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DESCRIPTION:Wed 3/13, 7pm, at Ellen Driscoll in Piedmont; Tue 3/19, 7:15pm, at The New 
 Parkway, Oakland\n\nLIVES WORTH LIVING\nA film by Eric Neudel \n\nIt's been 
 23 years since passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990.  
 Today, we take for granted the curb cuts that allow wheelchairs to roll, 
 buses that lower to bring on the disabled, and wheelchair-accessible 
 bathrooms, among many other changes. The Act mandated all these 
 accommodations-because before this, the disabled were on their 
 own.\n\nLives Worth Living shows us the struggle for visibility and access 
 by disabled people in the United States. The movement started here in 
 Berkeley and spread across the country.\nThe film features Fred Fay, a 
 quadriplegic who refused to live on the sidelines just because he couldn't 
 walk, and Ed Roberts, who fought for access to UC Berkeley and started the 
 Center for Independent Living in Berkeley-and the Ed Roberts Campus now 
 commemorates his life's work.\n\nLives Worth Living is told as an oral 
 history, using archival footage.  We see protesters climb from wheelchairs 
 and drag themselves courageously up courthouse steps; we watch as 
 quadriplegic activists maneuver their chairs in front of public buses that 
 are not equipped to accommodate them.  The film ends with the dramatic 
 battle for the Americans with Disabilities Act, one of the most important 
 pieces of civil rights legislation in America's history. The thousands of 
 individuals who came together to change attitudes and laws demonstrated the 
 power of humanity, cooperation, and self-determination, and what can be 
 accomplished against seemingly insurmountable obstacles.\n\nTWO FREE 
 screenings of Lives Worth Living\n\n1) Wednesday, March 13, 2013 @ Ellen 
 Driscoll Theater\n(Havens Elementary School)\n325 Highland Ave / Piedmont 
 94611\n6:30 PM Doors open: Reception\n7 PM Film\n8 - 9 PM 
 Discussion\ndiversityfilmseries.wordpress.com\n\n2) Tuesday, March 19, 2013 
 @ The New Parkway\n474 24th Street / Oakland 94612\n7:15 
 pm\nhttp://www.thenewparkway.com\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/02/17/18732286.php
SUMMARY:Diversity Film 'Lives Worth Living'
LOCATION:Ellen Driscoll Playhouse\n325 Highand Ave.\nPiedmont, CA 94611\n\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/02/17/18732286.php
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