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By James I. Charlton
Charlton reveals an antidote for dependency and powerlessness within the resistance to incapacity oppression that's rising all over the world. His interviews include amazing tales of self-reliance and empowerment evoking the recent realization of incapacity rights activists. As a latecomer one of the world's liberation activities, the incapacity rights move will achieve visibility and momentum from Charlton's elucidation of its heritage and its political philosophy of self-determination, that's captured within the name of his book.
Nothing approximately Us with no Us expresses the conviction of individuals with disabilities that they recognize what's top for them. Charlton's mixture of non-public involvement and theoretical expertise assures larger figuring out of the incapacity rights movement.
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I had to find the subway, go shopping, do my own cleaning. I was in London for three years. The last two were some of the happiest times in my life. I got to go to plays, travel around, and I even played in a pub band one year before the Beatles were known. We used to play the music of Buddy Holly, the Shadows, and Cliff Richard.... " The relationship of race to class is blurred in Asia and Latin America, although it is equally important. In Asia, ethnicity and nationality transcend race. The Vietnamese denigra'te the Chinese; the Chinese do the same to Filipinos; Thais look down on Laotians; and almost everyone 40 DISABILITY OPPRESSION AND EVERYDAY LIFE hates the Japanese.
These people are organizers, agitators, and educators who make up the disability rights movement. Nothing About Us Without Us: The Politics and Organization of Empowerment The disability rights movement is not unlike other new and important social movements demanding self-representation and control over the resources needed to live a decent life. Two years after hearing the slogan "Nothing About Us Without Us" in South Mrica, I noticed on the front page of the Mexico City daily La Jornada a picture of thousands of landless peasants marching under the banner "Nunca Mas Sin Nosotros" (Never Again Without Us) (March 19, 1995).
The answer is two-sided, sociocultural and political-economic. On one side are the panoply of reactionary and iconoclastic attitudes about disability. These are addressed briefly in the next section and in depth in chapter 4. On the other side stands a political-economic formation that does not need and in fact cannot accommodate a vast group ofpeople in its production, exchange, and reproduction. Put differently, 24 DISABILITY OPPRESSION AND EVERYDAY LIFE people with disabilities, like many others, are preponderantly part of a worldwide phenomenon that James O'Connor called "surplus population" (1973:161)3 and Istvan Meszaros called "superfluous people" (1995:702).