Cannes Lions
RUDERMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION, New York / RUDERMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION / 2017
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This video features self-advocates with disabilities throughout Israel who speak up about exclusion from society and demand: “Make room for us.” The video encapsulates the problem with the pervasive social attitudes toward people with disabilities and promotes recognition of the right to independent housing within Israeli communities. People with disabilities often live in segregated institutions, receive education in segregated classrooms, work in segregated workshops that pay below minimum wage, and are excluded from aspects of communal life that most people without disabilities take for granted. The writers and participants of this film are young people with disabilities who repeat what they have heard all their lives: “We pity you, but you do not belong here, live somewhere else” to which they respond, “We are here, and we are not going anywhere.”
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