In Britain, legislation has been introduced to Parliament that would require all taxi drivers to have completed disability awareness training. The move comes after what would appear to be rampant discrimination against guide dog handlers there. Bonnie...
The Blind Side Podcast Episode 16, Marty Schultz from Blindfold Games by Jonathan Mosen
Just after midnight on Monday 14 November, a massive 7.8 earthquake shook much of New Zealand. No matter how well-adjusted we are as blind people, an unexpected natural disaster like this can be humbling and frightening. This week, we speak with Teri...
On last week’s Mosen Explosion, heard on Sundays at 2 PM Eastern time and then repeated on Tuesdays at 5 AM Eastern time on Mushroom FM, we broadcast a tour Bonnie and Jonathan took of the Seeing Eye. The response was so positive to this, with many...
The phrase “Nothing About us Without Us” is a catch cry of the disability movement. Yet there’s still a lot of disability training and policy that lacks meaningful direction and input from disabled people themselves. Pam MacNeill has had a long...
Blind Citizens Australia is the advocacy organization for blind Australians, and Emma Bennison has been its President for a year. During a visit to New Zealand, Emma
Blind Citizens New Zealand isn’t only the oldest advocacy organisation driven by disabled people themselves in New Zealand, it’s also one of the oldest blindness consumer advocacy organisations worldwide. Following their conference last week,...
Jonathan begins this week with a recent experience he had in a lawyer’s office that got him thinking about the legal profession and outdated attitudes about blindness. We meet Eric Miller from the Rush Miller Foundation, an organization dedicated to...
Social media has been abuzz with talk of a fund raising campaign for the Foundation Fighting Blindness. Called “How Eye See It”, the campaign invites sighted people to blindfold themselves and perform a range of tasks, then make a donation to the...