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DISABILITY PRIDE MONTH QUOTE 16 OF 18 Monday, July 31, 2023

In America access is always about architecture and never about human beings. Among Israelis and Palestinians, access was rarely about anything but people. While in the U.S. a wheelchair stands out as an explicitly separate experience from the mainstream, in the Israel and Arab worlds it is just another thing that can go wrong in a place where things go wrong all the time. - John Hockenberry, Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence

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Takeaway listener Katie Osweiler sent us the following this morning via Facebook: 

I only caught the end of John's story on being on the BBC, but I loved it! When I worked in England it was all about tea breaks and going to the pub after work. Sounds like John had a similar experience. And he's SO right about the news coverage. We moved there in the fall of 2008 and it was SO nice to miss the presidential election coverage in the US media! Now that I'm back in the States, I listen to NPR and never turn on the TV. Keep up the good work!