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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:21,855 --> 00:00:23,064 I'm recording now. 2 00:00:23,148 --> 00:00:25,859 I want to shut it off, I got to press the trigger again. 3 00:00:26,484 --> 00:00:28,153 It should start rolling again. 4 00:00:28,236 --> 00:00:29,463 - Yeah. - All right. 5 00:00:29,487 --> 00:00:32,991 Would you like to see, um, handicapped people depicted as people? 6 00:00:34,325 --> 00:00:35,827 Excuse me? 7 00:00:40,165 --> 00:00:42,125 Jim LeBrecht is a sound designer 8 00:00:42,208 --> 00:00:44,502 at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in California. 9 00:00:45,128 --> 00:00:49,132 He was born with a disability which has nothing to do with his job. 10 00:00:49,215 --> 00:00:52,635 But having the job makes it possible for him to lead 11 00:00:52,719 --> 00:00:54,846 an independent productive life. 12 00:00:57,140 --> 00:00:58,308 ...Tom? That's nice. 13 00:00:58,391 --> 00:01:00,018 Well, it's about his condition. 14 00:01:08,443 --> 00:01:10,361 I was born with spina bifida. 15 00:01:10,987 --> 00:01:13,782 They didn't think I was gonna live more than a couple of hours. 16 00:01:15,325 --> 00:01:17,577 Apparently, I had different plans. 17 00:01:32,050 --> 00:01:33,468 In the middle of first grade, 18 00:01:33,551 --> 00:01:36,221 I was allowed to enter public school on a trial basis. 19 00:01:38,473 --> 00:01:40,350 They were gonna see if it worked out. 20 00:01:41,851 --> 00:01:43,144 I mean, at the time, 21 00:01:43,228 --> 00:01:47,023 so many kids just like me were being sent to institutions. 22 00:01:49,067 --> 00:01:51,528 I remember that my dad used to say to me, 23 00:01:51,611 --> 00:01:54,155 "You know, Jimmy, you're gonna have to be really outgoing. 24 00:01:54,239 --> 00:01:56,908 You're gonna have to go up and introduce yourself to people, 25 00:01:56,991 --> 00:01:58,631 'cause they're not gonna come up to you." 26 00:02:00,954 --> 00:02:02,330 My sister Lindsay was a Brownie, 27 00:02:03,206 --> 00:02:04,999 but they wouldn't let me into the Cub Scouts. 28 00:02:06,835 --> 00:02:09,087 The barriers were all over the place. 29 00:02:12,507 --> 00:02:14,676 I loved music. I loved life. 30 00:02:15,260 --> 00:02:17,470 I wanted to be part of the world, 31 00:02:17,554 --> 00:02:19,597 but I didn't see anyone like me in it. 32 00:02:23,184 --> 00:02:25,979 And then I hear from some people about this summer camp. 33 00:02:26,604 --> 00:02:30,275 It's a summer camp for, you know, "fhe handicapped," run by hippies. 34 00:02:31,234 --> 00:02:32,527 And somebody said, 35 00:02:32,610 --> 00:02:34,571 "You'll probably smoke dope with the counselors." 36 00:02:34,654 --> 00:02:37,490 And I'm like, "Sign me up!" 37 00:02:43,288 --> 00:02:46,291 The wild thing is that this camp changed the world, 38 00:02:46,374 --> 00:02:47,917 and nobody knows this story. 39 00:02:48,001 --> 00:02:49,586 ♪ There's something happening here ♪ 40 00:02:52,005 --> 00:02:55,341 ♪ But what it is ain't exactly clear ♪ 41 00:02:56,551 --> 00:03:00,305 ♪ There's a man with a gun over there ♪ 42 00:03:01,556 --> 00:03:05,268 ♪ Telling me I got to beware ♪ 43 00:03:06,186 --> 00:03:09,647 ♪ I think it's time we stop Children, what's that sound? ♪ 44 00:03:09,731 --> 00:03:13,276 ♪ Everybody look What's going down? ♪ 45 00:03:22,243 --> 00:03:25,371 ♪ There's battle lines being drawn ♪ 46 00:03:25,914 --> 00:03:29,959 ♪ Nobody's right if everybody's wrong ♪ 47 00:03:31,836 --> 00:03:34,839 ♪ Young people speaking their minds ♪ 48 00:03:35,882 --> 00:03:40,678 ♪ Are getting so much resistance From behind ♪ 49 00:03:40,762 --> 00:03:43,514 ♪ It's time we stop Hey, what's that sound? ♪ 50 00:03:43,598 --> 00:03:45,808 ♪ Everybody look What's going down? ♪ 51 00:03:45,892 --> 00:03:47,977 ♪ Stop Hey, what's that sound? ♪ 52 00:03:48,061 --> 00:03:50,772 ♪ Everybody look What's going down? ♪ 53 00:03:50,855 --> 00:03:53,066 ♪ We better stop Now, what's that sound? ♪ 54 00:03:53,149 --> 00:03:54,943 ♪ Everybody look What's going... ♪ 55 00:03:55,026 --> 00:03:57,654 ♪ We better stop Children, what's that sound? ♪ 56 00:03:57,737 --> 00:03:58,821 ♪ Everybody look... ♪ 57 00:04:11,459 --> 00:04:13,740 I remember the first time I went to Camp Jened. 58 00:04:14,254 --> 00:04:17,674 We take this bus trip from Manhattan up to the Catskills. 59 00:04:18,174 --> 00:04:20,051 It's about a three-hour drive. 60 00:04:21,427 --> 00:04:24,055 And you get into this really lovely kinda mountainous areas, 61 00:04:24,138 --> 00:04:27,350 and you could smell, like, the hot land and the pines, 62 00:04:27,433 --> 00:04:29,435 and you're hearing birds and stuff. 63 00:04:30,603 --> 00:04:32,897 And then we pull into the parking lot, 64 00:04:33,690 --> 00:04:36,192 and these people start swarming around the bus. 65 00:04:37,485 --> 00:04:40,571 The place has got a bunch of hippies, and some of them look pretty freaky. 66 00:04:41,239 --> 00:04:42,615 And it's like, wow. 67 00:04:42,699 --> 00:04:45,576 I'm not sure who's a camper and who's a counselor. 68 00:04:54,335 --> 00:04:56,212 I grew up in Mobile, Alabama. 69 00:04:56,296 --> 00:04:58,923 I saw a sign that said, "Summer jobs. 70 00:04:59,007 --> 00:05:00,550 Camps. 71 00:05:00,633 --> 00:05:02,010 New York." 72 00:05:03,177 --> 00:05:04,846 I didn't know anyone handicapped. 73 00:05:06,055 --> 00:05:08,891 I was feeling a little anxious about the kids. 74 00:05:10,101 --> 00:05:13,521 I had zero experience with disabled people. 75 00:05:13,604 --> 00:05:16,274 I knew as many disabled people as I knew 76 00:05:16,357 --> 00:05:17,483 sumo wrestlers. 77 00:05:18,693 --> 00:05:21,321 So I'm at the front of the bus, 78 00:05:21,404 --> 00:05:26,951 and I was not prepared for the visual of so many disabled people at one time. 79 00:05:27,493 --> 00:05:31,247 And I froze. I became paralyzed with fear. 80 00:05:32,373 --> 00:05:36,544 Then somebody behind me pushed me, because I was in the way, 81 00:05:36,627 --> 00:05:40,298 and that forward momentum carried me through the summer. 82 00:05:41,382 --> 00:05:47,680 ♪ Freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom ♪ 83 00:05:48,264 --> 00:05:55,146 ♪ Freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom ♪ 84 00:05:55,730 --> 00:06:02,153 ♪ Sometimes I feel Like a motherless child ♪ 85 00:06:03,404 --> 00:06:05,132 I mean, when Woodstock was happening, 86 00:06:05,156 --> 00:06:08,076 I remember being at my grandmother's, listening on the transistor radio, 87 00:06:08,743 --> 00:06:11,662 and saying, "Wish I could go. Wish I could go. Wish I could go." 88 00:06:12,413 --> 00:06:15,500 And then, when I went to Jened, it was like, 89 00:06:15,583 --> 00:06:17,126 there I was! I was in Woodstock. 90 00:06:19,295 --> 00:06:21,172 The music and the people... 91 00:06:22,090 --> 00:06:24,926 And just, you're like, "These people are crazy!" You know? 92 00:06:25,009 --> 00:06:26,344 I mean, in a good way. 93 00:06:29,472 --> 00:06:32,183 Come to Camp Jened and find yourself, you know? 94 00:06:32,266 --> 00:06:39,190 ♪ Freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom ♪ 95 00:06:40,108 --> 00:06:45,196 ♪ Sometimes I feel like I'm almost gone ♪ 96 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:49,700 It was so funky. 97 00:06:51,536 --> 00:06:55,123 But it was a utopia. 98 00:06:55,706 --> 00:06:58,960 When we were there, 99 00:06:59,043 --> 00:07:04,799 there was no outside world. 100 00:07:04,882 --> 00:07:11,139 ♪ A long way from my home, yeah ♪ 101 00:07:15,768 --> 00:07:19,814 ♪ Singin' freedom, freedom ♪ 102 00:07:19,897 --> 00:07:23,109 ♪ Freedom, freedom ♪ 103 00:07:23,901 --> 00:07:30,741 ♪ Freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom ♪ 104 00:07:30,825 --> 00:07:34,245 ♪ Freedom, freedom ♪ 105 00:07:50,553 --> 00:07:53,073 If you wanna stop and look at anything with the camera, you tell us. 106 00:07:53,097 --> 00:07:54,097 You can do that. 107 00:07:55,433 --> 00:07:58,811 All right, there's... the adult part. 108 00:08:01,189 --> 00:08:02,875 What's that yellow building there? 109 00:08:02,899 --> 00:08:04,939 That's what I just said. The, uh... 110 00:08:05,693 --> 00:08:06,693 The adult part right there. 111 00:08:06,694 --> 00:08:07,921 That's part of the adult camp. 112 00:08:07,945 --> 00:08:08,945 Yeah. 113 00:08:11,407 --> 00:08:13,409 There's one of our gorgeous counselors. 114 00:08:15,786 --> 00:08:17,264 - Say hello. - Hi, how are you? 115 00:08:17,288 --> 00:08:18,448 Okay. 116 00:08:21,459 --> 00:08:24,337 Here is, uh, Girls 1. 117 00:08:24,837 --> 00:08:27,399 A place for fun and frolic. 118 00:08:27,423 --> 00:08:30,426 There's one of the campers, Valerie Vivona. 119 00:08:30,510 --> 00:08:31,510 Jimmy! 120 00:08:34,180 --> 00:08:36,766 Is this necessary? I mean, is this important? 121 00:08:36,849 --> 00:08:38,059 Oh, my... 122 00:08:42,188 --> 00:08:44,108 Is that our director over there? 123 00:08:44,607 --> 00:08:46,167 Yeah, that's Larry Allison. 124 00:08:49,946 --> 00:08:52,026 I understand you're the director here? 125 00:08:52,823 --> 00:08:56,827 Yeah, I'm the director of the camp, and... 126 00:08:56,911 --> 00:08:58,162 I, uh... 127 00:08:58,246 --> 00:09:04,835 I was just out here by the swimming pool, watching the kids swim. 128 00:09:04,919 --> 00:09:09,340 I decided to dig a few holes, 'cause the kids are kind of clumsy 129 00:09:09,423 --> 00:09:11,592 and I thought it'd be funny if they tripped. 130 00:09:12,969 --> 00:09:14,655 Teach us cripples a lesson. 131 00:09:14,679 --> 00:09:15,679 That's right. 132 00:09:18,140 --> 00:09:23,437 Jened was an opportunity to try to do some different kinds of things. 133 00:09:25,064 --> 00:09:27,650 When the camp started back in the '50s, 134 00:09:27,733 --> 00:09:31,612 it was the, uh, traditional kind of camp program. 135 00:09:31,696 --> 00:09:34,490 As it evolved during the '60s and into the '70s, 136 00:09:34,574 --> 00:09:39,287 what we tried to do was provide the kind of environment 137 00:09:39,370 --> 00:09:41,247 where teenagers could be teenagers 138 00:09:41,330 --> 00:09:43,791 without all the stereotypes and the labels. 139 00:09:43,874 --> 00:09:48,170 And that was a byproduct of the times. You know, of social experimentation. 140 00:09:52,383 --> 00:09:56,345 We realized the problem did not exist with people with disabilities. 141 00:09:56,429 --> 00:10:00,141 The problem existed with people that didn't have disabilities. 142 00:10:00,224 --> 00:10:02,059 It was our problem. 143 00:10:02,143 --> 00:10:05,229 So it was important for us to change. 144 00:10:05,896 --> 00:10:08,566 Just to say, I like Camp Jened. 145 00:10:09,150 --> 00:10:12,153 And I love Larry Olson. 146 00:10:12,236 --> 00:10:13,236 Olson? 147 00:10:13,863 --> 00:10:14,863 Allison. 148 00:10:16,782 --> 00:10:18,909 Good for you, Sophie. 149 00:10:20,453 --> 00:10:22,204 Let's go around the circle. 150 00:10:23,956 --> 00:10:24,957 What's your name? 151 00:10:25,041 --> 00:10:27,251 My name is Ellie Abrashkin. 152 00:10:29,045 --> 00:10:32,089 - Where are you from? - I'm from Brooklyn, New York. 153 00:10:33,257 --> 00:10:34,467 Uh... 154 00:10:34,550 --> 00:10:35,551 Brooklyn. 155 00:10:38,220 --> 00:10:42,683 Hello, my name is Jean Malafronte. 156 00:10:43,351 --> 00:10:48,022 I, uh, got run over by a bus. 157 00:10:48,731 --> 00:10:50,316 Congratulations. 158 00:10:50,399 --> 00:10:54,737 I don't know exactly my handicap. 159 00:10:55,321 --> 00:10:57,281 And that's all. 160 00:10:58,115 --> 00:10:59,241 My name is Carl. 161 00:10:59,325 --> 00:11:02,370 And if this is ever broadcast on television, 162 00:11:02,453 --> 00:11:07,583 my telephone number is area code 212-YU8-0367, 163 00:11:07,667 --> 00:11:12,630 and I would love anyone who likes to talk to give me a telephone call. 164 00:11:12,713 --> 00:11:14,715 And I am blind and hard of hearing. 165 00:11:14,799 --> 00:11:17,885 I had too much oxygen in the incubator, 166 00:11:17,968 --> 00:11:19,345 and my hearing, 167 00:11:19,428 --> 00:11:22,598 because I had a fractured skull from falling out of a cab. 168 00:11:23,391 --> 00:11:26,769 And I will be glad if anyone will call me who hears this. 169 00:11:30,314 --> 00:11:31,834 This is where I stay. 170 00:11:34,735 --> 00:11:37,714 - Steve's a counselor. - Wanna take a picture of this cat? 171 00:11:37,738 --> 00:11:38,938 Smile, Steve. 172 00:11:40,908 --> 00:11:42,118 Oops. 173 00:11:42,201 --> 00:11:44,120 Let's not bump into the campers. 174 00:11:49,041 --> 00:11:50,721 Let's move around that way. 175 00:11:51,293 --> 00:11:52,729 It's been a pleasure, Steve Hoffman. 176 00:11:52,753 --> 00:11:53,921 Wow. 177 00:11:55,089 --> 00:11:56,465 Thank you. 178 00:11:57,341 --> 00:12:01,137 Don't make me get a fat head. 179 00:12:03,013 --> 00:12:06,159 You don't have the light to roll up inside and see what it looks like? 180 00:12:06,183 --> 00:12:07,977 Um, I don't know. 181 00:12:08,769 --> 00:12:10,813 The bunk is a mess. 182 00:12:12,606 --> 00:12:15,985 But we like it like that. 183 00:12:16,068 --> 00:12:18,028 Yeah! Yeah! 184 00:12:18,112 --> 00:12:19,232 Hey, Tommy. 185 00:12:19,989 --> 00:12:20,990 Yeah! 186 00:12:21,073 --> 00:12:22,593 This is Tommy Curran. 187 00:12:23,242 --> 00:12:24,242 Hi, Tommy. 188 00:12:27,329 --> 00:12:29,498 Nobody uses those upper beds, right? 189 00:12:29,582 --> 00:12:31,143 - What? - The upper beds? 190 00:12:31,167 --> 00:12:34,047 - The counselors do. - The counselors do. 191 00:12:35,171 --> 00:12:36,773 - Hey, JJ. - What's happening? 192 00:12:36,797 --> 00:12:38,650 That's the usual state of the counselors. 193 00:12:43,429 --> 00:12:46,265 That first night in the bunk, I was a little bit nervous. 194 00:12:47,892 --> 00:12:49,310 I had just had surgery. 195 00:12:50,770 --> 00:12:55,107 Up to that point, I was wearing diapers, 'cause I had no control over my bladder. 196 00:12:56,192 --> 00:12:59,695 I guess you could imagine what it was like being 15 197 00:12:59,779 --> 00:13:02,156 and trying to hide the fact that you had to wear diapers. 198 00:13:05,451 --> 00:13:09,413 And there was that constant pressure of being found out. 199 00:13:10,998 --> 00:13:15,795 I had gotten this urinary tract diversion, so now I had this bag. 200 00:13:15,878 --> 00:13:17,004 It wasn't going too well. 201 00:13:17,087 --> 00:13:21,175 I was having a hard time keeping it on, and it was leaking and such. 202 00:13:22,718 --> 00:13:25,805 But at camp, everybody had something going on with their body. 203 00:13:26,555 --> 00:13:28,557 It just wasn't a big deal. 204 00:13:32,311 --> 00:13:34,522 Okay, uh, my first guest, what's your name? 205 00:13:34,605 --> 00:13:36,232 My name is Michael Tannenbaum. 206 00:13:36,315 --> 00:13:37,315 How old are you? 207 00:13:37,858 --> 00:13:40,152 I was just 18. 208 00:13:40,236 --> 00:13:43,948 Uh, what do you think is the most significant part about Camp Jened? 209 00:13:44,448 --> 00:13:45,449 Uh... 210 00:13:46,033 --> 00:13:47,034 The staff. 211 00:13:47,117 --> 00:13:49,870 How great they are. How good they relate to the campers. 212 00:13:50,746 --> 00:13:53,123 - Are you lying? - No, I'm not lying. 213 00:13:53,666 --> 00:13:55,060 It's just that I've been in other camps, 214 00:13:55,084 --> 00:13:57,086 and at no other camp have campers treated... 215 00:13:57,169 --> 00:13:59,421 Have counselors treated campers the way they do here. 216 00:13:59,505 --> 00:14:00,965 They're not like babysitters. 