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October 21, 2024

Charges Dropped Against Deaf Black Man Who Was Brutalized by Arizona Police

In Arizona, charges have been dropped against a deaf Black man with
cerebral palsy who was beaten and tasered by police officers in August
after being falsely accused of stealing a cellphone. Newly released
video of Tyron Mc Alpin's arrest showed officers violently confronting
the deaf man, who was unable to hear the officers' commands. Mc Alpin
was then jailed for 24 days because he could not afford bail.

#arizona #crebral-palsy #police-brutality #tyron-mcalpin #deaf #arizona-police

claralistensprechen3rd@friendica.myportal.social

Well said!

Small reminder needed though--before the US, there was France. The US picked up where France left off.


Ms. Que Banh - 2024-06-16 23:26:23 GMT

#Transcription of my #speech for #deaf folks - as it wasn't provided on vid.Hi, everyone. Thank you for showing up with #community #solidarity, to call for a #PermanentCeasefire in support of #Palestinians who are suffering #famine & #genocidal violence under #Israeli occupational forces.

My name is Que & I'm a survivor of the #USinvasion #WarOnVietnam I was a #WarChild conceived & born under active shelling & had #IntergenerationalTrauma pre & post birth.

We were #displaced from our homes & survived in a #RefugeeCamp in Indonesia for a year. We were sponsored to come to Canada in late 1979 as #WarRefugees, seeking #asylum.

My patriarch family lived in #Cholon the #Chinese District in #Saigon & my matriarch family lived in a tiny village near Canto near the Hau River in #SouthVietnam. Both sides of my family had already lived through multiple foreign invasions & foreign militarized imperialism & colonialism by the time the US invaded & occupied our lands.

Many of us living Vietnam war civilian survivors can relate so well to the many struggles, the suffering, the violent foreign occupation & also the passionate resilience & resistance of the Palestinian peoples.

Throughout the 1960s into the 1970s both areas that my family lived in were carpet bombed. My Matriarch family village was bombed out of existence by 1970. The rebuilding took 18 years. Cholon was #CarpetBombed twice & the scenes from those aftermaths are eerily similar to the scenes from #Gaza after #Israel carpet bombed the area.

The #USmilitary used #Vietnamese #civilians as involuntary guinea pigs. They tested out never used before #WarMunitions including #biochemical warfare like #AgentOrange & #NerveGasBombs on our peoples.

Our peoples, our lands, our waters - still suffer the toxic & deadly effects from the illegal - illegal #biowarfare chemical uses by the #USA to this day & our peoples & especially our children are still suffering from the many leftover war munitions, exploding, maiming & killing innocent civilians.

Israel is treating the Palestinian peoples very much like the USA had treated our Vietnamese peoples. Like we are not human. We do not deserve to live. The dehumanization of Palestinians is too similar to how the USA dehumanized our Vietnamese peoples. We're savages. We are vermin. We're stupid tunnel rats. We're gooks & we deserve to die.

The USA bombed our #schools, our #hospitals, our #temples, our #ResidentialAreas - just like Israel has bombed schools, hospitals, temples & residential areas in Palestine. The USA has more powerful weapons of mass destruction while fighting resistance forces with much less firepower. The Vietnamese #ResistanceForces also used #TunnelSystems & some of them are now part of an #educational #LivingMuseum.

Vietnam is now #SovereignNation because the occupational militarized US forces left which opened up our path to #DiplomaticNegotiations. Palestinians deserve their true path to diplomatic Solutions too. They deserve a sovereign state. That can not happen without a permanent - not a temporary - a permanent ceasefire - an end to #IllegalOccupation by Israel.

You cannot occupy & oppress a people & claim you are a #democracy. True #Democratic states do not occupy & oppress people for decades. True Democratic states do not jail, murder & deny #PressFreedom to #journalists. True democratic states do not arrest, vilify, nor illegally detain their own citizens with dissenting voices. True democratic states don't continue to violate multiple #InternationalLaws so openly & so disrespectfully.

Israel has become too #arrogant that's mainly due to the Western powers like the USA & #Canada continuing to put their #WarProfiteer interests over #humanitarian & global #PublicInterests.

At a time when we need an arms embargo on Israel, the US & Canada sent billions more in war munitions & funding to Israel. It is shameful.

Our politicians tell us there's not enough money to fund more essential health & medical service needs. There's not enough money to increase the pay scale of essential medical staff. There's not enough money to fund environmental protection & cleanups. There's not enough to help our seniors & disabled not live in poverty anxiety. There's not enough to fund safer, more inclusive, accessible education. There's not enough to provide more low income & some more support of housing for our most marginalized citizens. These are all citizen needs that our governments have told they cannot afford to fully fund but they can find billions to fund ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. That is not okay & that is not in our public interest.

