larry fleischer - Deaf Cultural Studies Guardian

few short excerpts of his presentation at NTID in 1993
Short video clips of Larry Fleischer with clip from Veditz "I hope you will cherish and defend..." edited by Dr. Karen Christie & Patti Durr for the Deaf Studies Today! Utah conference (April 2010) Memorial service in Larry's honor. Raw NTID presentation footage provided by Barbara Ray Holcomb. Thank you to Flavia and Vera Fleischer for allowing us to post this video.

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• Larry Fleischer
• Deaf Cultural Studies
• Veditz
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• 1993

[DrDonGCSUS]

Fleischer was one of our giants. I'm sure somewhere up there, he and Veditz are sharing a beer, chatting, and cheering us on in our attempts to cherish and defend ASL and Deaf culture!

[pdurr]

@DrDonGCSUS

clink clink!

giants indeed - we gotta learn who our giants were and are and shine a spotlight on them so we can stand on the shoulders of ur ancestors - big time

peace

p

[aslnikki]

Had to delete my previous as it was incomplete. Speaking of "protection" of ASL and keeping Deaf Studies within its rightful center in academia...this message by Veditz and Fleischer is THE reason for my endless activism. Thank you for sharing this powerful video.

[pdurr]

@aslnikki

hi nikki - thanks for completing the comment - i think before u had written POWERFUL and that one word pretty much sums it up for me too - re: ur endless activism - Veditz and Fleischer would be proud. They never gave up. onward and upward

peace

patti

[DeafSweetMind]

OH WOW! I LOVE THIS. It inspired me deeply.... Thanks for sharing with me that I never saw Dr Fletcher in person before.. He was so right about protecting our American Sign Language all along. That s what I strongly believe in the bottom of my heart.. Also, I do not believe SEE and ORAL altogether that includes listening, It causes us wired up our Deaf brains that hurts us our eyes. It has to be ASL plus English that helps us better to focus and thinkings.

[pdurr]

@PopeMistress

Hi shawn - no sorrys needed. glad u like the slow motion and i like how u wrote the many many many. re: laundry - dont over do. slo mo me sign - "rest rest rest "

thanks for the comment

peace

patti

[PopeMistress]

@PopeMistress (CONT) I like the slow motion movement Larry signed "carry carry carry"... So beautiful and POWERFUL information. At last my BAD forgot to tell you with my very slow movement "MANY MANY MANY" thank you so much for post both Veditz + Fleischer on your video!!! Sorry I had to watch it again and again. Now, I gotta go away from computer for the rest of this day! Just enjoy my rest and catch up the laundry duty for today!

[PopeMistress]

Fascinating video clips of both George Veditz and Larry!!! AWESOME Larry explain about "defend"...

[pdurr]

@hasnamaste

hasnamaste - thanks for ur appreciation of Veditz and Fleischer's messages. very important. May all our hearts be touched and get busy

peace

patti

[pdurr]

@John04mans

thanks for ur note. re: Veditz position on "defend" from all i have read and learned about his actions (i still have alot more to learn) i do think he often was on the offense but he was up against an incredible tidal wave of Oralism. without him and several other freedom fighters things would be much worse today but the truth always prevails. 'We got the right to be D E A F" oh yeah

re: today's Offense - we have some folks and groups getting a busy

AIC - upsetting to see - yes