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ADAPT people are sitting in front of some trees with ADAPT posters in them. At the back a woman standing is wearing a Piss On Pity Tshirt and above her head the sign reads "Free Our People" and another reads "CASA not [something]." In front of here is ___ from Georgia in a manual chair. In front of him is Robert Reuter with his arms up in the air signing. Ernest Taylor is sitting on a metal bar behind him, and behind Earnest a little girl of about 5 years [Daniel Holdsworth?] has her arms up holding some flowers. In front of Earnest is a man in a wheelchair with dark glasses, and beside him is Gayle Halfner. In front of her at the bottom of the picture is Ellen Parker and beside her is Karen Tamley. - ADAPT (759)
Page 10/Handicapped Coloradan two major presidential campaigns. The following is one participant‘s day-by-day report of the week’s events. Saturday: Day One Activists from the Bay Area hold a rally in Pioneer Square. Four of us, having arrived early with ADAPT’s advance team, decide to go check out the rally. We get there right at 2 p.m. when the gathering is supposed to begin; we are the first ones there, except for a dozen or so cops. Soon, however, Connie Arnold, Peter Mendoza, and a few other folks from the disability community show up, with arm bands, flyers, and a megaphone. Gradually a crowd of 40 or 50 gathers. As a gesture of support for ADAPT, the rally’s timing seems a little off, since most ADAPTers won’t arrive until later today. But at least it’s one way to encourage the involvement of some local people who, for one reason or another, won’t be joining the ADAPT protests. And locals do have a compelling interest here: California, once regarded almost as a disability utopia because of is generous and consumer-controlled services, is now experiencing harsh cutbacks due to a state budget crunch. Some in the community are beginning to realize that a nationwide system is needed. A few speakers introduce the issues: the cuts in personal assistance services, and the monopoly exercised by the nursing home industry. Then individuals are invited to come before the crowd and describe their own experiences with personal assistance services, independent living, and/or institutionalization. Sunday: Day Two Members of ADAPT from throughout the country, having rested a bit from the previous day’s traveling, gather in the hotel’s huge meeting room. The four-hour training covers ADAPT’s history and purposes, the basics of civil disobedience, and a tentative outline of the week’s activities, including the convention of the American Health Care Association (AHCA), which represents the nursing home industry. (The convention is the main reason ADAPT chose San Francisco this time around). Like most ADAPT meetings, this one is part strategy session, part pep rally. Mike Auberger, Stephanie Thomas, Shel Trapp, and others remind the group of our previous successes and our proven collective power. Meanwhile, the back of the room bustles with the buying and selling ofT-shirts, jewelry, luggage tags, books, bandanas, and other ADAPT-logoed paraphernalia. These entrepreneurial activities are an important fundraising strategy; local chapters use the proceeds from these sales to help pay members’ travel expenses to ADAPT actions. With the introductory business taken care of, the group discussion tums to immediate plans. AHCA delegates are arriving today and will attend a cocktail party this evening. Since our arrival, the word has been passed that we would hit the Marriott Hotel, where the AHCA delegates are staying. But we don’t want the police to know that until we get here. So at the meeting, Auberger announces that our target is a cocktail party at the Moscone Convention Center. The meeting ends. People disperse to grab late lunches and/ or bathroom breaks. Then we reassemble in the lobby at 4 p.m., lining up and dividing into color-coded teams. This preparation period is always busy but fun: hand-printed placards and duct tape are passed up and down the line, turning wheelchairs and bodies into mobile signboards with slogans like “NURSING HOMES = DEATH" and “MY HOME, NOT A NURSING. ” This is also a time of socializing and reunion, punctuated by shrieks of recognition, hugs, sharing of news. As we await our marching orders, we meet new people and greet friends we haven’t seen since the Chicago actions back in May or the Orlando actions a year ago. Finally we head out, marching single file down the middle of the street. We chant along the way: “FREE OUR BROTHERS, FREE OUR SISTERS, FREE OUR PEOPLE NOW!” and "UP WITH ATTENDANTCARE, DOWN WITH NURSING HOMES!” The police dutifully block the traffic, providing a safe and visible route through city streets to our destination. Our relationship with the police is a strange and sometimes contradictory one: they play a dual role, both adversary and escort. Along our route some are courteous, some indifferent. Here we don’t engage with them on the same intense level we will later on. When we get to Fourth Street, we stop at the Marriott instead of continuing on to the Moscone Center. We quickly separate into our teams. Despite our efforts to deceive them, the police are ready for us. They have fenced off every entrance with their steel barricades, yellow tape, and armed, heavy-booted officers. But this works fine for us—if they can keep us out, then we can keep everybody else out. Each team takes a different door. I end up posted at the main entrance, in line with a dozen other protestors. A barricade separates us from the door, but we are effectively blocking access for the AHCA delegates, many of whom are trying to return to the hotel - ADAPT (1533)