217 00:14:02,716 --> 00:14:05,427 - That was a good answer. - Thank you, John. 218 00:14:08,055 --> 00:14:09,655 It's not 100% sure, 219 00:14:09,682 --> 00:14:12,977 but since the new trip is gonna be coming up Thursday, 220 00:14:13,060 --> 00:14:16,689 what we're gonna try to do is get the cook to take off Wednesday, 221 00:14:16,772 --> 00:14:19,900 which means that we'll cook on Wednesday. 222 00:14:19,984 --> 00:14:22,361 Do you have any, um, any suggestions? 223 00:14:22,945 --> 00:14:25,823 I was trying to see if we could make veal parmesan, 224 00:14:25,906 --> 00:14:27,658 but veal is too expensive. 225 00:14:27,741 --> 00:14:29,535 How about just, like, chow mein? 226 00:14:29,618 --> 00:14:32,218 - 'Cause bacon is just more expensive. - Chicken parmesan. 227 00:14:32,246 --> 00:14:33,873 What do you think of lasagna? 228 00:14:34,623 --> 00:14:37,668 Super-duper! 229 00:14:39,545 --> 00:14:40,713 Quiet! 230 00:14:41,255 --> 00:14:43,215 How many people... Raise your hands. 231 00:14:43,299 --> 00:14:45,342 How many people want lasagna? 232 00:14:48,470 --> 00:14:50,556 When do we get not to eat starch? 233 00:14:51,849 --> 00:14:54,810 The only deal is we don't have to eat those starchy things, 234 00:14:54,894 --> 00:14:55,852 so why eat lasagna? 235 00:14:55,853 --> 00:14:58,397 How many people don't want lasagna? 236 00:15:00,441 --> 00:15:03,068 - Lasagna wins! - No lasagna wins. 237 00:15:03,652 --> 00:15:04,692 All right. 238 00:15:05,946 --> 00:15:08,282 When you go back into... Mark. 239 00:15:08,782 --> 00:15:13,829 When you go back into your groups, will you also decide... 240 00:15:13,913 --> 00:15:18,792 Get some suggestions as to what you want, and when we come back in a group together, 241 00:15:18,876 --> 00:15:22,129 um, we'll decide what we're going to have to eat. 242 00:15:22,212 --> 00:15:24,590 Okay? If the cook is off on Wednesday. 243 00:15:27,301 --> 00:15:32,014 I felt like it was important to be inclusive, 244 00:15:32,097 --> 00:15:35,184 because I didn't really have a lot of role models, 245 00:15:35,267 --> 00:15:37,394 as I was growing up, who had disabilities. 246 00:15:37,478 --> 00:15:41,148 It made people feel like they were more a part of what was happening. 247 00:15:41,982 --> 00:15:43,919 - Very good idea. - Yeah! 248 00:15:43,943 --> 00:15:46,153 It was more free and open 249 00:15:46,236 --> 00:15:49,782 than certainly what I was experiencing in my day-to-day life at home. 250 00:15:49,865 --> 00:15:55,162 ♪ I love my baby My baby loves me ♪ 251 00:15:55,245 --> 00:16:00,376 I grew up in Brooklyn, New York, in a neighborhood called East Flatbush. 252 00:16:02,127 --> 00:16:05,255 Growing up in the neighborhood, I didn't feel different. 253 00:16:05,798 --> 00:16:06,924 I had polio. 254 00:16:07,007 --> 00:16:09,551 I wasn't able to walk anymore and things like that, 255 00:16:09,635 --> 00:16:10,970 but there were a lot of kids. 256 00:16:11,053 --> 00:16:14,098 We played outside. Stick ball and jump rope. 257 00:16:14,181 --> 00:16:15,808 It was a great neighborhood. 258 00:16:18,519 --> 00:16:21,855 So, one day, I was going to the candy store with a group of friends. 259 00:16:21,939 --> 00:16:24,316 My friend was pushing my wheelchair, 260 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:26,986 and we went around the block, 261 00:16:27,069 --> 00:16:31,031 and these kids came over, this one boy said, "Are you sick?" 262 00:16:33,117 --> 00:16:35,744 And I was really, like, taken aback, 263 00:16:36,245 --> 00:16:40,916 and I recall that I meekishly said, "No, I'm not sick." 264 00:16:41,583 --> 00:16:43,210 But I remember... 265 00:16:43,293 --> 00:16:45,587 I wanted to cry. 266 00:16:46,338 --> 00:16:48,841 I get that feeling a lot even as an adult. 267 00:16:48,924 --> 00:16:53,345 I'm kind of in between being shocked by the question, 268 00:16:53,429 --> 00:16:55,305 maybe being angry by it, 269 00:16:55,389 --> 00:16:57,933 but having to center myself. 270 00:16:58,976 --> 00:17:01,395 It was an awakening 271 00:17:01,478 --> 00:17:06,108 that people saw me not as Judy, 272 00:17:06,191 --> 00:17:08,318 but as somebody who was sick. 273 00:17:12,489 --> 00:17:14,158 When I was five years old, 274 00:17:14,241 --> 00:17:18,120 my mother took me to the local school to enroll me, 275 00:17:18,203 --> 00:17:21,707 but the principal said I couldn't go to that school 'cause I couldn't walk. 276 00:17:21,790 --> 00:17:23,500 I could be a fire hazard. 277 00:17:23,584 --> 00:17:26,920 So basically, my mother w me. 278 00:17:29,339 --> 00:17:32,926 Of course, all my friends in the neighborhood were going to school, 279 00:17:33,010 --> 00:17:34,344 but I was at home. 280 00:17:35,179 --> 00:17:37,931 Then, one day, when I was about eight, nine years old, 281 00:17:38,015 --> 00:17:40,350 my mom got a call that there was an opening 282 00:17:40,434 --> 00:17:43,979 in PS 219, in the special ed classes. 283 00:17:47,816 --> 00:17:50,569 The classes for disabled kids were in the basement. 284 00:17:50,652 --> 00:17:52,821 The other classes were upstairs. 285 00:17:52,905 --> 00:17:56,742 We would call the non-disabled kids "upstairs kids." 286 00:17:58,077 --> 00:18:02,414 They would come down, a few of them, Fridays, help us go to assembly. 287 00:18:03,082 --> 00:18:05,334 They were allowed to come, 288 00:18:05,417 --> 00:18:08,837 and you know, meet us in our classroom and push our wheelchairs. 289 00:18:11,215 --> 00:18:15,052 There were people that I met in those classes 290 00:18:15,135 --> 00:18:17,596 who then went to Camp Jened together. 291 00:18:19,306 --> 00:18:23,936 Neil Jacobson, Stevie Hofmann and Nancy Rosenblum. 292 00:18:24,478 --> 00:18:26,563 We would sit together at lunch, 293 00:18:27,564 --> 00:18:31,360 and I would help people put their sandwich in their sandwich holder. 294 00:18:32,778 --> 00:18:34,363 And I think we respected each other, 295 00:18:34,446 --> 00:18:38,200 and we all felt that what we were saying was important. 296 00:18:39,743 --> 00:18:44,123 I mean, in some way, even when we were that young, 297 00:18:44,206 --> 00:18:46,500 we knew that we were all being sidelined. 298 00:18:49,336 --> 00:18:51,213 We didn't wanna sideline anybody. 299 00:18:52,422 --> 00:18:54,383 We wanted to hear what everybody had to say. 300 00:18:54,466 --> 00:18:56,135 We were willing to listen. 301 00:19:00,889 --> 00:19:03,289 - Sounds more like... - Yeah, wow. 302 00:19:03,350 --> 00:19:09,022 You... You... You're always... You're always talking. 303 00:19:09,106 --> 00:19:13,360 You're... You're always talking. 304 00:19:13,443 --> 00:19:15,154 You're always talking. 305 00:19:17,114 --> 00:19:19,034 That's 'cause he's a good public speaker. 306 00:19:19,700 --> 00:19:21,827 Jean and I thought I was being, you know... 307 00:19:21,910 --> 00:19:23,537 I thought so, too. 308 00:19:24,079 --> 00:19:25,079 Jack? 309 00:19:25,789 --> 00:19:28,000 I think you're really great in the bunk. 310 00:19:28,083 --> 00:19:30,770 When the worst things happen, you're sitting in the corner cracking up, 311 00:19:30,794 --> 00:19:32,954 and nobody can get depressed when you're sitting there. 312 00:19:37,050 --> 00:19:39,553 She knows what she's doing when she's all, like, coy. 313 00:19:41,096 --> 00:19:43,015 You know, I really dig you, Nance, 314 00:19:43,098 --> 00:19:46,035 and there are a lot of things, you know, I'd like to get to know you better, 315 00:19:46,059 --> 00:19:49,146 but, so far as I know you, I really like you. 316 00:19:50,355 --> 00:19:52,065 She's very nice, and... 317 00:19:52,149 --> 00:19:54,735 Remember, you're speaking to her, not about her. 318 00:19:56,445 --> 00:19:59,045 I don't know too much about you, but you're okay. 319 00:20:14,796 --> 00:20:17,216 Um, there's some people here 320 00:20:18,717 --> 00:20:20,510 who have been filming. 321 00:20:21,428 --> 00:20:25,474 I told them that I would like them to please address us as a group 322 00:20:25,557 --> 00:20:27,059 so they could tell us their ideas 323 00:20:27,142 --> 00:20:30,520 and we could ask any questions that we wanted to. 324 00:20:30,604 --> 00:20:32,397 We are People's Video Theater. 325 00:20:32,481 --> 00:20:36,276 That's Ken Marsh, I'm Howie Gutstadt, and that's Ben Levine over there. 326 00:20:36,860 --> 00:20:39,071 And we have been working with this equipment, 327 00:20:39,154 --> 00:20:43,158 which is half-inch video tape, which is simply closed-system television. 328 00:20:43,742 --> 00:20:48,372 Whatever, actually, you really wanna say about yourselves, let us know. 329 00:20:48,455 --> 00:20:50,374 Let's have a lot of interaction. 330 00:20:53,126 --> 00:20:55,295 - Tommy! - Hey, Tommy! 331 00:20:55,379 --> 00:20:56,630 Tommy! 332 00:20:56,713 --> 00:20:58,193 - Tommy, look! - Tommy! 333 00:20:59,049 --> 00:21:02,219 - Tommy! - Who's on the television, Tommy? 334 00:21:05,055 --> 00:21:07,015 What a ugly face. Oh, my gosh. 335 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:29,288 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 336 00:21:29,371 --> 00:21:31,349 There was a period of adjustment I had to go through 337 00:21:31,373 --> 00:21:33,292 for the first couple of weeks at camp. 338 00:21:37,045 --> 00:21:38,285 Because I was in public school, 339 00:21:38,338 --> 00:21:40,674 I wasn't around other people with disabilities. 340 00:21:41,675 --> 00:21:45,095 I wasn't a shut-in. I could come and go more or less as I pleased. 341 00:21:46,013 --> 00:21:49,516 And not everybody at the camp had those advantages. 342 00:21:51,351 --> 00:21:52,351 Rory. 343 00:21:53,020 --> 00:21:54,664 Some of them were going to special schools. 344 00:21:54,688 --> 00:21:57,524 Some of them were isolated a lot of the time. 345 00:21:57,607 --> 00:22:00,068 You had people from institutions. 346 00:22:00,902 --> 00:22:04,698 ♪ Lately it occurs to me ♪ 347 00:22:05,365 --> 00:22:10,078 ♪ What a long, strange trip it's been ♪ 348 00:22:12,748 --> 00:22:15,334 Being 15, I was drawn to the people that were 349 00:22:15,417 --> 00:22:18,337 smoking cigarettes and listening to music. 350 00:22:20,297 --> 00:22:23,925 ♪ Sometimes the light's All shining on me ♪ 351 00:22:25,844 --> 00:22:28,404 Outside of camp, I really didn't feel like a cool kid. 352 00:22:28,889 --> 00:22:30,682 But at Jened, I was. 353 00:22:32,351 --> 00:22:38,899 There were a lot of cute girls at camp, and, you know, I was friendly. 354 00:22:48,158 --> 00:22:49,159 Yeah! 355 00:22:49,993 --> 00:22:51,661 At home, 356 00:22:51,745 --> 00:22:57,626 some people had a hierarchy 357 00:22:57,709 --> 00:23:00,879 of disability. 358 00:23:01,463 --> 00:23:06,760 The polios were on top 359 00:23:06,843 --> 00:23:13,392 because they looked more normal, 360 00:23:14,101 --> 00:23:20,941 and the CPs were at the bottom. 361 00:23:22,859 --> 00:23:29,699 But at Jened, you were just a kid. 362 00:23:31,493 --> 00:23:37,541 We met when we went to Jened, 363 00:23:37,624 --> 00:23:43,797 but he's younger than I am. 364 00:23:46,466 --> 00:23:52,597 When we decided to get married my mom said to me, 365 00:23:52,681 --> 00:23:59,312 "I understand why you want to marry 366 00:23:59,396 --> 00:24:01,690 a handicapped girl. 367 00:24:02,357 --> 00:24:06,111 But why can't you find a polio?" 368 00:24:06,194 --> 00:24:08,113 Oh, my God! 369 00:24:08,196 --> 00:24:12,659 Oh, my God! Oh, my God! 370 00:24:15,328 --> 00:24:17,768 There's one of my counselors with a waitress. 371 00:24:18,039 --> 00:24:19,332 Aha! 372 00:24:19,416 --> 00:24:22,919 This is a little sitting corner over there. 373 00:24:24,171 --> 00:24:25,881 It's kind of dark over here at night. 374 00:24:27,299 --> 00:24:29,360 So what's that mean? What goes on there? 375 00:24:31,303 --> 00:24:32,219 A little nookie. 376 00:24:32,220 --> 00:24:34,740 You've been going around giving me this superficial tour. 377 00:24:34,764 --> 00:24:36,141 Let's have some real stuff. 378 00:24:36,224 --> 00:24:38,852 That's where he and Nanci go off and... 379 00:24:39,436 --> 00:24:41,916 - Who's Nanci? - She's my girl. 380 00:24:50,113 --> 00:24:53,658 Camp Jened was where I met my first girlfriend, Nanci. 381 00:24:55,118 --> 00:24:57,287 She was funny. She was cute. 382 00:24:57,370 --> 00:25:00,999 She was always in the middle of things and having a really, really great time. 383 00:25:01,625 --> 00:25:03,001 I mean, I really loved her. 384 00:25:04,085 --> 00:25:06,546 As much as you can at the age of 15, you know? 385 00:25:07,589 --> 00:25:11,510 I literally remember us, like, making out in the dining hall. 386 00:25:11,593 --> 00:25:14,221 It seemed like we were making out all the time. 387 00:25:17,933 --> 00:25:22,854 There was a romance in the air if you wanted to experience it. 388 00:25:23,396 --> 00:25:25,982 I never dated outside of camp. 389 00:25:26,608 --> 00:25:29,444 But at Jened, you could have make-out sessions 390 00:25:29,528 --> 00:25:31,780 behind the bunks and different places like that. 391 00:25:32,864 --> 00:25:36,284 The first year I was at camp, 392 00:25:36,868 --> 00:25:41,122 one of the women counselors 393 00:25:41,206 --> 00:25:46,503 gave me a whole lesson on how to kiss. 394 00:25:46,586 --> 00:25:50,090 That was one of the best 395 00:25:50,173 --> 00:25:53,218 physical therapies I ever had. 396 00:25:55,595 --> 00:26:02,269 A couple of days after that, I had my first date 397 00:26:02,352 --> 00:26:05,188 with a girl camper. 398 00:26:05,272 --> 00:26:08,358 And I felt her hand 399 00:26:08,441 --> 00:26:10,694 on my cock. 400 00:26:10,777 --> 00:26:12,571 That was heaven. 401 00:26:30,255 --> 00:26:31,524 You want me to tell them what happened? 402 00:26:31,548 --> 00:26:32,868 - Yes. - Oh, well... 403 00:26:35,385 --> 00:26:39,014 Well, two people got crabs, and, um, they're spreading. 404 00:26:39,097 --> 00:26:42,851 They form in human body in there, and I don't know... 405 00:26:42,934 --> 00:26:46,646 And they, um... multiply! 406 00:26:46,730 --> 00:26:49,041 In the beginning, when this thing started happening last night, 407 00:26:49,065 --> 00:26:50,305 we found out what was going on. 408 00:26:50,358 --> 00:26:52,485 We were kind of all very hyper about it. 409 00:26:52,569 --> 00:26:56,323 And who the fuck knew what, you know, crabs were, or lice or anything? 410 00:26:56,406 --> 00:26:59,034 I wanna go over there. 411 00:26:59,117 --> 00:27:00,117 What's over there? 412 00:27:00,118 --> 00:27:01,411 My girl. 413 00:27:02,329 --> 00:27:03,848 Have you seen her today? 414 00:27:03,872 --> 00:27:05,081 Just from over here. 415 00:27:05,165 --> 00:27:06,601 Have you talked to her? 416 00:27:06,625 --> 00:27:08,418 Not really. Just from across here. 417 00:27:08,501 --> 00:27:09,794 We're all quarantined. 418 00:27:10,837 --> 00:27:11,837 Yeah. 419 00:27:12,339 --> 00:27:15,425 It's our first-week anniversary today. 420 00:27:15,508 --> 00:27:17,945 It's your first-week anniversary, and you can't even talk to her. 421 00:27:17,969 --> 00:27:19,054 That's right. 422 00:27:19,137 --> 00:27:20,697 - Why I'm mad? - Your boyfriend. 423 00:27:20,722 --> 00:27:21,806 Oh, yeah. 424 00:27:21,890 --> 00:27:25,226 I'm mad because I can't see Jimmy, and today is our first-week anniversary. 425 00:27:28,063 --> 00:27:30,899 ♪ I got those poor old crab blues, yeah ♪ 426 00:27:32,108 --> 00:27:35,268 Haven't had so much fun since Grandma caught her tit in the wringer! 427 00:27:36,112 --> 00:27:38,424 We're thinking of collecting all the crabs and having a bake. 428 00:27:39,824 --> 00:27:41,636 We may have to burn the bastards out. 429 00:27:41,660 --> 00:27:44,537 ♪ Oh, yeah I got the... ♪ 430 00:27:44,621 --> 00:27:47,332 Just the most asinine, stupid thing I have ever heard. 