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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.disaboom.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss"><channel><title>Disaboom Access America</title><link>http://www.disaboom.com/Photos/access_america/default.aspx</link><description /><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2007.1 (Build: 20917.1142)</generator><item><title>Tatiana</title><link>http://www.disaboom.com/Photos/access_america/picture58348.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 21:13:57 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">28f394d7-ba37-43a1-baa5-4a0a3f3961c4:58348</guid><dc:creator>Tatiana A Klimenko-Kostanian</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.disaboom.com/Photos/access_america/picture58348.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.disaboom.com/Photos/access_america/commentrss.aspx?PostID=58348</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://www.disaboom.com/Photos/access_america/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=58348</wfw:comment><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.disaboom.com/Photos/access_america/picture58348.aspx" &gt;&lt;img src="http://www.disaboom.com/photos/cache/1000.7824.58348.Tatiana Kostanian.jpg.thumb.jpg" alt="Tatiana" border="0" &gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tatiana&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE:7.5pt;COLOR:#5c5d5f;FONT-FAMILY:Arial;"&gt;Am an advocate-activist since 1962; started the first self-help disabled -&amp;nbsp;post traumatic stress group for men, women, youth on the West Coast. Continue to hold a warm-line for the disabled lives. Served on our cities mental health consumer board 14 years, presently continue serving on our Mayors Disability Council, Mayors Physical Access Committee, Mayors Disabled Disaster Preparedness Committee, Armenian National Committee Member, Commission Investigating Persecution of The Falun Gong. I also since the age of 14, singing for those in retirement communities, the disabled, profoundly disabled, those on life support, soldiers back from the front (Vietnam); past veterans of foreign wars, as well Red Cross, USO. I am very understanding of all these issues, having come from a family who have faced formidable issues of Communism, Nazis, Turks, revolution, gulags, religious persecution,&amp;nbsp;discrimination, concentration camps, firing squads, extremes of torture, starvation, [Starvation of the Ukrainians] total loss of family members, loss of country. I also experienced from just a little over 15 months till young adulthood, variances of&amp;nbsp;extremes of torture, by fire], starvation, religious persecution, (buried alive at age 3) learning disabilities (caused by extremes of abuse) rape, incest, harassment by teachers, these added and&amp;nbsp;same issues from kkk. [My hair turned white at age 4]. In all of this, however I never gave up my faith. It has seen me through for some 65 years. All through the years of my issues, I kept my silence never telling anyone, till about the age of 46. I continued to address my own personal issues, but&amp;nbsp;wanted to&amp;nbsp;continue to reach out&amp;nbsp;to assist others, all ages, genders, nationalities. At about age 47 I was diagnosed with, &lt;a class="portalLink" portalName="Pain" href="/Portals/Pain?iadid=Pain_Portal"&gt;chronic pain&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a class="portalLink" portalName="MultipleSclerosis" href="/Portals/MultipleSclerosis?iadid=MultipleSclerosis_Portal"&gt;multiple sclerosis&lt;/a&gt;. Later in my 50&amp;#39;s, physicians who were supposed to take care of my health did not and i had a heart attack and ended up on dialysis. I was on dialysis for a little over three and a half years, and then through prayer, I walked away from dialysis for six years, going back on dialysis this last November. I am o negative and told I must wait seven more years. I also have osteo &lt;a class="portalLink" portalName="Arthritis" href="/Portals/Arthritis?iadid=Arthritis_Portal"&gt;arthritis&lt;/a&gt;, etc. In the time&amp;nbsp;I have left, I have been working with the Tibetans community, Burmese, Falun Gong. I am now putting out a global petition to ask for one million signatures to take to the United Nations, to ask peoples with disabilities and those on life support&amp;nbsp;to offer their signatures, to bring attention to the selling, harvesting of organs and tissues in Mainland China (and other places). But it is to point out that lives are being disabled continuously in and outside &amp;lt;?