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suffragette's Journal"In-your-face" like the 504 protests
Those protests were exactly about changing laws for the better, in that case about "They were demanding enforcement of the first major law to bar discrimination against the disabled."
Very much in-your-face and they won.
http://www.npr.org/programs/wesun/features/2002/504/
But in San Francisco at the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, protesters didn't give up. One day turned into a second day and then a third. More than 100 disabled demonstrators stayed in the building for weeks, refusing to leave until the regulations were signed.
On April 28, nearly four weeks into the sit-in, HEW Secretary Joseph Califano endorsed the regulations. The protesters had won.
Much, much more at link.
Photographer HolLynn D'Lil wrote a poem about the image:
Through the Glass
Those who wouldn't go outside
Those who couldn't go inside
Shattered the walls.
Edited to add:
Good piece here with retrospective on the above protest and the power of people joining together to effect change:
http://www.raggededgemagazine.com/departments/reflections/000499.html#bio
The San Francisco 504 sit-in did not succeed because of a brilliant strategy by a few disability leaders. It succeeded because the Deaf people set up a communication system from the 4th floor windows inside the building to the plaza down below; because the Black Panther Party brought a hot dinner to all 150 participants every single night; because people from community organizing backgrounds taught us how to make collaborative decisions; because friends came and washed our hair in the janitor's closet sink.
The people doing disability rights work in the 1970s rarely agreed on policies, or even on approaches. The successes came because people viewed each other as invaluable resources working towards a common goal.
TSA and Border Patrol both received funding increases
This at a time when so many areas face local, state and federal cutbacks.
With the money increasingly being diverted to this security economy comes the continued branching out of these agencies actions in order to justify the money.
TSA Funding Up in 2012 Consolidated Appropriations Act
By: Mickey McCarter
12/29/2011 ( 4:00am)
http://www.hstoday.us/briefings/today-s-news-analysis/single-article/tsa-funding-up-in-2012-consolidated-appropriations-act/d2de1c5444b43c89e10cfc663d96c869.html
Although overall appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are down slightly this year from Fiscal Year (FY) 2011, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) remains a consistent winner in the battle of the budget.
In the FY 2012 consolidated spending act (Public Law 112-074) signed by President Barack Obama last Friday, TSA received about $7.85 billion, up $153 million from 2011. TSA and US Customs and Border Protection, perhaps two of the three most visible DHS agencies along with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, both received increases although the total DHS budget dropped to $39.6 billion in base discretionary funding in FY 2012, down about $111 million from last year.
We've seen it up in WA state with the Border Patrol expanding their territory, stops and even branching out to areas such as 911 dispatching. This even as a whistle blower noted they are having to create work to spend the $$$.
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/suffragette/83
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2018081205_bordersuit27m.html
edited to add:
Think Arizona is bad for immigrants? Try our Olympic Peninsula
"Do you have your papers?" As if Forks were in Eastern Europe 60 years ago.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/dannywestneat/2018096560_danny29.html
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