After years hidden away, Oldham’s memorial to six local volunteers who died fighting fascism in the Spanish civil war has been restored to public view, marking both a victory for campaigners and a renewed tribute to the town’s proud International Brigade heritage, says ROB HARGREAVES
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There’s no reason for those who are hard of hearing to be left out of society
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A RECENT street party held by the east London-based Empowering Deaf Society (EDS) offered a glimpse of a whole new world.
Attending, I was struck by how everyone was communicating via sign language. If you did not have sign language you were an outsider.
Founder of EDS, Mangai Sutharsan, made the point that this was how deaf people often felt in day-to-day society when they can so often be excluded.
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