Struggles. Advocates. Advocacy. Our history – many lost and almost forgotten videos
- Marsha Forest: Segregation is Apartheid – CBC – A selection of powerful clips – Marsha Forest, Judith Snow, Rose Galati (and the Rubber Gloves clip),Shafik Asante, Bryce Thomas & Joel Hollands
- Reflections on Normalization by Bengt Nirje and Wolf Wolfensberger – Syracuse NY 2003 – (1.5 hours)
- Jean Vanier: The Intellectually disabled can teach us about freedom
- Jean Vanier – What does it mean to be fully Human? – Templeton Prize – 2015
- Try Another Way – Mark Gold: a remarkable demonstration that there is no one who cannot work – if we have the courage to ‘try another way’. In the early 1980’s Mark Gold was decades ahead of what was known and acceptable. He still is…
- Voices Seldom Heard – 1978?? – Frontier College – Jack Pearpoint -host; Marilyn Collins and Sue Odell; Judy Snow; Diane Plassy Gutierrez with Leslie Corody; Lee Tarshis; Mike Yake & Mitch; Jane Dobell – School Trustee in Ottawa..
- Mathew Domage – the CBC Journal – the debate about ‘integration’ – featuring Mathew Domage
- Values of Inclusion – Heather Simmons – a brilliant talk by our friend Heather of the 10 core values of Inclusion
- George Ducharme – Nov. 1992 – Talking about Circles of Support – in New England
- Dave Wetherow in Rhode Island – 1992 – OSAR Conference – where we were in 1992
- Employability – 1993 – a production of Woolworth Corporation – making the point the people are employable!
- Ride the Wave – Rhode Island – 2000 – National People First Conference –
- Closing Laconia Institution – New Hampshire – June 20, 1991
- Tom Nerney – Defining Self Determination – 5 minutes of deep wisdom – 4 Aspirations for all: a home; community membership; Relationships; end poverty – with a sence of urgency
- Huronia – the Apology – Premier Kathleen Wynne – On Dec. 9, 2013, the premier of Ontario formally apologized to the Survivors of Huronia and other Institutions in Ontario.
- Becky Belongs – Harry Spindel –This compilation of CBC and other coverage of the battle to welcome Becky Till into a regular classroom. It is powerful – a must watch – a glimpse into the bitter struggle that was waged between SOME educators, SOME schools, SOME positions – and thousands of families.. to simply belong.
- Regular Lives – Doug Biklen –.a brilliant breakthrough film (1987) produced by Doug Bilken and a host of collaborators – that made a statement that began to alter visions and policies for families and for governments..
- Shafik Asante – on Emotions – a short video of Shafik in full flight
- ROOM for ALL – A video highlighting Inclusion of ALL students created by the Ontario Catholic Teachers Association – features interviews with teachers, students, Jim Hansen, Phil DiFrancesco and more. Early 1980s.. (eighteen minutes)
- St Michael’s Integration 1983 – an early Toronto demonstration of possibility
- Bolton Institute 2: Herb Lovett, LynnElwell, John O’Brien, Kenn Jupp, Joe Whittaker, 1995
- Herb Lovett – Messages – A tribute to Herb – and a talk he delivered in UK – 1995
- The CBC Journal on Mathew Dolmage – a CBC record of the struggles of the Dolmage family to have Mathew included in his regular class –
- Honouring Lakeshore Psychiatric Cemetery – at TSI in 2005, we collectively defended a cemetery of being sold and thus denying almost 1500 virtually unmarked institutional graves.
- Edward Charters – Dreams Change Lives – a wonderful short testament by a mother in UK about the power of ‘Unpacking’ her son’s dreams – so he became a chauffeur and a
- Dreamcatchers. Inst on Disability UNH – 1992 – A testiment to the outstanding work by UNH let by Jan Nisbet in New Hamshire
- Friends of Club – Oregon – 1990 – an adaptation of the Circle of Friends that changed lives in Oregon.
- Inclusion In Colorado. Annie’s Story
- Gerv Leyden HWSSB – Brilliant talk about the education and inclusion in UK – by Gerv Leyden.
- Closing Laconia Institution NH. – June 20, 1991 – deliberating the closing of LaConia
- Ride the Wave 2000 – Rhode Island – a record of the National People First conference in RI
As our attention spans are now focused on 15 second ‘bites’ – it will take effort to learn and recollect that the battles for inclusion were complex, relentless and populated by dozens and dozens of unsung heroic families and individuals. In the ‘battles’ in the 70’s – 90’s, the struggles in Ontario led the world. The now ‘forgotten’ NIMR (National Institute on Mental Retardation) was situational on the York Univ campus – and housed the world’s leading library collection on disability issues – and the emergent ‘integrated education’. Many thought leaders worked there or visited often because it was the gathering place for change.
