Marlee Matlin's Remarks at FCC Hearing on Broadband Access for People With Disabilities

kdpeters

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Tue Nov-17-09 04:43 AM
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Marlee Matlin's Remarks at FCC Hearing on Broadband Access for People With Disabilities

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Please take a moment to view this PSA on an important issue for Deaf and hard of hearing people.

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midnight

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Tue Nov-17-09 06:22 AM
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1. This idea that people not be handicapped by others who refuse to accept

people with different ability levels is opening the discussion at the right point of focus. I was in a court room yesterday and could hardly contain myself for the sure discrimination for persons with different ability levels. If the public ever saw what is going on to persons with any physical limitations when stopped for various reasons. But as it stands law enforcement are tazering our wheelchair bound.

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