Thursday, January 19, 2006
In Memoriam: David Armendariz
My good friend and fellow disability rights activist David Armendariz went home to God today. The enormous, Latino, quadriplegic was bilingual and big-hearted. His battle with Greyhound Bus Lines was the stuff of disability rights folklore. You see Greyhound claimed that they didn’t need to provide lifts on their buses because their staff was capable of carrying anyone in a wheelchair up the stairs and simply store their wheelchair in the bus’s luggage area. Of course, several of us heavy folks...
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