Welcome to my nifty Dreambook, a free guestbook service from New Dream Network and the DreamHost!If you have a minute, please add your entry to those below by signing my Dreambook!
| Name: | Funny Guy |
| E-mail address: | Staf@chipshop2000.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.bview.co.uk/app/frontend/UserProfile?id=iGKpQdXc1uhuHv-9QDnXUzoV |
| Comments: | What can I say |
| Name: | Kenny |
| E-mail address: | Kritch16@caledonian.ac.uk |
| Comments: | Hi. I am doing a masters degree in Occupational Therapy and most of it concentrates on those with disabilities and how they are percieved. I am about to do a presentation on Charities and the disabled and found some of your views interesting and have included them in my presentation. I think it is important for all avenues to be considered regardless of political interest. In fact from what I have discovered politics play a major part in the oppression of charities and disabled people anyway, therefore my interest is in what is right for the person not a politician. Thank you |
| Name: | Webmaster |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.facebook.com/login.php?pwstdfy=7f8d4a3769f9b7882687277e32d4f181 |
| Comments: | Red Disability now has a space on Facebook.
To go there, follow the above link. |
| Name: | sandy miller |
| E-mail address: | webmaster@disability-love.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.disability-love.com |
| Comments: | Dear Sir or Madam,
First we would like to introduce ourselves. We have developed a new and serious online dating service for people with disabilities. The website address is: http://www.Disability-Love.com The site is a “non-profit project”, is completely free of charge for every user and does not contain any commercial advertising. Since your site addresses the same target group as Disability-Love.com we would be very grateful if you would be interested in a cooperation in the form or a link or bannerexchange. I would be very happy to hear from you soon. Best Regards, Sandy Miller |
| Name: | annette rimmer |
| E-mail address: | a.j.rimmer@salford.ac.uk |
| Comments: | not sure if this is best way to contact you, but i am working on a module called 'Community Groupwork and Citizen Participation'. I wonder if I can use your logo as an example of good 'communtity activism' and refer students to your website??
we are deeply committed to the social model of Disability. Anyway, let me know what I can do to support this excellent educational website. cheers Annette |
| Name: | Julie Lorraine Jackson and Stuart Jackson |
| E-mail address: | j.l.jackson20@cogeco.ca and sjackson20@cogeco.ca |
| Homepage URL: | http://LEAMINGTON ON CANADA |
| Comments: | This is Julie Lorraine Jackson. I born deaf and cerebral palsy anyway. How is friends deaf doing? I am fine but tired anyway. Stu is at working heinz this morning til 4 pm anyway. I love my computer anyway. From Julie Lorraine Jackson and Stuart Jackson |
| Name: | Kiyo |
| E-mail address: | kiyogordon111@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I came to your site looking for a list of famous people with disabilities, to make a comment in my thesis against the misuse of the term "survival of the fittest".
I was thinking, "this website isn't for me" and then I realized, "Oh, yeah, I'm certified handicapped". I think of myself first as a person, and only if my disability becomes a problem, then as a handicapped person. |
| Name: | Webmaster |
| E-mail address: | right here |
| Comments: | Reg, the "flamed by email" wasn't referring to your post or any on the GB. In fact, I'm glad you've had the courage to put your views on the GB where others can respond.
I was referring to some of the emails I've had from the "email me" section of the site (not visible in public) - some of which have been not only petty and nitpicking, but ad-hominem (to say the least!) to boot. You're still welcome to post here (I only censor spam, libel and blatantly oppressive language). Hope that clears things up a bit :-$ |
| Name: | Reginald O'flaherty |
| E-mail address: | asbefore@asbefore.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.bananaguard.com/ |
| Comments: | Didn't mean to upset you. But if you open a discussion board, some folks will disagree with you. I don't think that's what is generally understood by "flaming". I'm challenging a view, not the individual that holds that view.
