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7/3/2009
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| The next international PGA meeting will be in Cochabamba, Bolivia, in Sept
2001 where participants will further define and develop strategies and
tactics for the two sustained global actions, and discuss how to further
continue to locally build, and globally link, positive resistance to
capitalism. Prior to this meeting there will be a North American meeting
called by the Tampa Bay Action Group, of Florida, USA and The
Anti-Capitalist Convergence of Montreal - Quebec (Convergence des luttes
anti-capitalistes-CLAC)- the two temporary co-conveners for North America.=
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| The issue for decision, then, is whether the accommodation of
permitting Martin to use a golf cart fundamentally alters the PGA
and Nike Tour competitions. That issue was fully tried in the
district court. |
| To register for the North American meeting and the Cochabamba meeting
contact TBAG at 727-896-8224 e-mail oneworldnow@att.net . The organizing
committee will use this list serve to communicate and to plan both meetings.
If your organization is interested in attending or helping to organize the
PGA meeting in North America or Cochabamba, Bolivia, please contact the list
serve. Any group desiring to participate in the Cochabamba meeting must
participate in the north american meeting. All groups participating in both
the North American meeting and wanting to attend the meeting in Bolivia must
agree to the PGA Hallmarks: |
| In light of these findings, we conclude, as did the district
court, that permitting Martin to use a golf court in PGA and Nike
Tour competitions would not fundamentally alter the nature of
those competitions. The central competition in shot-making would
be unaffected by Martins accommodation. All that the cart does
is permit Martin access to a type of competition in which he
otherwise could not engage because of his disability.[fn8] That
is precisely the purpose of the ADA. See 42 U.S.C. § 12101(a)(5)
(discrimination against disabled includes failure to make
modifications to existing facilities and practices); Crowder v.
Kitigawa, 81 F.3d 1480, 1483 (9th Cir. 1996) (Congress intended
ADA to cover discriminatory impact of facially neutral barriers). |
| PGA Tour Inc. (PGA) deserves Scrooge-like infamy for its heartless
treatment of disabled golfer Casey Martin. It has litigated the case of
PGA vs. Martin up to the United States Supreme Court in a morally
repugnant quest to deny the admirably resilient Mr. Martin use of a
golf cart during PGA competitions.
Even the PGAs legal quiver is dubious. But whatever the Supreme
Court decides next spring, the PGAs battle against Mr. Martin marks an
ugly hour in professional sports. Mr. Martin testifies to President
John F. Kennedys observation that life is unfair. He was congenitally
afflicted with Kippel-Trenaunay-Weber Syndrome, a degenerative
circulatory disorder manifested in a malformation of his right leg.
Pain shoots up from his lower leg, and extended walking is unendurable.
Any walking risks fracture or hemorrhaging.
That Mr. Martin is a disabled person under the Americans with
Disabilities Act is undisputed. But he refused to whine or moan over
his acute handicap. In th. |
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