"HEW sit-in continues - Disabled vow long fight."
from Day 6 of the nearly month-long sit-in.
highlights:
CeCe Weeks said: "It's the first militant thing we've ever done. There is a new political movement throughout the land. We're going to stay till we're dragged out."
Although HEW Secretary Califano said he would sign the revised regulations, Kitty Conetalks about how those are inadequate and called upon President Carter to sign the original regs immediately as he had promised he would do.
State Director of the Department Of Rehabilitation Ed Roberts (former CIL Director) said "We've got to keep up the pressure."
Demonstrators Mary Jane Owen and then-CIL Deputy Director Judith Heumann had gone on a hunger strike.
Donations were pouring in from "such politically dissimilar groups as the Black Panthers and Safeway stores, McDonald's and the United Farm Workers. 'We couldn't do this without the support from outside," Cone said. 'We're really excited by the community's response.'"
"We're basically happy and strong," Weeks said. "There's more energy here all the time," she said.
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That was indeed a time. The attached photo is a scan from a book of about 100 Daily Cal front pages: "The Daily Californian's Best of Berkeley 1960-1980, publ by the Independent Berkeley Student Publishing Company, 1980.
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Daily Cal photo caption:
“The nearly 100 protesting disabled staged a sit-in [to demand the passage of the long-delayed Regulations implementing section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act] at San Francisco’s HEW Office.”
Section 504, the first disability civil rights act, Required nondiscrimination of people with disabilities by end of the end by any entity receiving federal funds.
These Regulations became the model for the Americans with Disabilities Act 13 years later, which prohibited discrimination against people with disabilities in virtually all areas of public life.
highlights:
CeCe Weeks said: "It's the first militant thing we've ever done. There is a new political movement throughout the land. We're going to stay till we're dragged out."
Although HEW Secretary Califano said he would sign the revised regulations, Kitty Conetalks about how those are inadequate and called upon President Carter to sign the original regs immediately as he had promised he would do.
State Director of the Department Of Rehabilitation Ed Roberts (former CIL Director) said "We've got to keep up the pressure."
Demonstrators Mary Jane Owen and then-CIL Deputy Director Judith Heumann had gone on a hunger strike.
Donations were pouring in from "such politically dissimilar groups as the Black Panthers and Safeway stores, McDonald's and the United Farm Workers. 'We couldn't do this without the support from outside," Cone said. 'We're really excited by the community's response.'"
"We're basically happy and strong," Weeks said. "There's more energy here all the time," she said.
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That was indeed a time. The attached photo is a scan from a book of about 100 Daily Cal front pages: "The Daily Californian's Best of Berkeley 1960-1980, publ by the Independent Berkeley Student Publishing Company, 1980.
—
Daily Cal photo caption:
“The nearly 100 protesting disabled staged a sit-in [to demand the passage of the long-delayed Regulations implementing section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act] at San Francisco’s HEW Office.”
Section 504, the first disability civil rights act, Required nondiscrimination of people with disabilities by end of the end by any entity receiving federal funds.
These Regulations became the model for the Americans with Disabilities Act 13 years later, which prohibited discrimination against people with disabilities in virtually all areas of public life.