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| Name: | Anthony Karl Page |
| E-mail address: | right here |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.reddisability.org.uk/ |
| Comments: | Well, Reginald has certainly opened a lively discussion. Although I disagree with all the last 3 posters (being plagued by intense criticism seems to be a "black spot" of running a political website!), I do concede that the article on charities does need re-writing. The changing role of charities, the rise of NGOs, and the difference between charity managers and working class donors and helpers, deserves more of a mention.
I'll post here again when the article has been drafted. (Please don't be too disappointed, Reg and Roland, if it still don't please you. As I've said before when flamed by email - if you want a site that agrees entirely with your own viewpoint, create your own website!) |
| Name: | Brad Logger |
| E-mail address: | yodude1988@btinternet.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.bananaguard.com |
| Comments: | Roland, you are so right.
The communist in this context makes me think of the old retired colonel who has put his shoes on the wrong feet, but is determined to carry on regardless. The whole ideology is based on fundamental misconceptions. |
| Name: | Roland Yersinia |
| E-mail address: | patlageur@batroy.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://http://www.timeout.com/film/76432.html |
| Comments: | Im glad Im not the only one who thinks this web is too extreme. You cant go slagging off charities like that, theyre only trying to help you.
Do you really think orphans are unhappy about the good work of the Christian Brothers in Australia, the gypsies of Pro Juventute in Switzerland, or Irish women of the Magdalene Sisters? I've seen myself the good work charities do, during my tour of India back in '94 I saw how - with the backing of Union Carbide, a multinational company who you commies so detest - the crippled kids of Bhopal were helped. And here in Eyam, we wouldn't have been able to hold this year's Children In Need event at Eyam Castle if it wasnt for the kind bosses of Airtours and Ryanair who helped fund this fundraising event. You really shouldnt be telling disabled people whats good for them. How would you loony lefties like it if whites started telling blacks what to do, or men telling girls what to do, or adults telling kids what to do??? Its only the same thing as what your trying to do. |
| Name: | Reginald O'flaherty |
| E-mail address: | roflaherty@hotmail.co.uk |
| Homepage URL: | http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/red-disability/messages |
| Comments: | My dear boy, your article on charity makes me very sad. Far from being evil, charity is one of the finest constituents of human nature, and is to be encouraged. Children in Need do a sterling job that needs to be done, and failure to recognise this would be churlish. You say that disabled people do not want Children in Need. Do I take it that you have canvassed the views of the entire disabled population, and found it to be unanymously anti-charity? I very much doubt it. I suggest that you are in fact projecting your own views onto the entire disabled community, whether they like it or not. You're peeing in everybody's soup because you don't want any. |
| Name: | Tim Moore |
| E-mail address: | ownerrim@aol.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.disabilitysecrets.com |
| Comments: | I like the aims of your website. The working class and the disabled need advocates who can serve as a voice. |
| Name: | jesse fitzgerald |
| Comments: | hello
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| Name: | webmaster |
| E-mail address: | use link on site |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.reddisability.org.uk |
| Comments: | Many of the guest book entries and emails we receive have mentioned "human nature" as if it is a barrier to disability rights. To dispel this myth, Red Disability now has an article on "Is human nature a barrier to disability rights". |
| Name: | Webmaster |
| E-mail address: | use link on site |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.reddisability.org.uk |
| Comments: | Please note: any spam on this guest book will be deleted, and IPs responsible will be banned! We don't do censorship of opinions, but we don't want this guest book crap-flooded with spam, either! |
| Name: | Anthony Karl Page |
| E-mail address: | link on website |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.respect-clowne.org.uk |
| Comments: | Congratulations to George Galloway on winning the Bethnal Green and Bow parliamentary seat for Respect. Many thanks to all who stood for Respect in the election, and all who campaigned and generally worked to get Respect MPs elected. Regards. |
| Name: | Big Al |
| Comments: | Hey Red join the real world your arguments are old and tired. They have been exhaused in the 60's. There is no wholely communist side to peoples human nature, people aspire to change their lot in life as survival instinct (Look at China & Russia) to better themselves and family. Hence trade, landowners, business leaders and capatalism. Why you wasting you time & money on this website when your communist self being could help feed a family for a month in Rawanda or where ever because the capitalist in you judges your needs and comforts to be more important. Human nature will never tollorate that we all suffer eaqually. Every individual aspires to rise above their peers. Some people are mature enough to relise this early on in life.......what about you? |
| Name: | Marlon Publico |
| E-mail address: | marlon_publico |
| Comments: | please count me in, it's good to know that there is a website like this. goodluck and more power! God Bless. |
| Name: | Webmaster |
| E-mail address: | use link on page |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.reddisability.org.uk |
| Comments: | Red Disability is a political website, with the aim of removing the barriers in society which make disability into a handicap. As such, there isn't a lot of info of how to look after disabled people, because we would like to see a society in which disabled people have independent lives. However, in response to Mr Bacer's comments, we have added a section on links for carers.
