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I'm recording now.
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I want to shut it off,
I got to press the trigger again.
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It should start rolling again.
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- Yeah.
- All right.
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Would you like to see, um,
handicapped people depicted as people?
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Excuse me?
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Jim LeBrecht
is a sound designer
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at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre
in California.
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He was born with a disability
which has nothing to do with his job.
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But having the job
makes it possible for him to lead
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an independent productive life.
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...Tom? That's nice.
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Well, it's about his condition.
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I was born with spina bifida.
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They didn't think I was gonna live
more than a couple of hours.
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Apparently, I had different plans.
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In the middle of first grade,
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I was allowed to enter public school
on a trial basis.
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They were gonna see if it worked out.
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I mean, at the time,
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so many kids just like me
were being sent to institutions.
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I remember that my dad used to say to me,
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"You know, Jimmy, you're gonna
have to be really outgoing.
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You're gonna have to go up
and introduce yourself to people,
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'cause they're not gonna come up to you."
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My sister Lindsay was a Brownie,
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but they wouldn't let me
into the Cub Scouts.
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The barriers were all over the place.
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I loved music. I loved life.
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I wanted to be part of the world,
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but I didn't see anyone like me in it.
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And then I hear from some people
about this summer camp.
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It's a summer camp for, you know,
"fhe handicapped," run by hippies.
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And somebody said,
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"You'll probably smoke dope
with the counselors."
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And I'm like, "Sign me up!"
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The wild thing is that
this camp changed the world,
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and nobody knows this story.
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♪ There's something happening here ♪
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♪ But what it is ain't exactly clear ♪
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♪ There's a man with a gun over there ♪
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♪ Telling me I got to beware ♪
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♪ I think it's time we stop
Children, what's that sound? ♪
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♪ Everybody look
What's going down? ♪
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♪ There's battle lines being drawn ♪
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♪ Nobody's right if everybody's wrong ♪
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♪ Young people speaking their minds ♪
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♪ Are getting so much resistance
From behind ♪
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♪ It's time we stop
Hey, what's that sound? ♪
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♪ Everybody look
What's going down? ♪
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♪ Stop
Hey, what's that sound? ♪
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♪ Everybody look
What's going down? ♪
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♪ We better stop
Now, what's that sound? ♪
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♪ Everybody look
What's going... ♪
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♪ We better stop
Children, what's that sound? ♪
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♪ Everybody look... ♪
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I remember the first time
I went to Camp Jened.
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We take this bus trip
from Manhattan up to the Catskills.
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It's about a three-hour drive.
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And you get into this really lovely
kinda mountainous areas,
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and you could smell, like,
the hot land and the pines,
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and you're hearing birds and stuff.
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And then we pull into the parking lot,
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and these people start
swarming around the bus.
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The place has got a bunch of hippies,
and some of them look pretty freaky.
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And it's like, wow.
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I'm not sure who's a camper
and who's a counselor.
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I grew up in Mobile, Alabama.
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I saw a sign that said, "Summer jobs.
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Camps.
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New York."
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I didn't know anyone handicapped.
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I was feeling a little anxious
about the kids.
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I had zero experience
with disabled people.
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I knew as many disabled people as I knew
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sumo wrestlers.
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So I'm at the front of the bus,
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and I was not prepared for the visual
of so many disabled people at one time.
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And I froze.
I became paralyzed with fear.
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Then somebody behind me
pushed me, because I was in the way,
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and that forward momentum
carried me through the summer.
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♪ Freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom ♪
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♪ Freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom ♪
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♪ Sometimes I feel
Like a motherless child ♪
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I mean,
when Woodstock was happening,
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I remember being at my grandmother's,
listening on the transistor radio,
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and saying, "Wish I could go.
Wish I could go. Wish I could go."
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And then, when I went to Jened,
it was like,
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there I was! I was in Woodstock.
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The music and the people...
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And just, you're like,
"These people are crazy!" You know?
