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Incitement Incitement Incitement Vol. 9, No.1 A Publication of Atlantis/ADAPT Jan/Feb, 1993 [image] [image caption] Co-directors Wade Blank and Mike Auberger reflect on the past decade of organizing and activism. Photo: Tom Olin [Headline] If Heaven Isn't Accessible, God Is In Trouble... by Tari Susan Hartman ADAPT mourns the loss of one of our greatest leaders, Wade Blank, and his son Lincoln. While on a family vacation in Todos Santos, Mexico, Lincoln got caught in an ocean undertown. Wade swam out to save him and both drowned on February 15th, 1993. They are survived by Wade's wife Molly and daughters Heather and Caitlin. Ironically, Wade died in the same way he lived-swimming out into the face of hostile undercurrents, and giving his life to help others fight for theirs. Those who have come to national ADAPT actions remember in the early days Lincoln rode along Wade's back. Later, he walked by Wade's side while Caitlin rode. With his elfish smile, Lincoln quietly drank in all the action at demonstrations, vigils, planning meetings and anything else that came up in his dad's activist life. While other kids play "doctor" or "house", Lincoln played "rally." Wade was born December 4, 1940 in Pittsburgh, PA. After attending an all white high school, he travelled with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to Selma on a dare by a black college roommate. His experiences there taught him the deep oppression perpetuated by our "civilized" society. Once he graduated college, he served as pastor of a church just outside of Kent, OH that became the underground meeting place for the Students for a Democratic Society, SDS. After the Kent State killings, he returned to get a masters degree from McCormick Theological Seminary and was ordained a Presbyterian minister. Burnt out on his past activism and organizing, he moved to Denver and began working in a nursing home. With years of civil rights, war on poverty and anti-war organizing experience, he could not ignore the opression he found there. So he began to deliver Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of freedom directly to the doorstep of the disability ghetto: the nursing home. In 1971, while on staff at Heritage House, a Denver nursing home, Wade tried to work within the system to dignifiy the lives of the young disabled residents. A recent ABC-TV movie with Fred Savage entitled "When You Remember Me" chronicled this story. Wade and the resident's efforts were doomed to fail, but they gave birth to a better alternative. In 1974 Wade founded the Atlantis Community-a model for community-based and consumer controlled independent living-named for the lost continent of Atlantis, those easily forgotten and dismissed. The first members of Atlantis were those young adults incarcerated in Heritage House, from which Wade had been fired. Forgotten by [image] [image caption] Wade taking time out from an action. Photo: Tom Olin. [text resumes] the system and often by their families, these individuals were not forgotten by Wade as he began to liberate them from the nursing home into the Atlantis Community. Years later Wade and attorney John Holland masterminded a $32 million lawsuit against Heritage House nursing home for obstruction of justice and violation of civil rights. The case went all the way to the US Supreme Court. Today many of those original nursing home residents are raising families in homes they now own. In 1978, Wade and Atlantis realized that if people with disabilities were to truly live independently, they would need, and should have a right to, accessible public transportation. On July 5-6, 1978 a "gang of nineteen" disability activists and Wade held their first inaccessible bus hostage in the Denver intersection of Broadway and Colfax. Late that night Wade was surprised when US Congresswoman Pat Schroeder handed him a doughnut and a cup of coffee. Atlantis' decision to take the fight for lifts on buses to the national level soon led to the birth of ADAPT (American Disabled for Accessible Public Transit). ADAPT was the nation's first direct action, grass-roots movement of disability activists and mushroomed in over 30 states, Canada, Sweden and England. Like the freedom riders of the 60s, ADAPT's struggle for accessible public transit became a national battle cry of the '80s. Over the course of eight years of bi-annual national demonstrations throughout the country, hundreds of ADAPT activists and their families and friends were arrested for their beliefs and commitment to ensure civil rights for all disabled citizens. Twelve years after the first bus seize, the Americans with Disabilities Act, ADA, mandated lifts on buses. ADAPT's street chant "access is a civil right" echoed in the halls of Congress, as politicians became increasingly aware that ADAPT and the disability rights movement fully expected ADA to be passed as landmark civil rights legislation. ADAPT organized the "Wheels of Justice" march in March of 1990, and Wade played a key role. It was a call-to-action that galvanized the disability rights movement to demand swift passage of ADA with no weakening amendments. Over 1,000 disability Wade, continued from pi rights activists from across the nation joined forces with ADAPT to demonstrate to the world that they were to be taken seriously. On the second anniversary of the signing of the ADA (July 26, 1992), the city of Denver and its Regional Transit District commemorated that historic event by dedicating a plaque to Atlantis/ADAPT and the "gang of nineteen" who held the first bus. Wade refused to have his name engraved on the plaque, but his silent tears at the dedication ceremony revealed the depth with which he felt the issues of disability rights. He had left his mark forever etched in the foundation of our civil rights movement. In 1990, when it was clear that ADAPT had successfully led and won the fight for accessible public transportation with the passage of the ADA, Wade and other national ADAPT leaders convened to plot their next course of action. There