431 00:27:47,415 --> 00:27:51,211 When thinking about it rationally, I realized that I don't itch, 432 00:27:51,294 --> 00:27:53,421 so there's no need for me to disinfect. 433 00:27:53,505 --> 00:27:56,007 My wheelchair doesn't itch, and neither does my bed, 434 00:27:56,091 --> 00:27:58,677 my mattress or my roommate, Bruce. 435 00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:01,805 Yet we're all in the process of dehumanization. 436 00:28:01,888 --> 00:28:02,888 Got a match? 437 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:06,267 We got crab power! 438 00:28:06,351 --> 00:28:09,771 Whoopi-doo! 439 00:28:09,854 --> 00:28:13,316 It's the best activity yet. 440 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:16,861 - I do so declare, y'all. - Tell them, Jean. 441 00:28:16,945 --> 00:28:19,781 It's spreadable! 442 00:28:21,157 --> 00:28:23,827 You know, how would you like to have somebody wash your balls? 443 00:28:26,830 --> 00:28:28,808 - That's the part... - It depends who. 444 00:28:28,832 --> 00:28:32,335 Right, I can do it myself for me. So, you know, I don't really care. 445 00:28:33,002 --> 00:28:34,482 But there are other people who can't. 446 00:28:34,838 --> 00:28:36,315 You know, and they have to have it done for them. 447 00:28:36,339 --> 00:28:39,300 You know, people around here feel small enough most of the time, 448 00:28:39,384 --> 00:28:41,177 and when somebody has to scrub their balls, 449 00:28:41,261 --> 00:28:42,661 they'll probably feel even smaller. 450 00:28:45,265 --> 00:28:48,685 I think, actually, what happened was that people were having fun. 451 00:28:48,768 --> 00:28:54,023 We were working together as a whole unit, washing and cleaning and showering, 452 00:28:54,107 --> 00:28:55,584 and doing things that we've never done before. 453 00:28:55,608 --> 00:28:58,153 And it's really a very different kind of a thing. 454 00:28:58,236 --> 00:29:00,196 And I have to go shower some people. 455 00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:01,480 I'll see you later. 456 00:29:02,782 --> 00:29:04,159 At Camp Jened, 457 00:29:04,242 --> 00:29:08,496 personal assistance was built into all of our lives who needed help. 458 00:29:11,708 --> 00:29:14,794 There were people there that would help me get dressed and undressed, 459 00:29:14,878 --> 00:29:17,478 and go to the bathroom and shower, and get in and out of the pool. 460 00:29:22,177 --> 00:29:26,723 In some way, it was also the beginning of my experiencing 461 00:29:26,806 --> 00:29:30,518 what it would be like to have someone other than my mother or my father 462 00:29:30,602 --> 00:29:32,020 have to do all those things. 463 00:29:38,234 --> 00:29:39,360 At the camp, 464 00:29:39,444 --> 00:29:42,906 you could do anything that you thought you wanted to try to do. 465 00:29:43,490 --> 00:29:46,367 You wouldn't be picked to be on a team back home. 466 00:29:47,076 --> 00:29:50,789 But at Jened, you had to go up to bat. 467 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:57,837 And if you didn't hit the ball, hell, you were out. 468 00:30:09,933 --> 00:30:14,813 When we were at Jened, the Disability Act had not been passed. 469 00:30:15,688 --> 00:30:20,443 So, when we would take the campers on a trip into town for ice cream, 470 00:30:20,527 --> 00:30:22,362 we couldn't get you in the door. 471 00:30:23,613 --> 00:30:25,865 And then deal with the staring, 472 00:30:25,949 --> 00:30:28,034 or deal with, "We don't want them here 473 00:30:28,117 --> 00:30:31,329 because they make our other customers feel uncomfortable." 474 00:30:32,622 --> 00:30:38,211 Whatever obstacles that were in my way being a black man, 475 00:30:38,878 --> 00:30:42,966 the same thing was held true for individuals in wheelchairs. 476 00:30:45,718 --> 00:30:50,598 Back home, I had to be careful who I said things to, 477 00:30:50,682 --> 00:30:52,308 because that was a way of surviving. 478 00:30:52,392 --> 00:30:54,811 They were survival skills that you had. 479 00:30:55,812 --> 00:30:59,983 I had to be very, very, very careful not to be disrespectful. 480 00:31:00,525 --> 00:31:02,402 Not to look a white man in his eye. 481 00:31:03,194 --> 00:31:06,531 You had to do those things. You had to be mindful of that. 482 00:31:13,329 --> 00:31:15,665 ♪ I got the one-time blues ♪ 483 00:31:16,291 --> 00:31:17,876 ♪ You get them only once ♪ 484 00:31:20,086 --> 00:31:22,255 ♪ I got the one-time blues ♪ 485 00:31:22,338 --> 00:31:24,674 ♪ You get them only once ♪ 486 00:31:27,010 --> 00:31:28,887 ♪ When you're alone with me ♪ 487 00:31:29,596 --> 00:31:31,389 ♪ You know you can't get enough ♪ 488 00:31:34,559 --> 00:31:36,060 ♪ My eyes get red ♪ 489 00:31:36,144 --> 00:31:38,646 ♪ I don't know what to do ♪ 490 00:31:41,357 --> 00:31:43,318 ♪ My eyes get red ♪ 491 00:31:43,401 --> 00:31:45,695 ♪ I don't know what to do ♪ 492 00:31:48,197 --> 00:31:50,783 ♪ I've got so much pain ♪ 493 00:31:50,867 --> 00:31:52,660 ♪ I don't know if I'm really blue ♪ 494 00:32:07,842 --> 00:32:12,430 ♪ 'Cause I got The one-time, one-time blues ♪ 495 00:32:15,141 --> 00:32:16,141 Hooray. 496 00:32:16,142 --> 00:32:17,142 Are you ready? 497 00:32:17,185 --> 00:32:18,454 - You're on now. - All right. 498 00:32:18,478 --> 00:32:21,856 We're here now. We're gonna talk about parents. 499 00:32:21,940 --> 00:32:24,651 You know, and what kind of... 500 00:32:25,485 --> 00:32:28,905 How they bug us, or how you lie to them, whatever it is. 501 00:32:28,988 --> 00:32:31,532 Maybe we should start off with, uh... 502 00:32:31,616 --> 00:32:34,744 overprotectiveness, which I really hate. 503 00:32:34,827 --> 00:32:36,120 Does anybody wanna start it up? 504 00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:40,041 My parents are great, but sometimes I hate them, 505 00:32:40,750 --> 00:32:43,461 'cause they're too great, and they're too protective of me. 506 00:32:44,128 --> 00:32:47,006 And things that I want to do, and I would love to do, 507 00:32:47,090 --> 00:32:49,550 they say, "No, you can't do it. You're handicapped." 508 00:32:49,634 --> 00:32:52,470 And they keep reminding me of the fact that I'm in a chair. 509 00:32:52,553 --> 00:32:55,098 They don't seem to realize that there's so much I could do. 510 00:32:55,181 --> 00:32:58,059 I think generally a parent is afraid 511 00:32:59,268 --> 00:33:02,522 to show that their son is disabled 512 00:33:02,605 --> 00:33:05,316 or handicapped, or whatever you might call it. 513 00:33:07,276 --> 00:33:08,611 And, um... 514 00:33:09,862 --> 00:33:14,325 I think it's much more out of fear than of overprotectiveness. 515 00:33:15,410 --> 00:33:17,620 I depend on my mother for some things 516 00:33:17,704 --> 00:33:20,456 and so I can't really fight her as hard as I wish I could. 517 00:33:20,540 --> 00:33:22,860 What kind of things do you depend on her for? 518 00:33:23,876 --> 00:33:24,876 Well... 519 00:33:25,461 --> 00:33:27,898 Some of the things everybody else depends on their parents for, 520 00:33:27,922 --> 00:33:31,676 like laundry and stuff, but, like... 521 00:33:33,011 --> 00:33:35,346 Like, she's the person that orders special supplies 522 00:33:35,430 --> 00:33:38,016 when I'll need it and stuff, and... 523 00:33:38,725 --> 00:33:41,853 If I'm in a position where I'm not able to do something, you know, 524 00:33:41,936 --> 00:33:43,271 she's gonna have to do it. 525 00:33:44,397 --> 00:33:47,066 If you keep on bugging your mother, saying, you know... 526 00:33:47,150 --> 00:33:50,028 Fighting her constantly, 527 00:33:50,111 --> 00:33:52,655 then there's gonna be a time when she's gonna be very reluctant. 528 00:33:52,739 --> 00:33:57,326 Does everybody think... Everybody here think that their parents are, 529 00:33:57,410 --> 00:33:58,661 you know, stricter with us? 530 00:33:58,745 --> 00:34:02,248 Or, you know, do they hit us the same as your sister or brother, 531 00:34:02,331 --> 00:34:04,625 or they think you have to be careful? 532 00:34:05,209 --> 00:34:09,589 I have two brothers and, um, they got a lot more freedom than I did. 533 00:34:09,672 --> 00:34:11,400 There goes your argument. Those are brothers. 534 00:34:11,424 --> 00:34:12,526 That's a universal argument. 535 00:34:12,550 --> 00:34:14,111 - Brothers... - We're basically the same age. 536 00:34:14,135 --> 00:34:15,762 It's her responsibility to do that. 537 00:34:15,845 --> 00:34:19,515 And as long as she keeps on accepting things being done for her, 538 00:34:19,599 --> 00:34:20,599 it will always be done. 539 00:34:21,434 --> 00:34:26,314 I'm really bothered by that comment. 540 00:35:17,907 --> 00:35:19,367 - Is that it? - Yeah. 541 00:35:20,910 --> 00:35:22,510 Did someone understand it? 542 00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:25,248 Did anybody get part of it? 543 00:35:26,707 --> 00:35:31,838 I think Nancy is talking about 544 00:35:32,839 --> 00:35:35,675 what everybody wants. 545 00:35:36,717 --> 00:35:42,181 To be alone sometimes in their life. 546 00:35:43,307 --> 00:35:47,812 Like, to think alone. 547 00:35:49,188 --> 00:35:51,691 And to be alone. 548 00:35:52,775 --> 00:35:56,112 And I think 549 00:35:57,864 --> 00:36:02,743 Nancy is saying that 550 00:36:02,827 --> 00:36:07,498 she's been denied 551 00:36:07,582 --> 00:36:12,044 the right of privacy. 552 00:36:12,545 --> 00:36:13,546 Is that... 553 00:36:14,463 --> 00:36:17,175 Yeah. That's true. 554 00:36:18,176 --> 00:36:23,639 I think that's one of the major rights. 555 00:36:30,354 --> 00:36:33,065 How many other people have those kinds of problems? 556 00:36:33,149 --> 00:36:37,028 What we saw at that camp was that our lives could be better. 557 00:36:37,653 --> 00:36:41,073 ♪ If today was not a crooked highway ♪ 558 00:36:41,157 --> 00:36:42,157 The fact of the matter is, 559 00:36:42,158 --> 00:36:46,579 you don't have anything to strive for if you don't know that it exists. 560 00:36:48,748 --> 00:36:50,750 We kept having these discussions. 561 00:36:51,542 --> 00:36:53,920 It was allowing us to recognize 562 00:36:54,003 --> 00:36:57,924 we needed to look at ways of doing things together. 563 00:36:58,007 --> 00:37:00,593 Not just at camp but after camp. 564 00:37:01,093 --> 00:37:05,097 ♪ I can't see my reflection In the water ♪ 565 00:37:07,683 --> 00:37:11,437 ♪ I can't speak the sounds To show no pain ♪ 566 00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:13,314 When it was time to leave camp, 567 00:37:13,397 --> 00:37:16,776 some of us vowed to stay in touch and write or call. 568 00:37:17,610 --> 00:37:20,738 ♪ Or remember the sound of my own name ♪ 569 00:37:20,821 --> 00:37:21,965 There was always a chance that 570 00:37:21,989 --> 00:37:23,800 some campers weren't gonna come back next year. 571 00:37:23,824 --> 00:37:27,703 ♪ Yes, and only If my own true love was waitin' ♪ 572 00:37:29,413 --> 00:37:31,141 The night before the end of camp, 573 00:37:31,165 --> 00:37:33,584 everybody'd be hanging out almost all night. 574 00:37:33,668 --> 00:37:35,127 Nobody wanted to go to bed. 575 00:37:36,170 --> 00:37:39,715 ♪ If today was not a crooked highway ♪ 576 00:37:39,799 --> 00:37:41,467 It was a very happy night, 577 00:37:42,134 --> 00:37:44,345 but you knew the next morning, there would be tears. 578 00:37:44,428 --> 00:37:47,014 ♪ If tonight was not a crooked trail ♪ 579 00:37:48,391 --> 00:37:52,645 ♪ If tomorrow wasn't such a long time ♪ 580 00:37:52,728 --> 00:37:55,648 We were going back, almost in time. 581 00:37:55,731 --> 00:37:58,901 ♪ Then lonesome would mean Nothing to you at all ♪ 582 00:37:58,985 --> 00:38:01,445 We were brothers and sisters there. 583 00:38:13,666 --> 00:38:16,210 I took ideas back home 584 00:38:16,794 --> 00:38:19,422 that my community was unfamiliar with. 585 00:38:20,756 --> 00:38:26,137 I wore tie-dye shirts. My afro had grown really, really... 586 00:38:26,220 --> 00:38:27,596 It was out like this. 587 00:38:28,431 --> 00:38:30,516 I burned incense. 588 00:38:32,184 --> 00:38:35,855 Between the revolution that was going on, the peace movement, 589 00:38:35,938 --> 00:38:40,818 the desire to stop the war, I became very involved in that. 590 00:38:41,986 --> 00:38:46,449 Jened had exposed me to the world outside of Alabama. 591 00:38:50,202 --> 00:38:53,080 At camp, I was in a whole other world. 592 00:38:53,164 --> 00:38:56,959 My first girlfriend, and I'm popular, and I'm... 593 00:38:58,919 --> 00:39:02,923 And I'm going back to this world in which it's hard to get around. 594 00:39:03,841 --> 00:39:06,427 Sometimes I would just, like, go home after high school 595 00:39:06,510 --> 00:39:09,805 and go to bed for a few hours and just get away from the world. 596 00:39:11,474 --> 00:39:14,435 I have friends, but I'm the only person with a disability. 597 00:39:16,812 --> 00:39:18,439 I had to try to adapt. 598 00:39:19,482 --> 00:39:22,693 I had to fit into this world that wasn't built for me. 599 00:39:23,527 --> 00:39:26,989 It never dawned on me that the world was ever going to change. 600 00:39:30,576 --> 00:39:36,749 Most disabled people, like myself, are unable to use public transportation 601 00:39:36,832 --> 00:39:38,959 because it discriminates against the disabled 602 00:39:39,043 --> 00:39:42,213 due to the fact that it's architecturally inaccessible. 603 00:39:44,465 --> 00:39:45,465 Those are steps. 604 00:39:45,466 --> 00:39:46,943 So, you have to stay on the street here... 605 00:39:46,967 --> 00:39:49,287 I have to stay on the street and go around the block. 606 00:39:54,892 --> 00:39:58,354 Most animal species abandon or destroy 607 00:39:58,437 --> 00:40:01,273 members of the group which are maimed or deformed. 608 00:40:01,357 --> 00:40:04,235 Some human societies have been equally harsh. 609 00:40:04,318 --> 00:40:07,863 Down through the centuries, our literature, and recently, our movies, 610 00:40:07,947 --> 00:40:10,783 are full of monstrous, misunderstood creatures. 611 00:40:11,283 --> 00:40:14,161 Through this conditioning, we come to think of the handicapped 612 00:40:14,245 --> 00:40:17,123 as objects of fear or pity or loathing. 613 00:40:17,915 --> 00:40:21,544 Tonight we look at them as human beings with problems. 614 00:40:27,550 --> 00:40:30,094 Judy Heumann is the president of Disabled in Action, 615 00:40:30,177 --> 00:40:33,013 a political organization of the handicapped. 616 00:40:33,097 --> 00:40:36,684 I think one of the real problems is that, when you grow up being disabled, 617 00:40:36,767 --> 00:40:40,312 um, it's the fact that you're not considered either a man or a woman 618 00:40:40,396 --> 00:40:43,983 and even the beginning of any kind of a relationship, 619 00:40:44,066 --> 00:40:49,280 you know, beginning at all because you're just thought of as a disabled person. 620 00:40:49,363 --> 00:40:50,715 - You know, person being... - Asexual. 621 00:40:50,739 --> 00:40:52,551 - Yeah, second and asexual... - Asexual. Right. 622 00:40:52,575 --> 00:40:54,010 ...and "Can you do this?" and "Can you do that?" 623 00:40:54,034 --> 00:40:55,220 Let me give you an indication of that. 624 00:40:55,244 --> 00:40:57,246 We have an elevator operator in school 625 00:40:57,329 --> 00:41:01,208 that whenever he stops on a floor and there are a couple wheelchairs, 626 00:41:01,292 --> 00:41:04,420 people in wheelchairs waiting, he starts yelling, 627 00:41:04,503 --> 00:41:06,297 "All right, get these wheelchairs in here." 628 00:41:06,380 --> 00:41:08,591 And he doesn't take into consideration the people in... 629 00:41:08,674 --> 00:41:10,092 You know, the... the... 630 00:41:10,176 --> 00:41:11,236 The people in the wheelchairs. 