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I mean, in a good way.
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Come to Camp Jened
and find yourself, you know?
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♪ Freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom ♪
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♪ Sometimes I feel like I'm almost gone ♪
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It was so funky.
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But it was a utopia.
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When we were there,
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there was no outside world.
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♪ A long way from my home, yeah ♪
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♪ Singin' freedom, freedom ♪
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♪ Freedom, freedom ♪
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♪ Freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom ♪
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♪ Freedom, freedom ♪
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If you wanna stop and look
at anything with the camera, you tell us.
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You can do that.
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All right, there's... the adult part.
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What's that yellow building there?
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That's what I just said. The, uh...
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The adult part right there.
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That's part of the adult camp.
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Yeah.
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There's one of our gorgeous counselors.
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- Say hello.
- Hi, how are you?
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Okay.
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Here is, uh, Girls 1.
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A place for fun and frolic.
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There's one of the campers,
Valerie Vivona.
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Jimmy!
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Is this necessary?
I mean, is this important?
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Oh, my...
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Is that our director over there?
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Yeah, that's Larry Allison.
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I understand
you're the director here?
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Yeah, I'm the director of the camp, and...
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I, uh...
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I was just out here by the swimming pool,
watching the kids swim.
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I decided to dig a few holes,
'cause the kids are kind of clumsy
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and I thought
it'd be funny if they tripped.
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Teach us cripples a lesson.
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That's right.
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Jened was an opportunity to try
to do some different kinds of things.
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When the camp started back in the '50s,
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it was the, uh, traditional
kind of camp program.
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As it evolved during the '60s
and into the '70s,
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what we tried to do was provide
the kind of environment
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where teenagers could be teenagers
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without all the stereotypes
and the labels.
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And that was a byproduct of the times.
You know, of social experimentation.
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We realized the problem did not exist
with people with disabilities.
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The problem existed with people
that didn't have disabilities.
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It was our problem.
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So it was important for us to change.
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Just to say, I like Camp Jened.
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And I love Larry Olson.
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Olson?
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Allison.
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Good for you, Sophie.
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Let's go around the circle.
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What's your name?
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My name is Ellie Abrashkin.
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- Where are you from?
- I'm from Brooklyn, New York.
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Uh...
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Brooklyn.
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Hello, my name is Jean Malafronte.
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I, uh, got run over by a bus.
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Congratulations.
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I don't know exactly my handicap.
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And that's all.
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My name is Carl.
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And if this is ever
broadcast on television,
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my telephone number
is area code 212-YU8-0367,
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and I would love anyone who likes to talk
to give me a telephone call.
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And I am blind and hard of hearing.
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I had too much oxygen in the incubator,
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and my hearing,
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because I had a fractured skull
from falling out of a cab.
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And I will be glad if anyone will call me
who hears this.
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This is where I stay.
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- Steve's a counselor.
- Wanna take a picture of this cat?
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Smile, Steve.
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Oops.
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Let's not bump into the campers.
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Let's move around that way.
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It's been a pleasure,
Steve Hoffman.
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Wow.
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Thank you.
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Don't make me get a fat head.
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You don't have the light to
roll up inside and see what it looks like?
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Um, I don't know.
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The bunk is a mess.
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But we like it like that.
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Yeah! Yeah!
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Hey, Tommy.
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Yeah!
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This is Tommy Curran.
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Hi, Tommy.
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Nobody uses those upper beds, right?
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- What?
- The upper beds?
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- The counselors do.
- The counselors do.
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- Hey, JJ.
- What's happening?
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That's the usual state of the counselors.
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That first night in the bunk,
I was a little bit nervous.
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I had just had surgery.
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Up to that point, I was wearing diapers,
'cause I had no control over my bladder.
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I guess you could imagine
what it was like being 15
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and trying to hide the fact
that you had to wear diapers.
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And there was that constant pressure
of being found out.
