Gå til Startsiden Gå til inhold Gå til ventstre meny, hvis den eksisterer. Tilgjengelighet, hurtigtaster for ULOBA. Gå til breadcrumbs
Popup:Tips noen om denne siden   Popup:Les opp siden   Popup:Skriv ut siden
Photo: ULOBA in the USA.

Hunting for freedom 2007 - English

In July ULOBA are in the USA hunting for freedom. Join us!  [01.07.2007]

Seven ULOBA-people and our personal assistants are in the USA in July. Read all about our search for freedom! Will we find Independent Living?

Register here, and get news about what happens in ULOBA´s hunt for freedom.

Read more below:



Photo: Disability Pride.
Disabled and Proud!   (25.07.2007)
Together with 3000 others, ULOBA took part in the Disability Pride Parade in Chicago July 21st. -You should have been there!
Photo: Karen Tamley.
Buildings in Chicago must be accessible for everyone!   (21.07.2007)
The mayor and Karen Tamley are effectively ensuring that buildings are made accessible. ”You don’t mess with Karen!"
Photo: Amber Smock of F.R.I.D.A.
The "Pad Patrol"   (21.07.2007)
Women in institutions don´t get enough pads and tampons. - So disabled feminists in F.R.I.D.A. made a "Pad Patrol".
Bilde: Marie Delgado i ADAPT.
I am proud of having been arrested in five states!   (20.07.2007)
Marie Delgado of ADAPT knows that civil disobedience is necessary in the fight for freedom!
Photo: Michael Winter leads the department of civil rights.
No public transport without civil rights!   (19.07.2007)
The Department of Transportation in the USA imposes an effective prohibition of any public transport that does not comply with civil rights.
Foto: Don Dew (left) and Brad Rohr.
Don subjected to compulsory HIV testing!   (18.07.2007)
Don has epilepsy. He is tested for HIV every time that he goes to the doctor.
Photo: Stars and stripes.
Personal assistance in the USA?   (14.07.2007)
People with disabilities in the USA are still forced into institutions. Not many have personal assitance and the system varies from state to state.
Photo: Independent Living demonstration at the Capitol in Washington.
We have the power!   (13.07.2007)
The Independent Living Movement march to the Capitol in Washington demanding sivil rights!
Photo: Kenneth Stein and ULOBA outside the federal building in San Francisco.
More than 100 disabled people occupied the federal building for a month!   (12.07.2007)
Sivil rights legislation in the USA did not come without battle.
Photo: Six ULOBA-people met Jan Garrett, executive director of the CIL at Berkeley.
What is an Independent Living Centre?   (10.07.2007)
We found out when we visited the Independent Living Centre at Berkely, California.
Photo: Woman in wheelchair enters the streetcar.
The old streetcars are for everyone!   (09.07.2007)
Norway, the richest country in the world, can not afford new accessible streetcars. But the Americans succeed in making a streetcarsystem of museumcars that can be used by passengers in wheelchairs!
Photo: Wheelchairuser takes the lift onto the bus.
Help, my wheelchair is out of power!   (06.07.2007)
Running out of electrical power on your wheelchair in the middel of a city is everyones nightmare. But with the ADA-laws, there are solutions.
Photo: Burhan Chishti on a bay cruice.
Burhan on a bay cruise.   (05.07.2007)
Why do we in Europe only discuss the bad sides of the USA, while noone gets inspiration from the part of the USA that works fine?, Burhan Chishti says on his baycruise under the Golden Gate Bridge.
Photo: Knut Flaaum.
Nobody told me and my parents the important things in my childhood.   (04.07.2007)
We can´t let non-disabled people´s perspectives dominate our lives.
Photo: Wheelchair-user on the subway.
Riding the subway in the homeland of the anti-discrimination laws.   (03.07.2007)
Why can disabled people ride the subway in the USA, but not in Norway?
Photo: Burhan on the tram.
In the USA with no limitations   (01.07.2007)
- I am 24 years old and I ride the tram for the very first time.