[speaker not understood] i will be there and people don't know who i am, i'm jerry grace. another thing. about you left out the www.bart.org. again, www.bart.org. that way you can get in touch with anna, somebody i know at bart. thank you. >> any other public comment? yes. ♪ how will you make it on your own the city is awfully big and, girl, your city so all alone well, you got the skills to

make it you got the chance, go out and take it love is all around no need to waste it and i know that you're gonna wake up you might just make it after all oh, city hall you might just make it after all city hall ♪ (applause) >> okay. hello, my name is larry juicy edmonds, and i would like to say to lrc i hope that maybe we can advertise in the central city newspaper because this -- i know the work they've done and i love what she talked. i feel there is someone who [speaker not understood].

you felt wonderful with this young lady speaking on our behalf. but i think many of us in s-r-os, we don't know it exists. it would be so great if we could have them put in a community calendar, too, in san francisco. and my other thing is because a lot of us go through a lot of different [speaker not understood] being disabled. we don't have a right that we're victims. i think this would be another great agency to work -- people were talking about how people were taking people with disability's money. they were getting sign up for people to leave you alone. property managers, sometimes they don't really -- we put a note to our tenants, s-r-o tenants, somebody go to case manager. case manager sometimes has to be able to do their job. i think being a person with disabilities, that we really should have more visibility and make the country better and

with the speech from the president. "the road ahead will be long. our climb will be steep. we may not get there in one year or even in one term. but, america, i have never been more hopeful than i have tonight that we will get there. i promise you, we as a people will get there." [speaker not understood] keep it with me because [speaker not understood] at church. he told us about [speaker not understood] that's why they're together. "we cannot have a thriving wall street while main street suffers." he you'll like all of these. ~ "i may not have won your vote tonight, but i hear your voices." >> thank you very much. thank you very much. so, we want disability council to be like our president. we want the mayor's office of disability to really be for people who have disabilities in

the city. like i say, the independent resource center, i understand you're going to be moving soon. we can get closer so i hope to see in the future more access to irlc with the mayor's office of disability supporting us all in this great city of san francisco where we know we can, we found a cure to aids. [speaker not understood]. we can do this for the small amount of people who still resides in san francisco. thank you. took my three minutes. >> and we are now taking a 10-minute break. >>please stand by; meeting in recess e're on item number 5 on the agenda. therefore, we are moving on to the longmore institute of disability and ada silver anniversary.

catherine kudlick, director of the paul k. longmore institute on disability. >> [inaudible]. hello, yes? >> there we go. >> anyway, good afternoon, everybody. i am cathy kudlick. i am director of the paul k. longmore institute on disability at san francisco state. just to give you a brief overview, i know not a lot of

you knew paul and worked with paul. he was in this room many times. and the longmore institute of san francisco state university is kind of a -- it brings together advocacy, academics, culture, and the whole point of it is to get people in conversation that might not otherwise be in conversation and to change attitudes about disability. so, through cultural initiatives, through academic programs, through basically changing people's minds. and the idea here is that you take something like culture and you get people to think about disability as a form of experience on a par with race, gender, social class, all the things we care about. if you can get people to think about disability differently and disabled people differently, then they will change their attitudes about employment, employing people with disabilities, or with service provision, all of these things. so, all of our programs with designed to do that, kind of that work. and we're eager, we're delighted to be here and hopefully working through some

good partnerships with the mayor's council on disability and with other groups in the city. just briefly, a couple of our other projects besides the one that i will talk about at length, one of them is the super fest international disability film festival which we will be having on november 2nd at the jewish community -- jewish contemporary museum in downtown san francisco and it will be a day-long film festival that we will show film shorts, doing the judging shortly. we're going to partnership with the san francisco light house for the blind to run a film festival which is always amusing to people, but part of that is to think about what it really means to deliver films, to make films, to talk about films, and that they're not just visual. there are sound elements. there's conversation elements and there's all sorts of things that people care about. so, that's one of our initiatives. another initiative that we will

be exploring down the road is relationships between disability and aging as a cultural phenomena, what can people with disabilities teach older citizens as they age. there are a number of partnerships. what i'm here to talk to you about today is an exhibit that we're putting together at san francisco state, but it will be at the ed roberts campus in berkeley, and it's called patient no more, and it's a play on words. the idea is patient no more, people with disabilities securing civil rights and there's a play on patient, as in medical patient that people with disabilities are not just medical patients a jessie lorenz, the previous speaker made clear. and the notion is also to think about being impatient. that is, we're not going to put up with garbage any more. and we're focusing for the 25th anniversary of the americans with disabilities act on the 504 demonstrations in 1977 in

san francisco on the federal building. briefly, for those of you that don't know the story, in 1977 about 100 people with disabilities came together at the federal building right, kind of a block or so from here. they came together and they were frustrated because the newly elected carter administration had refused to sign the 504 law that had already been passed, all it was waiting for was a signature so that it could be implemented. and the people with disabilities were tired of being pushed aside, saying, yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll sign it or it's got to go on full review, we've got to do this, oh, just a minute, just a minute. and people just got fed up. so, they occupied the federal building for 25 days. it's the longest occupation of the federal building in u.s. history and there were people with a wide variety of, wide variety of -- people with disabilities. you had blind people.