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = &amp;quot;urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;st1:country-region w:st=&amp;quot;on&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;st1:place w:st=&amp;quot;on&amp;quot;&amp;gt;China&amp;lt;/st1:place&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/st1:country-region&amp;gt;, by the Chinese Communists, since 1948. Lives all ages being tortured in excess, and sliced alive open, some from head to toe to gain organs and tissues to sell or offer as transplants for Chinese Communists Government Officials and family members, and or wealthy individuals from outside Communist China. I believe such atrocities should go before the world court. I have been told I am causing an affront to the Chinese Communists, but those who have lived under Communism, (Chinese Communism as well) and escaped, or had family members go such outrageous human rights violations will tell you I am right on target) We are against the Communist Government&amp;#39;s abuses and to their own peoples as well, not against the Chinese peoples or their children. I hope all will support our petition and go to the site and sign. You may sign your name for all to see, or you may keep your name private. You may also add your expression about this terrible affront to innocent lives. We are also looking to ask for peoples interested in meeting to form a coalition to address these issues here in the heart of &amp;lt;st1:City w:st=&amp;quot;on&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;st1:place w:st=&amp;quot;on&amp;quot;&amp;gt;San Francisco&amp;lt;/st1:place&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/st1:City&amp;gt;, where the Universal Human Rights was offered initially. As all know, in February of this year, the United Nations added our names as peoples with disabilities to this very important doctrine. I hope you your children, families, communities will support our petition and join with us. The web addresses for our petition is: http://www.petitionsite.com/petition928204536. With this signed document we hope we may save millions of lives more. We also know that those who have gone to get organs or tissues, have been held there until they pay in excess of their surgeries, as well when they go back to their homes, the Communist Chinese have sent the bill for Medicare or some insurance company to pay. For the transplant patient, the final understanding comes to soon that no medical physician or hospital will take them as a patient. I do not know how long I will live, but I know&amp;nbsp;patients as me would never even think of going&amp;nbsp;to &amp;lt;st1:country-region w:st=&amp;quot;on&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;st1:place w:st=&amp;quot;on&amp;quot;&amp;gt;China&amp;lt;/st1:place&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/st1:country-region&amp;gt; or anywhere in the world to receive an organ(s) or tissues of&amp;nbsp;innocent lives specially chosen, and executed, or&amp;nbsp;killed outright for their organs and tissues. What is so&amp;nbsp;sad about all of this is that&amp;nbsp;the Chinese Communists have enhanced their state portfolio in banking, &amp;#39;banking on their victims lives&amp;#39;. Please help me to send a strong message to the Chinese Communists, and to the global world, that free people, and most of all, the most vulnerable of every society, join in absolute togetherness, in saying a halt must come to this outrageous&amp;nbsp;tragedy, even now as the Chinese Communists get ready to hold the Olympics in &amp;lt;st1:City w:st=&amp;quot;on&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Beijing&amp;lt;/st1:City&amp;gt; &amp;lt;st1:country-region w:st=&amp;quot;on&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;st1:place w:st=&amp;quot;on&amp;quot;&amp;gt;China&amp;lt;/st1:place&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/st1:country-region&amp;gt;. One small signature is not a lot to offer when one thinks it may change the lives of millions of peoples and children being held incarcerated in concentration camps. As free peoples&amp;nbsp;children, and elderly&amp;nbsp;everywhere, it is the least we can offer in terms of &amp;#39;hope&amp;#39;. Thank you.&amp;nbsp;I cannot go far, but those of you who can, please spread the word and help this message go farther than this old computer, and my front door. I am grateful for websites as this throughout the internet for I am with greater difficulty in lack of knowing how to make websites etc. However, I will not give up on sharing my message, and pray those of you who have time, or will make time will sign and if at all possible translate it. We need signatures by August 1, 2008 before the Beijing Olympics. Together, hopefully we can offer individually and collectively as every day peoples and children, that of what peoples around the globe yearn for, in that of independence, freedoms, and &amp;#39;peace of mind&amp;#39;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE:9.5pt;COLOR:#5c5d5f;FONT-FAMILY:Arial;"&gt;&amp;lt;?