However, we are not going to change our political views. Sorry to disappoint the pest from Eyam, but we still believe that disabled people should have equal access to employment, education, leisure, entertainment, transport and public facilities. |
| Name: | Roland Yersinia |
| E-mail address: | rolandyersinia@tropicalstorm.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.goblinc.demon.co.uk/rolandr.html |
| Comments: | Well said, Mr Racer. I am 22 years old, and I too have been looking after my disabled nanna since the age of 16. I too am disappointed with this web. Where are the links to charity fundraising events, and tragic stories to make normal people feel sorry for the handicapped?
I am appalled by the idea that the handicapped should be allowed to do everything normal people do. How can a blind man play a piano, when he cant see the keys. And it would be ridiculous to expect a diabetic to play football in the premier league. But the most ridiculous page on this web is the one that implies disabled people should be allowed into the army in non-combat jobs. If they cant fight as a soldier, theres no place for them. Its a bit like saying we should allow people to be air hostesses if they cant even fly a plane in an emergency, or allow someone to be the boss of an electronics company if they cant build or repair electronics stuff when the workers go on strike. Stop being so politically correct, and use your head for a change !!! If you guys really want to help get disability rights, how about coming over to Eyam and helping me push my nanna up the stairs. Then youd see disability isnt just caused by society. |
| Name: | Roy Bacer |
| E-mail address: | rbacer@pipex.net.uk |
| Comments: | I find this website very bizarre, I care for my son who is disabled. the information on this site is very poor and really isn't worthwhile. You obviously haven't been in a situation that calls for 24 hour care of another person, which I do daily. I wonder what is this site trying to do? because I am baffled as to a real purpose for it. just what is this? a vehicle to spread political propaganda.
Please at least have something relevant to the people you are aiming at, really is it too much to ask. |
| Name: | alun |
| E-mail address: | aluncouk@hotmail.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://aluncouk.homestead.com/Mywords.html |
| Comments: | aluncouk aluncouk@hotmail.com
Thanks for looking round my web page and leaving a message xxx |
| Name: | alun |
| E-mail address: | aluncouk@hotmail.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://aluncouk.homestead.com/Mywords.html |
| Comments: | Just looking round the net as I was speaking to a deaf frend of mine. And i have hearing problems my self. What ive read has opend my eyes to so much more and makes me more determend to lern to sighn as am back at college doing more in college. And trying to get in to teaching. I was in a class as I had lerning problems and wanted to do computers but was never alowed to. So what I think I shuld do as it is a new year start a new beginging lern to sighn finish my coure and my teaching coure and then help thows that need it most. Just reading what I have upto now has made me realise how hard it must be for young desf peopel to comunicat and find informaton and even explan what thay are looking for. |
| Name: | Adryan Linden |
| E-mail address: | adryan.linden@chello.se |
| Comments: | Hallo,
My name is Adryan Linden. I’m from Sweden. In Sweden I’m well know as a radical disabilityculture/rights ideologue. I have created the idea of The Disability Nation and the ideology disability transnationalism. You get this message because I believe you could be interested in my thoughts and me. We disabled need to create our own United Nations. Why? I strongly believe that we disabled all around the world are members of a own and common culture and we can only defend our people from the global injustice committed towards us by non-disabled with a global organization. This organization should be constructed in a similar fashion as United Nation, but more like a global parliament - this vision has a name: I call it The Disability Nation. As I said in the beginning, I have created disability transnationalism. It’s an ideology based on the vision that disabled with genetically disabilities or born with disabilities – are not disabled as in sick, but members of ethnical groups. This mean that the daily oppression and discrimination against us with genetically disabilities or born with disabilities are based on racism. I hope this short introduction of me will lead to more interest in my thoughts and me, if it do –make contact with me! Sincerely, Adryan Linden adryan.linden@chello.se |
| Name: | doug hay |
| E-mail address: | doug_ug@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | hi.