was little question for anyone what that next issue would be. ADAPT transformed its mission and became "American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today." Together, ADAPT and Wade returned to the scene of one of society's most heinous crimes the warehousing of 1.6 million disabled men, women and children. These disabled Americans committed no crime, yet were and still are, interred against their wills in nursing homes, state schools and other institutions. They are used as the crop of industries like the nursing home lobby, physicians and their conglomorate owners who continue to get rich by robbing our people of their fundamental civil, human and inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Most of us are spectators sitting on the sidelines of life, learning history from books. Wade, was an active participant in over three decades of political organizing. He taught others how to create and record their own destiny. A brilliant strategist, he helped shaped the tide of the disability rights movement. Yet Wade was never too busy to roll up his sleeves and assist someone with attendant services, push or repair a chair, or drive a van. He stood up for what he believed in and expected others to do the same. In his pursuit to free others [text cuts off] [boxed text] "Some - mostly those who didn't know him - have said that Wade's methods were "extreme." They said that civil disobedience in the eighties and nineties is "passe","obsolete," 'inappropriate." Bullfeathers! The same kind of things were said about Washington, Jefferson, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King. What is extreme, what is inappropriate is millions of human beings living with less dignity than we accord to our pet dogs and cats. What is inappropriate is American citizens imprisoned without due process of law in oppressive institutions and rat infested back rooms. What is inappropriate is tens of thousands of people with disabilities living and begging and dying in the streets. What is inappropriate, what is unspeakably immoral, is a society that cannot be bothered to make the simple changes necessary to give its own children the opportunity of full humanity. "It has been my privilege to work closely with Wade Blank during the last several years. He has demonstrated against a meeting I chaired -when HITS Secretary Louis Sullivan spoke at the 1991 President's Committee on Employment of with Disabilities annual conference in D8118S. We have counseled together by telephone at all hours of the day and mgt. We served together on the ADA Congressional Task Force and in negotiating ADA with the President of Greyhound We marched together for equality in San Francisco, Philadelphia and Washington. We were together in the freezing mid-night outside the barricaded Departmert of Transportation in Washington I never put myself in a position to be arrested. Wade said that was alright, because I could play positive role within the system. I was never sure in my heart if that I was on the right side of the bars. I knew he was. "Let us join together in memory of Wade - on May 9th [at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington Dq ... to continue the struggle for a truly human society. Let us join in one voice to shout his shout - "FREE OUR PEOPLE " — Justin Etta Jr [boxed text ends] [quote begins] 'From my heart, I know the dream will keep on and on, because what Wade started and everyone picked up and caned on with is more important than just freedom and rights — there is a spirit and feeling from all of this of home, family, love and respect caused by the emergence of the common bonds of freedom and equality. It is a great feeling to know that there .is a "family of man" where we all work and play together, laugh and cry together, and all realize that together is the key to our success: We have something that is unique in this world and my hope is that we can spread it all around in ever widening circles to encompass the world" --Star Stephens [quote ends] [quote begins] Wade used to tell me I could so anything iI want to do. He said I didn't need him or anybody to live a good life. Now I've got to prove he was right...Wade was like a daddy to me. He did more for me than my real daddy did. We're going to miss him. -George Roberts [quote ends] from the chains of oppressions he was arrested 15 times and proud of itl Several weeks ago Wade Blank's story, including the development of Atlantis and ADAPT, was officially accepted into the National Archives. Wade, a passionate Cleveland Browns fan, was a loving husband, daddy, friend, organizer and leader. He valued and encouraged the unique contributions that each of us has to give to ourselves, each other and the world around us. We honor his contribution, value his friendship, and grieve the loss of our beloved friend and colleague. Wade was one of the few non-disabled allies of the disability rights movement who understood the politics of oppression. At times through the years, his leadership role was questioned, but he never lost sight of the vision, nor lacked the support of those he was close with. [image] [image caption] Wade was a brilliant strategist who could pall a plan from thin air. A constant communicator, Wade got input from lots of folks and loved to Pro-passible out-comes of different strategies and tactics. Often, during a long day of protest, Wade would pull the leadership team over to "run different scenarios", as he put it. Photo: Tom Olin. - ADAPT (1823)
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"...on Christmas Eve the following year, I had a black woman who was very pregnant and a white guy, and we rented a burro from the zoo or something, and we went to a Holiday Inn on Christmas and said they'd just travelled a great distance and needed a place to sleep, and we had the Associated Press there and the UPI. They went all over the United States, that one theatrical comment of black and white, and that was the extent of it. It's very powerful stuff, but it blew my image as a Presbyterian minister to the max. I've got great pictures of that couple standing there signing in. To the credit of the manager, he let them in, sent up a bottle of champagne, and the Holiday Inn named him as manager of the year, so everybody won, because he was so quick on his feet..." Wade Blank, 1992 - ADAPT (1818)