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AMERICAN BUS ASSOCIATION November 4, 1998 To: Ms. Linda Anthony on behalf of representatives of ADAPT From: Michele Janis, Vice President, Communications, Marketing and Membership (202) 842-1645 Peter J. Pantuso, ABA's president and CEO is available to meet with up to six representatives of your organization on or before December 15, 1998. Mr. Pantuso will be joined at this meeting by ABA's Chairman of the Board of Directors. The agenda for the meeting will include issues surrounding the Department of Transportation's rulemaking on accessibility to Over-the-Road Buses to persons with disabilities, including ABA's pending litigation. We will be in touch in the next few days to arrange the exact time and location of this meeting. 1100 New York Avenue, N.W. • Suite 1050 • Washington, D.C. 20005-3934 (202) 842-1645 • (800) 233-2877 • Fax (202) 842-0850 • E-mail: abainfo@buses.org • Web Site. www.buses.org * page 11 * [Image] [Image caption] Photo by Carolyn Long - ADAPT (831)
ADAPT organizers aimed this week's protests not a the Opryland Hotel, but at the hotel's guests--the American Health Care Association, which was holding its annual convention here. As the nation's nursing home industry lobby, the association is ADAPT's archenemy. ADAPT is demanding that the United States provide more health care for disabled people in their own homes by redirecting more than $5 billion in Medicaid funds from nursing homes. The activist group says 1.7 million institutionalized citizens could live independently at home if these services were offered. What's more, the group says it would cost less-- $8000 a year for each patient receiving in-home care compared to $30,000 for nursing-home care. The nursing home industry opposes ADAPT and makes millions of dollars in political contributions to ensure its voice is heard in Washington. ADAPT claims profit is the motive for the industry's opposition. ADAPT demonstrators have laid siege to the previous two association conventions. In 1992 at San Francisco, more than 100 ADAPT members were arrested, and 75 went to jail in 1991 at the convention at Orlando, Fla. ADAPT members have been in Nashville since Sunday to protest and try to meet with the American Health Care Association, which is having its annual convention at the Opryland Hotel. The group is demanding that 25 percent of all Medicaid dollars be diverted from nursing homes to home health care. ADAPT protesters demonstrated Sunday at the entrance to the Opryland Hotel before being told they'd be able to meet with AHCA officials Tuesday. - ADAPT (1225)
The Columbus Dispatch Wednesday ■ OCTOBER 27, 1999 [Headline] Disability-rights group meeting here [Subheading] The organization has staged numerous demonstrations and acts of civil disobedience in recent years. By Steve Stephens Dispatch Staff Reporter A group of disability-rights activists, known for blocking buses and political offices across the country, will be in Columbus beginning this weekend for an event billed as the organization's "last national action of the millennium." American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today will host about 500 activists for a six-day program beginning Saturday at the Hyatt on Capitol Square, said Mike Auberger, the group's organizer. Auberger said it's likely that the group will stage acts of civil disobedience in Columbus. "How far that goes depends on the response we get" from state and local officials, he said. "One of the things that you'll find with ADAPT is that we try to hammer our point home with the folks who want to keep the status quo," Auberger said. "Sometimes that includes demonstrations, sometimes meetings. There have been arrests in the past. No one comes with the goal of being arrested, but the issue is important enough that people feel their personal freedom is secondary to getting the message out." Some of the issues that group members are fighting for include more Medicaid money for in-home health care and less for nursing homes. The organization also has protested problems with accessibility on commercial buses. "We're in Columbus because Ohio is one of the 10 worst, states when it comes to providing community-based