631 00:41:11,260 --> 00:41:13,340 Yeah, the person there. It's just wheelchairs to him. 632 00:41:13,971 --> 00:41:17,516 I don't think I felt, really, shame about my disability. 633 00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:19,852 What I felt more was exclusion. 634 00:41:21,061 --> 00:41:24,523 For me, the camp experience really was empowering, 635 00:41:24,607 --> 00:41:27,651 because we helped empower each other 636 00:41:27,735 --> 00:41:30,905 that the status quo is not what it needed to be. 637 00:41:32,781 --> 00:41:36,535 Disabled in Action was started as a result of a lawsuit 638 00:41:36,619 --> 00:41:40,080 that I had brought against the Board of Education in New York City. 639 00:41:41,582 --> 00:41:46,420 There was publicity going on and we set up all these different committees. 640 00:41:46,962 --> 00:41:50,466 One of the first things that Disabled in Action worked on 641 00:41:50,549 --> 00:41:52,843 was on deinstitutionalization. 642 00:41:56,263 --> 00:41:59,534 There are some aspects of life which society has hidden from public view. 643 00:41:59,558 --> 00:42:02,853 The following program will remind you that they exist 644 00:42:02,937 --> 00:42:05,940 and that we all bear a responsibility to humanity. 645 00:42:07,399 --> 00:42:10,236 I remember watching TV one evening before dinner 646 00:42:10,319 --> 00:42:16,408 and on comes this exposé about this state hospital in New York 647 00:42:16,492 --> 00:42:17,701 called Willowbrook. 648 00:42:17,785 --> 00:42:20,454 The early morning mist gave the place an eerie feeling 649 00:42:20,538 --> 00:42:22,331 like a set from a horror movie. 650 00:42:22,414 --> 00:42:25,376 And once inside, that feeling became suddenly appropriate. 651 00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:28,754 The doctor had warned me that it would be bad. 652 00:42:28,837 --> 00:42:29,837 It was horrible. 653 00:42:30,339 --> 00:42:35,052 There was one attendant for perhaps 50 severely and profoundly retarded children. 654 00:42:35,135 --> 00:42:38,389 Lying on the floor naked and smeared with their own feces, 655 00:42:38,472 --> 00:42:40,224 they were making a pitiful sound. 656 00:42:40,307 --> 00:42:44,228 The kind of mournful wail that it's impossible for me to forget. 657 00:42:45,604 --> 00:42:49,358 It was really shocking. It was just, like, how could this be? 658 00:42:50,317 --> 00:42:51,920 The kids can't feed themselves. 659 00:42:51,944 --> 00:42:54,989 There are so few attendants that there's only an average of, in time, 660 00:42:55,072 --> 00:42:57,616 three minutes per child for feeding. 661 00:42:57,700 --> 00:43:00,369 How much time would be needed to do a job adequately? 662 00:43:01,036 --> 00:43:03,848 The same amount of time that your children and my children 663 00:43:03,872 --> 00:43:05,374 would wanna have to eat breakfast. 664 00:43:06,875 --> 00:43:08,669 I suddenly remembered one summer, 665 00:43:08,752 --> 00:43:11,589 there had been a camper at Camp Jened from Willowbrook. 666 00:43:13,882 --> 00:43:18,012 I remember being in the dining hall and this guy comes in. 667 00:43:18,095 --> 00:43:22,266 He was basically just eating as much as he could. 668 00:43:22,349 --> 00:43:23,517 He was just... 669 00:43:23,601 --> 00:43:26,520 Kept on shoveling it in until the point where he threw up. 670 00:43:28,606 --> 00:43:31,817 It was kind of like somebody coming in from the wild. 671 00:43:34,486 --> 00:43:38,073 What's the consequence of three minutes per meal per child? 672 00:43:38,616 --> 00:43:40,776 The consequence is death from pneumonia. 673 00:43:41,702 --> 00:43:46,040 I had never seen the inside of an institution like this. 674 00:43:48,292 --> 00:43:52,588 The chaos that existed was frightening to me 675 00:43:52,671 --> 00:43:56,800 because I recognized that myself and other friends 676 00:43:56,884 --> 00:44:00,763 could have easily been in this institution. 677 00:44:03,724 --> 00:44:06,602 At the time, people still were not thinking of 678 00:44:06,685 --> 00:44:10,356 what was wrong with the Willowbrooks of the country. 679 00:44:11,565 --> 00:44:14,526 The civil rights movement was going on around us 680 00:44:14,610 --> 00:44:18,739 and that was an opportunity to talk about why were we excluded, 681 00:44:18,822 --> 00:44:19,902 and what did we need to do? 682 00:44:22,409 --> 00:44:25,204 There weren't anti-discrimination laws at the federal level. 683 00:44:25,287 --> 00:44:28,165 But members in the Senate and House 684 00:44:28,248 --> 00:44:31,168 were looking for avenues to make that happen. 685 00:44:31,919 --> 00:44:37,966 The Rehabilitation Act in 1972 was a perfect vehicle. 686 00:44:38,592 --> 00:44:43,305 Buried at the end of the bill was Section 504, 687 00:44:43,389 --> 00:44:45,557 an anti-discrimination provision. 688 00:44:46,809 --> 00:44:51,897 The language was drawn from civil rights legislation in the 1960s. 689 00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:56,276 It was gonna mean that anybody who got federal money, 690 00:44:56,360 --> 00:45:01,073 hospitals, education, transportation, on and on, 691 00:45:01,156 --> 00:45:03,909 was gonna have to not discriminate. 692 00:45:03,992 --> 00:45:07,746 It was like a "yahoo" wonderful moment. 693 00:45:08,497 --> 00:45:09,873 And Nixon vetoed it. 694 00:45:11,583 --> 00:45:15,879 The President has vetoed a bill setting up a vocational rehabilitation program 695 00:45:15,963 --> 00:45:17,715 because he said it would cost too much. 696 00:45:18,674 --> 00:45:22,219 It would be just impossible in terms of its financial cost 697 00:45:22,302 --> 00:45:24,555 to put in elevators or ramps in all these stations. 698 00:45:24,638 --> 00:45:27,683 Just costs would be horrendous in terms of their total. 699 00:45:28,183 --> 00:45:31,687 The problem here is, as with all of this question, 700 00:45:31,770 --> 00:45:34,356 how many people would really be served by it? 701 00:45:40,154 --> 00:45:43,866 Disabled in Action decided to have a demonstration in New York City 702 00:45:43,949 --> 00:45:45,993 in front of Nixon headquarters. 703 00:45:48,245 --> 00:45:50,557 We decided that we were gonna sit down in the street 704 00:45:50,581 --> 00:45:51,999 and we were gonna stop traffic. 705 00:45:52,082 --> 00:45:56,086 So at 4:30 in the afternoon, we formed this huge circle. 706 00:45:56,170 --> 00:45:58,046 We cut off four streets. 707 00:45:59,590 --> 00:46:01,258 You get the call to action. 708 00:46:01,341 --> 00:46:03,761 "To the barricades!" You know, Judy would call it. 709 00:46:05,721 --> 00:46:09,433 I remember being on the ground with these big trucks coming at you, 710 00:46:09,933 --> 00:46:10,933 going, "Whoa." 711 00:46:13,187 --> 00:46:15,564 It was a very unusual demonstration. 712 00:46:15,647 --> 00:46:19,651 People were not used to seeing a whole lot of folks in wheelchairs. 713 00:46:19,735 --> 00:46:20,778 And you had to back up. 714 00:46:20,861 --> 00:46:22,863 I mean, you had to back up 715 00:46:22,946 --> 00:46:25,282 if you were on the wrong side in front of that young woman. 716 00:46:27,034 --> 00:46:31,371 The newswatch never stops. This is WINS... 717 00:46:32,122 --> 00:46:33,141 They were announcing, 718 00:46:33,165 --> 00:46:36,043 "Paraplegics stop traffic in Manhattan." 719 00:46:40,631 --> 00:46:42,031 There were only 50 of us. 720 00:46:42,090 --> 00:46:46,887 But basically, with the one street, we were able to shut the city down. 721 00:46:54,812 --> 00:46:57,439 Those DIA demonstrations were the first time 722 00:46:57,523 --> 00:47:02,903 a real, serious, radical agenda was mobilized. 723 00:47:10,452 --> 00:47:13,163 When I heard about DIA, I really wanted to join, 724 00:47:13,247 --> 00:47:15,749 but I often couldn't go 'cause I was stuck in high school. 725 00:47:16,917 --> 00:47:19,711 Judy would put out the call that we're gonna show up to this event 726 00:47:19,795 --> 00:47:21,715 or we're going to demonstrate about this or that, 727 00:47:21,797 --> 00:47:24,258 and when this call came out 728 00:47:24,341 --> 00:47:27,928 to go to this Martin Luther King birthday gathering, I had to go. 729 00:47:30,347 --> 00:47:33,600 So I took the train down from Hartsdale to Grand Central Station. 730 00:47:35,853 --> 00:47:38,564 And going to Grand Central Station, it's so freaking huge. 731 00:47:39,398 --> 00:47:42,192 That day, I couldn't find a ramp or an elevator. 732 00:47:46,989 --> 00:47:50,492 I had to climb out of my chair, pull the wheelchair up behind me, 733 00:47:50,576 --> 00:47:53,996 so step by step, pull it up, push my... 734 00:47:54,079 --> 00:47:56,915 Put myself up, pull it up, push myself up. 735 00:47:59,376 --> 00:48:00,376 But I made it. 736 00:48:01,378 --> 00:48:05,591 And I was there with Pat Figueroa, one of the counselors from Camp Jened. 737 00:48:09,845 --> 00:48:12,806 In the spring of 1973, 738 00:48:12,890 --> 00:48:15,267 we decided we were gonna have another demonstration. 739 00:48:15,350 --> 00:48:19,479 The bottom line was, we were a small group of disabled people. 740 00:48:20,230 --> 00:48:24,526 We were getting very little coverage from the media at the national level 741 00:48:24,610 --> 00:48:27,070 because we didn't have any disabled veterans. 742 00:48:27,154 --> 00:48:29,448 And that was, you know, the time of the Vietnam War. 743 00:48:44,296 --> 00:48:45,696 They lied about the war in Vietnam. 744 00:48:45,756 --> 00:48:47,275 They've lied about every damn thing in the world. 745 00:48:47,299 --> 00:48:50,177 They lied about Watergate, and about how they're treating us. 746 00:48:50,260 --> 00:48:52,363 They're lying about how they're treating the physically disabled 747 00:48:52,387 --> 00:48:53,740 and mentally retarded in this country. 748 00:48:53,764 --> 00:48:58,185 We wanted to be able to mobilize disabled individuals in D.C. 749 00:48:58,268 --> 00:49:02,481 to express the feelings of the disabled community around the United States, 750 00:49:02,564 --> 00:49:04,316 and that in unity we do have strength, 751 00:49:04,399 --> 00:49:07,069 and that we must expand the pie that we're fighting from 752 00:49:07,152 --> 00:49:08,713 so that we don't have to fight each other, 753 00:49:08,737 --> 00:49:10,537 but that we can all get our adequate services. 754 00:49:10,614 --> 00:49:12,282 That's really what this is getting into. 755 00:49:16,662 --> 00:49:18,139 There's a minority in America 756 00:49:18,163 --> 00:49:21,708 that has only recently begun to speak up and be heard. 757 00:49:22,501 --> 00:49:26,254 They face problems of discrimination and prejudice in employment, 758 00:49:26,338 --> 00:49:29,758 education, transportation and in just about every other aspect 759 00:49:29,841 --> 00:49:32,427 of what society considers everyday life. 760 00:49:33,595 --> 00:49:37,724 Until the last few years, they suffered mostly in silence, but that's changing. 761 00:49:37,808 --> 00:49:40,936 They have begun to organize and to get politically active. 762 00:49:42,145 --> 00:49:43,945 - What do we want? - Civil rights! 763 00:49:43,981 --> 00:49:45,691 - When do we want it? - Now! 764 00:49:45,774 --> 00:49:47,609 - What do we want? - Civil rights! 765 00:49:47,693 --> 00:49:49,444 - When do we want it? - Now! 766 00:49:51,196 --> 00:49:53,991 Eventually, Nixon caved in to all the political pressure 767 00:49:54,074 --> 00:49:55,826 and he signs the rehab bill. 768 00:49:56,368 --> 00:49:58,996 But they do nothing to enforce Section 504. 769 00:50:05,419 --> 00:50:11,049 I had graduated college 770 00:50:11,133 --> 00:50:16,972 and went back to live at home 771 00:50:17,055 --> 00:50:20,058 in the Bronx. 772 00:50:21,977 --> 00:50:27,274 I was very isolated. 773 00:50:28,942 --> 00:50:35,240 I was homesick for Jened. 774 00:50:35,824 --> 00:50:41,997 I had to take a bold step. 775 00:50:43,999 --> 00:50:47,377 I was an intern 776 00:50:47,461 --> 00:50:53,133 at United Cerebral Palsy. 777 00:50:53,717 --> 00:50:59,765 And I had an affair... 778 00:51:04,728 --> 00:51:08,774 ...with the bus driver. 779 00:51:08,857 --> 00:51:11,777 Because, you know, 780 00:51:11,860 --> 00:51:17,074 I wasn't getting any younger 781 00:51:17,908 --> 00:51:24,831 and I didn't wanna die a virgin. 782 00:51:26,208 --> 00:51:32,672 One night, I had this horrible 783 00:51:32,756 --> 00:51:36,426 abdominal pain. 784 00:51:37,594 --> 00:51:41,348 A surgeon decided 785 00:51:41,431 --> 00:51:47,729 it had to be appendicitis. 786 00:51:47,813 --> 00:51:50,816 They operated 787 00:51:50,899 --> 00:51:56,196 and took out a regular appendix. 788 00:51:57,072 --> 00:52:00,826 My doctor came in, 789 00:52:00,909 --> 00:52:05,914 and he gave me a pelvic 790 00:52:05,997 --> 00:52:09,126 and said, "You know, 791 00:52:09,209 --> 00:52:15,090 I think you might have gonorrhea." 792 00:52:15,715 --> 00:52:21,972 And for one brief moment, 793 00:52:22,055 --> 00:52:28,228 I was so proud of myself. 794 00:52:29,896 --> 00:52:32,107 But then, 795 00:52:32,190 --> 00:52:35,360 when I thought about it, 796 00:52:35,443 --> 00:52:38,905 it was all because 797 00:52:38,989 --> 00:52:43,994 the surgeon decided 798 00:52:44,077 --> 00:52:50,667 how could I be sexually active? 799 00:52:51,168 --> 00:52:54,546 I mean, look at me. 800 00:52:54,629 --> 00:53:00,969 Who would wanna fuck with me? 801 00:53:01,052 --> 00:53:03,638 And so, 802 00:53:03,722 --> 00:53:07,559 I decided 803 00:53:07,642 --> 00:53:12,189 to go back to school 804 00:53:12,272 --> 00:53:16,193 and got a master's 805 00:53:16,276 --> 00:53:22,574 in Human Sexuality. 806 00:53:22,657 --> 00:53:29,039 And that was my ticket 807 00:53:29,122 --> 00:53:32,792 out of the Bronx. 808 00:53:43,553 --> 00:53:47,307 In 1974, I finally graduated high school 809 00:53:47,390 --> 00:53:51,311 and wound up going to UC San Diego 3,000 miles away. 810 00:53:51,394 --> 00:53:55,982 ♪ Truckin', got my chips cashed in Keep truckin' ♪ 811 00:53:56,066 --> 00:53:58,818 My plan was that I was gonna study acoustics 812 00:53:58,902 --> 00:54:00,612 so I could do sound for the Grateful Dead. 813 00:54:03,573 --> 00:54:06,284 When I got to California, my whole life opened up. 814 00:54:06,952 --> 00:54:09,454 I wanted to take advantage of everything. 815 00:54:14,125 --> 00:54:15,543 I tried to learn how to surf. 816 00:54:19,047 --> 00:54:22,133 One night, I even convinced my friend Doug I could drive his motorcycle. 817 00:54:25,553 --> 00:54:30,308 As absurd as it sounds, I really felt like I had overcome my disability. 818 00:54:33,019 --> 00:54:34,604 During my first year in college, 819 00:54:34,688 --> 00:54:38,066 I heard that a bunch of people from Camp Jened had moved out to Berkeley. 820 00:54:38,149 --> 00:54:45,115 ♪ Sometimes your cards ain't worth a dime If you don't lay 'em down ♪ 821 00:54:46,157 --> 00:54:47,927 I'd drive up and go to Dead concerts 822 00:54:47,951 --> 00:54:50,704 and it seemed like I'd always bump into Al Levy. 823 00:54:50,787 --> 00:54:53,039 Al was like the Dead Head. 824 00:54:53,123 --> 00:54:56,710 ♪ Sometimes the light's All shinin' on me ♪ 825 00:54:58,211 --> 00:54:59,891 The Bay Area was a wild scene. 826 00:55:00,588 --> 00:55:04,092 You didn't have to worry about fitting in like you did in San Diego. 