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A memorial celebration for Wade and Lincoln Blank will be held Sunday, May 9th 11:30 am at the Lincoln Memorial Washington, DC. As Wade would have wanted, this will kick off 3 days of ADAPT's bi-annual national action to free 1.6 million disabled citizens from nursing homes. Two memorial funds have been set up. Donations to benefit disability rights should be sent to: Atlantis/ADAPT. Donations for the family should be sent to: Wade Blank &Family Memorial Fund. The address for both [word italicized] funds is: c/o First National Bank of Denver 300 South Federal Blvd Denver, CO 80219 [image] Wade Blank with his son sitting in his lap. Photo: Susan Goldstein - ADAPT (1815)
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"...I never put myself in a position to be arrested, Wade said that was alright, because I could play a positive role within the system. I was never sure in my heart. if I was on the right side of the bars. I knew he was..." -Justin Dart, Jr. - ADAPT (1813)
SALT OF THE EARTH People who are good & thirsty for justice [Headline] Rev. Wade Blank [Subheading] Michael Ervin interviews Rev. Wade Blank Wade Blank is co-founder of the Atlantis Community for people with disabilities in Denver, Colorado. Working in a nursing home, Blank, an ordained Presbyterian minister, became out-raged by the way residents there were treated like children with no control over their lives. Since the early 1970s, he and the Atlantis Community have helped hundreds of clients move into independent, integrated housing throughout Denver. Atlantis has also revitalized the disability-rights movement nationally by launching American Disabled for Accessible Public Transit (ADAPT). That organization has led campaigns of civil disobedience to force city transportation boards to ensure access for persons with disabilities to public transportation. The demands of ADAPT became federal law as part of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. "That a group of powerless people can change their government is the greatest compliment to democracy," says Blank. "It's what we learned in civics. Most people believe government is not changeable. We believe it is." I grew up in Canton, Ohio. The joke around the house when I decided to go into the ministry was that the Vietnam War was God's way of calling me into the church. I was a classic WA$P conservative. I was going to be a country preacher But then at McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago they gave me the intellectual education to critique my own ignorance about theology. Mix that with the black militant historians who were coming on the scene. I went to Selma because I had a black friend in the seminary who dared me. I saw these blond women in miniskirts yelling "nigger-lover." It didn't fit my stereotype of blond women in mini-skirts. I was feeling boxed in by life. Everybody was going to fight this war in Vietnam, and that was neat and tidy. Blacks had their place, and that was neat and tidy. I had the same feelings of in-adequacy everybody else did. Suddenly, there's someone saying, "Maybe you're not inadequate. Maybe the system makes you feel inadequate." When we started Atlantis, I saw it as fitting in with all that. Dr. Martin Luther King said the joy of the struggle was in the struggle. This was the struggle. The mission of Jesus was to stir up the status quo and make people whole. That's what this movement is all about. It's about taking someone with cerebral palsy and saying, "You are a total person in society, and if people don't believe that, they're going to before we're done with them." By 1966 I was ordained and had taken a rural parish in Ohio. I lasted about a year and a half before the lid blew. I opened a coffee house with a rock band. But the parents had their kids boycott it. So it fell flat. The next call I took was in Akron at an all-white church. I got tight with the black clergy down the street. We would bring the black Baptist choir into our church and send our choir there. Then the Kent State stuff started. I offered some alternative services, and SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) members started coming. We opened a storefront called Alice's Restaurant where we sold books and did draft counseling. We started running people into Canada. These were guys being drafted. Their numbers had come up. I would leave my Volkswagen full of gas and leave the key under the mat. If the car ever got caught, I would claim it was stolen. One day when I got to my office, two guys were going through my desk. Turns out they were FBI. They called all the members of my church. After the shootings at Kent State I had 35 members left. So it closed. I went back to the seminary and got my master's degree. Then my wife and I decided to drop out. We put names of cities in a hat and picked Denver. I got a job at $1.90 an hour as an orderly at a nursing home. After a year I quit. But the nursing-home owner hired me back as a recruiter. Can you imagine me coming to your house and selling you on living in a nursing home? I had community meetings and saw some of the deep, deep places some people from state institutions were coming from. They weren't educated, they didn't have any self-esteem, they didn't know their parents. I put that into political jargon. I said, "The problem is you're stuck here. The problem is whether you have any rights as a person." They began to grab onto that. Anything that went wrong, their rebuttal was, "I have rights." They challenged me on why I was enforcing curfew, why I was making people go to workshop. I had to put up or shut up, so I sided with the residents. I was on my way out by then. I went on leave, and when I came back, everyone's radios were confiscated. Electric