Return-path: <[log in to unmask]> From: [log in to unmask] Full-name: Tamar40 Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 18:28:01 EDT Subject: Re: [ADAPT-CA] Digest Number 487 To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] CC: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Windows AOL sub 124 Friends, I thought you'd be interested in this. Tamar In a message dated 10/24/00 2:09:48 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes: > Fellow Activists: > > On Friday, October 20, 2000 after three days of ADAPT style community > organizing training demonstrated at Moscow's largest Metro Station (subway > stop) seventy-five disabled activists from across Russia crawled down two > flights of stairs to ride the Metro. > > The community organizing training was provided by Alan Holdsworth an ADAPT > Member, an Organizer and founder of DAN in England. According to Alan > there will be more demonstrations over the next several months. This was > the first demonstration of people with disabilities in Russia ever. Alan > said, "These activists have braved uncharted waters without concern for > their personal safety to change a system that denies disabled persons > equality." > > Let freedom ring from the highest mountain top to the subways of Moscow.