diplomacy in my own name

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I love talking about this so here's another instance of me talking about it: during the 504 Sit-Ins, wherein disabled activists occupied federal buildings in 1977 demanding better protections from the US government as they delayed enacting the regulations set forth in 1973's Rehabilitation Act, specifically the section entitled 504, which was supposed to provide better access to education and employment for disabled people, and the accommodations needed for such.

The activists, disabled or sick in a variety of ways, occupied multiple federal buildings across the the USA. The occupation of 50 United Nations Plaza Federal Office Building in San Francisco lasted 26 days, the longest of the protests, and I believe the longest occupation of a federal building in the USA's history.

The protest was spear-headed and led mostly by disabled women, many of them queer disabled women.

The length of the occupation was only made possible by the support of the Black Panthers, who brought food to the activists daily and stood their ground against the FBI when the feds tried to stop them from entering the plaza in an attempt to starve the protesters out. The Black Panthers then proceeded to bring hot meals every day for the rest of the protest, which ended with the enactment of the 504 regulation

Moral of the story: mass movements and protests work better when you have solidarity among various movements who, while initially fighting for different people, are all fighting for a common goal--rights, safety, empowerment, etc--and the Black Panther Party was demonized by the federal government and individual authorities not only because they were they fighting for the rights, safety, and empowerment of Black people, but because they were fully capable of and did bring unity among the many civil rights groups fighting for the individual causes, in a way that would have enacted great change in this country had they not been infiltrated and destroyed from within, arrested on bs charges, or flat out murdered by the federal government.

Anyway the history of disabled rights are unknown even among the modern disabled, the involvement of the Black Panther Party is even less known, and without the 504 regulation laying down the base foundation we probably wouldn't have the ADA so here's your history lesson informing you about all this. And thank you Black Panthers ✊🏿♿✊

#disability tag#history
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Nile and Celeste from archaic kinds of fun by @hauntedfalcon and also another au for @tog-femslashfortnight

[image description: fan art of Nile freeman and celeste from the old guard movie. They are seen from the waist up, standing facing each other in the middle of the image. Nile is wearing silver plate armor with green under clothes while celeste has a blue tunic that buttons on one side with a deep V neck. Nile holds a matching knights helmet under her arm. They both have their hair up in buns. Nile has her other hand extended to touch Celeste’s waist. Celeste has a hand raised to shoulder level, delicately holding a red square of fabric, probably a medieval marker of her favor she is going to give to Nile. The background is a pine tree filled area with white tents and a blue sky. End description.]

#oh????#i’m intrigued#the old guard
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