New York Times
by Edgar Cayce
The Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf has defeated a gigantic class action lawsuit which was filed by a group of nearly 3200 deaf people called the Deaf Human Rights Coalition.
Deaf Human Rights Coalition filed a huge class action lawsuit, in the amount of $500 million dollars, against the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf (AGB). The founder of the AGB Association, Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of telephone (some claim that he did not invented the telephone, but stole the idea from another inventor) was the instigator in the attempt to remove sign language being used in schools for the deaf. He started a crusade to support the oral method of education, wanting to spread it to all deaf schools all over the world. This philosophy was approved back in 1880 at Milan, Italy. The ideology of oral method was passed by the Milan attendees who were predominantly hearing educators. The consequences of the Milan conference was that it caused deaf teachers to lose their jobs at schools for the deaf because they could not teach speech.
Members of the Deaf Human Right Coalition (DHRC) claim that since 1880, the AGB Association has taken steps which amount to a huge set back for many deaf people’s progress in language acquisition and education and they have been promoting a hugely successful propaganda campaign which targets all parents of deaf children, telling them that sign language will prevent their deaf babies from learning speech.
The $500 million dollar award was to be used for starting up new schools and training more deaf and hearing teachers with American Sign Language skills.
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…….OH MY GOD, awoke with sweat on my face. I was actually dreaming this! This dream was so incredibly vivid. I put my head back on my pillow and allowed myself deep thoughts about it.
Now I realize that I had read a book called “Edgar Cayce on Dreams” by Harmon H. Bro, Ph.D. last week on how to understand your dreams.
Now I wonder…Why did I dream this?
6 responses so far ↓
Dianrez // January 16, 2008 at 2:45 am
OH MY GOSH, what a great idea! Sometimes dreams can start big things happening…maybe it was originally wishful thinking, but that can be the start of a revolution!
No, such a lawsuit is not going to be defeated. There is so much to bring out that was a direct result of Bell’s actions and methods of his organization…i.e. the damage it has caused to Deaf people, their families, their education, and their self-esteem.
This could be a historical lawsuit equivalent to Milan 1880. We can dream on, right?
Sally // January 16, 2008 at 4:30 am
Martin Luther King had a dream too.
A Deaf Pundit // January 16, 2008 at 5:17 am
It would be better if you guys filed against the Oberkotter Foundation. They’re the one who’s behind the slander of the Deaf Community.
anonymous // January 16, 2008 at 5:19 am
Yup,
Martin Luther King had a dream and he was assassinated.
You could be next.
*laugh*
a big dream // January 16, 2008 at 8:24 am
Hope if Hillary won to be a president of USA , we can ask her to set up the new law to require for all Deaf/deaf babies and children to use ASL. If school or any place like AGBell don’t allow sign language, they’d break the law by abusing. They must to follow the law if it is passed.
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