equity

More than tolerence

February 9, 2011

Stella’s editorial on Ramp Up is spot on. We tolerate being just tolerated. We talk about respect, we might ask for it. We don’t expect equality . Therefore logically we don’t get it as often as we tell ourselves privately we should. We tolerate really bad weather. We tolerate that annoying person who sits next [...]

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Not that long ago, the origin of the fruit and veggies in our supermarkets was a lot less important to the general populous than it is now. Barring the scandals of oil spills and contamination reports we supermarket shoppers were largely content to believe that the fruit and vegetables that were being presented to us [...]

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A blocked view

July 22, 2009

This is the first time I’ve heard of disability used as a reason to retain a million dollar view. The disability community  and developers have an uneasy relationship at the best of times usually around useability and function rather than location per se. It is interseting that according to this piece: At the request of [...]

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