[blindlaw] Discrimination at the UN
Joe Orozco
jsorozco at gmail.com
Sat May 19 20:17:54 CDT 2007
If what you say is true, and if you have the evidence to back it, I say
you sue the bastards. I'm sure you'd have to maneuver the immunity clause
I'm sure exists for the United Nations, but at minimal you can create bad
press for the institution. I can understand an employer's hesitation to
hire someone on their lack of familiarity with disabilities, but if you have
tangible evidence showing they were blatantly discriminating, I would seek
every means possible to get them removed from their own positions. Keep us
posted, and e-mail me off-list if you want assistance getting word out to
the public.
Joe Orozco
"Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells
you to do, and what nerves let you do."--Bruce Crampton
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mudhaffer Al-Momani" <almomani at optonline.net>
To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 9:03 PM
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] interesting story
> Dear Sir/Madam,
> Hello
> My name is Mudhaffer Al-Momani, I am a blind individual who is trying to
> find a job since graduation on August of 2005 with an M.B.A degree in
> finance and investment/ operations management.
> I have been on few interviews but unfortunately the decision is always
> taken
> once the employer sees my cane, I have looked for entry jobs to start from
> the bottom and to ease the transformation for myself and the employer to
> climb the corporate ladder and show them in between what I can do but even
> that didn't work and of course non of the companies tell you we don't want
> to hire you because you are blind, that of course until I applied to the
> United Nations(U.N).
> I applied to work at the U.N back on November of 2005 thinking that if
> there
> is one organization in the world built on equality and human rights
> regardless of color, race, religion , disability and so on it is this
> organization so I felt confident to apply there specially that I am
> qualified for the positions I was applying for mainly entry positions.
> After
> months of going back and forth with them they tell me many things from the
> computer software to the entry exam that I need to take and many in
> between.
> I told them I have the software and any other technologies I need will be
> paid by myself or the New York commission for the blind and so on and as
> for
> the entry exam they told me that the exam is done by pencil and paper and
> no
> one can come with me to the room to read the exam, which I found out later
> that that was a lie and they or the NY commission can provide a reader.
> The
> excuses kept on coming until and early this year the hiring manager at the
> U.N told friend who was following my case that they at the U.N don't want
> to hire me just because I am a blind person "we don't want to deal with
> disabled people specially blind people" she said that and more to even
> saying "we don't think they can do much at a big organization like this
> and
> they are more of a headache that anything else"
>
> I don't know what to do about this clear case of discrimination, please
> help
> me and tell me what can I do.
> I do want to sue them and I do want to work there somehow, I want to
> expose
> them for the hypocrisy they use and the fake ideals the preach to the
> world
> and they don't practice. I want to do it for me and all blind people and
> even all disabled people all over the world.
> I am willing to do what it takes to be treated justly and defend my right
> to
> be equal.
>
> I look forward to hearing from you
> Thank you so much and I do have names, phone numbers and emails to prove.
>
> Sincerely,
> Mudhaffer Al-Momani
> Tel: 718-213-0334
> P.S I am attaching my resume to show that I am able to work and I have the
> intelligence to handle any task and learn anything comes my way.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "albert griffith" <albertpgriffith at hotmail.com>
> To: "'NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List'" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 7:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] interesting story
>
>
>> I've always wanted one of those little guide horses I've read about. The
>> only
>> drawback for me is that I wonder if breading them down so small hasn't
>> done
>> damage to them.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Mark BurningHawk
>> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 4:06 PM
>> To: NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] interesting story
>>
>> great Dane!? I've NEVER heard of a Dane being used as a guide dog, but
>> I'd
>> want one! Lurch. That's great.. "yyyyyyyou rang." heh Guy's a jerk;
>> take
>> his dog away and give it to me! *grin*
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Kathleen Hagen" <khagen12 at earthlink.net>
>> To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 12:48 PM
>> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] interesting story
>>
>>
>>> Speaking of guide dogs or service animals, Minnesota has really hit the
>>> big
>>> time this week. A blind man was arrested for domestic assault and
>>> trying
>>> to
>>> interrupt the victim from making a 911 call. Nice guy, right? Well he
>>> was
>>> arrested and taken to Ramsey County jail apparently with his guide dog
>>> in
>>> tow. His dog is a great dane named Lurch. The jail administrators
>>> weren't
>>> very happy having Lurch there and so forbade him keeping the dog in jail
>>> with him. I'm just waiting for him to show up at the disability law
>>> center
>>> wanting to file a discrimination suit. I just know it will happen.
