2006 Series
WHO STOLE MY PARKING SPACE?
Tom Shakespeare argues that it is time for the disabled to adopt a zero tolerance approach to discrimination they encounter.
Friday 17th March 7.30pm
Sunday 19th March 4.40am
Tom Shakespeare argues that it is time for the disabled to adopt a zero tolerance approach to discrimination they encounter.
Friday 17th March 7.30pm
Sunday 19th March 4.40am
Starting with everyday inconveniences such as the lack of wheelchair access to high street shops, through to able-bodied people stealing disabled parking bays outside supermarkets, it is time to fight back, according to academic and long-term disability campaigner Tom Shakespeare.
He shows that unless the small infringements are confronted, the bigger problems such as hate crime and job discrimination will be allowed to get worse.
During the programme he secretly films and then confronts the drivers who park illegally in disabled parking bays, he meets the blind passengers thrown off a Ryan Air flight because the disabled quota had been used up, meets a victim of disabled hate crime and hears from a group of business school graduate students about their attitude towards employing disabled people.
And although Tom believes more should be done to protect the rights of the disabled, and to enforce existing laws, in the end he argues that law alone will never change hearts and minds, and that the disabled themselves have to get angry in order to bring about the change in attitudes in society at large that is needed.
He shows that unless the small infringements are confronted, the bigger problems such as hate crime and job discrimination will be allowed to get worse.
During the programme he secretly films and then confronts the drivers who park illegally in disabled parking bays, he meets the blind passengers thrown off a Ryan Air flight because the disabled quota had been used up, meets a victim of disabled hate crime and hears from a group of business school graduate students about their attitude towards employing disabled people.
And although Tom believes more should be done to protect the rights of the disabled, and to enforce existing laws, in the end he argues that law alone will never change hearts and minds, and that the disabled themselves have to get angry in order to bring about the change in attitudes in society at large that is needed.
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