TIL the "curb cuts" in sidewalks (allowing wheelchair access eg) started with activists smashing curbs in Berkeley with sledgehammers
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And wheelchair-compliant transport because disabled activists chained themselves to Denver busses, shutting down transit. Wow bravery.
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I’m interested- where’d you read about that?
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I learned it in an oral tradition via
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I was also atted this which seems to bear it out:https://twitter.com/mattsiegel/status/755584136182534144 …
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I know in the late '90s, activists in wheelchairs blocked buses in Philadelphia to protest lack of disabled access.
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