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Whanganui Chronicle Person of the Year - runner-up: Sir Robert Martin 20 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM 3 minutes to read Whanganui disability advocate Sir Robert Martin was knighted and re-elected to the United Nations Committee of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities this year. Photo / Bevan Conley Today we begin our Whanganui Chronicle Person of the Year series. Last month we put the call out to our readers for nominations and from an impressive pool we've chosen four runners-up and a winner. The runners-up will be profiled between Monday and Thursday with the winner to be revealed on Sat...

Disability issues. and on top of that, she was featured in one of beyonce' celebrated fashion lines. yes, that beyonce. >> i first thought that i never wanted to be a model. if you don't know something -- >> if you can't see it out in the world, it is hard for you to imagine. >> exactly. so i collect all the magazines and "cosmo girl" and "vogue," and the person didn't have to be a wheelchair but to have a physical disability. so i thought i was going to be an editor at the magazine. >>like merrill streep in "devil wears prada." >> that's such a good movie. >> i own it. let's talk about that f...

Why don't we fix the status problem of disabled people? >> yeah. yeah. >> and then people won't be so afraid to be like us. >> uh-huh. so john has a good point here. maybe the problem is not the physical limitations of disability. it's our society's attitude that the real issue. the idea that if you're disabled you have no place in the culture. this is an idea that people with disabilities have continually fought against. meet my new bff, julian mercada. a fashion model shattering the image of the disabled as incapable while at the same time challenging society to redefine our idea of what a f...

And that's why i'm speaking out today because it matters deeply to me who the attorney general of the united states is. the attorney general is charged with protecting disability rights and deciding whether to enforce or erode the protections countless americans depend on. in the critical areas of health care, education, employment, voting and others. and we have a nominee who has a record of speaking against disability issues. he's called the protections for people with disabilities, and i quote, unnecessary and even, and i quote, dangerous. he called laws requiring public schools to accommod...