827 00:55:04,843 --> 00:55:09,306 There was this whole movement brewing where a group of radical disabled people 828 00:55:09,389 --> 00:55:11,725 were, like, making this new world for themselves. 829 00:55:12,434 --> 00:55:16,980 ♪ What a long, strange trip it's been ♪ 830 00:55:18,273 --> 00:55:20,525 The Center for Independent Living is unique 831 00:55:20,608 --> 00:55:24,612 because it is run by the handicapped for the handicapped, 832 00:55:24,696 --> 00:55:26,823 a model for the rest of the nation. 833 00:55:26,906 --> 00:55:29,909 A center where the severely disabled help themselves. 834 00:55:29,993 --> 00:55:35,373 It's the first time I think that a group of severely disabled individuals 835 00:55:35,457 --> 00:55:39,961 have really gotten together to solve some mutual problems. 836 00:55:41,254 --> 00:55:43,214 Ed Roberts contacted me to see 837 00:55:43,298 --> 00:55:45,138 if I'd be interested in coming out to Berkeley. 838 00:55:45,592 --> 00:55:47,802 I didn't want to go out there by myself. 839 00:55:48,678 --> 00:55:50,722 And I said to D'Angelo, 840 00:55:50,805 --> 00:55:52,849 "What do you think about moving out to Berkeley?" 841 00:55:54,059 --> 00:55:55,602 And we were roommates. 842 00:56:02,108 --> 00:56:05,388 I wanna see a feisty group of disabled people all around the world. 843 00:56:05,612 --> 00:56:09,908 I mean, a group of people who, um, will not accept no, 844 00:56:09,991 --> 00:56:12,619 um, without asking why. 845 00:56:13,203 --> 00:56:15,455 That's really what's so critical about CIL 846 00:56:15,538 --> 00:56:19,250 is that, you know, it's not a card that you get handed at the door, 847 00:56:19,334 --> 00:56:24,130 but it is kind of a demand that is expected of people in this community 848 00:56:24,214 --> 00:56:26,800 and that is, if you don't respect yourself 849 00:56:26,883 --> 00:56:29,928 and if you don't demand what you believe in for yourself, 850 00:56:30,011 --> 00:56:31,137 you're not gonna get it. 851 00:56:32,472 --> 00:56:34,408 My first experience of finding home 852 00:56:34,432 --> 00:56:37,727 was coming to Berkeley and hanging out at CIL. 853 00:56:39,187 --> 00:56:41,898 I had always kind of pretended like I wasn't disabled. 854 00:56:41,981 --> 00:56:44,460 You know, I could walk. I would stick the cane under the couch, 855 00:56:44,484 --> 00:56:47,070 but the whole time I'm worrying about the minute I have to get up 856 00:56:47,153 --> 00:56:49,239 and everybody's gonna see me limp around. 857 00:56:49,823 --> 00:56:53,451 So I didn't realize how heavy that burden was 858 00:56:53,535 --> 00:56:56,121 until I was with people where I didn't have to pretend. 859 00:56:58,873 --> 00:57:00,810 The repair shop has just about everything. 860 00:57:00,834 --> 00:57:05,797 Even electronic equipment to fine-tune the battery-powered wheelchairs. 861 00:57:05,880 --> 00:57:08,550 And the center also provides transportation. 862 00:57:08,633 --> 00:57:11,052 Relying on state, local and federal money, 863 00:57:11,136 --> 00:57:13,888 the goal is to make the handicapped self-sufficient. 864 00:57:16,141 --> 00:57:17,600 Nanci D'Angelo, may I help you? 865 00:57:19,102 --> 00:57:20,060 Uh-huh. 866 00:57:20,061 --> 00:57:23,648 Um... Let's see. It shouldn't be any problem finding you an attendant. 867 00:57:24,649 --> 00:57:27,861 What I'll do is I'll give you a list of people 868 00:57:27,944 --> 00:57:29,880 who wanna work in the hours that you need somebody, 869 00:57:29,904 --> 00:57:31,656 and their phone numbers, okay? 870 00:57:31,739 --> 00:57:33,843 - Okay, it sounds good. - And anything you need, we're here. 871 00:57:33,867 --> 00:57:34,993 Excuse me. 872 00:57:36,161 --> 00:57:38,761 You wanna live in a house, then that's your right. 873 00:57:38,955 --> 00:57:40,141 You want a two-bedroom apartment, 874 00:57:40,165 --> 00:57:42,459 we'll try to help you find a two-bedroom apartment. 875 00:57:43,668 --> 00:57:48,006 And here is how you can apply for money to get attendants paid for. 876 00:57:48,882 --> 00:57:50,842 Want me to get anything while I'm out? 877 00:57:50,925 --> 00:57:52,093 - Yes. - What? 878 00:57:52,177 --> 00:57:53,177 Ice cream. 879 00:57:53,178 --> 00:57:54,405 Ice cream? What else? 880 00:57:54,429 --> 00:57:55,387 Candy. 881 00:57:55,388 --> 00:57:56,388 And candy. 882 00:57:57,849 --> 00:58:02,312 When that whole gang of the Camp Jened kids started to come, 883 00:58:02,395 --> 00:58:03,353 they were like this. 884 00:58:03,354 --> 00:58:05,315 Like, so... If you socialized with one, 885 00:58:05,398 --> 00:58:08,193 like, "Oh, hey, you wanna hang out on Friday night?" "Yes." 886 00:58:08,276 --> 00:58:11,362 But it always meant one of those people, if not five of those people, 887 00:58:11,446 --> 00:58:12,566 were always gonna be there. 888 00:58:13,323 --> 00:58:15,033 You know, camp kind of traveled with them. 889 00:58:15,116 --> 00:58:17,243 There was like the traveling Camp Jened show. 890 00:58:18,203 --> 00:58:19,496 How did I first hear about it? 891 00:58:19,579 --> 00:58:22,665 Well, obviously, I heard about it from Steve, who was out here. 892 00:58:22,749 --> 00:58:25,084 Neil had the computer training program. 893 00:58:27,504 --> 00:58:30,548 I came to California 894 00:58:30,632 --> 00:58:35,970 to go to grad school in Computer Science. 895 00:58:37,305 --> 00:58:42,185 My first week in Berkeley, 896 00:58:42,268 --> 00:58:48,191 I got into a motorized chair 897 00:58:48,274 --> 00:58:53,738 for the first time in my life. 898 00:58:54,364 --> 00:58:59,744 It was very liberating. 899 00:59:10,421 --> 00:59:12,882 They took me to a Halloween party at CIL. 900 00:59:13,466 --> 00:59:15,343 I remember that day, it was... 901 00:59:15,426 --> 00:59:16,426 Oh, my God! 902 00:59:16,928 --> 00:59:19,514 They were all drunk and carrying on. 903 00:59:19,597 --> 00:59:25,979 And these people, all these cripples, were dressed in costumes. 904 00:59:27,230 --> 00:59:28,230 And... 905 00:59:28,731 --> 00:59:31,234 I don't know. I always felt you had to kinda hide yourself. 906 00:59:31,317 --> 00:59:32,860 You didn't want to draw attention. 907 00:59:35,154 --> 00:59:37,407 And there they were, like, all proud. 908 00:59:37,490 --> 00:59:40,577 It really struck me. Like this is... This is different. 909 00:59:40,660 --> 00:59:41,786 This is really different. 910 00:59:47,333 --> 00:59:50,837 Next we have Steven Hofmann, 28. 911 00:59:50,920 --> 00:59:52,964 He's a transvestite by trade. 912 00:59:53,715 --> 00:59:56,884 He likes to work with handicapped children and other animals. 913 00:59:56,968 --> 00:59:59,178 His ambition is to be a headless amoeba 914 00:59:59,262 --> 01:00:02,640 with a lot of large, thickly-endowed boyfriends. 915 01:00:05,143 --> 01:00:06,811 ♪ How'd you do? I... ♪ 916 01:00:06,894 --> 01:00:12,984 ♪ See you've met my faithful handyman ♪ 917 01:00:13,067 --> 01:00:17,530 ♪ He's just a little brought down Because when you knocked... ♪ 918 01:00:17,614 --> 01:00:22,869 If you're a handicapped person, 919 01:00:22,952 --> 01:00:26,497 and you happen to have 920 01:00:26,581 --> 01:00:32,629 a passive nature about you, 921 01:00:34,505 --> 01:00:38,593 you... you're really screwed. 922 01:00:39,344 --> 01:00:43,431 ♪ Don't get strung out by the way I look ♪ 923 01:00:43,514 --> 01:00:47,352 ♪ Don't judge a book by its cover ♪ 924 01:00:47,435 --> 01:00:51,564 ♪ I'm not much of a man By the light of day ♪ 925 01:00:51,648 --> 01:00:55,735 ♪ But by night I'm one hell of a lover ♪ 926 01:00:55,818 --> 01:00:59,072 ♪ I'm just a sweet transvestite ♪ 927 01:01:00,323 --> 01:01:06,621 ♪ From Transsexual, Transylvania ♪ 928 01:01:13,461 --> 01:01:15,230 Good evening, Judy. Good to see you again. 929 01:01:15,254 --> 01:01:17,965 How has the situation changed since 1973? 930 01:01:18,049 --> 01:01:20,468 Are you still as upset and angry as you were then? 931 01:01:21,511 --> 01:01:23,846 I think that what I've tried to do in part, 932 01:01:23,930 --> 01:01:29,686 is to turn some of that anger around and put it into, um, positive action. 933 01:01:30,603 --> 01:01:34,065 And outside the fact that legislation has been passed, 934 01:01:34,148 --> 01:01:37,151 there's been very little actual enforcement. 935 01:01:38,736 --> 01:01:40,196 Federal law prohibits 936 01:01:40,279 --> 01:01:42,323 discrimination against handicapped persons. 937 01:01:42,407 --> 01:01:45,868 An organization of the handicapped claims that law has been ignored. 938 01:01:45,952 --> 01:01:48,871 Today there were demonstrations at 11 regional offices 939 01:01:48,955 --> 01:01:51,675 of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare across the nation. 940 01:01:52,500 --> 01:01:54,210 Carter had been elected. 941 01:01:54,293 --> 01:01:57,880 They had said that the regulations would be adopted, 942 01:01:57,964 --> 01:02:01,092 but when Secretary Califano 943 01:02:01,175 --> 01:02:05,930 became head of Health, Education and Welfare, he began to do a review. 944 01:02:07,014 --> 01:02:08,975 Handicapped citizens demonstrated 945 01:02:09,058 --> 01:02:11,018 at Health, Education and Welfare today. 946 01:02:11,102 --> 01:02:15,565 They accuse Secretary Califano of weakening and delaying regulations 947 01:02:15,648 --> 01:02:20,361 to implement the 1973 law to protect the rights of the handicapped. 948 01:02:21,320 --> 01:02:23,990 We have maintained this position 949 01:02:24,073 --> 01:02:26,534 for almost three years now, 950 01:02:27,326 --> 01:02:32,081 but, apparently, when Mr. Califano became secretary, 951 01:02:32,165 --> 01:02:35,293 he said, "This is a whole new ball game." 952 01:02:35,376 --> 01:02:38,254 To us, it is not. We're still in the same game. 953 01:02:41,048 --> 01:02:46,971 504! 504! 504! 954 01:02:57,523 --> 01:03:00,026 I have reviewed those regulations. 955 01:03:01,194 --> 01:03:03,154 There are some difficult questions. 956 01:03:03,696 --> 01:03:04,906 The last administration 957 01:03:04,989 --> 01:03:08,117 took two and a half years and decided not to move. 958 01:03:08,201 --> 01:03:09,577 I've had two and a half months. 959 01:03:10,286 --> 01:03:12,097 Why can't you move now? What are you waiting for? 960 01:03:12,121 --> 01:03:14,165 Because I wanna make sure I understand them... 961 01:03:14,248 --> 01:03:16,101 - No! It's one law! - I will do the... 962 01:03:16,125 --> 01:03:18,628 - Boo! - Not in May, now! 963 01:03:24,675 --> 01:03:27,970 What we were hearing is that lobbyists were coming in, 964 01:03:28,054 --> 01:03:30,681 wanting to make changes in the regulations. 965 01:03:31,182 --> 01:03:34,435 Schools and universities, and even hospitals, 966 01:03:34,519 --> 01:03:39,315 didn't want to have to spend the money to make their buildings accessible. 967 01:03:39,398 --> 01:03:41,859 So, we believed that there was, like, an imperative. 968 01:03:41,943 --> 01:03:43,736 That we had to act quickly. 969 01:03:44,695 --> 01:03:50,284 We were told, today, you heard it here, that because of their failures, 970 01:03:51,619 --> 01:03:53,496 we are not to have... 971 01:03:54,872 --> 01:03:56,165 our civil rights. 972 01:04:00,044 --> 01:04:03,756 Sign or resign! Sign or resign! 973 01:04:04,340 --> 01:04:07,340 Some of the protesters vowed to stay outside of Califano's office 974 01:04:07,385 --> 01:04:09,220 until he signs the regulations. 975 01:04:09,804 --> 01:04:12,723 This coalition is a part of a national movement 976 01:04:12,807 --> 01:04:16,143 and we're going to stick together and continue to fight for our civil rights. 977 01:04:21,482 --> 01:04:23,710 I didn't even know there was a national movement. 978 01:04:23,734 --> 01:04:26,654 And I didn't know what a 504 was. 979 01:04:27,446 --> 01:04:29,532 I was a girl from Texas. 980 01:04:31,033 --> 01:04:34,203 When I was 22, just right out of college, 981 01:04:34,287 --> 01:04:38,082 and I was on my way home one day and a truck ran me off the road 982 01:04:38,165 --> 01:04:40,668 and so I became a paraplegic. 983 01:04:41,669 --> 01:04:44,297 I had all the assumptions and prejudices 984 01:04:44,380 --> 01:04:48,342 that people have about people with disabilities and about disabilities, 985 01:04:48,426 --> 01:04:50,219 and suddenly I was one. 986 01:04:52,722 --> 01:04:55,558 I'd never been around so many people with disabilities 987 01:04:55,641 --> 01:04:59,312 and so many different kinds of disabilities, all in one place 988 01:04:59,395 --> 01:05:02,189 and all chanting about rights. 989 01:05:05,234 --> 01:05:08,988 I'd never really thought about it as applying to me. 990 01:05:09,739 --> 01:05:13,826 And I called Ms. Magazine, and they gave me an assignment. 991 01:05:14,493 --> 01:05:16,829 So I went back there with my camera. 992 01:05:16,913 --> 01:05:20,166 We people who are here in the Bay must stay together. 993 01:05:20,249 --> 01:05:23,085 We are the strongest political force in this country. 994 01:05:23,169 --> 01:05:27,673 We are young, we are sensitive, and we are intelligent. 995 01:05:28,758 --> 01:05:29,884 Let's stay together. 996 01:05:30,760 --> 01:05:34,847 I was asked to go to the demonstration by my sister. 997 01:05:34,931 --> 01:05:37,350 And I said, "Okay. I'll give it a shot." 998 01:05:38,601 --> 01:05:40,978 And then all of a sudden, someone said, 999 01:05:41,062 --> 01:05:44,231 "Well, let's go in the building. You know, what are we gonna do, stand outside?" 1000 01:05:44,899 --> 01:05:46,567 So I headed toward the building. 1001 01:05:47,777 --> 01:05:48,777 The speeches were over 1002 01:05:48,778 --> 01:05:51,447 and I followed this group of people into the building. 1003 01:05:51,530 --> 01:05:55,117 There must have been 300 people and they went up to the fourth floor 1004 01:05:55,201 --> 01:05:57,995 and they went into the office of the regional director. 1005 01:05:58,079 --> 01:06:01,499 Now, what's he gonna do with all these people in wheelchairs? 1006 01:06:01,582 --> 01:06:06,587 504! 504! 504! 1007 01:06:06,671 --> 01:06:08,857 We are not asking anything unreasonable. 1008 01:06:08,881 --> 01:06:11,842 We are asking you to request a telephone call 1009 01:06:11,926 --> 01:06:14,136 to talk to Joseph Califano. 1010 01:06:14,971 --> 01:06:20,351 Mr. Lebossi, the general counsel for HEW, has been designated as the person 1011 01:06:20,434 --> 01:06:22,594 that I should discuss these matters with, and if you... 1012 01:06:22,645 --> 01:06:24,325 The more I sat in this room 1013 01:06:24,397 --> 01:06:26,065 and got these absolute non-answers, 1014 01:06:26,148 --> 01:06:27,148 the angrier I got, 1015 01:06:27,149 --> 01:06:30,778 and that's when people started really feeling like we couldn't leave, 1016 01:06:30,861 --> 01:06:33,406 because no one knew what we were talking about, 1017 01:06:33,489 --> 01:06:36,325 but we knew that they were trying to rescind the regulations. 1018 01:06:36,409 --> 01:06:38,661 ♪ We shall not be moved ♪ 1019 01:06:38,744 --> 01:06:42,039 Five or six o'clock came and nobody was leavin'. 1020 01:06:42,123 --> 01:06:47,837 So, I figured, "Okay, we're gonna have to spend the night." 1021 01:06:49,380 --> 01:06:53,175 Kitty and I and a few others, we just kind of took a vote 1022 01:06:53,259 --> 01:06:55,428 and said, "How many people wanna stay overnight?" 1023 01:06:55,511 --> 01:06:56,887 And that's how it started. 1024 01:06:56,971 --> 01:06:58,931 504! 504! 504! 1025 01:06:59,015 --> 01:07:01,934 Judy said, "Bring a toothbrush." 1026 01:07:02,018 --> 01:07:03,561 And I was like, "Okay." 1027 01:07:07,898 --> 01:07:10,901 I said, "Well, Judy, I didn't come prepared." 