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Today, Wednesday August 13, is the 100th day the disability activists of
Trinidad and Tobago have been making their protest/camp out in front of
the National Flour Mills.

They are protesting for jobs for people with disabilities and to call
attention to the lack of civil rights of people with disabilities in
Trinidad and Tobago.

They have been roughed up by the police, they have been threatened with
arrest several times, they have met with government officials but have been
given no consessions. Their leader George Daniels has come from his
hospital bed after bedsore surgery to support and be with the group at the
camp out.
They are having a prayer vigil and they have
invited all the different religous organizations, and on the 14th they will be
going to protest in front the prime minister office.

These folks are serious and they need our support! Contact their government, Prime Minister, and Minister for Disability Affairs. Tell them that the world is watching! People with disabilities in Trinidad and Tobago deserve civil rights, too!

Here are the adress of the ministers:

infodiv@ttgov.gov.tt Government of Trinidad and Tobago

pmsec@opm.gov.tt Honorable Prime Minister Patrick Manning

ckangaloo@mcesca.gov.tt Christine Kangaloo Minister in the office of the
Prime Minister Responsible for disability affairs

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