you had quadriplegics. you had deaf people. you had people with cognitive disabilities. you had people from different races, social classes, different experiences of disability, different experiences of activism. and they had never worked together before in such a way. for 25 days these people were in a building together, right two blocks from here, and they created an environment where they could have the conversations around disability and disability awareness, but also about activism, how to change hearts, how to change minds about what should happen. and you had amazing conversations happening, but not, you know, most americans and most people in the area are not familiar with this history. even people in the disability community are not familiar with it. and the reason we're focusing on it is -- well, there's two main reasons. one, it has a direct link to the americans with disabilities act because this 504, section

504 that they did succeed in getting the government to sign into law is the basis of much of the americans with disabilities act. it's at the core of the americans with disacts act. so, we wouldn't have the a-d-a in the way that we have it today. the other thing that's amazing about it is that it's a bay area phenomena. it really shows how the bay area was active and the unique features about the bay area and the bay area history. there were 11, i think 10 or 11 federal buildings that were either occupied or people protested in front of them across the country. everywhere else, they were starved out. new york, washington, whatever, the police came in or the people in the community refused to help them. in the bay area, what was amazing is you had this coalition of community groups, of politicians, of people that really cared about disability rights. or if they didn't care, they learned to care. and this was partly because of

activism of the disability rights, the organizers at the protest. they had sewn seed all over the community and the bay area. so, you had this amazing phenomena where you'd have like the black panthers, ~ safeway, mcdonald's, glide memorial church. all these amazing bay area institutions contributing to the protest in some way, bringing in, in the case of the black panthers, they brought in hot food. they brought in -- politicians had showers brought in. so, it was possible for it to happen because the local political people really cared and really started to get it about disability. and because the disability activists themselves were incredibly articulate about what they wanted, what their goals were, what needed to happen, and how people could help. so, it's this wonderful moment in history with a wonderful model of how this can happen. and, so, we're highlighting it.

one of our goals, the most important one is to highlight some of the stories that people don't know about the protest, how active people of color were in the protest. that's been kind of left out of some of the conversations, how organized and exciting some of the conversations were in this room. and we're working with students and faculty at san francisco state. this is how we kind of save a little money or, you know, work with the resources we have. we're working with journalism students and faculty and history students and faculty. they're doing oral histories. they're going out into the community and talking to people that have never been talked to before about their experiences of this protest. we're getting incredible stories. it's just going to be absolutely amazing. and then we're also working with students from design and industry at san francisco state.

they're designing prototypes for the exhibit stations and what they will look like and the fonts. we're building in multiple funds of access from the beginning. it's not just oh, we have to make this accessible to blind people after it's over. it's more, what does it mean to construct an exhibit so that you understand it, multiple groups of people are going to come in and access the exhibit in multiple ways. so, it's a really exciting and very kind of collaborative exercise. we would like from the mayor's commission -- i come asking about three things and from the community in general, too. the first one is for you to help spread the word about the project to all sectors of the community. we're looking for people that might have contacts, people that worked in the federal building. if you know he anyone that was involved in the protest or

might have stuff related to the protest, ~ spread the word to all of those people and let them know we're looking for information and we're still looking for some people to interview and there's a few people that we still haven't been able to find. and unfortunately, many are passing away, too. so, that's one thing. we want you to help us publicize it. two, we'd like to have the exhibit somewhere -- there is a traveling portion of the exhibit. we'd like to have the exhibit somewhere in downtown san francisco, maybe perhaps in city hall somewhere to celebrate san francisco's legacy or, you know, to get that kind of rolling so that there's conversations with the community that will have programming and things like that. but we want -- we're looking for a space to do that. and then third, we don't have a number you can text for money or anything, but we do have -- we do have financial needs