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I had gotten this urinary tract diversion,
so now I had this bag.
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It wasn't going too well.
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I was having a hard time keeping it on,
and it was leaking and such.
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But at camp, everybody had something
going on with their body.
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It just wasn't a big deal.
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Okay, uh, my first guest,
what's your name?
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My name is Michael Tannenbaum.
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How old are you?
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I was just 18.
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Uh, what do you think is the most
significant part about Camp Jened?
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Uh...
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The staff.
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How great they are.
How good they relate to the campers.
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- Are you lying?
- No, I'm not lying.
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It's just that I've been in other camps,
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and at no other camp
have campers treated...
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Have counselors treated campers
the way they do here.
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They're not like babysitters.
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- That was a good answer.
- Thank you, John.
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It's not 100% sure,
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but since the new trip
is gonna be coming up Thursday,
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what we're gonna try to do
is get the cook to take off Wednesday,
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which means that we'll cook on Wednesday.
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Do you have any, um, any suggestions?
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I was trying to see
if we could make veal parmesan,
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but veal is too expensive.
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How about just, like, chow mein?
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- 'Cause bacon is just more expensive.
- Chicken parmesan.
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What do you think of lasagna?
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Super-duper!
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Quiet!
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How many people... Raise your hands.
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How many people want lasagna?
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When do we get not to eat starch?
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The only deal is we don't have to eat
those starchy things,
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so why eat lasagna?
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How many people don't want lasagna?
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- Lasagna wins!
- No lasagna wins.
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All right.
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When you go back into... Mark.
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When you go back into your groups,
will you also decide...
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Get some suggestions as to what you want,
and when we come back in a group together,
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um, we'll decide what
we're going to have to eat.
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Okay? If the cook is off on Wednesday.
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I felt like
it was important to be inclusive,
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because I didn't really have
a lot of role models,
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as I was growing up, who had disabilities.
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It made people feel like they were more
a part of what was happening.
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- Very good idea.
- Yeah!
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It was more free and open
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than certainly what I was experiencing
in my day-to-day life at home.
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♪ I love my baby
My baby loves me ♪
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I grew up in Brooklyn, New York,
in a neighborhood called East Flatbush.
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Growing up in the neighborhood,
I didn't feel different.
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I had polio.
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I wasn't able to walk anymore
and things like that,
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but there were a lot of kids.
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We played outside.
Stick ball and jump rope.
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It was a great neighborhood.
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So, one day, I was going to
the candy store with a group of friends.
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My friend was pushing my wheelchair,
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and we went around the block,
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and these kids came over,
this one boy said, "Are you sick?"
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And I was really, like, taken aback,
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and I recall that I meekishly said,
"No, I'm not sick."
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But I remember...
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I wanted to cry.
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I get that feeling a lot even as an adult.
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I'm kind of in between
being shocked by the question,
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maybe being angry by it,
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but having to center myself.
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It was an awakening
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that people saw me not as Judy,
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but as somebody who was sick.
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When I was five years old,
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my mother took me
to the local school to enroll me,
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but the principal said I couldn't go
to that school 'cause I couldn't walk.
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I could be a fire hazard.
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So basically, my mother w me.
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Of course, all my friends
in the neighborhood were going to school,
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but I was at home.
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Then, one day, when I was
about eight, nine years old,
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my mom got a call
that there was an opening
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in PS 219, in the special ed classes.
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The classes for disabled kids
were in the basement.
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The other classes were upstairs.
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We would call the non-disabled kids
"upstairs kids."
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They would come down, a few of them,
Fridays, help us go to assembly.
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They were allowed to come,
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and you know, meet us in our classroom
and push our wheelchairs.
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There were people that I met
in those classes
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who then went to Camp Jened together.
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Neil Jacobson, Stevie Hofmann
and Nancy Rosenblum.
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We would sit together at lunch,
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and I would help people put their sandwich
in their sandwich holder.
