About Gretchen K. Berland the director of ROLLING:
 
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Section of General Internal Medicine
Clinical & Teaching Activities
Inpatient attending, St. Mary’s Hospital (Yale Primary Care Medicine Residency Program), Outpatient attending: St. Mary’s Family Health Center
Scholarly Activities
Understanding the patient’s perspective, particularly in the context outside of the clinical arena is an essential, though often overlooked, component Continue Reading

Nikola Tesla lived in an age of decisions. Around 1900, all ingredients of the modern times came into being. Would Tesla’s ideas had been successfully integrated in the to-do scheme of the times, our world would be quite different. Free communication, free sustainable energy production, emmisssion-free electric cars. How radical was Tesla actually?
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Project Description
The project’s aim was to find new uses for abandoned land, and to learn how to shift the focus from expansion to re-development of the core areas that had been built. Discussions about the future direction of Dietzenbach took place among the town’s citizens, city administrators and politicians. An interdisciplinary group of state and university representatives and Continue Reading

The Monks were American G.I.’s stationed in Frankfurt who after their discharge in 1964 stayed there, put on robes and shaved their hair into tonsures to play songs expatriated not just from the United States but from anything approaching sanity. With instruments including a typical cheap electric organ and an atypical electric banjo, they cackled Continue Reading

“At this point, I almost feel like we’re in the catbird’s seat,” he said. “All of us have lives outside of music, and we have what I think is a pretty interesting product out there, so let’s just wait and see what happens. If nothing happens, it’s still happening for us, because we’re having a Continue Reading

mondkalb: A Journal for Organized Affliction
 
mondkalb isn’t really a magazine for people with disabilities. Although the majority of its editors and authors are disabled, most of its readers aren’t.  The concept for the magazine came about in late 2006 during a Youth for Nature seminar on disability. The idea was to produce a free magazine Continue Reading

The author of some 20 books, Zinn is Professor Emeritus in the Political Science Department at Boston University. He lives in the Auburndale neighborhood of Newton, Massachusetts.
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Academic career
Zinn was Professor of History at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia from 1956 to 1963. Later he was Professor of Political Science, Boston University from 1964 to 1988 Continue Reading

For just 99$ (cheap at twice the price) New Yawkers or visitors to the Big Apple can witness the spectacle that is Joan Collins live on stage at the Carpenter Center, unfortunately without Joan Braderman. She’ll be talking about her long and illustrious career (what else)? Joan Collins Does Joan Collins. Next stop: L.A.

Watch ROLLING at realeyz.tv and support the MONDKALB magazine written and published by, about and certainly not only for people with disability. The director Gretchen Berland is generously donating her entire share of the revenue. Check out MONDKALB (in German)

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Clean Clothes Discounter Campaign
 
The Clean Clothes Campaign in September 2009 at the Federal Chancellery in Berlin addressed  political accountability for the practice of discount resellers buying products that were produced at the cost of human suffering and dignity.  Put an end to discounting and dumping strategies!
The Clean Clothes Campaign is a world wide network of over Continue Reading