like the paper. i'm from new zealand and i believe disabled should have their own seat on that u.n. security council. it might help fight the world's injustice towards didabled by non disabled. what are your thoughts.........doug |
| Name: | Gary de Niger |
| Homepage URL: | http://gnaa.us |
| Comments: | http://groups.google.com/groups?q=montepulciano&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&safe=off&selm=wdr-1808991954150001%40rohwer.hip.berkeley.edu&rnum=2
Would you like some cheese with that whine, Luigi? |
| Name: | luigi |
| E-mail address: | fortescuti@montepulciano.it |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.emrf.org/Education%20and%20Training/Glossary%20Page%20T.html |
| Comments: | I notice you have had another go at defining capitalism, following the comments below. Nice try. However, it's still a pile of crap. Perhaps it would be worth your while to read up on the rudiments of economics before making another attempt. |
| Name: | bertram |
| E-mail address: | bertiebuzzard@netscape.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=%5eDJI&t=1d&c= |
| Comments: | and another thing:
"political correctness" is not a wholesome thing. The expression was first coined by Mao to highlight the difference between "factual correctness" (ie the truth) and "political correctness" (ie propaganda). |
| Name: | Anthony Karl Page |
| Comments: | What-everrrr !!! |
| Name: | bertram |
| E-mail address: | mndyourown@business.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://patent.gov |
| Comments: | that's a no then. |
| Name: | Mandy |
| E-mail address: | mcoburn@thewaldos.co.uk |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.henryvac.co.uk/henry.htm |
| Comments: | The question of whether you know what Capitalism means can be cleared up quite simply, by looking at the definition that you give:
“Capitalism is a world-wide system, in which the factors of production (that's the machines and factories used to make goods which we use) are owned by a tiny minority of people, who have enormous wealth. The rest of us must work for this tiny minority of capitalists, who make their obscene wealth by exploiting our labour power.” The key characteristic of Capitalism is not the concentration of wealth in a tiny minority of people. It is the ability of individuals or collections of individuals (ie The Market) to make decisions regarding how best to employ Capital, as opposed to these decisions being made solely by the state. Capital is, in fact, not a dirty word. Capital is anything of value available for use in the production of other things of value. A farm is Capital. A hammer is Capital. A sickle is Capital. These are not bad stuff. |
| Name: | Anthony Karl Page |
| E-mail address: | anthonypage@lineone.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://right here |
| Comments: | Actually, disability is not caused by capitalism (although the definition of what is considered a disability is determined by the needs of capitalism). It is the handicaps associated with disability that are the fault of capitalism. We hope, in the near future, to add an article explaining this in more detail.
If you don't think we know what capitalism is, and how it affects us, re-read the articles. Some of them, notably the "are we being unreasonable" article, also explain what we can do to fight against capitalism and its effects. |
| Name: | joey |
| E-mail address: | jmalony@dial.pipex.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.planetmobility.com/store/wheelchairs/manual/colours/spazz/ |
| Comments: | Have to say I agree with arbuthnot. Your Capitalism kick is just ranting.