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = &amp;quot;urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;o:p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/o:p&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><media:content url="http://www.disaboom.com/photos/storage/1000.7824.58348.Tatiana Kostanian.jpg" type="image/jpeg" height="57" width="47" /><media:title>Tatiana</media:title><media:text type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.disaboom.com/Photos/access_america/picture58348.aspx" &gt;&lt;img src="http://www.disaboom.com/photos/cache/1000.7824.58348.Tatiana Kostanian.jpg.thumb.jpg" alt="Tatiana" border="0" &gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tatiana&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE:7.5pt;COLOR:#5c5d5f;FONT-FAMILY:Arial;"&gt;Am an advocate-activist since 1962; started the first self-help disabled -&amp;nbsp;post traumatic stress group for men, women, youth on the West Coast. Continue to hold a warm-line for the disabled lives. Served on our cities mental health consumer board 14 years, presently continue serving on our Mayors Disability Council, Mayors Physical Access Committee, Mayors Disabled Disaster Preparedness Committee, Armenian National Committee Member, Commission Investigating Persecution of The Falun Gong. I also since the age of 14, singing for those in retirement communities, the disabled, profoundly disabled, those on life support, soldiers back from the front (Vietnam); past veterans of foreign wars, as well Red Cross, USO. I am very understanding of all these issues, having come from a family who have faced formidable issues of Communism, Nazis, Turks, revolution, gulags, religious persecution,&amp;nbsp;discrimination, concentration camps, firing squads, extremes of torture, starvation, [Starvation of the Ukrainians] total loss of family members, loss of country. I also experienced from just a little over 15 months till young adulthood, variances of&amp;nbsp;extremes of torture, by fire], starvation, religious persecution, (buried alive at age 3) learning disabilities (caused by extremes of abuse) rape, incest, harassment by teachers, these added and&amp;nbsp;same issues from kkk. [My hair turned white at age 4]. In all of this, however I never gave up my faith. It has seen me through for some 65 years. All through the years of my issues, I kept my silence never telling anyone, till about the age of 46. I continued to address my own personal issues, but&amp;nbsp;wanted to&amp;nbsp;continue to reach out&amp;nbsp;to assist others, all ages, genders, nationalities. At about age 47 I was diagnosed with, &lt;a class="portalLink" portalName="Pain" href="/Portals/Pain?iadid=Pain_Portal"&gt;chronic pain&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a class="portalLink" portalName="MultipleSclerosis" href="/Portals/MultipleSclerosis?iadid=MultipleSclerosis_Portal"&gt;multiple sclerosis&lt;/a&gt;. Later in my 50&amp;#39;s, physicians who were supposed to take care of my health did not and i had a heart attack and ended up on dialysis. I was on dialysis for a little over three and a half years, and then through prayer, I walked away from dialysis for six years, going back on dialysis this last November. I am o negative and told I must wait seven more years. I also have osteo &lt;a class="portalLink" portalName="Arthritis" href="/Portals/Arthritis?iadid=Arthritis_Portal"&gt;arthritis&lt;/a&gt;, etc. In the time&amp;nbsp;I have left, I have been working with the Tibetans community, Burmese, Falun Gong. I am now putting out a global petition to ask for one million signatures to take to the United Nations, to ask peoples with disabilities and those on life support&amp;nbsp;to offer their signatures, to bring attention to the selling, harvesting of organs and tissues in Mainland China (and other places). But it is to point out that lives are being disabled continuously in and outside &amp;lt;?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = &amp;quot;urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;st1:country-region w:st=&amp;quot;on&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;st1:place w:st=&amp;quot;on&amp;quot;&amp;gt;China&amp;lt;/st1:place&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/st1:country-region&amp;gt;, by the Chinese Communists, since 1948. Lives all ages being tortured in excess, and sliced alive open, some from head to toe to gain organs and tissues to sell or offer as transplants for Chinese Communists Government Officials and family members, and or wealthy individuals from outside Communist China. I believe such atrocities should go before the world court. I have been told I am causing an affront to the Chinese Communists, but those who have lived under Communism, (Chinese Communism as well) and escaped, or had family members go such outrageous human rights violations will tell you I am right on target) We are against the Communist Government&amp;#39;s