1028 01:07:10,985 --> 01:07:13,654 She said, "You gotta stay here, Ron. You gotta stay here." 1029 01:07:13,738 --> 01:07:17,867 ♪ Solidarity forever ♪ 1030 01:07:17,950 --> 01:07:21,328 ♪ Solidarity forever ♪ 1031 01:07:21,412 --> 01:07:24,206 ♪ The truth goes marching on ♪ 1032 01:07:27,543 --> 01:07:29,587 This is for tonight. Okay? 1033 01:07:30,212 --> 01:07:34,508 How many people in the room cannot sleep on the floor? 1034 01:07:34,592 --> 01:07:36,761 Bay Area was the most well-organized. 1035 01:07:36,844 --> 01:07:42,850 We had the expertise to not only have demonstrations but to sustain them. 1036 01:07:42,933 --> 01:07:46,395 ♪ I, I, I I am somebody ♪ 1037 01:07:46,479 --> 01:07:49,106 The sit-in at San Francisco's HEW headquarters 1038 01:07:49,190 --> 01:07:50,816 now is in its third day. 1039 01:07:50,900 --> 01:07:53,319 Hot water has been turned off on the fourth floor, 1040 01:07:53,402 --> 01:07:56,197 where the occupation army of cripples has taken over. 1041 01:07:56,280 --> 01:07:57,760 The FBI cut off the phones. 1042 01:07:58,449 --> 01:08:00,659 They said we couldn't have any communication. 1043 01:08:00,743 --> 01:08:02,536 So, we're like, "Okay, what do we do?" 1044 01:08:02,620 --> 01:08:04,330 And the deaf people went... 1045 01:08:04,830 --> 01:08:05,831 "We know what to do." 1046 01:08:06,874 --> 01:08:08,709 Someone would sign out the window. 1047 01:08:08,793 --> 01:08:12,546 That's how we communicated back and forth to the people outside the building. 1048 01:08:13,130 --> 01:08:15,466 Uh, one fellow, who's right behind me and asleep right now, 1049 01:08:15,549 --> 01:08:17,051 built us a refrigerator. 1050 01:08:17,927 --> 01:08:21,388 He attached some plastic to an air conditioner 1051 01:08:21,472 --> 01:08:24,975 and built it out of cardboard and stuff that was around. 1052 01:08:25,059 --> 01:08:27,311 So, we've been able to keep a lot of stuff cold. 1053 01:08:27,394 --> 01:08:28,955 There were just so many people 1054 01:08:28,979 --> 01:08:31,482 trying to figure out how to eat, how to wash. 1055 01:08:31,565 --> 01:08:34,318 "Where are we gonna get food? Where are we gonna get blankets?" 1056 01:08:35,277 --> 01:08:39,490 Brad Lomax was the one who had the idea to call the Black Panthers. 1057 01:08:39,573 --> 01:08:41,283 Brad could hardly speak, 1058 01:08:41,367 --> 01:08:45,246 but he could gesture and he got his point across. 1059 01:08:48,707 --> 01:08:50,811 The Panthers would bring a hot meal for dinner 1060 01:08:50,835 --> 01:08:53,379 and then they would leave food for breakfast and lunch. 1061 01:08:54,130 --> 01:08:56,549 For nothing. No money, no nothing. 1062 01:08:58,717 --> 01:09:02,388 I ended up, you know, after the meeting I said to this guy, "I don't get it. 1063 01:09:02,471 --> 01:09:05,232 You're the Black Panther Party and you don't have a ton of resources." 1064 01:09:06,100 --> 01:09:08,018 You know, they had a food kitchen in Oakland. 1065 01:09:08,102 --> 01:09:09,895 "Why are you choosing to feed us?" 1066 01:09:11,188 --> 01:09:12,606 He said to me, you know, 1067 01:09:12,690 --> 01:09:15,109 "You are trying to make the world a better place 1068 01:09:15,192 --> 01:09:16,569 and that's what we are about. 1069 01:09:16,652 --> 01:09:19,363 We are about making the world a better place for everybody. 1070 01:09:19,446 --> 01:09:22,449 So, if you're gonna go to the trouble to stay here and sleep on this floor, 1071 01:09:22,533 --> 01:09:24,285 we're gonna make sure you get fed." 1072 01:09:24,368 --> 01:09:26,245 You know, that's how we survived. 1073 01:09:27,538 --> 01:09:30,374 We have a cafeteria. We have a conference room. 1074 01:09:30,457 --> 01:09:33,294 We have beds all over the place, mattresses, food. 1075 01:09:34,211 --> 01:09:35,211 It's incredible. 1076 01:09:36,422 --> 01:09:40,926 Our support was much broader than just within the disability community. 1077 01:09:41,760 --> 01:09:45,347 Union members and other civil rights organizations. 1078 01:09:46,098 --> 01:09:48,976 We had relationships with local government. 1079 01:09:49,685 --> 01:09:52,146 The mayor was clearly in support. 1080 01:09:52,229 --> 01:09:55,900 One of the secretaries in Sacramento sent down mattresses. 1081 01:09:57,234 --> 01:10:02,072 Glide Memorial Church, which was run by a progressive minister. 1082 01:10:02,156 --> 01:10:04,909 We are a people who believe in liberation! 1083 01:10:07,077 --> 01:10:09,580 It was the right place, the right time. 1084 01:10:11,040 --> 01:10:13,801 One of the women who ran the big lesbian bar in the East Bay 1085 01:10:13,834 --> 01:10:16,420 came and said, "What do you guys need?" 1086 01:10:16,503 --> 01:10:19,548 And we said, "We're so tired of being dirty." 1087 01:10:19,632 --> 01:10:21,091 And, so, her partner was a nurse 1088 01:10:21,175 --> 01:10:24,929 and they went out and bought a gallon of shampoo and a gallon of cream rinse. 1089 01:10:25,012 --> 01:10:25,970 And, one night, just showed up. 1090 01:10:25,971 --> 01:10:29,171 And for three hours, anybody that wanted their hair washed got their hair washed. 1091 01:10:29,225 --> 01:10:31,560 Oh, my lord. It feels good. 1092 01:10:33,354 --> 01:10:34,521 ♪ Yay for gay children ♪ 1093 01:10:34,605 --> 01:10:35,521 And teenagers! 1094 01:10:35,522 --> 01:10:36,857 ♪ We shall not be moved ♪ 1095 01:10:42,363 --> 01:10:44,299 You can't imagine what the 504 sit-in was like. 1096 01:10:44,323 --> 01:10:45,616 It was camp. 1097 01:10:46,200 --> 01:10:48,869 Everything we learned at crip camp was what we did there. 1098 01:10:51,705 --> 01:10:53,916 So many people from Camp Jened, 1099 01:10:53,999 --> 01:10:57,461 campers, counselors, disabled, non-disabled 1100 01:10:57,544 --> 01:10:59,088 found their way into the building. 1101 01:10:59,171 --> 01:11:01,340 ♪ We shall have our rights ♪ 1102 01:11:01,423 --> 01:11:05,135 ♪ We shall have our We shall have our rights ♪ 1103 01:11:13,185 --> 01:11:17,022 ...do right now, is to read off the list 1104 01:11:17,106 --> 01:11:20,359 of the names of people who are going to be speaking tomorrow. 1105 01:11:20,442 --> 01:11:24,947 There were many different committees that were working on media 1106 01:11:25,030 --> 01:11:29,660 and food and medical issues and different things like that. 1107 01:11:29,743 --> 01:11:33,664 ...the regulations that we agreed to at the January 21st meeting, 1108 01:11:33,747 --> 01:11:35,916 and he is trying to obscure that... 1109 01:11:36,000 --> 01:11:39,128 Judy made sure everybody gets a chance to speak. 1110 01:11:39,211 --> 01:11:42,715 ...the hunger strike. Anyone here who wants to... 1111 01:11:42,798 --> 01:11:46,635 We could not begin a meeting until there was a sign interpreter there. 1112 01:11:47,261 --> 01:11:49,596 The meetings would go until three o'clock in the morning. 1113 01:11:50,222 --> 01:11:54,560 People have to be engaged and feeling like they made a difference. 1114 01:11:55,352 --> 01:11:58,397 Otherwise, people weren't gonna stay there all that time. 1115 01:12:01,358 --> 01:12:04,069 ♪ Ain't gonna let nobody ♪ 1116 01:12:04,153 --> 01:12:07,489 ♪ Turn me around Turn me around ♪ 1117 01:12:07,573 --> 01:12:09,074 - ♪ I said ♪ - ♪ Turn me around ♪ 1118 01:12:09,158 --> 01:12:10,159 ♪ Lemme hear you ♪ 1119 01:12:10,242 --> 01:12:12,244 It is evolving into a coalition. 1120 01:12:12,328 --> 01:12:16,040 The more we talk, the more we discuss, the more we change and regroup, 1121 01:12:16,123 --> 01:12:21,295 and the more we learn about our own handicap inside of our own coalition. 1122 01:12:21,378 --> 01:12:24,798 Learning sign language, learning Braille, 1123 01:12:24,882 --> 01:12:29,970 learning about hidden disabilities like epilepsy, arthritis, 1124 01:12:30,471 --> 01:12:32,514 and learning about all of our disabilities, 1125 01:12:32,598 --> 01:12:35,142 we will become a tighter and firmer group. 1126 01:12:37,311 --> 01:12:39,688 The demonstration here is now in its fourth day. 1127 01:12:39,772 --> 01:12:42,483 It is by far the largest and longest protest 1128 01:12:42,566 --> 01:12:45,110 ever organized by disabled people in this area. 1129 01:12:45,194 --> 01:12:48,697 But the problem is still the same as it was on Tuesday. 1130 01:12:48,781 --> 01:12:51,367 Trying to get the attention of Washington. 1131 01:12:54,661 --> 01:12:56,997 I'm amazed at how many people stayed. 1132 01:12:58,248 --> 01:13:00,000 And what these people had to endure. 1133 01:13:01,460 --> 01:13:03,379 Not having a back-up ventilator. 1134 01:13:04,254 --> 01:13:07,132 Not having your usual personal care attendant. 1135 01:13:07,216 --> 01:13:09,259 Not having access to catheters. 1136 01:13:10,677 --> 01:13:13,222 It's hard enough for me to take care of my body. 1137 01:13:13,305 --> 01:13:16,725 Here we're talking about quadriplegics who can't turn themselves 1138 01:13:16,809 --> 01:13:19,061 during the middle of the night to prevent body sores. 1139 01:13:19,895 --> 01:13:23,857 And to be sleeping on the floor? I mean, that's a recipe for disaster. 1140 01:13:26,693 --> 01:13:29,071 It's like the world always wants us dead. 1141 01:13:29,154 --> 01:13:31,156 Disabled people know that every day of our lives. 1142 01:13:31,240 --> 01:13:34,076 The world doesn't want us around and wants us dead. 1143 01:13:35,077 --> 01:13:38,455 We live with that reality, so there's always gonna be, uh, 1144 01:13:38,539 --> 01:13:40,791 "Am I gonna survive? Am I gonna push back? 1145 01:13:40,874 --> 01:13:43,085 Am I gonna fight to be here?" That's always true. 1146 01:13:44,628 --> 01:13:48,006 So, if you wanna call that anger, I call it kind of drive. 1147 01:13:48,090 --> 01:13:51,093 You know, you have to be willing to thrive or you're not gonna make it. 1148 01:13:52,553 --> 01:13:53,469 I can work. 1149 01:13:53,470 --> 01:13:55,931 My mind functions, my hands function. 1150 01:13:56,014 --> 01:13:59,226 Many of us can work. That's all we're saying. 1151 01:13:59,309 --> 01:14:01,395 Remove the architectural barriers. 1152 01:14:02,187 --> 01:14:05,023 For a number of days, a number of us went on a hunger strike. 1153 01:14:06,733 --> 01:14:10,487 We were drinking, like, two or three glasses of liquid a day. 1154 01:14:17,119 --> 01:14:20,789 I know the pressure on Judy had to be very harsh. 1155 01:14:21,748 --> 01:14:25,794 It's a lot of responsibility, and it was Judy who was saying often, 1156 01:14:25,878 --> 01:14:27,629 one individual at a time, 1157 01:14:27,713 --> 01:14:30,799 "Can you stay? Can you stay just one more day? 1158 01:14:30,883 --> 01:14:33,010 Can you stay one more day?" 1159 01:14:33,093 --> 01:14:35,929 And that's how they did it, day by day. 1160 01:14:38,640 --> 01:14:40,684 This building's been occupied for 11 days 1161 01:14:40,767 --> 01:14:42,769 by a small army of the handicapped. 1162 01:14:42,853 --> 01:14:45,413 Support outside has increased each day. 1163 01:14:45,481 --> 01:14:47,441 The sounds of that support carry inside 1164 01:14:47,483 --> 01:14:50,611 to the offices of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. 1165 01:14:50,694 --> 01:14:53,864 I was at Channel 7, which was on Golden Gate Avenue 1166 01:14:53,947 --> 01:14:55,949 just around the corner from the Federal Building. 1167 01:14:56,492 --> 01:15:00,204 The local media damn near ignored the entire event, 1168 01:15:00,954 --> 01:15:04,458 and I was virtually the only one covering it the entire time. 1169 01:15:06,210 --> 01:15:08,504 Evan White essentially embedded with us. 1170 01:15:09,421 --> 01:15:12,299 He did footage of us from beginning to end. 1171 01:15:13,884 --> 01:15:15,344 I had the immense privilege 1172 01:15:15,427 --> 01:15:19,681 of being allowed to sit in during the nightly sessions of strategy. 1173 01:15:19,765 --> 01:15:22,100 I was in heaven on that kind of story. I just... 1174 01:15:22,893 --> 01:15:24,686 I like people who make trouble. 1175 01:15:25,771 --> 01:15:27,457 We were trying to push the agenda forward, 1176 01:15:27,481 --> 01:15:29,441 and so one of the thoughts was, 1177 01:15:29,525 --> 01:15:32,361 "Let's get Congress to come to the building 1178 01:15:32,444 --> 01:15:34,464 and actually have congressional hearings in the building." 1179 01:15:34,488 --> 01:15:35,906 'Cause we couldn't leave. 1180 01:15:38,534 --> 01:15:39,952 The handicapped demand 1181 01:15:40,035 --> 01:15:42,496 that section 504 of the Civil Rights Act be signed. 1182 01:15:42,579 --> 01:15:44,957 Today their demand for action is heard by two congressmen, 1183 01:15:45,040 --> 01:15:47,334 Phillip Burton and George Miller. 1184 01:15:47,417 --> 01:15:50,837 My statement is one of militancy. My statement is one of 1185 01:15:50,921 --> 01:15:53,202 support from disabled individuals from around the country. 1186 01:15:53,257 --> 01:15:55,801 This is the beginning of a civil rights movement 1187 01:15:55,884 --> 01:15:59,263 and we are proud that you are here to help us launch this civil rights movement, 1188 01:15:59,346 --> 01:16:00,639 which is so long overdue. 1189 01:16:02,349 --> 01:16:05,352 Califano, the Director of HEW, 1190 01:16:05,435 --> 01:16:11,650 sent this poor man named Eidenberg to represent him at this ad hoc hearing 1191 01:16:11,733 --> 01:16:14,611 held by Congressmen Miller and Burton. 1192 01:16:14,695 --> 01:16:18,115 Right now, a searching analysis is going on in Washington 1193 01:16:18,198 --> 01:16:21,702 with all deliberate speed, tackling such diverse questions as: 1194 01:16:21,785 --> 01:16:24,121 Should drug addicts and alcoholics be covered? 1195 01:16:24,621 --> 01:16:26,975 To what extent would every school and hospital in this country 1196 01:16:26,999 --> 01:16:28,917 be required to remodel? 1197 01:16:29,001 --> 01:16:32,504 And he had come in with 20-something changes, 1198 01:16:32,588 --> 01:16:38,135 including instituting the shameful doctrine of separate but equal. 1199 01:16:39,136 --> 01:16:42,472 A school district was allowed to designate one school... 1200 01:16:43,390 --> 01:16:45,601 as the school that children with disabilities 1201 01:16:45,684 --> 01:16:47,728 and students with disabilities could go to. 1202 01:16:47,811 --> 01:16:51,064 Well, what's that? That's separate but equal. 1203 01:16:51,857 --> 01:16:55,861 We knew it was Califano's little dog and pony show. 1204 01:16:55,944 --> 01:16:59,072 He sends this poor guy in to read these words, 1205 01:16:59,823 --> 01:17:02,367 because he's gonna put us back in our place. 1206 01:17:02,451 --> 01:17:05,203 And then, he left the room. 1207 01:17:05,287 --> 01:17:08,248 And Congressman Burton said, "Oh, no, no, no." 1208 01:17:08,332 --> 01:17:11,877 Mr. Eidenberg had locked himself into an office, 1209 01:17:11,960 --> 01:17:15,422 and Burton kicked at the door and finally Eidenberg came out. 1210 01:17:16,715 --> 01:17:20,093 And Burton dragged Eidenberg back into the room. 1211 01:17:20,177 --> 01:17:23,722 Made him sit at the front table facing everybody in the audience, 1212 01:17:23,805 --> 01:17:26,308 so he could listen to our testimony. 1213 01:17:26,850 --> 01:17:28,852 Somebody's gonna have to pour concrete. 1214 01:17:28,935 --> 01:17:31,438 Somebody's gonna have to knock down some walls, 1215 01:17:31,521 --> 01:17:35,275 and somebody's gonna have to make school teachers and classrooms available. 1216 01:17:35,359 --> 01:17:39,196 But that is a price that we have said that we've been willing to pay for 200 years, 1217 01:17:39,279 --> 01:17:41,865 to make people accessible to the mainstream. 