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| Name: | arbuthnot |
| E-mail address: | strictly_incognito@yahoo.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I have enjoyed looking at your site. You express your opinions clearly, and make a lot of though-provoking points. Just one thing though:
After the first few pages, it becomes quite funny that everything is always the fault of Capitalism. Disability is caused by Capitalism. Drought is caused by Capitalism. Mount St Helens blew up because of Capitalism. With every reference to it it becomes harder to believe that you know what Capitalism means, let alone have a substantial argument against it. |
| Name: | Anthony Karl Page |
| E-mail address: | reddisability AT souladequate.plus.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.geocities.com/funnelwebslander |
| Comments: | This last comment couldn't be a more obvious troll if it had pointy ears! However, for those who don't know the difference between real socialism and the state capitalism of the USSR and China, an article explaining the differences will be published on Red Disability soon. In the meantime, if it's a laugh you want, check out our "bastard sister" website Funnel Web (link above) |
| Name: | Anon |
| E-mail address: | Anon@anon.com |
| Comments: | Sort it out, get that chip off your shoulder and get on with it. Nobody says that capitalism is perfect, but are you seriously suggesting that the oppressive socialist regimes that we have seen in the USSR and China, to name but two, are better? |
| Name: | catherine |
| E-mail address: | cduchastel@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | hi,
i found your website informative and exciting as well, as an anarchist activist living with a disability myself, even if some of it's idealogical viewpoints are somewhat different, our goals seem similar nonetheless. one comment, in your disability fact file you should include more info on invisible disabilities, such as epilepsy(i have epilepsy :) ),fibromalgya,athropose etc. not that they exist in some kind of value dichotomy(one nore important than another)but they should get equal lip sevice. |
| Name: | Anthony Karl Page |
| E-mail address: | anthonykarlpage@tiscali.co.uk |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.no-curfews.org.uk |
| Comments: | Kindly leave the cliff ... whatever your views on Michael Bolton (admittedly, he's not really my kind of music, I'm more of a dance music person myself), he does have a number of fans who this website does not want to alienate. We certainly do not want to alienate any deaf readers either, being deaf is not a problem, it's only capitalism that makes deafness a handicap! |
| Name: | jerk |
| E-mail address: | haha |
| Comments: | Michael Bolton deaf in one ear? Oh, that explains everything. (I would've guessed both though) |
| Name: | Raven Magic |
| E-mail address: | ravenmagic2003@yahoo.ca |
| Comments: | While I quite enjoyed reading the information on this website, I was dismayed to find a few errors and a few omissions.
Albert Einstein was autistic. In fact, Asperger's (a form of high functioning autism) is interchangeably referred to as Einstein Syndrome. It is believed that Isaac Newton was also an Asperger sufferer. You failed to mention Isaac Asimov (famous physicist and science fiction writer), Glenn Gould (famous concert pianist) and Temple Grandin (inventor - still living) ... all of whom are autistics. I do applaud this incredible undertaking. Your dedication to removing the invisible barriers that society places on those who are differently abled is amazing. |
| Name: | Sarah |
| E-mail address: | sarah_mann@canada.com |
| Comments: | I'm sure you have information to back it up but I disagree that wearing glasses is a "disablilty". Wearing glasses doesn't hamper anyone from doing anything you just have to wear glasses. |
| Name: | Lindsey Ross |
| Comments: | I found your website when looking for info. on oppression for a university assignment. I am doing a social work, nursing and learning disability course and i am constantly in contact with ignorant people who have the wrong attitude. At the moment i am helping to link health practitioners to the nursing aspect of my course in order to try and change peoples views on disability, a lack of training and societal influences are making future nurses as ignorant as ever.
I just wanted to say its good to see a website that is full of passion, and writen for a reason. It will definately make people think and if people condemn you for being so blunt thats their problem, ill be passing the address on to other students! |
| Name: | John Davies |
| E-mail address: | john@jdavies96.fsnet.co.uk |
| Comments: | Just to let you know there's a current online poll to find "100 Welsh Heroes" at website by that name. I'm sure you will agree Tanni Grey-Thompson, the great paralympic athlete, deserves to be included in the 100. I see from your info here that Richard Burton and Harry Secombe also had disabilities.
