[nabs-l] "Lives Worth Living" Disability Rights Documentary Premieres on PBS Series Independent Lens; October 27

[Jedi]

That's odd, where's the Federation in all this seems how Jacobus 
tenBroek kind of founded the Disability Rights movement through his 
scholarly work ? And really, the blindness movement is probably one of 
the strongest in the overall Disability Rights Movement.

And also, has anyone heard whether or not the film will be available 
online as I don't have a television?.

Respectfully,
Jedi

Original message:


>> Rarely in the history of media has a documentary
>> captured the authentic voices of disability
>> leaders as they reframe the debate on the
>> disability rights movement in America. This
>> October 27 premiere of Lives Worth Living
>> coincides with National Disability Employment
>> Awareness Month, and gives “Independent Lens” a
>> whole new meaning as this film recalibrates the
>> focus that chronicles the Independent Living Movement.
>> This film is for everyone with – and without -
>> disabilities.  We encourage students to watch
>> and discuss in school; employees to watch (with
>> their Employee Resource Groups); families to
>> experience it with friends.  Blog about it, talk about it.
>> Let PBS know this is the kind of authentic programming that is important.
>> Lives Worth Living IS the film worth watching!

>> Lead On.....

>> Tari

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>> For downloadable images, visit
>> <http://pressroom.pbs.org/>http://pressroom.pbs.org

>> LIVES WORTH LIVING Premieres on the PBS Series INDEPENDENT LENS
>> Thursday, October 27 at 10 PM During
>> National Disability Employment Awareness Month

>> Powerful Documentary Chronicles the History of
>> America’s Disability Rights Movement

>> While there are over 54 million Americans living
>> with disabilities, Lives Worth Living is the
>> first television history of their decades-long
>> struggle for equal rights. Produced and directed
>> by Eric Neudel, Lives Worth Living is a window
>> into a world inhabited by people with an
>> unwavering determination to live their lives
>> like everyone else, and a look back into a past
>> when millions of Americans lived without access
>> to schools, employment, apartment buildings, and
>> public transportation – a way of life
>> unimaginable today. Lives Worth Living premieres
>> on the Emmy® Award-winning PBS series
>> Independent Lens, on Thursday, October 27, 2011
>> at 10 PM (check local listings) to coincide with
>> National Disability Employment Awareness Month.

>> Lives Worth Living traces the development of the
>> disability rights movement from its beginning
>> following World War II, when thousands of
>> disabled veterans returned home, through its
>> burgeoning in the 1960s and 1970s, when it began
>> to adopt the tactics of other social movements.
>> Told through interviews with the movement’s
>> pioneers, legislators, and others, Lives Worth
>> Living explores how Americans with a wide
>> variety of disabilities ­ including blind, deaf,
>> physical, intellectual and psychiatric ­ banded
>> together to change public perception and policy.
>> Through demonstrations and legislative battles,
>> the disability rights community finally secured
>> equal civil rights with the 1990 passage and
>> signing into law of the Americans with
>> Disabilities Act, one of the most transformative
>> pieces of civil rights legislation in American history.


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>> To learn more about the film, and the issues
>> involved, visit the film’s companion website at
>> <http://www.pbs.org/independentlens>www.pbs.org/independentlens/.
>> Get detailed information on the film, watch
>> preview clips, read an interview with the
>> filmmaker, and explore the subject in depth with
>> links and resources. The site also features a
>> Talkback section, where viewers can share their ideas and opinions.