abuses and to their own peoples as well, not against the Chinese peoples or their children. I hope all will support our petition and go to the site and sign. You may sign your name for all to see, or you may keep your name private. You may also add your expression about this terrible affront to innocent lives. We are also looking to ask for peoples interested in meeting to form a coalition to address these issues here in the heart of &amp;lt;st1:City w:st=&amp;quot;on&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;st1:place w:st=&amp;quot;on&amp;quot;&amp;gt;San Francisco&amp;lt;/st1:place&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/st1:City&amp;gt;, where the Universal Human Rights was offered initially. As all know, in February of this year, the United Nations added our names as peoples with disabilities to this very important doctrine. I hope you your children, families, communities will support our petition and join with us. The web addresses for our petition is: http://www.petitionsite.com/petition928204536. With this signed document we hope we may save millions of lives more. We also know that those who have gone to get organs or tissues, have been held there until they pay in excess of their surgeries, as well when they go back to their homes, the Communist Chinese have sent the bill for Medicare or some insurance company to pay. For the transplant patient, the final understanding comes to soon that no medical physician or hospital will take them as a patient. I do not know how long I will live, but I know&amp;nbsp;patients as me would never even think of going&amp;nbsp;to &amp;lt;st1:country-region w:st=&amp;quot;on&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;st1:place w:st=&amp;quot;on&amp;quot;&amp;gt;China&amp;lt;/st1:place&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/st1:country-region&amp;gt; or anywhere in the world to receive an organ(s) or tissues of&amp;nbsp;innocent lives specially chosen, and executed, or&amp;nbsp;killed outright for their organs and tissues. What is so&amp;nbsp;sad about all of this is that&amp;nbsp;the Chinese Communists have enhanced their state portfolio in banking, &amp;#39;banking on their victims lives&amp;#39;. Please help me to send a strong message to the Chinese Communists, and to the global world, that free people, and most of all, the most vulnerable of every society, join in absolute togetherness, in saying a halt must come to this outrageous&amp;nbsp;tragedy, even now as the Chinese Communists get ready to hold the Olympics in &amp;lt;st1:City w:st=&amp;quot;on&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Beijing&amp;lt;/st1:City&amp;gt; &amp;lt;st1:country-region w:st=&amp;quot;on&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;st1:place w:st=&amp;quot;on&amp;quot;&amp;gt;China&amp;lt;/st1:place&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/st1:country-region&amp;gt;. One small signature is not a lot to offer when one thinks it may change the lives of millions of peoples and children being held incarcerated in concentration camps. As free peoples&amp;nbsp;children, and elderly&amp;nbsp;everywhere, it is the least we can offer in terms of &amp;#39;hope&amp;#39;. Thank you.&amp;nbsp;I cannot go far, but those of you who can, please spread the word and help this message go farther than this old computer, and my front door. I am grateful for websites as this throughout the internet for I am with greater difficulty in lack of knowing how to make websites etc. However, I will not give up on sharing my message, and pray those of you who have time, or will make time will sign and if at all possible translate it. We need signatures by August 1, 2008 before the Beijing Olympics. Together, hopefully we can offer individually and collectively as every day peoples and children, that of what peoples around the globe yearn for, in that of independence, freedoms, and &amp;#39;peace of mind&amp;#39;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE:9.5pt;COLOR:#5c5d5f;FONT-FAMILY:Arial;"&gt;&amp;lt;?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = &amp;quot;urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;o:p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/o:p&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt;</media:text><media:thumbnail url="http://www.disaboom.com/photos/cache/1000.7824.58348.Tatiana Kostanian.jpg.thumb.jpg" height="57" width="47" /><media:credit role="photographer">Tatiana A Klimenko-Kostanian</media:credit><media:category>houses of faith republicans human rights teachers chronic pain nations diabetes disabled rights genders kidney patients fathers freedom fighters businesses multiple sclerosis people of faith physicians policy makers scientists internet providers mothers democrats transplant patients petition signees 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