Today, the 15th “Inclusion - Transforming Global Rights into Action” Conference ended in Berlin. The goal of Inclusion is to offer a forum for people with and without intellectual disabilities to exchange opinions, network and formulate strategies for the implementation of the recently ratified UN Human Rights Convention for People With Disabilities. For this groundbreaking Continue Reading

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

“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

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)

This year’s festival (the sixth edition) takes place from November 26 to December 2, 2009 in Berlin at the Arsenal Cinema, ACUDKino and Kleisthaus (cultural house of the German Federal Commissioner for the Affairs of People With Disabilities) under the auspices of Rolf Gössner, President of the International League for Human Rights.
More information at www.oneworld-berlin.de Continue Reading