services — services that allow people with disabilities to continue living in their own homes," Auberger said. The state "spends significantly more money to institutionalize people" than for home-based care, he said. "Somebody with a disability, young or old, should have the option to choose" between institutional and in-home care, he said. Group members have staged, numerous acts of civil disobedience to Make their point, Auberger said. In August, 33 protesters were arrested in St. Louis, during a meeting of the National Governors' Association after they handcuffed. them-selves to buses at the meeting site. Protesters in the past year also have been arrested. in Memphis, Tenn., and Austin, Texas,. and have blocked the entrances to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services building and Democratic and Republican headquarters in Washington, D.C. Sgt. Earl Smith, Columbus Police spokes-man, said officers will assume that the activists will abide by the law, though police will be ready. "The fact that someone is handicapped or disabled doesn't preclude them from going to jail," Smith said. He said that those who break the law to make a point "do a gross disservice to people who are trying to change things legitimately." "But it's not unrealistic to expect a fringe element in any group," Smith said. - ADAPT (1559)
The Seattle Times THURSDAY, JULY 15, 2004 [Headline] As governors meet, groups plan to voice concerns BY BETH KAIMAN Seattle Times staff reporter Seattle police are preparing for downtown protests this weekend from groups representing labor, students and people with disabilities — each determined to make its case to the National Governors Association conference. Assistant Police Chief Nick Metz said three groups have permits to march with the labor group Put People First estimating at least 1,000 participants; the student group Building Revolution by Increasing Community Knowledge (BRICK) hoping for as a many as 1,000 people; and the disabled-rights organization ADAPT bringing in about 400 people from across the county, many of them in wheelchairs. Representatives of the groups said they intend to take part in orderly demonstrations, but the disabled-right organization, in particular, has been known to try to disrupt governors association meetings in other cities. Bob Kafka, national organizer with ADAPT, said the protest is meant to appeal to the states to support a bill in Congress to bolster Medicaid spending for community- and home-based care for people with disabilities. "People young and old don't want to be housed in institutions," Kafka said. The group will make its way about 3:30 p.m. Saturday from the Red Lion Hotel, down Union Street toward Pike Place Market and a 4 p.m. rally at Victor Steinbrueck Park. Kafka declined to detail plans for Sunday, when the governors are scheduled to discuss long-term health-care issues. - ADAPT (1354)
PHOTO: Two SFPD police officers, in a crowd of almost a dozen blue uniforms, have a man [Jeff Fox] sitting on the ground by his arms to lift him into his manual wheelchair beside him. Another officer is holding the chair still. They all have big batons and other equipment hanging from their belts. Jeff, with his long hair and beard, windbreaker, jeans and hightop sneakers, is sitting on some kind of yellow banner on what seems to be the street with a woman with blonde hair, glasses a jacket and jeans, and you can see the foot of a third person. - ADAPT (1233)
THE BLADE: TOLEDO, OHIO TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1999 [Headline] Protesters converge on Taft's office [Subheading] Group wants more funding for home-based health care BY JAMES DREW BLADE COLUMBUS BUREAU CHIEF COLUMBUS Disability-rights activists occupied part of a state office building yesterday, demanding to meet with Governor Taft and trying to convince a legislative leader to hold hearings on a bill that would shift more government funding to home health care. Members of American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today from across the nation, meeting this week in Columbus, shut down some of the elevators in the Vern Riffe Center. They sang, "I'd rather go to jail than die in a nursing home," but there were no immediate arrests. Activists in wheelchairs jammed the top floor of the building where Mr. Taft's office is located, and the 14th floor, where House Speaker Jo Ann Davidson (R., Reynoldsburg) has her office. "All we're asking for is real choice," said Toledoan Shona Eakin, speaking by cell phone from outside the speaker's office. "Instead of Ohio spending 11 cents of every dollar on home health care, it should be more even." Mr. Taft and Ms. Davidson weren't in the building. They spent most of yesterday barnstorming the state in sup-port of Issue 1 — the constitutional amendment on today's ballot which would let the state issue general obligation bonds for school and higher education projects. The protest forced many state workers to use