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 Pride parade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A pride parade is part of a festival or ceremony held by the LGBT community of a city to commemorate the struggle for gay liberation, gay rights, and gay pride.
On July 22, 2005 the first Latvian gay pride march took place in Riga, surrounded by protesters.
On July 1 at the same year, a parade took place in Jerusalem on similar conditions (a municipal ban, canceled by the court), when a young ultra-Orthodox Jewish man tried to murder 3 people with a kitchen knife.
www.knowledgehunter.info /wiki/Pride_parade   (587 words)

  
 Pride is Power - What is Disability Pride - Disabiltiy Pride is Power
Disability Pride is an integral part of movement building, and a direct challenge to systemic ableism and stigmatizing definitions of disability.
It is a militant act of self-definition, a purposive valuing of that which is socially devalued, and an attempt to untangle ourselves from the complex matrix of negative beliefs, attitudes, and feelings that grow from the dominant group's assumption that there is something inherently wrong with our disabilities and identity.
An excerpt from the website: "Disability Pride is a project — and an attitude — that encourages children with disabilities to take pride in who they are and what they have to contribute to their communities.
www.disabledandproud.com /power.htm   (2767 words)

  
 umbrella :: volunteer in chicago   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This is the 3rd annual parade extoling the disabled as a community that is not ashamed of being disabled.
Sarah Triano wrote for the Encyclopedia of Disability: "Disability pride represents a rejection of the notion that our physical, sensory, mental, and cognitive differences from the non-disabled...
Umbrella Magazine needs a group of people to help pass out flyers on week days/weekends at various events and locations throughout Chicago to help get the word out.
www.umbrellamag.com /volunteer.php   (1092 words)

  
 AAPD-Where Are They Now?
A portion of the proceeds from sales of these products support the nation's first locally-based Leadership/Organizing Project for Youth with Disabilities at Access Living in Chicago, which Sarah directs.
Also to promote disability pride, Sarah is working diligently to spread her message among allies and other progressive movements.
In 2003, she participated in the Midwest Training Academy's Organizer Training, began an on-going dialogue with the Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership in Detroit, participated in the NOW/AAPD Conference in October, and is co-sponsoring an Intergenerational Dialogue on Youth Organizing that features such celebrated civil rights leaders as Bob Lucas and Grace Lee Boggs.
www.aapd.com /gala/gala04/awardswherearethey.html   (4523 words)

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