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Bob Kafka host of Barrier Free Futures KSFR 101.1 Santa Fe, NM, interviews Scott Cooper, Director of "IT's OUR STORY". Scott is currently working with the DISABILITY HISTORY AND CULTURE COLLABORATIVE (DHCC)
CONTACT:
202 340 2575
DISABILITY RIGHTS MUSEUM - GOOGLE GROUP
https://groups.google.com/g/disability-rights-museum/
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Bob interviews two long time National ADAPT activists, Nancy Salandra and Mike Oxford.
Nancy recently retired as an Independent Living Specialists Liberty Resources Philadelphia.
Mike is involved with the Community Living Policy Center/Brandeis and Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies.
TOPIC: 20th Anniversary of the ADAPT FREE OUR PEOPLE March 144 miles Phila to DC
CONTACT INFORMATION: www.NationalADAPT.org
RESOURCES: 2003 FREE OUR PEOPLE March
https://adapt.org/2003-philadelphia-free-our-people-march-nancy-salandra/
ADAPT Museum Collection
https://adaptmuseum.net/gallery/index.php?/category/55
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Bob interviews Day-Al Mohamed, Human/Disability Rights Advocate, Author, Filmmaker/Director and Disability Policy Expert.
CONTACT: daysmail@gmail.com
RESOURCES:
Lift Me UP - Tribute to Judy Heumann
Kitty O'Neil - American Masters/PBS
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/renegades-pilot-kitty-oneil/18248/
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Bob interviews Teresa Nguyen, Director of the Community Living Equity Center, The Lurie Institute for Disability Policy at Brandeis University.
CONTACT: https://heller.brandeis.edu/community-living-policy/clec/home.html
email: clequity@brandeis.edu
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Bob interviews Ariana Aboulafia, Policy Counsel, Disability Rihts in Technology at the Center for Democracy & Technologgy, CDT and Henry Claypool, Disability Rights Adocate, served in the Clinton and Obama Administration and nowis a Disability Consultant.
Topic: "Centering Disability in Technology Policy Joint Report released by AAPD and CDT
https://cdt.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/centering-disability-120821-1326-final.pdf
Center on Democracy & Technology
American Association of People with Disabilities
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Bob interviews Sue Swenson, President Inclusion International. Sue served in the Clinton and Obama Administrations and is a former Executive Director of The Arc of the US.
Topic: Right to live in the Community
CONTACT INFORMATION:
sue.swenson@inclusion-international.org
RESOURCES:
Inclusion International
https://inclusion-international.org/
International Disability Alliance
https://www.internationaldisabilityalliance.org/
Listen, Include, Respect
https://www.listenincluderespect.com/
Pitchfork Approach to Social Change
https://freeourpeople.net/disabilityorganizing101andbeyond/?page_id=54
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Bob interviews John Kemp, President and CEO of The Lakeshore Foundation. John has many acheivements in the corporate and non-profit world.
CONTACT INFO:
205 313 7441
RESOURCES:
Lakeshore Foundation
AstroAccess
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Bob interviews Paul Marchand, Former Disability Policy Advocate working with The Arc and UCP advvocating for community integration policies for people with cognitive disabilities. Paul led the Disability Policy Collaborative and the Consortium of Citizens with Disabilities for many years. Paul retired in 2011.
CONTACT INFO: pmarchand@comcast.net
RESOURCES:
https://www.c-c-d.org/index.php
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Bob interviews Sharon Gardner, Minister, disability advocate and entrepreneur. Sharon coordinated Justin W. Dart Jr and Yoshiko's 50 state tour(s) collecting stories of discrimination from people with disabilities. These stories were used by Congress to justify the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
https://ncd.gov/publications/1988/jan1988
https://www.ncd.gov/publications/1986/Febuary1986
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Bob interviews Alexia Kemerling, REV UP Coalitions Coordinator.
TOPIC: POWER The Disability Vote
REV UP is a program of AAPD. https://www.aapd.com/rev-up/
Disability Voting Rights Week
https://www.aapd.com/disability-voting-rights-week/
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Bob interviews Lex Frieden, Director of the ILRU program at TIRR, Memorial Hermann.
Professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
TOPIC: American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities (ACCD)
CONTACT INFORMATION:
713 520 0232
RESOURCES:
What We Have Done (Chapter 13)
https://www.amazon.com/What-We-Have-Done-Disability/dp/1558499199
Handicapping America: Barriers to Disabled People
https://www.amazon.com/Handicapping-America-Barriers-disabled-people/dp/0060104228
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Bob interviews Lauren Pongan, National Director Diverse Elders Coalition
COALITION MEMBERS
Natl Asian Pacific Center on Aging
Natl Caucus and Center on Black Aging, Inc
Natl Hispanic Council on Aging
Natl Indian Council on Aging
SAGE - Advocacy and Services for LGBT Elders
Southeast Asia Resources Action Center
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Bob interviews Mary Lou Breslin, Co Founder, former Executive Director and now Senior Analyst for the Disability Rights Education Defense Fund (DREDF)
Topic: History of DREDF; DREDF's role in the passage and implementation of disability rights legislation; Challenges in front of the disability rights community.
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Bob interviews Mike Oxford, ADAPT Activist, Independent Living Advocate, Interim Ex Dir Atlantis Community Inc Denver, Disability Rights and Services Consultant.
Topic: Olmstead Decision: Getting and Keeping People Out of Nursing Facilities and other Institutions
Contact Information:
mikeoxford@atlantiscommunity.org
785 224 3865
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Bob interviews Mark Johnson, long time ADAPT activist, Connector, Author and new Granddaddy.
Topics: ( Names may change)
Campaign for Disability Justice and Freedom;
Disability Justice and Freedom Caravan;
Friends of Disability Justice, History and Culture.
FOR INFORMATION:
john4404@bellsouth.net
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Bob interviews Dan Kessler, Interim Executive Director, Association of Programs for Rural Independent Living (APRIL)
CONTACT INFORMATION:
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Bob interviews Anita Cameron, long time Disability Justice Activist with ADAPT and other disability rights organizations. She is Director of Minority Outreach for NOT DEAD YET. www.notdeadyet.org
Contact Anita: anitacameron007@gmail.com
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Bob interviews Misty Dion and Tom Earle, CIL CEO's on the intersection of the Supreme Court's Olmstead Decision, CIL's 5th Core Service, eliminating the institutional bias and abuses of state's guardianship laws.
Misty and Tom were instrumental in the creation of LIBERATORS FOR JUSTICE a grassroots organization commited to the elimination of guardianship abuses and promoting alternatives to guardianship.
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Bob interviews Alan Holdsworth, Director of Disability Equality in Education. Topic; Disability Inclusive Curriculum
https://www.disabilityequalityeducation.org/
https://www.media.pa.gov/Pages/Education-Details.aspx?newsid=1373
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Bob interviews David Goldfarb on the effects of the debt ceiling fight on people with disabilities and older Americans. The Arc has developed a Debt Ceiling Advocacy Tool Kit.
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Resources for implementation of the CARE Executive Order:
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Bob interviews Allie Cannington, Senior Manager at The Kelsey, a disability forward housing organization.
Topic: The VITAL Act
Bob interviews Katherine Ott historian at the Smithsonian documenting the disability movement
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Dan Wilkens, Disability Advocate, Graphic Designer, humorist, storyeller and keen observer of the disability movement.