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Category Archives: advocacy
Victors v. Dorkheads
Yesterday I noted that I got a big envelope from Kansas tourism addressed to “Anne F U Woodlen-Ashole.” http://annecwoodlen.wordpress.com/2013/05/19/pixie-dust-and-cowards/ Research shows that the address was entered from a computer accessing the Kansas web site. After that—from Kansas to my mailbox—no … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, Government Services, Power, Values
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Pixie Dust and Cowards
A friend of mine once said of me “Anne won’t stab you in the back. She’ll stab you in the chest and you’ll see it coming.” I thought of this the day I went to see Frank Kobliski, executive director … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, Government Services, Inpatient psychiatry, physician, Poverty, Values
Tagged cowardice, libel, roger levine, slander, truth
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This One’s for Duckie
On April 16 my doctor said, “There’s nothing more that can be done [to treat your illness], adding “I usually only have this conversation with people in end-stage cancer.” He signed my death warrant that day. It took me thirty days … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, American medical industry, Death, drugs, God, Holistic, Medical care, Nature, Pharmaceuticals, physician, Values
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Greetings, Gentlefolk
“I have spent the past twelve days in St. Joseph’s Hospital on inpatient psychiatry (Unit 3-6) with Dr. Roger Levine attending. I am now going to file complaints with the New York State Dept. of Health, NYS Office of Mental Health, … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, American medical industry, Death, Depression, disability, disability rights, drugs, God, Government Services, Inpatient psychiatry, Medicaid, Medical care, Medicare, Mental Illness & Health, Pharmaceuticals, physician, Poverty, Power, Powerlessness, Spirituality, Values
Tagged antidepressants, Conditions and Diseases, death, depression, disability rights, doctors, drugs, end-of-life, God, health care, Medicaid, Medicare, mental disorder, mental health, mental illness, Onondaga County New York, patients, pharmaceuticals, Physician, poverty, power, psychiatric disorders, Psychiatrist, roger levine, St. Joseph's Hospital, values
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Animals–Trained to Serve?
In my dozen years as an activist in regard to the government provision of services for citizens, I have acted to improve services for tens of thousands of people; only once have I found the citizen to be wrong. People … Continue reading
From Upstate Medical Center to Frank Kobliski
Taxpayer’s alert: Michael Abbot, auditor for the State University of New York, states that when he got a complaint that Upstate Medical Center’s $50 million Institute for Human Performance had been sitting two-thirds empty since its construction in 2000, he … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, American medical industry, disability, disability rights, Fraud, Government Services, Onondaga County, Poverty, Power, power wheelchairs, Powerlessness, Transportation
Tagged Betty Petrie, Call-a-Bus, Central New York Regional Transportation Authority, Centro, citizen, CNYRTA, disability, Federal Transit Administration, Frank Kobliski, FTA, Institute for Human Performance, Linda McKeown, Michael Abbot, OCR, Office of Civil Rights, SUNY auditor, transportation, Upstate Medical Center
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Calling Washington
What Sally Johnston did was create a program whereby the client, i.e., the competent citizen, would hire, train, schedule and supervise the aide. The program would be embedded in an Independent Living Organization, such as ARISE, which would do the … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, disability, disability rights, God, Government Services, Poverty, Power, power wheelchairs, Powerlessness, Transportation
Tagged advocacy, ARISE, Beata Karpinska, Call-a-Bus, CDPAP, Centro, citizen, consumer directed personal assistant program, Enable, Frank Kobliski, Linda McKeown, paratransit, Sally Johnston, Sara Wall Bollinger, success, transportation
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From Politics to Sally Johnston
This brings us to the question of politics. According to Wikipedia, “Politics (from Greek politikos ‘of, for, or relating to citizens’) is the art or science of influencing people on a civic, or individual level, when there are more than 2 people … Continue reading
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Tagged advocacy, ARISE, Beata Karpinska, Call-a-Bus, Centro, David Knight, politics, Sally Johnston, Tom McKeown
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Annie Enters Politics
So Peter Cahan and I sat in the office of Beata Karpinska, ARISE’s director of advocacy, and had this conference call with attorney David Knight in the Federal Transit Administration’s Office of Civil Rights. I told David story after story of … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, disability, disability rights, God, Government Services, Power, power wheelchairs, Powerlessness, Transportation, Values
Tagged ADA, advocacy, Americans with Disabilities Act, ARISE, Beata Karpinska, Call-a-Bus, Centro, David Knight, Federal Transit Administration, FTA, God, governing, government, Linda McKeown, OCR, Office of Civil Rights, Peter Cahan, politics
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The Pre-Dawn Light
Well, it’s been quite a week here at Lake Wobegon. I got the cops called on me—again. One way you know if you’re being a good activist is if they call the cops on you, and this is two weeks … Continue reading
