Advisory Shmisory. Shapiro Can Stuff the Advice!
Caption Action 2 In both Gary Shapiro's written testimony for the HR 3101 hearing and his Washington Times editorial, Gary Shapiro, president of the Consumer Electronics Association, pushed the inane idea of an advisory committee:From the written testimony:As an alternative, CEA has proposed the development of an advisory committee consisting of all affected stakeholders working toget...
Fri, Jun 18 2010
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Bobbie Beth Scoggins - An Advocate For The Deaf
submit by: anon A profile of Bobbie Beth Scoggins in the newspaper.
Mon, Mar 01 2010
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One Step Closer to Going to the Movies
NAD News On January 13, 2010, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit heard arguments in the Arizona disability discrimination case against Harkins movie theaters. The judges seemed inclined to decide that the display of captions and transmission of audio description services is required by the Arizona state law against disability discrimination and the Americans...
Sat, Jan 16 2010
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What was MLK’s impact on deaf people?
Purple Communications Blog What was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s impact on deaf people?
Fri, Jan 15 2010
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Deaf vs Deaf: What would happen, if there was no Milan...
Deaf Chipmunk What would happen, if there was no Milan Conference in 1880?
Wed, Aug 19 2009
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Reflections on Last Week's Blog
Musings on communication Protest or Censorship?The response to my blog "Enough with blogs about CI surgery!" was interesting. Not only were there both pro and con responses on the blog itself, it spilled over into other blogs as well. [link] first responses were positive. It touched a nerve in other Deaf people also sick of blogs about CI surgery and its skewing focus in the lives of d/Deaf...
Sun, Jun 21 2009
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Multicultural:Deaf, Surf, and Foreign Cultures
Jon Savage Hello! I'm going to Hawaii on July 7th, 2009 that I will experience on multicultural (Deaf, Surf, and Foreign culture) during the World Deaf Surf Championship (WDSC) 2009 event. WDSC is expecting to have deaf surfers come from Australia, Basque, Brazil, England, Japan, Portugal, and Switzerland. Some from Uruguay, Israel, Ireland have 90% chance to [...]
Tue, Jun 02 2009
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Krabbentheorie
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Thu, May 07 2009
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Nelson does ASL fingerspelling in 'The Simpsons'
daveynin's thing The Simpsons: Season 20, Eposide 17. Aired on April 19, 2009. Titled: The Good, the Sad and the Drugly. Runtime: 22 seconds. Nelson Muntz does his ASL fingerspelling: "Haw Haw!". Anyone noticed the yellow-skined human genes in Simpsons only have...
Sun, Apr 26 2009
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Red Alert Cartoon
That Deaf Cartoonist This was my editorial cartoon printed in SIGNews (Feb ‘09 Issue). I created this political cartoon, after hearing the news about many state budget cuts resulting in closing schools for the deaf. It saddens me to witness deaf children’s education being negatively impacted by these cuts. Not only do these cuts hurt deaf children [...]
Wed, Apr 15 2009
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AFA - well written press release
valhallian.com Many of you have heard my viewpoints on the rally at the Volta Bureau. I thought that the press release by the AFA on the PRWeb was actually a well written one. As I have said before, I support their mission of reducing audism but still had reservations about that rally, but allow me to [...]
Tue, Apr 14 2009
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Give Audism A Chance
Oh I See! Give Peace a Chance - John Lennon (1969)Is this a song that this guy likes to sing?An excerpt from John's song. "Ev'rybody's talkin' 'boutBagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, TagismThis-ism, that-ism, ism ism ismAll we are saying is give peace a chanceAll we are saying is give peace a chance"Gather 'round ya'all and sing. All we are saying is give Audism a chance...
Sun, Apr 12 2009
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Deaf Media War--Fighting fire with fire
Musings on communication AGBell has relentlessly sent out public information for years. One reason for this is that it shows their best face as benefactors to the deaf people and the publicity rakes in money in the form of donations, grants and endowments. Another reason for this PR is that it promotes the livelihoods of its members, most of which are professionals working with deaf people. M...
Fri, Apr 10 2009
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Audism at my doorstep
Oh I See! Shell shocked and fuming. I cannot believe he said that just a few feet from me. Audism at my doorstep.It all happened when I ordered pizza online and while waiting I grabbed the time to transcribe my counseling session DVD from ASL to English for my process notes assignment. My door’s light flashing system is inoperable for the moment so I decided to wear my hearing ...
Fri, Apr 10 2009
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Audism Free America: Great MOMENT!!!!!
Deaf Chipmunk AFA: Great MOMENT!!! It is important for us to keep up with our good work against audism. AGBell has failed to show its cooperation with AFA based on its agreement between AFA and AGBell. AFA already informed AGBell that rally would continue on Friday. AGBell had failed to inform AFA that [...]
Mon, Apr 06 2009
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AGB is the Father of all Deaf Oppression????????
valhallian.com The comments of another blog has inspired me to write this post.  A commenter said that AGB is the Father of all Deaf Oppression. Now that really threw me for a loop, considering the fact that there are other oppressors or practitioners of audism that are far worse than AGB......FAR WORSE!!!! But before I get into [...]
Mon, Apr 06 2009
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Evidence of Audism Behavior from AGB and Ways to Combat...
Deaf Progressivism Summary: This vlog focuses on the evidence of audism behavior by AGBell and how we all have agreed to stop audism but may have different ideas to do it. It is so important to recognize that there is no one right way to do it as it requires multi-approaches to combat audism. The past and recent actions of AG Bell who pressured the media about not showing sign languag...
Sat, Apr 04 2009
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In support of AFA
Dr. DonG.'s Deafhood Discourses QuickTime by: vPIP Embed (copy & paste): close vPIP_setVisible("divEmbedCode195", false); Here is a short video I made in support of AFA.
Fri, Apr 03 2009
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Vibrating floors for deaf dancers
via link submit A report of Sencity at Aalto-Sali in Jyväskylä, Finland. Sencity is a music event for deaf, hard of hearing and hearing. The senses are tickled and everybody can experience music through translation of the emotions in music.Event will again take place on the 25th of April 2009 at Night Jyväskylä in Finland. Also see www.sencityfinland.com.
Fri, Apr 03 2009
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DeafRead VS DVTV!
via link submit Mexpurple, Jugheadit and Aslpride present "DeafRead VS DVTV!" We want to know which one you like? Please leave your vote and comment. Thank you.
Tue, Mar 31 2009
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Sniff Test: Finding Bias
Amy Cohen Efron This blog is dedicated to the parent-driven organization called Hands and Voices. One of the representatives from Hands and Voices came and gave the presentation, and I was there. The best part of the presentation which I've learned was the “Sniff Test”. Sniff Test is the way to help parents to recognize [...]
Mon, Mar 30 2009
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GoAmerica Petition
Ed's Telecom Alert Folks... GoAmerica (The Purple folks) submitted a petition to the FCC. See the link GA Petition Basically GoAmerica is asking the FCC [Quote] "..to amend its rules (1) to prohibit the practice of providing “white label” servicesby uncertified entities receiving compensation from the Interstate TRS Fund through certified providers,and (...
Sat, Mar 28 2009
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NAD Announces DTV Closed Caption Survey
NAD Advocacy Last month, the NAD reported that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will establish a technical working group to address problems with digital television (DTV) closed captioning. We now have a new DTV Closed Caption Survey to learn more about your experiences with closed captions. The information collected in this survey will be shared with the [...]
Sat, Mar 28 2009
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1 of 2 vlogs: Racism and Audism
Deaf Cinematic FilmBlog Click To Play
Thu, Mar 26 2009
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