wheelchairs were taken away. They were going to control the peasants. The only thing the residents had to fall back on was what I taught them about demonstrations and activism. So they started refusing to eat, refusing to do anything. The nursing-home director drove out one night, and he was kicking doors open, shining a flashlight in their faces, insulting and intimidating people. So we started moving people out. I got eight slum apartments renovated. Everyone thought we were stark raving mad. I used to go to the grocery store for them. They didn't have a way to get there. That opened the whole can of worms about public transit In 1978 we held a press conference and announced the time had come for people in wheelchairs to be able to board buses. We blocked buses overnight. We slept in the street. We had the keys to two buses and demanded the general manager come down and get the keys. We made him walk a gauntlet of wheelchairs. We announced we would hold protests once a month until all buses were accessible. During the process we proposed an elected transit board. When the state legislature approved an elected board, the very first action of that board was to make buses accessible. Just as the Selma march led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act, the many marches we've done led to the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. That a group of powerless people can change their government is the greatest compliment to democracy. Most people believe government is not changeable. We believe it is. Now we want to take on the nursing-home industry, one of our most oppres-sive systems. It's a $52 billion industry. We want to defund it and create serv-ices that allow disabled and elderly people to live at home and participate in society. We need to use that money to liberate people. It would be redirected into a national attendant-services program. It would guarantee a person from the moment of their disability a right to attendant services. If a person has a physical need, right now we're meeting that need in an institutionalized environment. We want it met in a humanizing environment. The religious community is in a dilemma over the disability-rights movement. It approaches it as a do-good situation, which makes it automatically paternalistic. People prefer to see it as an access issue rather than an empowerment movement. If you give access to something irrelevant, what's the difference? Give access to something empowering. The church is all about empowering people from a spiritual and a physical point of view. There needs to be a lot of thinking about what the lame person outside the gates of Jerusalem really represents. Do you put money in his tin cup, or was Jesus asking people to go beyond that? ■ [image] drawing of Wade Blank next to three wheelchairs - ADAPT (1812)
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[Headline] 2 Globevile schools cleared of heavy metal danger [Subheading] Study results in court's dismissal of parents' bid to keep son out of first grade at Garden Place By Greg Lopez Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer Students at two Globeville elementary schools are not exposed to unacceptable levels of lead, cadmium and arsenic from the ASARCO Globe Plant, according to a study released this week. The study, commissioned by Denver Public Schools, tested air and dust inside and outside Swan-sea and Garden Place elementary schools in the Globeville neighbor-hood for the three substances, all of which are believed to cause cancer. All levels were lower than federal guidelines for exposure, although most were higher than normal. The study suggested that air filters be used and areas in the school be cleaned regularly to lessen exposure. The study, the most comprehensive look so far at the old smelter's effect on the schools, is one of many studies of pollution from the ASARCO plant. A motion filed by Wade and Lois Blank seeking to keep their son from entering first grade at Gar-den Place was denied yesterday in Denver District Court after the study was presented. The Blanks said they are satisfied that the schools are safe. "This is good news for every-body who has their children there," Wade Blank said. "I'm happy for them, if the study is accurate." The Blanks said they have en-rolled their son, Lincoln, 6, in the private Gilpin Grammar School be-cause they are angry that DPS ignored earlier requests for information about the safety of the school. The study, conducted by Chemistry and Industrial Hygiene Inc. of Wheat Ridge, found that cadmium levels at Swansea, 4650 Columbine St., were a concern because students also may be exposed to heavy metal outside of school. At Garden Place, 4425 Lincoln St., the major concern was the level of lead concentration in dust, a problem possibly caused by lead-based paint. The study also noted that lead-based paint poses a similar problem in other older Denver schools. The study concludes that, "there are no environmental conditions at the two schools which would result in arsenic, cadmium and lead exposures to children or staff which represent unacceptable health risks if school management continues and/or implements appropriate control procedures." The study is only the latest development in more than a decade of concerns about emissions by ASARCO. ASARCO plant officials say their operation meets all state, local and federal emission standards. Nine Globeville residents sued ASARCO last week, charging that the plant has contaminated soil, lowered property values and endangered their health. [image] [image caption] Debra Reingold/Rocky Mountain News. Lois and Wade Blank are glad study shows safe schools, but son Lincoln, right, is in private school. At left is daughter Caitlin, 4. Stapleton Homes, a public housing project in Globeville, was closed last year by the Denver Housing Authority because of fears of toxic pollution, among other reasons. Tests then showed none of the children in Globeville schools had dangerous concentrations of toxic materials in their bodies, according to the health department.