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Actor Joe Pantoliano, best known as Ralph from "The Sopranos," has gone to Iraq and will be broadcasting live on Ustream leading up to and during his trip. The first 30-minute live webcast will be August 29 at 11 a.m. PST from the United States.
As part of the Stomp the Stigma tour, with his not-for-profit organization No Kidding, Me Too! (NKM2), Pantoliano will utilize Ustream's interactive features to answer fan questions in real-time, and discuss his preparation for his upcoming trip to Iraq. The Stomp The Stigma Tour has been designed for U.S. troops deployed overseas to not only remove the shame and humiliation attached to mental illness, but to also provide military personnel serving abroad with valuable and informative materials on the subject.
From August 31 until September 10, Pantoliano will also be periodically streaming from military bases in Iraq.
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
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