We make audio documentaries, interviews and commentaries about Independent Living and Disability Rights issues. The audio files are in MP3 format or in Real Audio format (which can be listened to with the free RealAudio player, either on-line or after downloading).
Background
Radio and oral history play an increasing role in spreading the new disability movement’s philosophy and approach and in forging a cultural identity and communality among disabled people around the world regardless of nature and extent of their disabilities. Our common experience of exclusion, discrimination and fighting against injustice in our daily lives unite us.
ILI’s project Radio Independent Living produces documentaries about the struggle for our emancipation, new insights and approaches that make us stronger as persons and as a political movement and about policies and services for self-determination, equal opportunities and citizenship that can be replicated elsewhere.
Our Audio Programs
ENIL Strasbourg Freedom Drive 2003. 
Listen-MP3 (30:28
minuter, 28,6 MB), listen-RealAudio, download-RealAudio (4.6
MB). By Joe Bollard.
As you listen, read the transcript of the
English voices. Internet publication
URLs: www.independentliving.org/radio/bollard200309.mp3, www.independentliving.org/radio/bollard200309.ram,
www.independentliving.org/radio/bollard200309.rm, www.independentliving.org/radio/bollard200309.pdf,
www.independentliving.org/radio/bollard200309sv.html, och www.independentliving.org/radio/bollard200309.html
In September 2003, ninety assistance users from ENIL, the European Independent Living Movement (www.enil.eu.com), converged on the European Parliament in Strasbourg to present their demands (see http://www.enil.eu.com/sfd/8demands.htm) for the inclusion of people, who need personal assistance, in mainstream society. The key demand was to free our bothers and sisters from residential institutions. Joe Bollard, the producer, is from Dublin, and is blind.
The full text of the speeches given at the rally are at www.enil.eu.com/sfd/index.htm.
The projects referred to at the rally are CEIL, Contributing to Equality through Independent Living and project ECEPA, European Center for Excellence on Personal Assistance.
It was at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, in 1989, that ENIL, the European Network on Independent Living, was founded by over 80 assistance users from 14 countries during the historic conference on personal assistance. Read keynote address and resolutions.
Program We Contributed To
La Suède, une société accessible à tous (report by www.radiofrace.se, in French)
Dossier réalisé par Cécile Mimaut, 2004-11
http://www.radiofrance.fr/reportage/dossier/?rid=55000137&arch=1For the United Nations Day of Persons with Disabilities 2004, Radio France sent a team to Sweden to report on the situation of disabled people there.
La journée internationale des personnes handicapées, proclamée le 3 décembre par les Nations Unies, sera célébrée dans de nombreux pays à travers le monde. A cette occasion, nous nous sommes intéressés à l’exemple suédois : une société accessible aux valides comme aux invalides. Témoignages, reportages et analyses...
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Disability Radio Worldwide is the name of a weekly shortwave show produced by Jean Parker, Denver, Colorado, USA and broadcast from Radio for Peace International, Costa Rica . For the first time in history, the experiences of people with disabilities can be heard on radio and Internet around the world. |
Message from Jean Parker 22 September 2004 regarding e-mail communication.
Since 1995, the experiences of people with disabilities have been heard on radio around the world. Issues, events and political analysis affecting people with disabilities are the subject matter of the weekly half-hour program, Disability Radio Worldwide. Recent programs have included:
Producer and host, Jean Parker, is a well-known disability rights activist, with years of experience working in the movement.
"This program is creating a global forum for the exchange of information and ideas over great geographic distances for the first time," said the late Henry Enns, former Executive Director of Disabled Peoples’ International and a guest on the program. "People with disabilities all around the globe can hear interviews with leaders in the movement from every continent as well as those who have a story to tell. Radio provides an excellent way for us to communicate with each other as well as document our experiences for the future."
Introduction and Program Catalog-at-a-Glance | Annotated Program Catalog
Listen online to the interviews. Download RealPlayer free here.
Message from Jean Parker 22 September 2004 regarding e-mail communication
Dear Friends:
Thank you for your interest in Disability Radio Worldwide.
It has come to my attention that people have sent emails to me at the address given on this web site. Although this address is still valid, I have not received some emails that have been sent to it. Because of an increase in firewalls, filters and other security measures, some email messages do not reach their intended destinations. Also, although I respond to all emails I get I know that some have not been received. So for now, just keep trying and I will establish an alternative email address in the near future. Meanwhile, the program itself is undergoing some transition. We have an additional producer and plan to be back in regular production as soon as possible. In the future Disability Radio Worldwide will be produced as a limited series instead of a regular show.
We appreciate your interest and we will up-date this web site accordingly when production is resumed.
Jean Parker,
Producer and Host
Disability Radio Worldwide