1218 01:17:42,574 --> 01:17:45,911 Whether there was a Section 504, 1219 01:17:47,371 --> 01:17:49,790 there was a Brown versus Board of Education... 1220 01:17:55,170 --> 01:17:58,924 the... the harassment... 1221 01:18:00,342 --> 01:18:06,473 the, um, lack of equity that has been provided for disabled individuals, 1222 01:18:07,182 --> 01:18:10,602 and that now is even being discussed by the administration, 1223 01:18:11,520 --> 01:18:14,898 is so intolerable that I can't quite put it into words. 1224 01:18:15,649 --> 01:18:21,613 I can tell you that every time you raise issues of separate but equal, 1225 01:18:22,447 --> 01:18:25,617 the outrage of disabled individuals across this country... 1226 01:18:27,661 --> 01:18:30,539 is going to continue, it is going to be ignited. 1227 01:18:30,622 --> 01:18:32,833 There will be more takeovers of buildings... 1228 01:18:33,667 --> 01:18:37,754 until finally maybe you begin to understand our position. 1229 01:18:38,547 --> 01:18:44,136 We will no longer allow the government to opp... oppress disabled individuals. 1230 01:18:44,219 --> 01:18:46,138 We want the law enforced. 1231 01:18:47,347 --> 01:18:50,016 We want no more segregation. 1232 01:18:50,100 --> 01:18:53,520 We will accept no more discussion of segregation. 1233 01:18:55,272 --> 01:18:58,233 And I would appreciate it if you would stop shaking your head in agreement 1234 01:18:58,316 --> 01:19:01,737 when I don't think you understand what we are talking about. 1235 01:19:07,117 --> 01:19:11,204 There are moments... like, where history shifts. 1236 01:19:12,748 --> 01:19:14,666 Judy's interaction with that man 1237 01:19:14,750 --> 01:19:17,544 is the moment when things shifted for so many people. 1238 01:19:18,545 --> 01:19:21,006 What was Califano thinking with this? 1239 01:19:21,089 --> 01:19:25,177 Well, he was thinking he didn't have to pay attention to us. 1240 01:19:25,844 --> 01:19:29,723 That was instrumental in making the leaders decide, 1241 01:19:29,806 --> 01:19:33,810 "We've gotta go to D.C. We've gotta go get in his face." 1242 01:19:34,478 --> 01:19:37,522 Today, a delegation of 25 left San Francisco, 1243 01:19:37,606 --> 01:19:39,232 heading for the nation's capital 1244 01:19:39,316 --> 01:19:42,068 where they hope to present their demands directly to the President. 1245 01:19:42,152 --> 01:19:43,952 We are hopeful that the President will see us. 1246 01:19:43,987 --> 01:19:48,241 We have gotten a lot of support from organizations within the community 1247 01:19:48,325 --> 01:19:50,410 who are paying our way to go to Washington. 1248 01:19:50,494 --> 01:19:52,913 And we are really hopeful that we will come back 1249 01:19:52,996 --> 01:19:56,082 with success and the regulations signed as we want them. 1250 01:19:56,875 --> 01:19:59,812 At the San Francisco Airport, leaving on this journey of determination, 1251 01:19:59,836 --> 01:20:01,588 Evan White, Channel 7 News Scene. 1252 01:20:07,177 --> 01:20:10,680 I thought it was important to let them know right off the plane 1253 01:20:10,764 --> 01:20:12,265 we were not playing. 1254 01:20:12,766 --> 01:20:15,435 So, I said, "Well, what are we gonna do now?" 1255 01:20:15,519 --> 01:20:17,246 They says, "Well, we could sleep until tomorrow." 1256 01:20:17,270 --> 01:20:18,563 I says, "Oh, no, we're not. 1257 01:20:19,397 --> 01:20:20,440 We're gonna go out there 1258 01:20:20,524 --> 01:20:22,293 and we're gonna sit in front of Califano's house 1259 01:20:22,317 --> 01:20:26,655 and we're gonna let him know that this is 504 and we're here." 1260 01:20:27,989 --> 01:20:31,076 There was no accessible transportation at the time, 1261 01:20:31,159 --> 01:20:36,748 so the machinist union very ingeniously rented a U-Haul truck, 1262 01:20:36,832 --> 01:20:41,253 plastered their sign on the side of it, and that's how we got around in D.C. 1263 01:20:41,336 --> 01:20:44,673 And we would sit in darkness as we traveled around, 1264 01:20:44,756 --> 01:20:47,759 and we wouldn't know where we were until we got there, 1265 01:20:47,843 --> 01:20:50,428 and they opened up the back, and we could see out again. 1266 01:20:52,264 --> 01:20:54,850 We went straight to Califano's house 1267 01:20:54,933 --> 01:20:57,269 and held a candlelight vigil outside of it. 1268 01:20:59,646 --> 01:21:02,732 The cops came immediately, police cars all around, 1269 01:21:02,816 --> 01:21:06,236 but they saw a bunch of people in wheelchairs and on crutches 1270 01:21:06,319 --> 01:21:07,799 and they didn't wanna fuck with them. 1271 01:21:08,530 --> 01:21:11,533 So they didn't. They just parked across the way and watched, all night. 1272 01:21:15,662 --> 01:21:17,342 That morning, when the sun was up, 1273 01:21:17,956 --> 01:21:22,085 Judy and Evan White and his cameramen were knocking on Califano's door. 1274 01:21:23,044 --> 01:21:24,170 And he never came out. 1275 01:21:24,254 --> 01:21:26,631 And somebody said he took off out the back door. 1276 01:21:27,382 --> 01:21:30,051 The First Family used the side door today 1277 01:21:30,135 --> 01:21:32,178 to leave Washington's First Baptist Church. 1278 01:21:32,262 --> 01:21:35,265 The Carters avoided about 20 handicapped persons 1279 01:21:35,348 --> 01:21:39,144 demonstrating across the street from the door the President normally uses. 1280 01:21:40,186 --> 01:21:41,330 In Washington today, 1281 01:21:41,354 --> 01:21:43,857 more than 100 people marched in front of the White House. 1282 01:21:43,940 --> 01:21:47,277 But it doesn't look as if Carter will see the demonstrators personally, 1283 01:21:47,360 --> 01:21:50,572 even though they've traveled there from San Francisco for that very purpose. 1284 01:21:51,448 --> 01:21:53,408 When the group of 22 left, 1285 01:21:53,491 --> 01:21:55,451 there's still, like, a ton of us in San Francisco. 1286 01:21:56,411 --> 01:21:58,747 You know, then the FBI really ratcheted it up. 1287 01:21:58,830 --> 01:22:02,834 There was, like, 3:00 a.m. fire alarms and these bomb scares. 1288 01:22:03,543 --> 01:22:06,463 And our only job... This was, like... You know Judy. 1289 01:22:06,546 --> 01:22:07,923 Our only job was, like, 1290 01:22:08,006 --> 01:22:11,092 "You don't leave until I call you." 1291 01:22:12,302 --> 01:22:15,847 "Yes. We won't leave until you call us." 1292 01:22:16,473 --> 01:22:18,516 We were more scared of disappointing Judy Heumann 1293 01:22:18,600 --> 01:22:22,812 than we ever were of the FBI or the police department arresting us. 1294 01:22:23,688 --> 01:22:26,483 People in D.C. were very stressed. 1295 01:22:26,566 --> 01:22:29,069 It should have been a big finale, a big climax. 1296 01:22:29,152 --> 01:22:33,281 It should have made something happen, shook something loose, and it didn't. 1297 01:22:34,449 --> 01:22:36,284 We didn't know what was gonna happen. 1298 01:22:37,577 --> 01:22:41,247 Three times that week we went 36 hours without sleep. 1299 01:22:42,499 --> 01:22:46,127 The leaders just held strong and said, "How can you give up? 1300 01:22:46,711 --> 01:22:50,131 It has to be done, and if not now, when?" 1301 01:22:55,971 --> 01:22:58,598 Does anyone know where Dennis' cane is? 1302 01:22:58,682 --> 01:22:59,598 No. 1303 01:22:59,599 --> 01:23:02,018 Does anybody know where Dennis' cane is? 1304 01:23:02,102 --> 01:23:03,060 No smoking inside. 1305 01:23:03,061 --> 01:23:04,956 All right, we gotta go, 'cause we're not gonna... 1306 01:23:04,980 --> 01:23:07,023 Not supposed to sit on the guitar. 1307 01:23:07,107 --> 01:23:09,442 There's room on the floor here for somebody. 1308 01:23:10,860 --> 01:23:12,195 Judy, sing a song. 1309 01:23:12,904 --> 01:23:15,633 Ellen, is Bob Perkins up there? 1310 01:23:15,657 --> 01:23:17,158 I think Nicky went for it. 1311 01:23:17,242 --> 01:23:19,220 Ask him if he wants to ride in here with us. 1312 01:23:21,621 --> 01:23:22,621 Okay. 1313 01:23:25,333 --> 01:23:31,047 ♪ That saved a wretch ♪ 1314 01:23:31,131 --> 01:23:32,382 ♪ Like me ♪ 1315 01:23:32,465 --> 01:23:34,485 - Wait a second. - I don't like that one. 1316 01:23:34,509 --> 01:23:36,237 I'm sure you've been noticing it... 1317 01:23:36,261 --> 01:23:40,890 ♪ I once was lost ♪ 1318 01:23:40,974 --> 01:23:45,395 ♪ But now I'm found ♪ 1319 01:23:46,271 --> 01:23:49,315 ♪ Was blind ♪ 1320 01:23:49,399 --> 01:23:56,072 ♪ But now I see ♪ 1321 01:24:02,203 --> 01:24:06,458 One, two, three, four! We're gonna get the 504! 1322 01:24:06,541 --> 01:24:10,879 One, two, three, four! We're gonna get the 504! 1323 01:24:11,796 --> 01:24:13,649 I know this may be against protocol, sir... 1324 01:24:13,673 --> 01:24:14,631 - It is. - But I've come 3,000 miles. 1325 01:24:14,632 --> 01:24:17,152 Can I ask why you did not meet with the demonstrators this week? 1326 01:24:17,844 --> 01:24:20,889 Well, there's an illegal demonstration going on in San Francisco. 1327 01:24:20,972 --> 01:24:23,516 And I just, uh, don't think it's appropriate to do that. 1328 01:24:23,600 --> 01:24:26,520 I understand you agreed to meet with them and canceled that. Is that true? 1329 01:24:26,603 --> 01:24:27,603 Thank you. 1330 01:24:29,105 --> 01:24:30,705 He said he never made such an agreement, 1331 01:24:30,732 --> 01:24:33,568 this being an illegal contingent of an illegal sit-in. 1332 01:24:34,194 --> 01:24:38,740 Evan White was ready to send all his materials back to San Francisco, 1333 01:24:38,823 --> 01:24:42,660 to Channel 7, and there was a technician strike. 1334 01:24:44,788 --> 01:24:49,501 ABC stations all over the country were not getting very much news, 1335 01:24:49,584 --> 01:24:52,587 so the guys at ABC, the strike-breakers, 1336 01:24:52,670 --> 01:24:55,673 put it to every ABC station in the country. 1337 01:24:55,757 --> 01:24:57,467 Evan White in Washington, D.C. 1338 01:24:57,550 --> 01:24:59,904 One, two, three, four! We're gonna get the 504! 1339 01:24:59,928 --> 01:25:02,514 Well, they started getting a little blowback. 1340 01:25:02,597 --> 01:25:04,432 People like Joe Califano 1341 01:25:04,516 --> 01:25:06,643 didn't give a shit if it was on in San Francisco, 1342 01:25:06,726 --> 01:25:07,811 but it's everywhere. 1343 01:25:17,278 --> 01:25:18,780 - Thank you. - Yep. 1344 01:25:18,863 --> 01:25:19,863 Watch your shadow. 1345 01:25:19,864 --> 01:25:21,741 As it happened, without any fanfare, 1346 01:25:22,450 --> 01:25:25,161 without letting the press know, or we didn't even know, 1347 01:25:25,245 --> 01:25:29,749 Califano suddenly signed the regulations the way we wanted 'em. 1348 01:25:31,668 --> 01:25:35,630 I think that this... this calls for a revolution of attitudes 1349 01:25:35,713 --> 01:25:38,550 and thinking and activities 1350 01:25:38,633 --> 01:25:41,344 on behalf of millions of American citizens. 1351 01:25:51,563 --> 01:25:52,623 When it was over, 1352 01:25:52,647 --> 01:25:55,316 Dusty Irvine shared bread with her friends. 1353 01:25:55,400 --> 01:25:57,068 She had been on a hunger strike. 1354 01:25:57,152 --> 01:26:00,363 This was the first food she had eaten in 23 days. 1355 01:26:03,283 --> 01:26:06,244 In Washington, spokesmen for the handicapped were pleased. 1356 01:26:06,327 --> 01:26:09,497 The Congress, the press, the American public 1357 01:26:09,581 --> 01:26:13,334 has seen that we have stamina, strength, intelligence, um, 1358 01:26:13,418 --> 01:26:14,586 as anyone else does. 1359 01:26:14,669 --> 01:26:17,130 That disabled individuals, because they're disabled, 1360 01:26:17,213 --> 01:26:18,631 are not, by definition, sick. 1361 01:26:20,175 --> 01:26:23,178 The new laws say every handicapped child in the country 1362 01:26:23,261 --> 01:26:25,972 has a right to be educated in public schools, 1363 01:26:26,055 --> 01:26:29,976 something the handicapped have been waiting for for a long time. 1364 01:26:30,476 --> 01:26:34,689 It should have been implemented 20 years ago. 1365 01:26:34,772 --> 01:26:37,358 Are you happy though, or apprehensive or what? 1366 01:26:37,442 --> 01:26:39,444 Uh, I am very happy. Yes. 1367 01:26:39,527 --> 01:26:42,280 This shows that the country is waking up. 1368 01:26:42,363 --> 01:26:46,868 Finally, after all the pressure and after all the agonizing, 1369 01:26:46,951 --> 01:26:48,870 and after the humiliating treatment... 1370 01:26:48,953 --> 01:26:52,081 People were treated in Washington, D.C. and in San Francisco. 1371 01:27:06,721 --> 01:27:10,808 We literally believed we could beat the US government. 1372 01:27:11,601 --> 01:27:12,936 Not only did we believe it... 1373 01:27:13,436 --> 01:27:15,188 but we fucking did it. 1374 01:27:15,271 --> 01:27:18,107 You know? I mean, we did it, and it's like... 1375 01:27:19,025 --> 01:27:20,568 And we did it together. 1376 01:27:23,279 --> 01:27:27,533 And what the 504 sit-in did is it took all these people, 1377 01:27:27,617 --> 01:27:29,678 deaf people and people with intellectual disabilities 1378 01:27:29,702 --> 01:27:31,621 and learning disabilities and blind people... 1379 01:27:31,704 --> 01:27:34,457 I mean, there was this really wide range of people. 1380 01:27:35,875 --> 01:27:37,043 And we were all going, 1381 01:27:37,126 --> 01:27:39,837 "Well, I never heard that story before, but I believe you 1382 01:27:39,921 --> 01:27:42,274 that that's your experience of being locked up in a mental ward. 1383 01:27:42,298 --> 01:27:45,843 I believe you that that's your experience in special ed. I believe you." 1384 01:27:48,137 --> 01:27:50,348 We were witnessing each other's truths. 1385 01:27:57,855 --> 01:27:59,649 We were giving each other, like, 1386 01:27:59,732 --> 01:28:02,610 "I see you, and I believe you." 1387 01:28:10,076 --> 01:28:15,331 I didn't have a lot of self-esteem when I became disabled, 1388 01:28:15,415 --> 01:28:18,418 so you can see why... 1389 01:28:19,877 --> 01:28:23,589 when 504 told me I had value... 1390 01:28:24,215 --> 01:28:25,341 it hit home. 1391 01:28:32,432 --> 01:28:35,435 I felt very, very proud to be part of this community. 1392 01:28:35,518 --> 01:28:36,519 Very proud. 1393 01:28:36,602 --> 01:28:37,602 We won! We won! 1394 01:28:37,603 --> 01:28:42,608 We showed strength and courage and power and commitment! 1395 01:28:44,152 --> 01:28:47,238 That we the shut-ins or the shut-outs, 1396 01:28:47,322 --> 01:28:51,409 we the hidden, supposedly the frail and the weak, 1397 01:28:51,492 --> 01:28:56,039 that we could wage a struggle at the highest level of government 1398 01:28:56,122 --> 01:28:57,498 and win! 1399 01:29:22,982 --> 01:29:25,818 A year after the 504 sit-in, I graduated college. 1400 01:29:26,986 --> 01:29:30,073 I finally got to join my Camp Jened friends up in Berkeley. 1401 01:29:30,656 --> 01:29:32,367 I had gotten my dream job 1402 01:29:32,450 --> 01:29:36,287 as the resident sound designer at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre. 1403 01:29:37,080 --> 01:29:38,915 But the first two years I worked there, 1404 01:29:38,998 --> 01:29:41,292 there was no wheelchair access to the sound booth. 1405 01:29:42,794 --> 01:29:45,088 There were these outdoor steps I had to climb. 1406 01:29:45,588 --> 01:29:49,092 By the end of winter, there were, like, mushrooms growing out of the carpet. 1407 01:29:51,302 --> 01:29:53,930 But because of the regulations being signed, 1408 01:29:54,013 --> 01:29:57,642 the physical world around me began to become more accessible. 1409 01:29:58,434 --> 01:30:00,895 - Hi, Judy. - Hi, how are you? 1410 01:30:00,978 --> 01:30:04,607 Funding from Section 504 has led to sweeping changes 1411 01:30:04,690 --> 01:30:08,403 in transportation, health care, education and job opportunities. 