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PROTESTING "Million Dollar Baby" ? Use these flyers.
No; we're not calling for a boycott. READ MORE.
NEWS /COMMENTARY
"MILLION DOLLAR BABY" IN DISABILITY STUDIES JOURNAL Just in time for the DVD release of "Million Dollar Baby": commentary and analysis on the film and disability movement response, from the Summer '05 issue of Disability Studies Quarterly. Normally available only to subscribers, this feature will be available through January 06. Includes article by Not Dead Yet research analyst Stephen Drake. MORE FROM DSQ.
Lawrence Carter-Long: Better Dead Than Disabled? Does anyone honestly believe films like MDB would be embraced by otherwise left-leaning culture warriors like Frank Rich, Maureen Dowd and Roger Ebert if they alienated other, more politically powerful minority groups like gays or people of color? from Satya Magazine. MORE.
W. C. Cleigh: Why We Protest Many do not understand why disabled activists are protesting Million Dollar Baby. Those who see the world from the viewpoint of disability culture need no explanation of why the movie is an atrocity. MORE.
John Kelly: Michael Moore-ing the Oscars
Boston Not Dead Yet had it all worked out to crash the Oscars banquet at the Four Seasons Hotel. They found security goons, intrigue and good ol' disability discrimination.
MORE AT RAGGED EDGE ONLINE.
"Kill the Cripples" Night at the Oscars. Million Dollar Baby and Sea Inside sweep Oscars: "a clear statement on the Hollywood industry's opinion of people with disabilities," says Not Dead Yet.
MORE.
Activists hold press conference at Hollywood Kodak Theater At a 2 PM press conference on Feb. 27, Not Dead Yet activists speak out against Million Dollar Baby. MORE.
Diane Coleman: Seeing Million Dollar Baby From My Wheelchair
John Hockenberry: 'Critics ignore true outrage of movie...' "One can barely imagine how relieved the movie critics now climbing over themselves to defend Clint Eastwood were to see the right-wing media going after Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby. Suddenly they were free to set the dispute into a broad culture-war context as Frank Rich did last week. They were free finally to ignore the true outrage of the movie. These same critics failed millions of Americans with disabilities..." MORE.
Mary Johnson: The Scribes Who Mistook the Crips for The Right
"Whenever I read another pundit's comments on Million Dollar Baby, I think of Oliver Sacks's Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, for they usually leave out mention of disability rights opposition altogether. Or they mass it with opposition from the Christian Right, as though it's capable of no real agenda of its own. ..." AT RAGGED EDGE ONLINE.
MORE AT RAGGED EDGE ONLINE.
Academy Goes GaGa Over "Million Dollar Mercy Killing" -- the biggest winner on Oscar night may be one of the most bigoted and loaded "better dead than disabled" movies to capture the hearts of critics in many years. MORE. | NDY's Steve Drake calls it "a corny, melodramatic assault" (from Ragged Edge). | Want to know what we think of foreign Oscar contender "The Sea Inside?" Most of us haven't had a chance to see it. HERE'S A REVIEW from someone who has.
January 19, 2005 -- Chicago disability activists protested the bigotry and ignorance of the Chicago Film Critics Association. MORE. | READ OUR FLYER from our protest.
LINKS
www.milliondollarbigot.org - new website
National Spinal Cord Injury Association statement
American Association of People with Disabilities statement
Association of Programs for Rural Independent Living (APRIL) statement
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund statement
NEWS COVERAGE/COMMENTARY
TV: CSI's Robert David Hall 'deeply concerned' over Eastwood film. MORE.
San Francisco Chronicle - OPINION
New York Times
Associated Press
The Juneau (AK) Empire - OPINION
Nazi Boxing (Cornell Daily Sun)
Nat Hentoff: Clint Eastwood's Euthanasia Movie
Falls Church News-Press - OPINION
Inside Bay Area
Milwaukee Journal
Louisville Courier-Journal -OPINION
CounterPunch - story 1
CounterPunch - story 2
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Toronto NOW
Chicago Tribune-OPINION
New York Daily News
Progressive Media Project - OPINION
Seattle Post-Intelligencer - OPINION
The Oregonian - OPINION
Springfield News-Leader - OPINION
Berkeley Daily Planet - OPINION
Chicago Sun-Times - OPINION
Buffalo News - OPINION
Wichita Eagle - OPINION
Minneapolis Star-Tribune (Read why this story is inaccurate)
CBC Radio Canada
Editor & Publisher
Denver Post
Austin American Statesman
diversityinc.com
Seattle Times
Suburban Chicago News
Slate
The Chicago Reader
Suburban Chicago News - OPINION
Uncle Orson Reviews Everything
beyondchron.com
Chicago Tribune
Daily Telegraph
dissidentvoice.org
metaphoria.org