemus-the-first-wheelchair-user---TRAILER>

Keith