>>> Since
>>> I'm not doing civil rights ADA work now, thank heavens, it won't be my
>>> case!
>>> Kathy Hagen
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Robert Munro" <r.g.munro at gmail.com>
>>> To: "'NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List'" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 8:24 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] interesting story
>>>
>>>
>>>> I'm going to mount a turret atop my guide dog. Something mostly
>>>> unidirectional [like a W W one tank cannon] but with a motion picture
>>>> motion control stabilizer [called a "mo co" in the trade] to alleviate
>>>> bouncy dog movement and perhaps also a heat-seeking fine-tune aim
>>>> correction system --the whole able to be operated with a handy remote
>>>> control device. Just gotta make SURE that the remote control radio
>>>> frequency is nowhere near other devices' frequencies or else occasional
>>>> accidental signal crossover could open up a liability situation.
>>>>
>>>> Onward!
>>>>
>>>> Rob & Pilaf
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org]
>>>> On
>>>> Behalf Of Craig Anderson
>>>> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 8:44 AM
>>>> To: NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List
>>>> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] interesting story
>>>>
>>>> Kathy,
>>>>
>>>> Well said
>>>>
>>>> Craig.
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Kathleen Hagen" <khagen12 at earthlink.net>
>>>> To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 10:02 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] interesting story
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Well, I feel I must respond to this for a variety of reasons. First
>>>>> of
>>>>> all,
>>>>> I was born and, more or less raised, in North Dakota. North Dakotans
>>>>> are
>>>>> self sufficient above all else. In fact, right now they have
>>>>> legislation
>>>>> pending, I hear, or maybe it's passed by now, which would exempt
>>>>> anyone
>>>>> who
>>>>> shot someone in their own house in self defense from having to prove
>>>>> any
>>>>> fault.
>>>>>
>>>>> I live in Minnesota, and we have a love-hate relationship with gun
>>>>> control
>>>>> here. I personally think anyone carrying a gun around can be a risk
>>>>> to
>>>>> others. I certainly would include a blind man in that category!
>>>>>
>>>>> When I went to the South Dakota School for the Blind, (yes I went to
>>>>> school
>>>>> in South Dakota although I was from North Dakota, but that's a story
>>>>> for
>>>>> another day) we got rifle training one year. It was considered so
>>>>> scandalous in the '60's that we made it onto the Paul Harvey Radio
>>>>> News.
>>>>> The deal was that a policeman in Aberdeen thought that since policemen
>>>>> had
>>>>> to learn to shoot in the dark, that blind people could shoot, and the
>>>>> dark
>>>>> wouldn't impede them. Of course, they set up classes. No one asked
>>>>> whether
>>>>> or not we should have shooting lessons. The only tentative protest
>>>>> was
>>>>> against girls getting the training. Of course that meant I argued
>>>>> vociferously for it. So we trained with a .22 one-shot rifle. At
>>>>> first,
>>>>> someone would stand behind each of us and tell us "move a little to
>>>>> the
>>>>> right, to the left, etc." to try to line us up with the target. They
>>>>> thought maybe we would kinesthetically get used to where we should be
>>>>> holding the gun to shoot. When that didn't work, they took an
>>>>> oscillator
>>>>> like you'd use for ham radio to send Morse code, and placed that
>>>>> behind
>>>>> the
>>>>> target. We were supposed to try to shoot the bulls eye by hearing the
>>>>> beep.
>>>>> Our training took place in the bus garage, and there were too many
>>>>> echoes
>>>>> to
>>>>> make that work very well. So finally they came up with headphones
>>>>> that
>>>>> were
>>>>> hooked to some kind of sonar beam. This was about the time when they
>>>>> were
>>>>> introducing sonar canes, etc., so this was the new kind of gimmick.