>> About the Participants, in Order of Appearance
>> Fred Fay, early leader in the
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disability_rights_movement>disability
>> rights movement (1944 – 2011)
>> Ann Ford, director of the Illinois National Council on Independent Living
>> Judy Heumann, leading disability rights
>> activist, Co-Founder of World Institute on Disability
>> Judi Chamberlin, Mental Patients Liberation
>> Front, a movement for the rights and dignity of
>> people with mental illness (1944-2010)
>> Dr. William Bronston, former staff physician at
>> the notorious Willowbrook State School who was
>> dismissed after agitating for change
>> Bob Kafka, established ADAPT of Texas, a
>> disability rights advocacy organization
>> Zona Roberts, counselor, UC Berkeley's
>> Physically Disabled Students’ Program and Center
>> for Independent Living, Berkeley; mother of
>> disability rights pioneer Ed Roberts
>> Pat Wright, Former Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund
>> John Wodatch, Former Chief, Disability Rights
>> Section, Civil Rights Division, U. S. Department of Justice
>> Jack Duncan, Former Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives
>> Mary Jane Owen, disability rights activist,
>> philosopher, policy expert, and writer
>> Marca Bristo, CEO, Access Living of Metropolitan
>> Chicago, former chair of the National Council on
>> Disability, and leader in the disability rights movement
>> Michael Winter, Former director, Berkeley Center for Independent Living
>> Lex Frieden, Former director, National Council
>> on the Handicapped (now National Council on Disability)
>> Dr. I. King Jordan, President Emeritus, Gallaudet University
>> Jeff Rosen, alumni leader, Gallaudet University
>> Senator Tom Harkin, (D-Iowa), co-author of the ADA
>> Bobby Silverstein, Former Chief Counsel, Senate
>> Subcommittee on Disability Policy
>> Richard Thornburgh, U.S. Attorney General, 1988-1991
>> Tony Coelho, Former Congressman (D-California),
>> House Majority Whip, 1986-1989, author of the ADA
>> Justin Dart, leader in the disability rights movement (1930 – 2002)

>> About the Filmmaker
>> Eric Neudel (Producer/Director) has produced,
>> directed, and edited numerous award-winning
>> films for public television. His many credits
>> include Eyes on the Prize, AIDS: Chapter One,
>> LBJ Goes to War, Tet 1968, Steps, After the
>> Crash, The Philippines and The US: In Our Image,
>> Body and Soul, and more. He was a visiting
>> senior critic and lecturer in film at Yale
>> University and served as producer, director, and
>> editor for Harvard University’s Derek Bok Center
>> for Teaching and Learning, and Spectrum Media’s
>> program series on the art and craft of teaching.
>> Neudel was also a photographer and video
>> production consultant, teaching video production
>> to a team working for the Compass Project in
>> Malawi. Photographs from his two years in Malawi
>> were exhibited in the Sandra and Phillip Gordon
>> Gallery at The Boston Arts Academy in October 2007.

>> He also served as story consultant for Row Hard
>> No Excuses, an award-winning documentary about
>> two middle aged American men who set out to
>> cross the Atlantic in a rowboat. Most recently
>> he served as a photographer in Rwanda for The
>> Boston Globe, where he directed, produced, and
>> edited a companion documentary about the
>> Maranyundo Middle School, which was built on the
>> site of one of the worst concentration camps and killing fields in Rwanda.


>> About Independent Lens
>> Independent Lens is an Emmy® Award-winning
>> weekly series airing Thursday nights at 10 PM on
>> PBS. The acclaimed anthology series features
>> documentaries and a limited number of fiction
>> films united by the creative freedom, artistic
>> achievement, and unflinching visions of their
>> independent producers. Independent Lens features
>> unforgettable stories about a unique individual,
>> community or moment in history. Presented by the
>> Independent Television Service (ITVS), the
>> series is supported by interactive companion
>> websites and national publicity and community
>> engagement campaigns.  Further information about
>> the series is available at
>> <http://www.pbs.org/independentlens>www.pbs.org/independentlens.
>> Independent Lens is jointly curated by ITVS and
>> PBS; it is funded by the Corporation for Public
>> Broadcasting (CPB), a private corporation funded
>> by the American people, with additional funding
>> provided by PBS and the National Endowment for
>> the Arts.  The series producer is Lois Vossen.

>> ###




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