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And I think we respected each other,
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and we all felt that what we were saying
was important.
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I mean, in some way,
even when we were that young,
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we knew that we were all being sidelined.
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We didn't wanna sideline anybody.
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We wanted to hear
what everybody had to say.
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We were willing to listen.
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- Sounds more like...
- Yeah, wow.
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You... You... You're always...
You're always talking.
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You're... You're always talking.
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You're always talking.
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That's 'cause
he's a good public speaker.
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Jean and I thought I was being,
you know...
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I thought so, too.
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Jack?
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I think you're really great in the bunk.
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When the worst things happen,
you're sitting in the corner cracking up,
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and nobody can get depressed
when you're sitting there.
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She knows what she's doing
when she's all, like, coy.
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You know, I really dig you, Nance,
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and there are a lot of things, you know,
I'd like to get to know you better,
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but, so far as I know you,
I really like you.
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She's very nice, and...
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Remember, you're speaking
to her, not about her.
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I don't know
too much about you, but you're okay.
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Um, there's some people here
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who have been filming.
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I told them that I would like them
to please address us as a group
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so they could tell us their ideas
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and we could ask any questions
that we wanted to.
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We are People's Video Theater.
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That's Ken Marsh, I'm Howie Gutstadt,
and that's Ben Levine over there.
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And we have been working
with this equipment,
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which is half-inch video tape,
which is simply closed-system television.
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Whatever, actually, you really wanna
say about yourselves, let us know.
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Let's have a lot of interaction.
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- Tommy!
- Hey, Tommy!
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Tommy!
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- Tommy, look!
- Tommy!
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- Tommy!
- Who's on the television, Tommy?
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What a ugly face. Oh, my gosh.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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There was a period
of adjustment I had to go through
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for the first couple of weeks at camp.
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Because I was in public school,
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I wasn't around other people
with disabilities.
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I wasn't a shut-in. I could come and go
more or less as I pleased.
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And not everybody at the camp
had those advantages.
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Rory.
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Some of them
were going to special schools.
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Some of them were isolated
a lot of the time.
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You had people from institutions.
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♪ Lately it occurs to me ♪
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♪ What a long, strange trip it's been ♪
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Being 15, I was drawn
to the people that were
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smoking cigarettes and listening to music.
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♪ Sometimes the light's
All shining on me ♪
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Outside of camp,
I really didn't feel like a cool kid.
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But at Jened, I was.
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There were a lot of cute girls at camp,
and, you know, I was friendly.
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Yeah!
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At home,
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some people had a hierarchy
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of disability.
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The polios were on top
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because they looked more normal,
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and the CPs were at the bottom.
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But at Jened, you were just a kid.
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We met when we went to Jened,
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but he's younger than I am.
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When we decided to get married
my mom said to me,
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"I understand why you want to marry
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a handicapped girl.
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But why can't you find a polio?"
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Oh, my God!
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Oh, my God! Oh, my God!
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There's one of
my counselors with a waitress.
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Aha!
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This is a little sitting corner
over there.
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It's kind of dark over here at night.
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So what's that mean?
What goes on there?
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A little nookie.
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You've been going around
giving me this superficial tour.
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Let's have some real stuff.
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That's where he and Nanci go off and...
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- Who's Nanci?
- She's my girl.
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Camp Jened was where I met
my first girlfriend, Nanci.
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She was funny. She was cute.
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She was always in the middle of things
and having a really, really great time.
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I mean, I really loved her.
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As much as you can
at the age of 15, you know?
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I literally remember us, like,
making out in the dining hall.
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It seemed like
we were making out all the time.
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There was a romance in the air
if you wanted to experience it.
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I never dated outside of camp.
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But at Jened,
you could have make-out sessions
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behind the bunks
and different places like that.
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The first year I was at camp,
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one of the women counselors
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gave me a whole lesson on how to kiss.
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That was one of the best
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physical therapies I ever had.
