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

Sun Oct 23 18:49:51 UTC 2011

I would certainly hope so, as the Federation is one of, if not 
the leader in the disability rights movement, and Dr.  tenBroek 
pretty much founded the movement.  If they don't talk about the 
Federation, I would guess they'd probably talk about the work of 
Dr.  tenBroek.  I have been behind on the list, so what time will 
the show be on? Thanks!

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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

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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
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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.

 About the Participants, in Order of Appearance
 Fred Fay, early leader in the

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disability_rights_movement>disabili
ty
 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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