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A Note from Jim LeBrecht

Submitted by D-MAP on Mon, 01/25/2010 - 10:54
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To my filmmaker friends, please read, especially if you are at Sundance

By James LeBrecht
Founder and Lead Sound Designer
Berkeley Sound Artists

The Sundance Film Festival Filmmaker's lodge is located in a historical building where there is no elevator to take you to the lodge. I have been trying to convince the festival for well over 7 years to fix this issue.

The festival's best solution is this: "Sundance Institute works to make each of its venues physically accessible for all Festivalgoers. All Festival venues and theatres are ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) accessible. For reservations or more information, contact Sundance Institute at (435) 658-3456.

The Filmmaker Lodge, housed in the Park City Elks Building, falls under historical preservation standards and does not have an elevator. However, Sundance Institute does have a Stair-Trac on site that meets ADA requirements. A 24-hour notice is needed and appreciated for patrons needing access to the Stair-Trac. For additional information on this, please contact Sundance Institute at (435) 658-3456"
 

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The Disability & Media Alliance Project (D–MAP) brings together the disability community and the media industry to promote accurate representation of people with disabilities and to eliminate disability stereotypes and misinformation in news, television, films, and other media.

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Meeting News Producers

Submitted by Simon Minty on Fri, 10/09/2009 - 08:00
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In September D-MAP took the next big step and as the current Chair of the Media Advisory Committee, I met with some major US news networks. For as long as I can remember, disability has rarely been seen as a subject that is cool and sexy; however, television and media are seen as cool and sexy. So the plan was to see how we can become compatible. Of course in my back pocket, so to speak, I know those who work in broadcasting, print and online media are human beings, affected by the same things as everyone, including disability. Getting the meetings wasn’t easy.

We decided D-MAP should start with the big players, the US national newspapers, news agencies, broadcasters, both television and radio. Of the 15 or so companies I approached, about eight have not replied--yet. However, enlightened organisations, creative ones (and ones where I’d been given a contact) did agree to meet.

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Senator Edward M. Kennedy - Champion of Disability Civil Rights

Submitted by D-MAP on Thu, 08/27/2009 - 23:53
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DREDF has released a new video which includes an interview with the Senator made around the Tenth Anniversary of the ADA in 2000. If you're a facebook member you can watch the entire 16 minute video without interruption. Or you can view it as a YouTube playlist:

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___ YEARS OF A NONDISABLED LIFE IS WORTH ___ YEARS OF A DISABLED LIFE

Submitted by Susan Henderson on Fri, 07/31/2009 - 07:06
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On 7.15.09, the New York Times Magazine published Dr. Peter Singer's article on rationing health care in the US. Unfortunately, Singer's notion of rationing is based on the "worth" of individuals with disabilities when compared to those without disabilities. A NYT graphic accompanying the article was particularly worrying.
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Welcome to D-MAP

Submitted by Julia Epstein on Wed, 07/08/2009 - 21:44
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We established the Disability & Media Alliance Project (D-MAP) to work in alliance with the media industry to change inaccurate public perceptions of disability and replace them with informed and realistic stories and images. We want to broaden the range of popular ideas about disability to go beyond the usual suspects: condescending stares for tragic lives on the one extreme, and admiring awe for superhuman transcendence of obstacles on the other. People with disabilities are neither inspirational heroes nor social parasites, neither courageous underdogs nor charity cases. We are ordinary people with ordinary and highly varied lives. Like everyone else, we'd like to see our lives depicted in the news and in entertainment.

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Mary Lou BreslinMary Lou Breslin has been a disability rights law and policy advocate for over thirty years. In 1979 she co-founded the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF), a leading national disability rights law and policy center and she currently serves as its Senior Policy Advisor.

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newspaper clipping. "the problem of discrimination"Disability civil rights have advanced significantly over the past 30 years—many children with disabilities are fully included in school classrooms; city sidewalks feature curb cuts and public buildings are ramped; civil rights laws have begun to level the playing field.

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