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Gallaudet Protest: Day 10

10 05 2006

Protest is probably one of the most effective tools today. This is exactly what FSSA is doing right now whether they did right thing or not. As long as they meet their expectation, they have chance to win this one.

I’ve been reading many website, articles, photos, and videos past few days. What’s more, I am not one of those “FSSA” people, so I really can’t speak for them. However, I am outside and I can see both sides pretty clear now. I know that many deaf people have bad experience with Jane. I think that’s what hurt her the most.

I saw one-on-one interview video (Eyeth Studio) and it was very good. I was able to see her side too. I can see that Jane is not frequently in ASL but it doesn’t bother me. Basically, both sides are doing okay – now what?

It is like they are shooting each other till one of them give it up. Only time will tell us.

Sure, it’s going be interesting to see how it goes on next few days. I just hope they both will resolve it as soon as possible to avoid damaging Gallaudet University in long run.

Grant W. Laird, Jr.
http://blog.grantlairdjr.com

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Gallaudet Protest: Deaf Bloggers Everywhere

7 05 2006

In wake of Gallaudet protest, it stir up plenty of discuss everywhere even on many blogsite / website. I think it is wonderful and healthy (good or bad) to see so many people jumped and wrote the article, made comment and/or created video online.

I graduated high school in 1988 – that year when they had DPN protest and they were successful. Image there is nothing except TTY, deaf chat in person, newspaper and TV at this time. I didn’t bother to watch this story because there is no way for me or anybody to keep it up at this time.

Of course, I am clueless about what’s going on with current Gallaudet protest but with blogsite and everything, it help me understood what’s going on. I even can read and keep with them regularly. It’s amazing.

In Texas, many of deaf people did not really understand what’s going on. Unfortunately.

I am sure there few groups like GUAA from here are talking about it. Check out video from Austin Deaf Community.

So, it’s been a week now – anything new? Plenty. You probably want to visit Deaf Hot News: website (article, video, photos, etc.) – they have long list of Gallaudet Protest related links.

Majority of bloggers remains strong against Dr Jane Fernandes for many different reasons. There’s couple of blogsite that are pretty much defend her. It doesn’t matter what I am thinking but I felt good that we deaf bloggers do make the difference in deaf community.

This is only beginning. I truly believe that deaf bloggers will become important roles in deaf community.

Grant W Laird Jr.
http://blog.grantlairdjr.com

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Gallaudet Protest Links

2 05 2006

It’s only 48 hours old, there’s a lot of blogging all over Internet about Gallaudet University’s new president. Make sure you check out those blogsite and article links (see below) – you can’t ask anything better than this.

If you get chance to read different blog author’s opinion, you will see that majority of them agree that Dr Jane Fernandes have to go. Oh boy… It’s going be interesting to see how it results next few days.