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

[Arielle Silverman]

I assume the Federation will be discussed when they cover blindness
civil rights.
Arielle

On 10/22/11, Jedi <loneblindjedi at samobile.net> wrote:
> 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:
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>>> 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!
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>>> Lead On.....
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>>> Tari
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>>> For downloadable images, visit
>>> <http://pressroom.pbs.org/>http://pressroom.pbs.org
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>>> LIVES WORTH LIVING Premieres on the PBS Series INDEPENDENT LENS
>>> Thursday, October 27 at 10 PM During
>>> National Disability Employment Awareness Month
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>>> Powerful Documentary Chronicles the History of
>>> America’s Disability Rights Movement
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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)
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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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