The Status Quo Loves To Say No: Disability Rights and the Battle Against Structures of Exclusion with Judith Heumann

Disability rights activist Judy Heumann has been fighting for
inclusion for over six decades, in ways that transformed legal and
societal understandings of equality. Her life-long experience has
included co-founding the organization Disabled in Action, working
on Capitol Hill to shape landmark disability rights laws,
co-organizing the extraordinary protest and advocacy efforts that
spurred the implementation of Section 504, and advising
presidential administrations and the World Bank on disability
issues. In this conversational program, Heumann focuses on those
aspects of her journey that are most salient to the perils and
possibilities of the present. Heumann sees in this moment a fragile
and imperfect democracy, but one that is nonetheless worth
investing in. She also sees deep structures of exclusion,
vigorously defended but also vulnerable to political pressure and
moral suasion. Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate Lectures" [Health and
Medicine] [Humanities] [Show ID: 37730]