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Thread #94237 Message #1824298
Posted By: GUEST
01-Sep-06 - 04:33 AM
Thread Name: Warning to Festival Organisers
Subject: RE: Warning to Festival Organisers
To Ron and Richard and guest31 aug 06.20.
1st The USA and Canada (in my expierience) are far further forward than the UK in disability issues.
2nd the DDA provides for "reasonable provision" offering a second chair is reasonable provision. It would be impossible to have a chair for everyone's situation. As Ron says disability is not an excuse to be an idiot.
As an ex-Festival and folk club organiser if someone has a complaint they are free to express it, however if their expressing infringes my right to have free space around me and my right to feel safe and not under threat, then they should not be listened to untill such time as they can behave properly and if nessacary be removed.
AB