activism Archives - DeafNiche https://deafniche.com/tag/activism/ Everything about the Deaf Community! Wed, 20 Nov 2019 04:27:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 https://deafniche.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/cropped-logo_gigantic_png-32x32.png activism Archives - DeafNiche https://deafniche.com/tag/activism/ 32 32 Students Petition to Save School’s ASL Program After Cuts https://deafniche.com/students-petition-to-save-schools-asl-program-after-cuts/ https://deafniche.com/students-petition-to-save-schools-asl-program-after-cuts/#comments Sat, 20 May 2017 04:27:02 +0000 http://deafniche.com/?p=10066 Pasadena, California is a city of incredible diversity–not only does it have some of the nation’s top schools and humbly boasts of one of the oldest Old Towns in Los Angeles, there is also a multitude of languages spoken here. All things considering, it’s contradictory that one of Pasadena’s largest secondary schools cut out American […]

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]]> https://deafniche.com/students-petition-to-save-schools-asl-program-after-cuts/feed/ 1 US Postal Stamp Honors An Accomplished Deaf Educator https://deafniche.com/us-postal-stamp-honors-accomplished-deaf-educator/ Sat, 10 Dec 2016 11:19:38 +0000 http://deafniche.com/?p=9593 The United States Postal Service announced the new commemoration stamps for 2017, honoring individuals who have done outstanding civil work. One of the honored is the Deaf educator Robert Panara. Panara was born hearing and at the age of 10 he fell ill with meningitis and became deaf. Panara actually considered this to be a […]

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