also. so, if anybody knows anyone who has recently won a lot owe ticket and you're looking to know what to do with the winnings, more seriously, if you have any kind of partnerships, groups that you've worked with in the city, either individual, possible donors that are more culturally inclined that want to support something that really celebrates san francisco and a really unique feature san francisco at that, or if you have any corporate contacts, things like that, that would be really helpful to us. we now have enough to do the exhibit at a minimum -- you know, it will be a good exhibit no matter what, but every amount of money we get now will make it really that much more dynamic, that much more accessible, and that much more really interactive and really put a mark on the world about this issue and disability rights and exciting technology and kind of bringing together all the forces that make san francisco so unique and so

interesting. so, we're really, really excited. if anybody wants to get involved volunteering or anything, talk to me. i brought some literature. carla asked me if it was in an accessible format and i immediately said no. unfortunately i didn't have access to the braille printer this morning when i was collecting all the stuff. the one accessibility feature in it is kind of funny, is that there is a -- it's stapled on the left side on -- or the right side on some of them so that if you're left-handed it's easier to open. that's what my student intern said when he photocopied it backwards. [laughter] >> [speaker not understood]. we do have lots of information. all of this information is actually online. the e-mail or the web address is www whatever,.,., whatever, longmore institute.

so, that's l-o-n-g-m-o-r-e institute,.sf, sfu,.edu. i have cards and come see me and i'll spell it better. or maybe it can reflect somewhere on the record. that's all i have to say formally. i'm really excited and i look forward to whatever kind of partnerships we can find in this. and i'm open to any questions or comments and things like that. >> thank you for your presentation. i have councilmember roland wong. >> this brainstorming where you may put the exhibit, the main library may be a possibility. either wherever -- you can talk about service there. >> that's a great idea. yeah, thank you. >> i can't think of any others,

but i'm sure there's many places you can set up your exhibit. >> absolutely. and we will have one at san francisco state, of course, too, but we'd like to have something downtown because san francisco state is way on the edge. >> right. >> that's a good ways, too. >> okay. >> councilmember derek zarda. >> thank you so much for coming here today. i'm a huge fan of the longmore institute, ever since attending its inauguration. and i was just curious, for those in the community who maybe have some ideas around some cultural projects to further promote, you know, the disability culture, possibly starting up their own little group and trying to seek partnership with your organization, is that something you would be open to? >> yeah, sure, i'm always open to everything and would love to talk to people about their ideas. the one, the one thing that's just to know at the moment we're two staff people. so, we're trying our best to do

what we can and it's great. and i love ideas. i love talking to people. and, you know, if we find a really good synergy, let's go for it, yeah. i can't promise to everybody everything, but i am open and excited about whatever we can do together. that would be great. you know, that's one of the wonderful things about being in san francisco and having groups. but yeah, definitely talk to me, see me, come by. we left one other thing off to say about the institute. we have a beautiful library that started with paul longmore's books, you know, we inherited a lot of his stuff when he passed away and started with his amazing disability book collection. and i added a lot of mine. the assistant director emilie betiks added some of her. then people started hearing about us having this library. so, they're donating it. so, we have some amazing

collections of stuff there. unfortunately, we don't have the ability to check it out yet because we can't come to your house and do what the library might do to get it -- come to the institute and sit down and consult the books there. that's wonderful. but yes, new york city thank you, -- derek? yes, thank you. >> thank you. >> any other councilmember comments, questions? ~ i just wanted to say that i'm embarrassed because i didn't know that the cradle of the disability activist movement was san francisco. so, i found that -- >> isn't that the coolest thing ever? >> like many other things, the environmental movement and so many other things. but -- so, that's exciting and i want to thank you for bringing that piece of history back to our attention and doing this exhibit. >> yeah he, well, thank you. and, yeah, if anybody has any

ideas ~ or anything or know people, like i said, that's great. yeah, and spread the word because that's really going to make it a difference. one other thing i'll say to get it on your calendar, you can go to the independent center for independent living here in san francisco on july 26th, 2014, but save july 26th, 2015 to come to the opening of our exhibit. we'll have a big gala opening at the ed roberts campus. but we'll spread word around big time before then, so. >> carla? >> through the chair, carla johnson. thank you so much for coming today to tell us about the work that you're doing and also about this very special project with the 504. many of the councilmembers may remember ken stein, our long-time staff person at the mayor's office on disability and he was one of the people that was there in 1977 and was

also one of those really important vocal advocates in the community who has shared his story in the film that you can see by just googling 504, history of 504, i think is what the name is. >> the film is called the power of 504. >> right. >> right. >> i really enjoyed watching that fitv. ~ film. >> yes, and other films we found combing the archives, we have an amazing film that came from the glbt archives. there's footage in there, the disability rights people that were active in it, haven't seen -- so, there's a lot of different stuff we're uncovering and the power of 504 film is great because it gives the complete overview of the project. and, so, this is our starting point and [speaker not understood], he's one of our advisors. we're working closely with him. >> and speaking of the anniversary of the a-d-a, our