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A couple of days after that,
I had my first date
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with a girl camper.
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And I felt her hand
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on my cock.
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That was heaven.
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You want me
to tell them what happened?
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- Yes.
- Oh, well...
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Well, two people got crabs,
and, um, they're spreading.
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They form in human body in there,
and I don't know...
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00:26:42,934 --> 00:26:46,646
And they, um... multiply!
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In the beginning, when this thing
started happening last night,
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we found out what was going on.
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We were kind of all very hyper about it.
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And who the fuck knew what, you know,
crabs were, or lice or anything?
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I wanna go over there.
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What's over there?
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My girl.
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Have you seen her today?
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Just from over here.
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Have you talked to her?
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Not really. Just from across here.
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We're all quarantined.
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Yeah.
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It's our first-week anniversary today.
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It's your first-week anniversary,
and you can't even talk to her.
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That's right.
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00:27:19,137 --> 00:27:20,697
- Why I'm mad?
- Your boyfriend.
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Oh, yeah.
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I'm mad because I can't see Jimmy,
and today is our first-week anniversary.
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♪ I got those poor old crab blues, yeah ♪
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Haven't had so much fun since
Grandma caught her tit in the wringer!
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We're thinking of collecting all the crabs
and having a bake.
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We may have to
burn the bastards out.
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♪ Oh, yeah I got the... ♪
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Just the most asinine, stupid thing
I have ever heard.
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When thinking about it rationally,
I realized that I don't itch,
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so there's no need for me to disinfect.
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My wheelchair doesn't itch,
and neither does my bed,
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my mattress or my roommate, Bruce.
435
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Yet we're all in the process
of dehumanization.
436
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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
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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
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It's spreadable!
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00:28:21,157 --> 00:28:23,827
You know, how would you like to have
somebody wash your balls?
443
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- That's the part...
- It depends who.
444
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Right, I can do it myself for me.
So, you know, I don't really care.
445
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But there are other people who can't.
446
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You know, and they have to
have it done for them.
447
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You know, people around here
feel small enough most of the time,
448
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and when somebody
has to scrub their balls,
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they'll probably feel even smaller.
450
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I think, actually, what happened
was that people were having fun.
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We were working together as a whole unit,
washing and cleaning and showering,
452
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and doing things
that we've never done before.
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And it's really a very different
kind of a thing.
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And I have to go shower some people.
455
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I'll see you later.
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At Camp Jened,
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personal assistance was built into
all of our lives who needed help.
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There were people there that would
help me get dressed and undressed,
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and go to the bathroom and shower,
and get in and out of the pool.
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In some way, it was also the beginning
of my experiencing
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what it would be like to have someone
other than my mother or my father
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have to do all those things.
463
00:29:38,234 --> 00:29:39,360
At the camp,
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you could do anything that you thought
you wanted to try to do.
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You wouldn't be picked
to be on a team back home.
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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.
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00:30:09,933 --> 00:30:14,813
When we were at Jened,
the Disability Act had not been passed.
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00:30:15,688 --> 00:30:20,443
So, when we would take the campers
on a trip into town for ice cream,
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we couldn't get you in the door.
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And then deal with the staring,
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00:30:25,949 --> 00:30:28,034
or deal with, "We don't want them here
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because they make our other customers
feel uncomfortable."
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Whatever obstacles that were
in my way being a black man,
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00:30:38,878 --> 00:30:42,966
the same thing was held true
for individuals in wheelchairs.
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00:30:45,718 --> 00:30:50,598
Back home, I had to be careful
who I said things to,
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because that was a way of surviving.
478
00:30:52,392 --> 00:30:54,811
They were survival skills that you had.
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I had to be very, very, very careful
not to be disrespectful.
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00:31:00,525 --> 00:31:02,402
Not to look a white man in his eye.
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You had to do those things.
You had to be mindful of that.
482
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♪ 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 ♪
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Hooray.
496
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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 ♪
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