1412 01:30:08,486 --> 01:30:12,907 Universities must now make their buildings and facilities accessible to the disabled 1413 01:30:12,990 --> 01:30:16,369 and provide interpreters and readers for the deaf and the blind. 1414 01:30:16,452 --> 01:30:20,123 All housing projects and public buildings using federal money 1415 01:30:20,206 --> 01:30:23,042 must be made accessible to people in wheelchairs. 1416 01:30:23,126 --> 01:30:25,753 It's really out in the streets of Berkeley 1417 01:30:25,837 --> 01:30:28,881 that you see the results of the disabled civil rights movement. 1418 01:30:28,965 --> 01:30:33,886 Curb ramps designed by wheelchair users allow travel almost anywhere in the city. 1419 01:30:34,887 --> 01:30:36,556 The implications are enormous. 1420 01:30:38,391 --> 01:30:42,019 In 1980, Berkeley Rep opened a new, larger theater. 1421 01:30:43,771 --> 01:30:47,692 Because of 504, that new building had to be accessible. 1422 01:30:52,238 --> 01:30:55,032 As the barriers around me started to disappear, 1423 01:30:55,783 --> 01:30:58,661 I realized that this bar I had set for myself, 1424 01:30:58,744 --> 01:31:02,373 that I had to overcome my disability, it had taken a toll on me. 1425 01:31:04,709 --> 01:31:06,544 It was denying a part of who I am. 1426 01:31:10,006 --> 01:31:11,340 Ready, sound. Three, four. 1427 01:31:13,676 --> 01:31:18,764 I would like to say that, um, I'm glad to be here tonight, but, um... 1428 01:31:24,061 --> 01:31:26,415 - It's all right. - We're behind you. 1429 01:31:26,439 --> 01:31:27,719 It's all right. 1430 01:31:28,608 --> 01:31:33,362 You know, on the one hand I'm feeling like I should say everything is wonderful, 1431 01:31:34,739 --> 01:31:40,077 and I don't feel, um, that's at all what we talked about. 1432 01:31:40,161 --> 01:31:44,081 And I'm very tired of being thankful for accessible toilets. 1433 01:31:45,833 --> 01:31:48,753 I... I really am tired of feeling that way, 1434 01:31:48,836 --> 01:31:53,841 when... I basically feel that, um... 1435 01:31:55,092 --> 01:31:58,763 if I have to feel thankful about an accessible bathroom, 1436 01:31:58,846 --> 01:32:01,682 when am I ever gonna be equal in the community? 1437 01:32:10,441 --> 01:32:14,195 For decades, we have piled deficit upon deficit, 1438 01:32:14,278 --> 01:32:17,073 mortgaging our future and our children's future 1439 01:32:17,156 --> 01:32:20,076 for the temporary convenience of the present. 1440 01:32:20,701 --> 01:32:24,622 On May the 7th, Congress was due to vote on budget proposals. 1441 01:32:24,705 --> 01:32:26,975 The future for disabled programs looked bleak. 1442 01:32:26,999 --> 01:32:30,002 Not only money, but the hard-won legislation's at stake. 1443 01:32:30,086 --> 01:32:33,965 It wasn't too long ago we made this trek so we could implement the laws. 1444 01:32:34,048 --> 01:32:37,301 And now you're here three years later trying to say don't repeal them. 1445 01:32:37,385 --> 01:32:40,888 It's, uh... It's amazing how it works in this system. 1446 01:32:41,472 --> 01:32:44,016 Disabled protestors closed down a street 1447 01:32:44,100 --> 01:32:45,810 in St. Louis, Missouri, on Sunday. 1448 01:32:46,394 --> 01:32:48,354 It was just a continual struggle 1449 01:32:48,437 --> 01:32:51,315 to make sure that the 504 regulations were enforced. 1450 01:32:51,399 --> 01:32:54,151 And on top of that, 504 only covered organizations 1451 01:32:54,235 --> 01:32:55,379 that were receiving federal money. 1452 01:32:55,403 --> 01:32:59,323 If you do not stop, you will be arrested. 1453 01:33:00,074 --> 01:33:02,994 Most public transportation was not accessible, 1454 01:33:03,077 --> 01:33:05,413 employers could still discriminate, 1455 01:33:05,496 --> 01:33:08,416 and private businesses didn't have to do anything at all. 1456 01:33:10,167 --> 01:33:12,795 We needed a civil rights law of our own. 1457 01:33:17,300 --> 01:33:19,635 It is the latest struggle for civil rights 1458 01:33:19,719 --> 01:33:22,430 and integration into the mainstream of American life. 1459 01:33:22,513 --> 01:33:24,724 For more than 40 million Americans 1460 01:33:24,807 --> 01:33:28,019 who are physically or mentally disabled, a new era is dawning. 1461 01:33:28,561 --> 01:33:30,688 A bill nearing passage in Congress 1462 01:33:30,771 --> 01:33:33,232 would mandate equal access for the disabled 1463 01:33:33,316 --> 01:33:36,319 to employment, transportation, and public places. 1464 01:33:36,402 --> 01:33:40,114 This legislation is a bill of rights for the disabled, 1465 01:33:40,197 --> 01:33:42,597 and America will be a better and fairer nation because of it. 1466 01:33:47,288 --> 01:33:48,539 ADA! 1467 01:33:48,623 --> 01:33:49,850 - When do we want it? - Now! 1468 01:33:49,874 --> 01:33:51,959 - When do we want it? - Now! 1469 01:33:52,043 --> 01:33:53,604 - What do we want? - ADA! 1470 01:33:53,628 --> 01:33:55,548 - When do we want it? - Now! 1471 01:34:04,513 --> 01:34:06,599 I'm gonna get there. 1472 01:34:06,682 --> 01:34:08,434 - Gonna get there! - Take your time. 1473 01:34:08,517 --> 01:34:11,729 ADA now! 1474 01:34:13,481 --> 01:34:17,401 I'll take all night if I have to. 1475 01:34:17,485 --> 01:34:19,153 Whoo! 1476 01:34:22,573 --> 01:34:24,492 ADA now! 1477 01:34:24,575 --> 01:34:25,785 All right! 1478 01:34:25,868 --> 01:34:28,537 We, as disabled persons, are here today 1479 01:34:28,621 --> 01:34:32,375 to ensure for the class of disabled Americans, 1480 01:34:32,458 --> 01:34:34,001 the ordinary daily life 1481 01:34:34,085 --> 01:34:37,880 that non-disabled Americans too often take for granted: 1482 01:34:37,963 --> 01:34:40,341 the right to ride a bus or a train, 1483 01:34:40,424 --> 01:34:43,386 the right to any job for which we are qualified, 1484 01:34:43,469 --> 01:34:47,598 the right to enter any theater, restaurant, or public accommodation. 1485 01:34:47,682 --> 01:34:51,852 The passage of this monumental legislation will make it clear 1486 01:34:51,936 --> 01:34:54,271 that our government will no longer allow 1487 01:34:54,355 --> 01:34:57,024 the largest minority group in the United States 1488 01:34:57,108 --> 01:34:59,276 to be denied equal opportunity. 1489 01:34:59,360 --> 01:35:01,862 To do any less is immoral. 1490 01:35:01,946 --> 01:35:03,030 Mr. President. 1491 01:35:03,114 --> 01:35:06,242 This morning, Senator Tom Harkin, whose brother is deaf, 1492 01:35:06,325 --> 01:35:09,829 delivered a speech in sign language, urging passage of this bill. 1493 01:35:10,705 --> 01:35:13,791 But in the end, it was the disabled themselves who made it happen. 1494 01:35:18,546 --> 01:35:24,385 Let the shameful wall of exclusion finally come tumbling down. 1495 01:35:24,468 --> 01:35:25,970 God bless you all. 1496 01:35:42,153 --> 01:35:45,531 The ADA was 1497 01:35:45,614 --> 01:35:50,077 a wonderful achievement. 1498 01:35:50,578 --> 01:35:52,371 - Hey, Angel. - Hey, Neil. 1499 01:35:52,455 --> 01:35:53,413 How are you? 1500 01:35:53,414 --> 01:35:56,208 Can we have three mochas? 1501 01:35:56,292 --> 01:35:57,501 A mocha? 1502 01:35:57,585 --> 01:35:58,585 Three. 1503 01:35:59,378 --> 01:36:02,798 But it was only 1504 01:36:02,882 --> 01:36:09,388 a tiny tip of the iceberg. 1505 01:36:10,055 --> 01:36:15,311 You can pass a law, 1506 01:36:15,394 --> 01:36:20,149 but until you change 1507 01:36:20,232 --> 01:36:25,988 society's attitudes, 1508 01:36:26,071 --> 01:36:32,036 that law won't mean much. 1509 01:36:45,549 --> 01:36:50,930 ♪ Oh, to live on Sugar Mountain ♪ 1510 01:36:51,514 --> 01:36:55,935 ♪ With the barkers And the colored balloons ♪ 1511 01:36:57,102 --> 01:37:01,816 ♪ You can't be 20 on Sugar Mountain ♪ 1512 01:37:02,942 --> 01:37:07,613 ♪ Though you're thinking that You're leavin' there too soon ♪ 1513 01:37:09,240 --> 01:37:12,952 ♪ You're leavin' there too soon ♪ 1514 01:37:16,956 --> 01:37:18,666 This whole perimeter... 1515 01:37:20,876 --> 01:37:22,044 was where the bunks were. 1516 01:37:22,127 --> 01:37:27,424 ♪ It's so noisy at the fair But all your friends are there ♪ 1517 01:37:27,508 --> 01:37:30,970 Oh, my God. I don't recognize this at all. 1518 01:37:31,679 --> 01:37:34,557 ♪ And your mother and your dad ♪ 1519 01:37:34,640 --> 01:37:36,725 Where is the camp? 1520 01:37:36,809 --> 01:37:38,102 Is it all gone? 1521 01:37:54,118 --> 01:37:58,455 ♪ Though you're thinking that You're leavin' there too soon ♪ 1522 01:38:00,499 --> 01:38:03,752 ♪ You're leavin' there too soon ♪ 1523 01:38:03,836 --> 01:38:06,964 Coming back to this place as if it was hallowed ground. 1524 01:38:08,215 --> 01:38:10,926 And you almost kinda wanna say, just, you know, "Thank you." 1525 01:38:12,177 --> 01:38:16,307 I almost wanna get out 1526 01:38:16,390 --> 01:38:19,268 of my wheelchair 1527 01:38:19,351 --> 01:38:24,273 and kiss the fucking dirt. 1528 01:38:26,692 --> 01:38:29,445 Is that Denise? Denise, Denise? 1529 01:38:29,528 --> 01:38:32,114 Oh, wow! Lionel! 1530 01:38:35,159 --> 01:38:40,623 ♪ You can hear the words she wrote As you read the hidden note ♪ 1531 01:38:40,706 --> 01:38:43,918 This was an open field of grass. 1532 01:38:44,001 --> 01:38:46,420 And our baseball diamond was here. 1533 01:38:48,422 --> 01:38:54,929 Could you have ever imagined 1534 01:38:55,804 --> 01:38:58,641 where we would go? 1535 01:38:58,724 --> 01:39:00,392 - Go! - Go! 1536 01:39:00,476 --> 01:39:03,103 The Jacobsons live in Oakland, California. 1537 01:39:03,187 --> 01:39:04,730 Neil is a bank vice president. 1538 01:39:05,397 --> 01:39:07,107 Denise is a writer. 1539 01:39:07,191 --> 01:39:08,901 Give me a kiss? 1540 01:39:09,401 --> 01:39:12,696 - How about... About five kisses? - Oh! 1541 01:39:12,780 --> 01:39:14,966 All your life, did you want to be a daddy? 1542 01:39:14,990 --> 01:39:17,076 Yeah. Always. 1543 01:39:17,910 --> 01:39:21,163 David is the first person 1544 01:39:21,246 --> 01:39:23,082 in my whole life 1545 01:39:23,165 --> 01:39:27,878 that doesn't care about my disability. 1546 01:39:27,962 --> 01:39:31,256 I'm Daddy. I'm his daddy. 1547 01:39:35,386 --> 01:39:39,974 If somebody told you 1548 01:39:40,057 --> 01:39:45,020 you'd be living in Oakland 1549 01:39:45,104 --> 01:39:48,649 with your wife 1550 01:39:48,732 --> 01:39:50,776 and going 1551 01:39:50,859 --> 01:39:56,949 wherever the hell you wanted to go? 1552 01:39:57,032 --> 01:40:00,285 You could not imagine. 1553 01:40:00,369 --> 01:40:01,412 No way. 1554 01:40:05,791 --> 01:40:07,710 The freedom that this camp provided 1555 01:40:07,793 --> 01:40:11,255 definitely influenced the rest of my dad's life. 1556 01:40:14,133 --> 01:40:16,969 I mean, him being my dad, I... 1557 01:40:17,052 --> 01:40:20,931 He didn't really wanna expose too much of his rebellious, 1558 01:40:21,015 --> 01:40:24,226 kind of punk, hippy attitude and everything, 1559 01:40:24,810 --> 01:40:29,398 but to connect with that side of him was just really incredible. 1560 01:40:38,115 --> 01:40:43,454 If I close my eyes, 1561 01:40:44,580 --> 01:40:50,919 I can hear all the campers. 1562 01:41:08,812 --> 01:41:14,401 I can hear Larry's voice. 1563 01:41:15,402 --> 01:41:17,988 I am very proud of everybody. 1564 01:41:18,072 --> 01:41:20,741 There needed to be, like, a moment in time 1565 01:41:20,824 --> 01:41:22,826 when a spark started the thing to change, 1566 01:41:22,910 --> 01:41:26,038 and that's why the Judy Heumanns of the world are so important. 1567 01:41:26,121 --> 01:41:28,540 Judy, you were a total pain in the ass, 1568 01:41:28,624 --> 01:41:31,085 but I loved you anyway. 1569 01:41:31,168 --> 01:41:33,420 Judy, what is the most important 1570 01:41:33,504 --> 01:41:36,131 that has happened to you within the last 20 years? 1571 01:41:36,215 --> 01:41:38,717 The most important thing for me has been 1572 01:41:38,801 --> 01:41:41,261 the creation of the disabled rights movement, 1573 01:41:41,345 --> 01:41:45,516 that I feel we can call an international rights movement. 1574 01:42:02,699 --> 01:42:04,469 - Can I give you a hug? - Yes. 1575 01:42:04,493 --> 01:42:06,161 This was... 1576 01:42:06,245 --> 01:42:09,915 This was always the best way for me to hug Nanci. 1577 01:42:13,502 --> 01:42:15,212 - I love you. - I love you, too. 1578 01:42:15,295 --> 01:42:16,839 Oh, yeah. 1579 01:42:16,922 --> 01:42:20,008 I'm mad because I can't see Jimmy, and today is our first-week anniversary. 1580 01:43:15,147 --> 01:43:18,942 ♪ Just like a ship ♪ 1581 01:43:19,026 --> 01:43:20,944 ♪ Mmm, without a sail ♪ 1582 01:43:21,028 --> 01:43:24,907 ♪ Without a sail ♪ 1583 01:43:24,990 --> 01:43:26,533 ♪ Just like a ship ♪ 1584 01:43:26,617 --> 01:43:29,953 ♪ Just like a ship ♪ 1585 01:43:30,037 --> 01:43:32,331 ♪ Mmm-hmm, without a sail ♪ 1586 01:43:32,414 --> 01:43:35,667 ♪ Without a sail ♪ 1587 01:43:35,751 --> 01:43:37,961 ♪ But I'm not worried Because I know ♪ 1588 01:43:38,045 --> 01:43:42,507 ♪ But I know we can take it ♪ 1589 01:43:42,591 --> 01:43:43,592 ♪ I know ♪ 1590 01:43:43,675 --> 01:43:47,221 ♪ But I know we can take it ♪ 1591 01:43:47,304 --> 01:43:49,264 ♪ I know we can shake it ♪ 1592 01:43:49,348 --> 01:43:52,851 ♪ But I know we can take it ♪ 1593 01:43:52,935 --> 01:43:55,020 ♪ I know we can take it ♪ 1594 01:43:55,103 --> 01:43:59,566 ♪ But I know we can take it ♪ 1595 01:44:03,320 --> 01:44:06,531 ♪ I sailed for pleasure ♪ 1596 01:44:06,615 --> 01:44:10,369 ♪ I sailed for pleasure ♪ 1597 01:44:10,452 --> 01:44:12,162 ♪ But I found pain ♪ 1598 01:44:12,246 --> 01:44:15,874 ♪ But I found pain ♪ 1599 01:44:15,958 --> 01:44:17,876 ♪ I looked for sunshine ♪ 1600 01:44:17,960 --> 01:44:21,672 - ♪ I looked for sunshine ♪ - ♪ Yes, I did ♪ 1601 01:44:21,755 --> 01:44:23,507 ♪ But I found rain ♪ 1602 01:44:23,590 --> 01:44:27,135 ♪ But I found rain ♪ 1603 01:44:27,219 --> 01:44:29,179 ♪ And then I looked For my friends ♪ 1604 01:44:29,263 --> 01:44:32,766 ♪ I looked for my friends ♪ 1605 01:44:32,849 --> 01:44:34,851 ♪ They all walked away ♪ 1606 01:44:34,935 --> 01:44:38,480 ♪ But they walked away ♪ 1607 01:44:38,563 --> 01:44:40,399 ♪ Through all the sorrows ♪ 1608 01:44:40,482 --> 01:44:44,444 ♪ Through all of my sorrows ♪ 1609 01:44:44,528 --> 01:44:46,113 ♪ You can hear me say ♪ 1610 01:44:46,196 --> 01:44:48,824 ♪ You can hear me say ♪ 1611 01:44:48,907 --> 01:44:51,618 ♪ Hey, hey, hey, I know ♪ 1612 01:44:51,702 --> 01:44:55,038 ♪ But I know we can take it ♪ 1613 01:44:55,122 --> 01:44:57,249 ♪ Just to know one thing But I know ♪ 1614 01:44:57,332 --> 01:45:00,961 - ♪ But I know we can take it ♪ - ♪ Sure gonna make it ♪ 1615 01:45:01,044 --> 01:45:02,921 ♪ I know we can shake it ♪ 1616 01:45:03,005 --> 01:45:06,550 - ♪ But I know we can take it ♪ - ♪ 'Cause we are proud people ♪ 1617 01:45:06,633 --> 01:45:08,552 ♪ I know we can take it ♪ 1618 01:45:08,635 --> 01:45:15,434 ♪ But I know we can take it ♪ 1619 01:45:21,315 --> 01:45:26,987 ♪ Just like a ship ♪ 1620 01:45:27,070 --> 01:45:32,576 ♪ Without a sail ♪ 1621 01:45:32,659 --> 01:45:39,624 ♪ We did our work today ♪ 1622 01:45:44,421 --> 01:45:49,593 ♪ Just like a ship ♪ 1623 01:45:49,676 --> 01:45:55,182 ♪ Without a sail ♪ 1624 01:45:55,265 --> 01:46:02,230 ♪ We did our work today ♪ 1625 01:46:13,408 --> 01:46:17,996 ♪ Just like a ship ♪ 1626 01:46:18,080 --> 01:46:23,168 - ♪ Without a sail ♪ - ♪ Without a sail ♪ 1627 01:46:23,251 --> 01:46:24,961 ♪ Just like a ship ♪ 1628 01:46:25,045 --> 01:46:28,256 ♪ Just like a ship ♪ 1629 01:46:28,340 --> 01:46:30,342 ♪ Lord knows I don't have a sail ♪ 132849

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