Center for Self-Determined Living Switzerland

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Cooperative self-determined life
legal form cooperative
founding 1998
Seat Zurich SwitzerlandSwitzerland
resolution 2018
main emphasis Disability Movement - Self-Help Group
sales 157,488 CHF (2009)
Members 8 (cooperative), 250 (friends' association)
Website www.zslschweiz.ch

The Center for Self-Determined Living Switzerland was part of the European disability movement that had existed since the 1970s and of the global "Self-determined Living Movement" ("SL Movement" for short). Because no successor could be found for the management, the center was closed in 2018.

history

The ZSL Zurich was founded in 1996 by 13 disabled people. The foundation was made possible by an initial contribution from the Swiss Association of the Paralyzed (SVG / ASPr). In 1998 it was entered as a cooperative in the Swiss commercial register .

In 1997 the ZSL activists camped for three days in Bern's Kocherpark to demonstrate against a limitation of the health insurance coverage to 60 hours per quarter.

In the same year, the SBB introduced the new IC2000 double-decker trains, which will have fold-up seats in all future wagons and can therefore be used by disabled people in wheelchairs. The ZSL claims the installation of these compartments as a success of its six SBB demonstrations.

In 2006, the ZSL led the referendum against the 5th IV revision and opposed associations for the disabled such as Pro Infirmis and Pro Mente Sana . The ZSL was defeated in the referendum with 59.1% yes-votes.

Since 2009, the ZSL has been campaigning for the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities in Switzerland via e-petition . This protracted dispute paid off on April 15, 2014, when Switzerland ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. It came into force one month later, on May 15, 2014. On December 1, 2018, the ZSL ended its work because it had not been able to find a suitable successor for the management.

Political work and peer counseling

The ZSL is committed to equality, personal assistance , subject-oriented aid financing and a barrier-free society. It is represented in numerous committees and regularly featured in print media, radio and TV.

In addition, the ZSL maintains a homepage with a collection of links to current news on the subject of disabilities, as well as the YouTube channel “SL-TV”, on which self-produced comments, interviews and parodies appear regularly.

It also offers free peer counseling . This is advice for disabled people by specially trained disabled people.

Philosophy of the SL movement

The SL movement regards disability as a social devaluation related to racism. Because disabled people deviate from a fictitious norm, they are treated patronizingly and kept away from public services.

The SL movement therefore rejects special solutions of a charitable nature and instead demands, in line with the general declaration of human rights, that disabled people are accepted as members of democratic society with equal rights and that they represent their interests themselves.

Since the SL movement deals with the social aspect of disability and not with the medical one, it works across diagnoses for all disabled people. Disabled people with different diagnoses should not let themselves be played off against each other, but should work together.

organization

The sponsorship of the Center for Self-Determined Living Switzerland is divided into two organizations: The active members (currently at least 5) are organized in the Self-Determined Living Cooperative and actively participate, while passive members (approx. 250) are organized in the Self-Determined Life Association and contribute part of the financing with their membership fees.

Financing and use of funds

The total income in 2009 was 157,488 Swiss francs (2008: 124,346 francs, 2007: 192,909 francs). Of this, the Federal Social Insurance Office (FSIO) contributed around 113,000 to 117,000 francs annually through a service contract. The remaining income comes from the Friends of Self-Determined Living, from income from lectures and, to a lesser extent, from donations.

According to the 2009 annual accounts, the Cooperative Self-Determined Living recorded 27 francs for expenses for projects (2008: 24 francs, 2007: 131 francs), 109,902 francs for personnel expenses (2008: 110,124 francs, 2007: 112,672 francs), 31 ' 841 francs for general operating expenses (2008: 25,432 francs, 2007: 28,801 francs) and 2,493 francs for depreciation (2008: 1,570 francs, 2007: 1,579 francs).

The cooperative has a cooperative capital of 1,700 francs and at the end of 2009 60,039 francs equity.

criticism

The Swiss handicapped organization “self-determination.ch”, which also belongs to the self-determined life movement, criticizes the ZSL Switzerland and its supporting organizations for their appearance as the “Swiss SL movement”. According to self-determination.ch, this suggests the ZSL's claim to sole representation for Switzerland, although the SL movement is a philosophy to which an open, hard-to-define number of organizations and individuals would feel they belong.

In fact, self-determination.ch is not the only SL organization in Switzerland that is not organizationally linked to the ZSL. The JA-SL group of the Catholic Disabled Pastoral Care of the Canton of Zurich also invokes the self-determined life movement.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry of the “Cooperative Self-Determined Life” in the commercial register of the Canton of Zurich ( Memento from January 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ a b c d Annual Report 2009 (PDF; 300 kB)
  3. ↑ a b c “Conditions make people disabled”. In: nzz.ch. December 29, 2006, accessed October 14, 2018 .
  4. ↑ http://www.zslschweiz.ch/ueberuns/genossenschaft
  5. ↑ ZSL - Center for Self-Determined Living - News - Since November 30, 2018, our Center for Self-Determined Living and the Friends of Self-Determined Living have been closed for good. Retrieved August 19, 2019 .
  6. ↑ http://www.bizeps.or.at/news.php?nr=9946
  7. ↑ http://www.zslschweiz.ch/z_alteseite/Archiv/Texte/Was_haben_die_ZSL_Zuerich_und_Bern_bis_heute_erreich.htm
  8. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from November 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ http://www.uno-konvention-behinderte.ch/
  10. ↑ Switzerland ratifies the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. In: humanrights.ch. April 15, 2014, accessed March 17, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Bye dear friends. In: bizeps.or.at. December 8, 2018, accessed July 14, 2019 .
  12. ↑ http://www.zslschweiz.ch/z_alteseite/Archiv/Texte/Was_haben_die_ZSL_Zuerich_und_Bern_bis_heute_erreich.htm
  13. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/user/ZSLSchweiz
  14. ↑ http://www.zslschweiz.ch/ueberuns/genossenschaft/beratung.php
  15. ↑ http://www.zslschweiz.ch/ueberuns/genossenschaft/grundprinzipien.php
  16. ↑ http://www.zslschweiz.ch/ueberuns/team/
  17. ↑ a b Annual Report 2008 (PDF; 236 kB)
  18. ↑ http://selbstbestaltung.ch/politik/was-ist-die-schweizerische-sl-bewegung/
  19. ↑ http://www.behindestenseelsorge.ch/ja-sl