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Hello and happy Friday. I'm Tracy V. Wilson.

And I'm Holly Fry.

Today we returned to the 504 sit-ins

to talk about some of the specific people involved in it, which we haven't done before.

Yeah. And also talk more about the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, because the vast majority of what people talk about with that today is that language at the end.

Yeah.

That's, you know, about Section 504.

There's not a lot of discussion about the tone of the overall Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

It, to me, is a very 1970s piece of legislation.

Right. It's a lot of vibes in that legislation.

Yeah, like, there's, I mean, there's, and like we said, there's stuff in it that was good.

It is good to have funding for things like interpreters for deaf people and requirements for government agencies

to have interpreters who can talk to people who need an interpreter, right? All of, all that part

is good. Yeah. But there's the whole underpinning is basically that the goal is to, quote, rehabilitate people.

And the goal is to have a vocational outcome, meaning a job.

And, like, that is not, it's, the law acknowledges that that's not necessarily going to work for everyone. Some people cannot

work for whatever reason. There's not an accessibility plan that will make work accessible

to some people. But the vibe of the law is definitely that like the goal is a vocational plan for as many people as possible.

Yeah.

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