the stairs or the building's freight elevator. Estimates of the number of protesters ranged from 300 to 500, with about 20 from the Toledo area. In Ohio as in many other states, ADAPT members said, the majority of federal and state funds for long-term care of the disabled flows to nursing homes and other institutions. They called on Mr. Taft and legislative leaders to endorse legislation to use more Medicaid funding so disabled citizens can receive care in their homes. "Ohio spends nine times as much money on institutions and nursing homes as they do on community-based services, which is exactly the opposite of what people would prefer," said Stephanie Thomas, an ADAPT organizer from Austin, Tex. Over the past two years, Ms. Thomas said, Ohio has dropped from 17th to 35th nationwide in spending on Medicaid waiver services. Jon Allen, a spokesman for the state Department of Human Services, said he couldn't verify the group's claim. He said if the cost of home health care exceeds that of a nursing home, the state would lose federal funds and Ohio taxpayers would have to pick up the bill. Mr. Taft offered to meet with ADAPT members tomorrow night, but the group declined. Ms. Thomas said it was unclear whether Mr. Taft wanted to hold a "Hi, how are you?". meeting or a full-scale session on home health care for the disabled. [image] [image caption] A woman handcuffs herself to a door in the Vern Riffe Center during a demonstration by disability rights activist - ADAPT (1196)
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT THE DEPUTY SECRETARY WASHINGTON, D.C. 20410-0050 May 11, 1999 A D.A.P.T. 201 South Cherokee Street Denver, CO 80223 Dear A.D.A.P.T Members: As per our discussion this afternoon (May 11, 1999), I will arrange a meeting with the Secretary sometime during the week of June 6, 1999, to address your concerns. These concerns include the five items you handed out today (see attached). In that meeting, we will provide you with a timeline on implementation of the items labeled three and four on your list. Regarding the 232 program we will provide you with the information you requested as to what regulatory discretion HUD may have in its implementation of that program, as well as a deeper discussion on how we can work together to address the concerns you have shared with me. I will ask that representatives of all the program areas attend this meeting so that your other issues may also be addressed, including those regarding fair housing enforcement and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. Today, Thea Spires will provide you with copies of a letter HUD has already sent out to our grantees regarding Section 504. Sincerely, [signed] Saul N. Ramirez, Jr. [typed] Saul N. Ramirez, Jr. - ADAPT (1534)
[Headline] Group Protests Over Housing [image] [image caption] Nearly 250 disabled protesters, including Barbara Moore of Baltimore, center in red, travel to the Federal Building on First Avenue from the Westin Hotel, where the annual National Governors' Association conference was being held. The group went to the Federal Building yesterday to ask regional HUD Director John Meyers to send their complaints about the current housing voucher system to Washington, D.C. Disability rights organization ADAPT, which sponsored the protest, was trying to reach governors of states that ranked poorly on providing options to the disabled to live and receive support services from the community. Washington was not listed among the 20 worst states, and many of the protesters were from elsewhere. - ADAPT (1274)
THE DENVER POST 8B Wednesday, September 20, 2000 [image] [image caption] Rick James heads for Washington, D.C., for a national protest to call attention to a legal challenge to the Americans with Disabilities Act. The Denver Post / John Leyba [Headline] Disabled group to join D.C. rally By J. Sebastian Sinisi Denver Post Staff Writer About 30 wheelchair users gathered outside the Atlantis Community independent living center in south Denver on Tuesday morning to cheer members of their group who were leaving by van for Birmingham, Ala. There, they'll join a national dis-abled protest over the Garrett vs. University of Alabama case, now being considered by the U.S. Supreme Court, that they fear could undermine disabled rights. About 1,000 are expected in Birmingham on Friday, said wheel-chair user Joe Ehman, who helped organize the privately funded tour from Denver. Ehman is the housing coordinator for the American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today, or ADAPT, arm of Atlantis. In Birmingham, the eight-member Denver group will shift to a bus for news conferences and rally stops in eight other cities, including Atlanta, Philadelphia and Baltimore. More demonstrators will join the Denverites along the way. The tour ends with a rally expected to bring at least 3,000 to the U.S. Capitol at noon Oct. 3 to draw attention to the Garrett case, which questions the constitutionality of the