You can vote in 5 categories; as well as Performers, there's Leaders, Thinkers, Creative and Groundbreakers. Some possible other candidates; Leaders; David Lloyd George, Henry V, Henry VII, Owain Glyndwr, Neil Kinnock, Roy Jenkins, Michael Heseltine, Hywel Dda (10th century law-maker), Llywelyn ab Iorwerth; Thinkers; Alfred Wallace (co-originator of the theory of evolution by natural selection), St David, St Patrick (from Wales), Rowan Williams, Bertrand Russell, Robert Owen (pioneering socialist), Richard Price (18th century "apostle of liberty", humanist thinker); Performers; Tom Jones, James Dean Bradfield, Shirley Bassey, Bryn Terfel, Gareth Edwards, Barry John, John Charles, Jimmy wilde (great boxer)Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta Jones; Creative; Dylan Thomas, Roald Dahl, R.S.Thomas, Dafydd ap Gwilym (great medieval poet), Kyffin Williams (artist), Gwen John, Laura Ashley; Groundbreakers; T.E.Lawrence, David Hughes (inventor- radio transmission, microphone, teleprinter), Princess Diana (by adoption), Jemima Nicholas (captured French troops invading Fishguard in 1797), Henry Morgan (pirate), Henry Stanley explorer)... Please pass this on. |
| Name: | Robert M. Hensel |
| E-mail address: | wheelierecord@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Robert M. Hensel
215 East 8th Street. Oswego, NY 13126 USA. To whom it may concern, I was wondering if maybe you would be interested in adding me to the site. To give you a little background on me, I am a 34 year old man born with a birth defect known as Spina Bifida. I am an advocate for the disabled & an International published poet with 900 publications under my belt. Along with the above, I am also in the Guinness book of world Records, for the longest non stop wheelie in a wheel chair, for which I covered a total distance of 6.178 miles. The reason for my attempt, was to help raise money for wheel chair ramps in my community. Please let me know if including me on your site is at all possible. Thank You for your time:) Please check me out in the 2004 edition of the Guinness book, which is out in book stores now! Yours Truly, Robert M. Hensel |
| Name: | Alice Ward |
| E-mail address: | wardga@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I have a cousin who has a reading disability and is very discouraged. He is only in the 4th grade and the school is telling his mother that she should accept that he is "not a scholar." I know he is smart, and my aunt and I refuse to believe that we should just accept this. Can you tell me of any famous people who have dislexia and their story of strggling through school? I want to start writing stories fit to his reading level with real characters to encourage him. THe name of his disorder is a form of auditory short term memory, which means that if he reads a new word in a sentence and sounds it out, three sentences later he will have to do the same thing. Please help us; the school refuses to. |
| Name: | L Richens |
| E-mail address: | lrichens@yahoo.co.uk |
| Comments: | I have just been looking for some articles that would help me prepare for a debate on harrassment, bullying & discrimination in the army and i stumbled on one of your articles about allowing disabled people into the armed forces. Now before you judge me, my own mother is disabled and i am a member of the medical branch, however i find your article an insult to the armed forces. I am sure that there would be certain jobs that disabled people could do, but you are forgetting one thing. We are a fighting ARMY that in todays times in highly manouverable. can you imagine someone as a desk officer in the desert trying to erect his command post in a wheelchair. You people don't think today, your all to much in a hurry to be politicaly correct. An Army's main function is it's war fighting ability. We are not talking about a job down the local DIY shop. Please sit back and listen to what you are saying, and try to imagine the implications it would have on the rest of us. |
| Name: | Maria |
| E-mail address: | mariab@colba.net |
| Comments: | nice web page. How does one get in touch with you? I'd like to offer to have some of my articles linked to your page & get more info on what and how the left & disability work in the UK
Maria |
| Name: | Barrie Ellis |
| E-mail address: | info@OneSwitch.org.uk |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.oneswitch.org.uk |
| Comments: | OneSwitch: A new ART and LEISURE resource for and by people with moderate to severe learning disabilities.
Revolutionary art and music ideas and techniques, as well as unique enabling equipment from Playstation switch interfaces to Dog Betting Systems. Cheers! |