Beyond Affliction

Dan Vachon (drv(AT)ici.net)
Tue, 14 Apr 1998 17:18:19

>Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 09:52:06 -0700 (PDT)
>From: PAUL KENNETH LONGMORE <longmore(AT)sfsu.edu>
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>"Beyond Affliction: The Disability History Project"
>May 5-8 at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m., on NPR
>
>Beyond Affliction: The Disability History Project is a four-hour
>documentary series examining one of the most overlooked civil rights
>revolutions of the century.
>
>"The history of those with disabilities is almost unknown to the American
>public," explains series co-producer and host Laurie Block. "These are
>people who've suffered discrimination and institutionalization, and who
>have fought for basic human rights--- not only to vote, but to work, to
>live with their families and have families of their own, to have access to
>the activities of daily life. It's as gripping as any story in our
>country's existence."
>
>May 5---Inventing the Poster Child---from Dickens' Tiny Tim to March of
>Dimes poster children, the public has been encouraged to give to those in
>need. Can this be done without exploitation?
>
>May 6---What's Work Got to Do With It? Why do the majority of adults with
>disabilities still face low employment expectations and job
>discrimination? This program examines public policy affecting disabled
>citizens and how the tangled web of old and new programs can both support
>and entrap the people who most need them.
>
>May 7---The Overdue Revolution considers how people with disabilities have
>come to represent themselves after generations of being spoken to, for,
>and about by the non-disabled. The people who demanded rights tell how
>they organized to secure a better future.
>
>May 8---Tomorrow's Children looks to the future and the unprecendented
>dilemmas raised by prenatal testing. Ethicists and historians say that to
>understand the present challenges, we must consider the treatment of
>disabled newborns and adults in the past.
>
>The series will be complemented by a special week long series on Talk of
>the Nation, starting Monday May 4, hosted by former NPR journalist John
>Hockenberry and continued during the week by regular hosts Ray Suarez and
>Ira Flatow.