Americans with Disabilities Act, passed a decade ago. The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Oct. 11. "I'm not looking forward to rid-ing eight hours a day in a van ev-ery day, but everything we've gained under the ADA is now in jeopardy," said Rick Viator, 40, in a wheelchair for five years because of a gunshot wound. "People need to know that our rights are in danger," said Rick James, 50, who was also making the trip. James has used a wheel-chair since childhood. Atlantis-affiliated demonstrators engaged in the first disabled civil disobedience anywhere in the U.S. when they chained their wheelchairs to bus stops at Broadway and Colfax Avenue in 1977 to protest lack of wheelchair access on Denver buses. As a result, Denver was the first city in America to have wheelchair lifts on buses, long before the ADA made such access mandatory nationwide. ADAPT made front-page Denver news last February when members handcuffed themselves to Currigan Hall entryways during a homebuilding industry exposition to protest a dearth of disabled: friendly home construction. That action resulted in 17 arrests. - ADAPT (815)
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Post-Tribune Sunday, May 9, 1999 A5 REGION [Headline] Disabled travel to capitol, will lobby for legislation [Subheading] Local ADAPT members say the proposed legislation would give people with disabilities more options, BY DAVIE ANN BROWDER Staff Writer Facing down big government agencies never is easy. After all, the scenario pits individuals against the power and money of the United States. It's easy to get squashed like a bug. Nevertheless, local members a ADAPT, a national grass-roots disability rights organization, along with hundreds of others from throughout this country, are in Washington, D.C.. today fighting for passage of legislation. The Community Attendant Services Act (CASA) would allow federal money, such as Medicare and Medicaid, to follow the individual instead of the institution providing care. Luis Roman of Hammond has been to other rallies in Washington, and he's been asked to speak to newcomers today to tell them what to expect over the next week in the capitol. Beside the beat. the waiting, the animosity of some bystanders. there's always the chance of at Roman said. But its worth it, he said. Roman, who has been blind for 11 years, stated the case for the bill succinctly. "It's about choice," he said. "A person who is able to, should he allowed to stay home and not be forced into a nursing home. "That person who can stay at home is happier, they live longer. and it's cheaper for the taxpayer." Right now, people with disabilities have three choices, he said. They can go to a nursing home, be classified as homebound where loss of all government support results if one leaves the house, or rely on family for total care without government help. "Really, everybody has a vested interest in the bill," he said. "If you're planning on getting old, or you may become disabled through an accident or illness, don't you want to have options." Jana Longfellow also is attending the rally, her first. Longleflow is deaf, but can read lips. "I'm going to learn how to fight for people's rights," she said. And indeed, much of her five days in D.C. will be spent on the streets and in public buildings, lobbying elected officials and governmental agencies. As a quadriplegic, Terry McCarty of Lowell usually can rely on her companion dog, Frija, a German shepherd. But McCarty is leaving Frija at home with friends and making the trip alone. McCarty successfully waged a battle to leave a nursing home and live on her own about seven years ago, so the CASA bill is close to her heart. "It was kind of scary living alone at first," she said, noting that when she left the nursing home she didn't have anyone to stay through the night with her. Greg Mitro of Hobart, also an ADAPT member, took the time to label each part of his wheelchair before the trip. The reason was because once Mitro boards the plane, his wheelchair is disassembled and shipped with him. Often, he said, people with disabilities are overwhelmed with the difficulties involved in taking a trip such as this. Obstacles include ending transportation to the airport, getting loaded onto the plane by inexperienced flight attendants, getting around in a strange city, staying in a hotel, and then taking to the streets for a public protest. The threat of arrest looms. ADAPT members block access to the building, they're likely to be jailed. Mitro tells people not to let the prospects keep them imprisoned at home. "That's such a great feeling empowerment," he said. "You fee like, 'wow, l'm not alone in all this." "It's such a sense of community that develops among everybody a then everybody watches out each other. [image] [image caption] Greg Mitro of Hobart prepares Thursday for his trip to Washington, D,C., to lobby for passage of the Community Attendant Services Act. Leslie Adkins/Post-Tribune