From: ADAPT <cyanosis@igc.apc.org>
Subject: 09/92 - The Disability Rag (1/6)
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 08:19:11 GMT

/* Written  9:00 pm  Jan  2, 1993 by cyanosis@igc.apc.org in igc:gen.diffable */
/* ---------- "09/92 - The Disability Rag" ---------- */

The Disability Rag

(America's Hard News Disability Magazine)

     Part Zero

Contents

Masthead

Note from Yellow Dream Machine

     Part One

SPECIAL SECTION (part one)

The Telethon
 
History of the controversy
 
     Part Two

SPECIAL SECTION (part two)

MDA's finances, research and services
 
Activism
 
Jerry Lewis 
 
     Part Three

SPECIAL SECTION (part three)

The larger target
 
Future directions
 
     Part Four
 
NEWS
First-in-nation law requires access in single family houses
Anti-ADA bills enter Congress
John Hockenberry sues
Institutions protested
ADAPT gets a plaque
 
FEATURES 
 
Three Poems
by Cheryl Marie Wade
 
Disability Culture Rap
by Cheryl Marie Wade
 
 
DEPARTMENTS (part one)
 
Reading 
Ragland
Ragtime 
We wish we wouldn't see  
 
    Part Five

DEPARTMENTS (part two)

Letters
Ads

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     MASTHEAD 
 
Publisher: The Advocado Press, Inc.
Editor: Mary Johnson
Managing Editor: Sharon Kutz Mellem
Fiction Editor: Anne Finger
Recording: Tom Deniston   
Large Print: Ramona Shaw
Circulation: Ann Johnson
Administrative Support: Mary Ann Ostertag
Volume 13, No.5, September/October, 1992. Copyright 1992  
by The Advocado Press, Inc. (ISSN 
0749-9596). The Disability Rag cannot accept 
responsibility for unsolicited materials. 
Materials submitted for publication cannot be returned 
unless accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed 
envelope. The Rag reserves the right to edit all 
materials. Send submissions and letters to the 
editor, as well as subscriptions and circulation inquiries 
to our office in Louisville.
Editorial office: The Disability Rag, Box 145, Louisville, 
KY 40201
Circulation and subscription office: The Disability Rag, 
1962 Roanoke, Louisville, KY 
40205.
Indexed in the Alternative Press Index (Box 33190, 
Baltimore, MD 21218-0401).
Available on microfilm in the Alternative Press collection 
of  University Microfilms, 300 
N. Zeeb Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48106.

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     Note from Sysop of the Yellow Dream Machine

Written January 2, 1992

     In the previous on-line distribution of The 
Disability Rag, I gave the address and number of The 
Disability Rag.  The Rag then received many inquiries 
about how to get The Rag on-line.  The Rag has no modem 
and does not know what places The Rag can be downloaded 
with a modem.  What The Rag can do is offer computer users 
a mail subscription to get The Rag on a computer disk.  
Users may select IBM format (made from conversion from 
MacIntosh) or MacIntosh format.  Each will give you a disk 
with ASCII files.

I upload The Disability Rag to The Handicap News BBS:

Fidonet:    The Handicap News BBS (141/420)   1-203-337-1607
            (300/1200/2400 baud, 24 hours)
UUCP:       {oliveb, isc-br}!bunker!wtm
Internet:   wtm@bunker.shel.isc-br.com
Bitnet:     l-hcap@ndsuvm1.bitnet
Compuserve: 73170,1064
Voice:      1-203-337-1518
Mail:       c/o ISC-Bunker Ramo
            2 Enterprise Drive
            Shelton, CT 06484

     Users who know how to use Internet ftp to get files
can access The Disability Rag through the Internet address 
of The Handicap News BBS.  Users and sysops who can do 
FidoNet freq can get The Disability Rag through The 
Handicap News.

     I upload to the HandiNet BBS:
804-496-3320 VA Virginia Beach  
HandiNet BBS (275/429) 
     The Handi-Net BBS sends The Disability Rag to ADA-Net 
boards on the ADA-Net file distribution system.

     I upload to CompuServe and GEnie in their disability 
file areas.

     I upload to UseNet.  Handicap News sysop Bill McGarry 
is co-moderator of the Usenet conference misc.handicap, 
and will upload to the misc.handicap conference if I 
forget to do so.  I also endeavor to upload to the 
conference misc.handicap.progressive on UseNet.

     I upload to the conference gen.diffable on the Peace-
Net system, which is part of the international system 
Association for Progressive Communication.  

     Now, here come the part I do not look forward to.  My 
apology for being late with the upload.  I can say many 
things, including my energies expended as an ADAPT member 
at ADAPT functions and demonstrations; my heart disease 
and psychiatric disability;  projects such as working with 
people who are starting a center for homeless people with 
disabilities.  But there is no real excuse;  I am just 
plain behind in my duties as sysop.  I will use this note 
as an excuse to introduce users to my favorite co-sysop:

     This is my December Message for 1992.  It takes the form of 
a poem.  May whatever season you are in (Christmas, Chanukah, 
Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice Festival, or whatever) be kindly to all 
of you.

     Ode to Quiches the Cat
     Copyright 1992 by Bill Scarborough
     Version 1.01

Am I to my Lord
As my cat is to me?

I get her out of trouble as best as I can.
She jumps into messes with zap without plan.

I try to protect her and keep away from her
Things that will harm her and foods that may poison her.

I give her instruction a human will give
With words as like "No!" and like "Ouch!" 
     as I hope she shall live.
I put things away and on upper shelves
To give her some safety and physical health.

But cats do not listen as we humans may like.
They jump and they run and they crawl into corners,
     and they crawl and they crouch, and then they do strike.
They do as they please without thinking ahead;
We hope and we pray that they don't end up dead.

We humans are like that in terms of our Lord.
We scratch on the furniture and pounce on a roach;
We get into trouble and jump off the porch.
The Lord as our Shepherd is surely not bored.

My Lord, She protects me as I try to protect
Dear little Quiches, who I'll never neglect.
And I get into trouble, but I don't answer my name
When the call of the Lord is about the domain.

Am I to my Lord
As my cat is to me?

                              Bill Scarborough
     Sysop, Yellow Dream Machine B B S, (512) 451-3222
     Regular Mail: 7744 Northcross # N-256, Austin, 
Texas, 78757-1722, United States of America
     FidoNet: c/o The River City Mail Box B B S, 1:382/4
     Internet: cyanosis@igc.org
     GEnie: SCARBOROUG
     Prodigy: KDBT81A
     CompuServe: 71621,3206



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