office for years actually organized the anniversary celebration here at city hall and our deputy director joanna fraguli is one of the wonderful ones, too. i remember seeing paul at our last one and it was just such a, you know, a precious moment to have been able to hear paul speak. so -- >> yes, it was on youtube. it's beautiful. >> it really is. it's another thing i encourage people, you know, to search and to listen to. so, we're delighted that you're carrying on the legacy out at san francisco state. it's a hotbed of activism out there and we're just happy to have you as a partner. >> thank you, thank you. >> one more comment. >> the chair again, this is joanna fraguli. and i have a question for you. i know that the 504 is an

important local legacy that we will never live down, right? i'm wondering if you are going to include in your exhibit other things that led to the a-d-a signing, like the capital parole. the capital parole is one of those forms of activism that gets such little play, and yet it was started with a previous director, executive director of the independent living center in berkeley. >> um-hm. >> so, i'm wondering if there are going to be tie-ins to the exhibit. >> yes, that's a good point. thank you for letting me clarify that. i don't want to make it seem like the bay area brought us the a-d-a. obviously, yeah, there's other -- and that moment brought us to a-d-a. there's other moments of activism that came before and then after as well, such as the transit strikes, which it would be interesting for people to remember now with the bart stuff. but the capital crawl, we're

going to have a panel -- we're kind of hashing out the stories now. but one of the panels will deal with the sort of activism and other things that led to 504 and that complemented 504. so, you know, we're not going to just let people walk away thinking, you know, that was it. but, yeah, thank you for letting me -- giving me the excuse to say that, yeah. >> and also, because i know when you and i spoke privately a few moments ago, we talked about the intersections of race and gender in the disability community. >> um-hm. >> it would be interesting when you're talking about the adapt bus actions and contrast that with the montgomery in alabama bus boycott. >> yes. >> you know, you already spoke about the connection between the african-american community or people of color and disability and there is still a movement, from what i

understand, in the disability community with people of color to kind of start bringing those voices into the movement. >> yes, and the movement has been very, very wide in terms of its public face and the way that it's been presented to the public, i would say. i think it's changing. it's starting to -- there is a lot more work to do and we really -- we're very, very mindful of that and we want to approach it that way. so, for sure, i'm not saying it's all fixed everywhere, but definitely that's a really key part of the story we want to tell. and if i could just relay one little thing. yesterday, one of the students and a crew went out to interview dennis dillips from the -- he was one of the 504 demonstrators. he's one of the key people. people in the 504 demonstrations, they had jobs, you know, they divided up, somebody did the kitchen and somebody worked in first aid.

some people planned entertainment and that kind of stuff. his role was to be the morale booster, and he was an african-american man and nobody has ever talked to him about his story. and yesterday they interviewed him and it was like this amazing moment. i wasn't there, but i got a little summary of it. and he was -- he was basically really, really excited and happy that this is finally happening. and there's been a deep wound in a sense of abandonment for a lot of people that were present in some of these moments and they haven't been listened to. and we're reaching out and trying to tell the stories. we're going to maybe, you know, not tell every single one that needs to be told, but certainly we're opening the door to telling those. and we want to make those parallels and make those kind of connections because that's, you know, between race and disability and all the

movements that -- and excitement that galvanized people in the bay area. it's amazing stuff. >> all right, i have one public comment card on this topic. meredith manning. hi, my name is meredith manning. i'm from the art san francisco, resource for people with disabilities and we wholeheartedly support this effort that cathy and her team is putting together. in fact, we've been supporting them through testimonials. there was a lot of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities as uncomfortable as anyone else. in fact, one of our folks who was there the entire 25 days is being interviewed on monday by one of cathy's staff. and we're also going to be

functioning as a beta test site for the exhibit to make sure that our folks are comfortable interacting with the exhibits. and providing sites, you know, both our sites with the arf san francisco and community partners. we are really excited to be part of this. what i thought -- i just wanted to mention to you folks, you're probably thinking way ahead about the a-d-a anniversary and highlighting section 504. but for our part at the arc and just supporting longmore institute, this is a real opportunity to think about celebrating it as a city ~. i mean, a 25-year anniversary doesn't come along every day, and particularly with the intense involvement and the legacy involvement in section 504. i mean, this is historic. it just -- it's absolutely a one of a kind opportunity in many of our lifetimes. so, i just wanted to suggest that we start thinking about