>>>>> Finally
>>>>> it worked. When we were lined up perfectly, the tone would change,
>>>>> and
>>>>> we'd
>>>>> know we could shoot. I even got a sharp shooter's award for the girls
>>>>> side.
>>>>> So, I always tell people, if a burglar comes to my house, and if I
>>>>> have
>>>>> a
>>>>> .22, and if I can get the one bullet at a time loaded in time, and if
>>>>> I
>>>>> have
>>>>> sonar earphones to put on in order to hear the tone to know where to
>>>>> shoot
>>>>> to hit the burglar, and if he/she stands in the right place, then a
>>>>> gun
>>>>> might be useful to me.
>>>>> Kathy Hagen
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "Scott C. LaBarre" <slabarre at labarrelaw.com>
>>>>> To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 2:48 PM
>>>>> Subject: [blindlaw] interesting story
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> StarTribune.com
>>>>> Blind man finds bias in denial of gun permit
>>>>> A North Dakota man who says he would only use the gun for self-defense
>>>>> at
>>>>> close range
>>>>> couldn't get a permit in Moorhead.
>>>>> By
>>>>> David Peterson
>>>>> , Star Tribune
>>>>> Last update: May 15, 2007 â?" 9:52 PM
>>>>> A North Dakota man who is styling himself as "America's first
>>>>> sightless
>>>>> gunslinger"
>>>>> is claiming to be the victim of discrimination because Minnesota won't
>>>>> give
>>>>> a blind man a permit to carry a gun in public. Carey McWilliams, 33,
>>>>> of
>>>>> Fargo
>>>>> says he carries one anyway when he crosses the state line because his
>>>>> Utah
>>>>> permit is accepted in Minnesota. But he isn't sure that will
>>>>> always be so. Any use he would make of his gun, he said, would be a
>>>>> response
>>>>> to an assault and wouldn't put anyone other than his attacker in
>>>>> jeopardy.
>>>>> "It would be self-defense,
>>>>> at point-blank range, with ammo that doesn't go any further than the
>>>>> assailant," McWilliams said Tuesday.
>>>>> In neighboring Moorhead, Minn., Clay County Sheriff Bill Bergquist
>>>>> said
>>>>> he
>>>>> didn't feel he had a choice but to deny the permit application.
>>>>> "I had to sign something saying he could 'safely' whatever, and I felt
>>>>> I
>>>>> couldn't say that of someone who's legally blind," Bergquist said.
>>>>> "The
>>>>> shooting
>>>>> he's done in the past was with the help of someone. When confronted,
>>>>> he
>>>>> won't have that help.
>>>>> "... The application states that a person should be able to show
>>>>> proficiency
>>>>> on the firing range and a proficiency of the weapons," he said.
>>>>> "That's
>>>>> the
>>>>> issue.
>>>>> McWilliams, who says he was forced to act as his own attorney for
>>>>> financial
>>>>> reasons, hopes to stir up help before a one-year window for appeal
>>>>> expires.
>>>>> He has appealed for help from organizations such as Legal Aid and the
>>>>> American Civil Liberties Union, to no avail. Even if his appeal rights
>>>>> expire, he
>>>>> said, he would consider filing his own discrimination case.
>>>>> He said he has concealed-carry permits from North Dakota as well as
>>>>> Utah.
>>>>> States vary quite a lot in how demanding they are of people seeking
>>>>> permits,
>>>>> he said, but he insists he can legitimately pass a marksmanship test.
>>>>> How can he see to shoot when he can't see?
>>>>> "That's the deal!" he exclaimed. "I sight in via sound, gravity, body
>>>>> position."
>>>>>
>>>>> Scott C. LaBarre, Esq.
>>>>>
>>>>> LaBarre Law Offices P.C.
>>>>> 1660 South Albion Street, Ste. 918
>>>>> Denver, Colorado 80222
>>>>> 303 504-5979 (voice)
>>>>> 303 757-3640 (fax)
>>>>> slabarre at labarrelaw.com (e-mail)
>>>>> www.labarrelaw.com (website)
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