DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, August 18, 2016
-- interesting lawsuit on discrimination
We have many deaf referees and umpires in many sports
for many years. One of them - Chris Miller is a
basketball referee in high level college basketball.
Anyway, these game officials often need to attend
clinics - some with interpreters, some without.
Lawsuits on no interpreters? Jonathan Breuer
is a softball umpire in New Jersey; he has
requested interpreters for clinics he was
required to attend. After being repeatedly
turned down, he then filed a lawsuit.
His attorney - Andrew Rozynski is a Coda
whose father is a long time softball
umpire. This aspect is interesting.
A picture is at:
http://deafdigest.com/lawsuit-by-deaf-umpire/
-- deaf nightmare in Louisiana
Louisiana has been threatened with flooding.
This state has many deaf residents, and they
own houses that floods have threatened.
Said a hearing neighbor of a deaf family
that lives nearby:
We have a deaf couple; t“They were stucks
in. Obviously they can't use cellphones
even when they turn back on. There was
nothing they could do neither one could
talk. We communicated best they could
which is really a notepad and a pen.
That's about all we had."
Very difficult for interpreters to
reach flood sites and so, deaf people
are dependent on generous hearing
neighbors!
-- the Helen Keller mystery
One the most powerful organizations in
USA is the American Civil Liberties Union
(ACLU). Many web sites credit Helen Keller
as one of the ACLU founders. Was she
really? The ACLU said:
Founded in 1920 by Roger Baldwin, Crystal
Eastman, Walter Nelles, Morris Ernst, Albert
DeSilver, Arthur Garfield Hays, Jane Addams,
Felix Frankfurter, and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn.
Keller's name is not on the list of founders.
This is a mystery!
Latest deaf jobs:
http://deafdigest.com/category/jobs/
Barry's collections of past articles (with today's update)
-- sign language skills levels
http://deafdigest.com/collections/barrys-collections/
08/14/16 Blue and Gold editions at:
http://deafdigest.com/newsletters/
