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

Sun Oct 23 04:11:45 UTC 2011

I read the sonopsis, and blindness wasn't mentioned.
Blessings, Joshua

On 10/22/11, Arielle Silverman <arielle71 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I assume the Federation will be discussed when they cover blindness
> civil rights.
> Arielle
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> 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.
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>> And also, has anyone heard whether or not the film will be available
>> online as I don't have a television?.
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>> Respectfully,
>> Jedi
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>> 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!
>>
>>>> Lead On.....
>>
>>>> Tari
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>>>> Tari Hartman Squire, CEO
>>>> EIN SOF Communications, Inc.
>>>> "We Mean Business"
>>>> 11601 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 500
>>>> Los Angeles, CA 90025
>>>> 310-650-0595 - mobile
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>>>> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT
>>>> Voleine Amilcar, ITVS            415-356-8383 x
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>>>> Mary
>>>> Lugo
>>>> 770-623-8190
>>>> <mailto:lugo at negia.net>lugo at negia.net
>>>> Cara
>>>> White
>>>> 843-881-1480
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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
>>
>>>> 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.
>>
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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)
>>
>>>> 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.
>>
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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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