Change, no charity: the law of Americans with disabilities It is a new documentary that joins the archive images and interviews to tell the history of decades for the access and inclusion that led to the passage of the American law with disabilities. The 52 -minute film is directed by Jim Lebrecht (Camp) and narrated by Peter Dinklage.
«There are many things that I hope our film achieves, and certainly one of them is a better understanding of disability,» says Lebrecht. «When we understand more about a community than we cannot be part or adjacent, it helps us understand people and be more tolerant. Sometimes, when people go back something, other people do not know why, but if you understand the story behind this, it makes more sense.»
This message feels especially timely to the light of the current demand presented by 17 states to get rid of section 504 of the Rehabilitation Law, the cuts proposed to Medicaid and the news of the main airlines that demand to annul the new rule of the Department of Transportation that strengthen the protections for the disabled passengers.
Change, no charity It shows how disabled activists put their bodies on the line fighting for the rights that the community has today. Of a cross -disability coalition that occupies a federal building in San Francisco for 28 days (known as The 504 sitting), To adapt to the members that chain their wheelchairs to the buses, they leave their mobility aids to transport the stairs of the US Capitol building. UU. And being arrested for civil disobedience in the Rotonda del Capitol, the activists were implacable. «Civil rights are not given. You have to fight to get them, and then you have to fight to keep them,» says the disability rights activist Anita Cameron in the documentary.
The film is a reminder of how powerful people are with disabilities when they work together and how much work remains to be done. «The ADA is not a panacea that took care of everything,» says Lebrecht. «I feel that it depends on me to continue the work of those people who risked their lives so that people can go to university, have their independent educational plan and have what most people fight, who are lives of their own choice.»
Change, no charity: the law of Americans with disabilities premieres on Tuesday, March 25, 9-10 PM EDT in American experience In PBS, PBS.org and the PBS application.
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