Save This Date
On Tuesday August 28 Access Alaska is pleased to sponsor the Anchorage stop on The Road to Freedom Tour. The Road to Freedom, a project of ADA Watch and the National Coalition of Disability Rights, is a year long, cross county bus tour and multimedia exhibit, highlighting the history of the ADA. The exhibition vividly reveals the struggle for disability rights, past and present.
What’s Happening and Where?
All events are at Out North, 3800 DeBarr Road, Anchorage.
4 PM – 10 PM Films and Photo Exhibit
- Films from the UAA Disability Support Services Lending Library and the the Reel Eyes Showcase of Films running continuously in the theater (films are captioned)
- The Photos of Tom Olin, social documentarian and photojournalist, in the gallery
The late disability rights pioneer Justin Dart had the highest praise for Olin and his work. Dart said, “Tom Olin is a great, dedicated patriot and photographer of our movement. His contributions will live long after the pyramids of the pharaohs have crumbled to dust.”
6 PM Press Conference
- With Jim Ward, Tom Olin and others in the gallery
The landmark Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) – passed with overwhelmingly bi-partisan support in Congress over 15 years ago – was created to ensure that people with disabilities could access the same services as those without disabilities. For the most part, the ADA has been a success, resulting in greater community integration of people with disabilities and further protections against unlawful discrimination.
With all of its successes, court decisions have resulted in stripping many of the protections Congress intended the ADA to provide. Barriers to equal access to places of business and public services remain more than 15 years after passage of the ADA. The Road to Freedom tour seeks to alert Americans to these problems and the need for Congress to pass ADA Restoration, effectively returning the protections that have been eroded over the years. Congressman Don Young has co-sponsored the ADA Restoration Act 2007 H.R. 31915.
7 PM – 8:30 PM Social
- Join Access Alaska, Jim Ward, Tom Olin and our other sponsors; Out North, AARP and UAA Disability Support Services in the gallery for an evening of fine wine, conversation and amazing photography.
That's 4 PM to 10 PM - Tuesday August 28 at Out North, 3800 DeBarr Road, Anchorage. Education, Art, History, Film, Good Friends and Fun, what more can you ask?
Please let us know if you have any special or disability-specific requirements so that we can make your evening as enjoyable as possible.
For more information contact:
Doug Toelle
Access Alaska
800-770-7940
