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Quoting the legendary, the inimitable, the phenomenal Mr. Pete Seeger:

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Quoting award-winning Deaf Vlogger Blogger Amy Cohen Efron:

“I cannot fathom this.
It is so absurd!
Unbelievable!
I am peeved!
Netflix did it AGAIN!
GAWD!!
This is OUTRAGEOUS!”

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Quoting Amy Cohen Efron’s recent complaint letter, titled Good Bye and Good Riddance Netflix!:

Dear Netflix, I canceled my subscription with you after being a loyal customer for 5 years today. I picked the reasons why I canceled today online, but I do want to emphasize with you about the main reason why I left you today. You did not provide online streaming captions for the Wizard of Oz. We tried to tell you many times for two years, but you released the special feature today without captions. I, among with other 30 million people felt left out. You want me to rent a DVD to watch Wizard of Oz. You are discriminating me from others. You are excluding me. I have high speed internet service, with fast computer and why cannot I enjoy movies as other people are enjoying the Wizard of Oz? Good bye and good riddance, Amy Cohen Efron

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Quoting Karen Putz, also a renowned deaf blogger, taking to her official Twitter account:

I’m boycotting because no captions for Wizard of Oz means 30 Mil Deaf and hard of hearing ppl are shut out

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Learn about Netflix’s captioning controversy
Read the NAD’s advocacy letter
Check out the Deaf Movie Club

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Interesting developments…after the jump!

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A few weeks ago, IrkedMagazine.com published a series of features about Metro Transit’s decision to stop offering free bus passes to Nova Scotians who are blind or have minimum sight. To be deliberately cheeky and hyperbolic (but also to express our bona fide outrage) we dubbed the debacle “Halifaxgate.”

After reading our coverage, Canadian icon Terry Kelly has agreed to weigh in. For those of you who don’t know Terry, please allow us to introduce just a few of his many accomplishments:

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Our discussion on the implications of Halifax, Nova Scotia’s recent decision to stop providing free bus passes to blind people has lead to international conversation. Below are some of the responses we’ve received from the Halifax community and the global community. Respected and gifted people, with and without visual impairment, with and without disability, with and without agenda, have come together to express themselves on this highly complex issue. Scroll down to read opinions from Lee Stringer, Sara Miles, Jeff Moyer, Jackson Hunsicker, an editor from the BBC, and more…

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Jail Guitar Doors is an independent initiative set up by protest singer Billy Bragg with the aim of providing musical equipment for the use of inmates serving time in Her Majesty’s prisons. It takes its name from the b-side of the Clash’s 1978 single “Clash City Rockers.”

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Custom Irked Playlist: 50 Amazing Protest Songs

1. Gonna Be An Engineer, sung by Peggy Seeger
2. Outside Of A Small Circle Of Friends, sung by Phil Ochs
3. Working Class Hero, sung by John Lennon
4. Mercy Now, sung by Mary Gauthier
5. With God On Our Side, sung by Bob Dylan
6. I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ To Die Rag, sung by Country Joe & The Fish
7. Hello Birmingham, sung by Ani DiFranco
8. Strange Fruit, sung by Billie Holiday
9. Universal Soldier, sung by Buffy Sainte-Marie
10. Sam Stone, sung by John Prine
11. Where Have All The Flowers Gone?, sung by Pete Seeger
12. Talkin’ ‘Bout A Revolution, sung by Tracy Chapman
13. Closer to Fine, sung by Indigo Girls
14. Big Yellow Taxi, sung by Joni Mitchell
15. Gulf War Song, sung by Moxy Fruvous
16. Cops Of The World, sung by Phil Ochs
17. Me And A Gun, sung by Tori Amos
18. If I Had A Rocket Launcher, sung by Bruce Cockburn
19. Redemption Song, sung by Bob Marley
20. Guantanamera, sung by The Weavers
21. The News, sung by Jack Johnson
22. A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall, sung by Bob Dylan
23. Send The Marines, sung by Tom Lehrer
24. Imagine, sung by John Lennon
25. Free At Last, sung by Joan Baez
26. Is This The World We Created?, sung by Queen
27. The Junkie Song, sung by The Be Good Tanyas
28. Pastures Of Plenty, sung by Woodie Guthrie
29. Burn One Down, sung by Ben Harper
30. Across The Lines, sung by Tracy Chapman
31. Military Madness, sung by Graham Nash
32. Blowin’ In The Wind, sung by Peter, Paul and Mary
33. One Grain Of Sand, sung by Odetta
34. For What It’s Worth, sung by Buffalo Springfield
35. John Henry, sung by Harry Belafonte
36. How Many People, sung by Paul McCartney
37. Bread And Roses, sung by Utah Philips
38. And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda, sung by Eric Bogle
39. We Shall Overcome, sung by Bruce Springsteen
40. Goodnight Saigon, sung by Billy Joel
41. Fortunate Son, sung by Creedence Clearwater Revival
42. Beautiful People, sung by Melanie
43. Freedom Road, sung by Josh White
44. Goodnight Irene, sung by Leadbelly
45. Blessed Be The Nation, recited by Studs Terkel
46. Who Killed Davey Moore, sung by Bob Dylan
47. Political Science, sung by Randy Newman
48. Come Away, Melinda, sung by The Weavers
49. Fragile, sung by Sting
50. Behind The Wall, sung by Tracy Chapman