Jerry Lewis continues to draw the ire of disability rights activists.
Below are three links of interest Andrea Shettle have directed my attention to.
First, there is an online petition I urge readers to sign. Here is the link:
http://www.petitiononline.com/jlno2009/petition.html
Second, there is a a Facebook Group dedicated to the Jerry Lewis campaign. Here is the link:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=4053839
Third, Andrea writes that she has "blogged about the petition, along with a discussion on the difference between "pity" and "empathy,"; why Jerry's brand of pity destroys; and why real empathy is more likely to lead to human rights:
http://reunifygally.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/protest-pity/
Paralyzed since I was 18 years old, I have spent much of the last 30 years thinking about the reasons why the social life of crippled people is so different from those who ambulate on two feet. After reading about the so called Ashley Treatment I decided it was time to write a book about my life as a crippled man. My book, Bad Cripple: A Protest from an Invisible Man, will be published by Counter Punch. I hope my book will completed soon.
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