These wheelchair users push back against able-bodied drivers who nab accessible parking spaces
The ‘Wheelie Peeps’ featured in CBC docuseries Push take over a parking lot to protest
"I'm just dropping someone off." "I'll move if someone needs the spot." People with disabilities hear all manner of excuses when they are trying to park their vehicles in an accessible parking spot.
"I've peed my pants looking for parking before," says Bean Gill who gathered the Wheelie Peeps and organized a protest in a Government of Alberta parking lot.
Their gang, along with the dozens of wheelchairs they brought, occupied the lot one summer morning, in an event that made the local news.
"These people that are coming in and getting angry at us," says Wheelie Peep Brian McPherson, "I hope they're going into their offices and being like, 'Hey, this happened today. We need to do something.'"
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