Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 10:51:35 -0400From: [log in to unmask]: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]: (1-5) Warm personal greetings May 12, 2008 - United Nations inclusive...CC: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]
Dear Colleagues:
This is a long post, and will be replaced by a single webpage link. For now and in order to partner in timely fashion with All here:
Thanks to Colin, I am very pleased to forward this list of links and description to Danmail. Thank you Colin for offering to forward them to your lists. To view, just click on the links embedded in the descriptions. (Write to me if any viewing issues). And see below regarding captioning.
In forwarding this material, we can together especially thank Colin for his continual and consistent and spirited work and heart - toward persons with disabilities and humanity at large.
These Personal Greetings to celebrate 'The Convention on Rights of Persons withDisabilites' are indeed extended to our friends and colleagues world wide. I hope that you will enjoy them and also that they might be helpful to your own programs in education, fund-raising, and partnering both with persons with disabilities and supporters. Please note that they have text summaries but are not currently captioned with sub-titles, - just in case among us there are colleagues who can do this, or indeed do translations into different languages. Give us a wave.
And if you have a digital camera perhaps you might wish also to celebrate in a sharable way and send it to us to add it to this collection, which in present status has about 25 waiting to be uploaded., a few at a time.
Warm regards, LDMF.
Dr. Linda D. Misek-Falkoff
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Dear Colleagues:
This initial set (1-5) of warm Personal Greeting illustrating our (persons with disabilities and supporters) closeness and solidarity in participating in the CRPD, emanates directly from the United Nations General Assembly Hall, U.N. Headquarters, New York, May 12, 2008 -- a Multi-stakeholder celebration of the human rights based historic and very promising 'Convention on The Rights of Persons With Disabilities' in which so many here have partcipated and will be participating.
The *Respectful Interfaces* Programme will be pleased to add your own greeting to the collection in case we missed you at the Hall, but especially if you were there in spirit though not physically , just send email, picture, video, whatever you wish to this email address or to mailto:[log in to unmask],
The present Genre is: video/audio -- with streaming subtitles and language translations in contemplation.
The Scene and greeting summary in text form appears with each Greeting, but also is reproduced below in this email. Additions welcomed.:
(Please do also visit the formal CRPD Celebration at:http://www.un.org/webcast/2008.html ). The following personal greetings are simply in the sequence as technically processed:
1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biwX20qCiMU Michael Fox, President of Rehabilitation International. R.I. President, and Architect Michael Fox, greets all those who are not physically present at the United Nations day of celebration in New York. This greeting is actually from the scene of the momentous launch of the IDA (International Disability Alliance) CRPD Forum, a general meeting held at The Millennium Hotel nearby U.N. Headquarters. Greeting summary in text form: These are historic times with the CRPD in force and now moving forward toward the bigger challenge of implementation. As President of Rehabilitation International and a Member of the Steering Committee for the new Forum, and an Architect from Sydney, the greeter looks forward to partnerships at every level with all stakeholders working together to realize the rights and opportunities of persons
2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6M7db-xdoM R.I. Secretary General Tomas Langerwall.
Scene: In the General Assembly Hall of The United Nations Headquarters in New York, Rehabilitation International Secretary General Tomas Langerwall of Sweden, who interacted withvso many during all of the preparatory stages of the CRPD. This personal greeting emanates from a choice location in the Hall - chosen by Tomas so that Myra Kovary is clearly shown as a moving presence while she plays the harp at meeting's opening and close, some excerpts of which fortunately can be heard while Tomas speaks.
Greeting summary in text form: The greeting includes happy reminiscence on the origin and achievement of the CRPD, recall of the origin and genesis of the genesis and development o the Treaty, and looking forward to the Implementation. So many present celebrants are thinking of those who could not be here but without whom the Convention would not exist.
3 http://youtube.com/watch?v=anHgZleEF9g Personal Greeting of Markku with sign language.
Scene and greeting summary in text form: In the General Assembly Hall of The United Nations Headquarters in New York, Markku Jokinen, World Deaf Union, greets everyone with sign language, pointing out that the CRPD is the first legally binding human rights instrument to include references to Sign :anguage. Markku closes his greeting by signing 'Love'. Cordially and eloquentky expressed with accustomed grace, polish and kind generosity (editorial augmentation by post-person).
4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwSE5BKPjhA New Colleagues from India now at N.Y. University - names tbs. Scene and greeting summary in text form: This is the first of a pair of warm greetings - we await for posting proper spelling of the names of two new strong supporters of the The Disability Convention (The CRPD) from two newly met colleagues from India, husband and wife, with experience in India with 'Persons With Disabilities' and also quite ITC talented (Information and Communications Technologies). Those who cannot be here today in person are warmly embraced in terms both inclusive and expansive.
5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIUnKwbXOU4 Hon. Ambassador Luis Gallegos.Basic Hon. Ambassador Luis Gallegos of Ecuador, first Chair of the proceedings toward the first human rights treaty of the century - the second and succeeding Chair being Hon. Amb. Don Mackay of New Zealand who often shares chats with us all as well - is here standing near the seats awaiting other States Parties dignitaries for the celebration of the CRPD. Happiness at this inspiring event and all that proceeded is heartily expressed.
Note: we are very pleased to have another helping of both Chairpersons' well known to be cordial and much cherished happy outreaching conversations and continuing vibrant support of both Chairs in this historic context with far reaching future fruits to be borne.
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And here is number 6 as well:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mJnVnz9UFNk Elaine Kolb sings to celebrate the CRPD Elaine Kolb and close colleague Hawei (Japanese for Peace) here greet the CRPD with enthusiasm. Both are very much active in ADAPT.Greeting summary in text form: Elaine kindly shares words and song -- both reinforcing that 'We are everyone.' Her song says:
' We are everyone
And we've only just begun
To understand the truth that sets us free -We are everywhere
Whenever people care
Enough to be the best that we can be --
And we are every way
That people love and pray On the mountains, deserts and the sea --
And everyone includes you and me ... '
With best wishes to All, at your continuing service as well and inviting inquiries and contributions of your own creation,
:) LDMF.-- Dr. Linda D. Misek-Falkoff*Respectful Interfaces* Programme. Coda: 'Achieving Dialogue While Cherishing Diversity*.Individual e-post.For I.D. only: Communications Coordination Committee for the United Nations (CCC/UN) [ Civsci NGO].International Disability Caucus & Coordination of Singular Organizations on Disabilities; Persons With Pain International, National Disability Party , United Nations education, values, and technical committees; Internet Governance Forum.; 2007 Civil Society Nominee to Global Alliance For ICT & Development (Information and
Communications Technologies - access and connecting in general across cultures)..Analyst, author, inventor in computing fields ARPANet forward.
Other affiliations, vita, etc. on request or via Google.
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