I urge everyone here to please keep contacting all of your local provincial & federal representatives in every way possible & ask them to please push Trudeau to call for both a permanent ceasefire & to initiate an arms embargo on Israel - NOW.

Please keep having the conversations with people you know & people you don't know about Palestine. The conversations are important. Please keep standing in solidarity with Gaza & all Palestinians.

The antidote to despair is action. This here is humanity in action & I thank all of you for showing your humanity & your ongoing support of Palestinians because remember, no democracy can exist without the freedom of citizens dissenting voices and I appreciate all of your voices dissenting, against our government who is still supporting genocide.

Free Palestine!

claralistensprechen3rd@friendica.myportal.social

Better: Learn sign language #ASL


Juggling With Eggs - 2024-02-28 21:17:45 GMT

Recently I’ve been reading more about the emotional side of #hearing loss.I assumed that because I was born moderately #deaf that I hadn’t experienced loss in the ‘emotional’ sense, because I’d never known any different.

But I now see how hard I have been on myself and how my lack of hearing really dented my confidence as a child, teenager and young person in work.

Whether your deafness is recent or lifelong it’s ok to acknowledge the frustration and isolation

http://tinyurl.com/mryehazx

steve@deafaspora.simons.earth

Look where our Wellbeing group visited on Thursday the Greater Manchester Police Museum. A big thank you to them for a warm welcome.

If anyone is interested in joining our Wellbeing group please contact waite@manchesterdeafcentre.com 🙂

#deaf #wellbeing #Manchester

danie10@squeet.me

New DEAFinition App helps you communicate with deaf friends and family

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A new South African app called DEAFinition, developed by mobile app specialists Codehesion, helps users to learn the basics of sign language to communicate with deaf friends and family.

DEAFinition is a non-profit company providing a range of services and funding opportunities to promote equal access for the deaf community.

The SASL DEAFinition App, available to Android and iPhone users, offers reference videos and material for the official sign language used by deaf people in South Africa.

See https://mybroadband.co.za/news/industrynews/430840-new-deafinition-app-helps-you-communicate-with-deaf-friends-and-family.html

#technology #mobile #deaf #hearing #disability
#Blog, ##deaf, ##disability, ##hearing, ##technology

silvia@rede-social.pt

Irish Parents standing up for their children at last.
The inhumanity and trauma inflicted already is leaving a trail of devastation among our teenagers and young adults. At last younger children are being guarded by their parents doing their parental duty.

#parent #irish #ireland #nphet #hiqa #covid #parenting #primaryschool #homeschooling #humanrights #socialanxiety #panicattacks #childhood #deaf #hearingimpaired #rightsofthechild
#coercion #massformation #compliance

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iRhMusbJZN0&feature=share

steve@deafaspora.simons.earth

Well if the English Cabinet can pay lip service to the 2010 Equality Act...

Shocking treatment of this poor man!

If you're not aware, during the last 140 years since the infamous Milan conference, until recently teaching the Deaf via sign language has been discouraged and even actively abolished by hearing higher-ups. Instead the precious school time has been wasted trying to 'cure' children of Deafness by barbaric methods used in the pursuit of 'teaching them to speak' by 'teachers of the Deaf' who barely know any sign, if any.

The result being that many Deaf children have emerged from an education that has taught them own some cases to form words that they can't hear but has left them criminally short of an education that could have been delivered far less effortlessly had sign been used as a teaching method.

All this to say that it was completely ignorant to assume the the man had much, or any, experience of expressing his concerns, health and medical history using written English.

We can do better. ☹️

#Deaf #DeafFam #bsl #BritishSignLanguage #DeafIssues #DeafRights #LimpingChicken #LiamODell

https://limpingchicken.com/2021/11/23/birmingham-hospital-apologises-after-deaf-woman-allegedly-asked-if-she-can-discuss-things-via-pen-and-paper/

steve@deafaspora.simons.earth

Getting personal with Wayne Sharples

I've known Wayne for a few months now through one of our shared interests. He's a top bloke and very funny.
Get to know more about him, inclusive rugby and facing bullying with this BSLzone (captioned) episode!

#bslzone #deaf #deaffam #BritishSignLanguage #rugbyunion #inclusivity #sport #lifestyle

https://www.bslzone.co.uk/watch/getting-personal/getting-personal-wayne-sharples#