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The Detroit News AND Free Press Metro .. Sunday, October 29, 1995 [Headline] Engler staff lapse led to security breach of governor's home GEORGE WEEKS Gov. John Engler and First Lady Michelle Engler are rightly outraged at misguided demonstrators who pounded on doors and windows of their home while they were gone and their triplet daughters were in the kitchen with their nanny. The Englers are also understandably concerned about the rare and baffling security lapse that allowed wheelchair-bound demonstrators to scoot through an open gate on a driveway leading to the official governor's residence in the fashionable Moors River Drive section of Lansing. Make no mistake, an elite state police detail provides excellent around-the-clock security for the first family. When Engler travels, it is with well-trained plain-clothes troopers who know what to do and do it well. They are hard to spot, but they are there, and well armed. There is 24-hour security at the residence, assisted by a variety of electronic devices connected to monitors that guard outposts. An intruder would be foolhardy to try to scale walls or rush the residence day or night. Yet, in broad daylight on Tuesday, about 70 demonstrators, many in wheelchairs, were able to get to the front porch of the residence after the gate opened for a delivery. There should have been sufficient warning. The Denver-based ADAPT (American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today) declared in advance by press releases that they were coming to Lansing to protest planned GOP changes in the federal Medicaid program. There were about 200 demonstrators, most from outside Michigan. They had 150 rooms at the Radisson Hotel, two blocks from the Capitol. On Monday, they seized the GOP state headquarters for several hours, taking over the switchboard and blocking some staffers in their offices. They demanded to see Engler, who ironically supports their call for more funds for more care. They said they targeted Engler because "He's a high profile potential v-p"; he has the ear of House Speaker Newt Gingrich; and he frequently lobbies Congress on welfare and health care issues. Engler declined to meet with them, but Communications Director John Truscott did meet with them and outlined Engler's position in writing. Law enforcement authorities knew that ADAPT planned to demonstrate Wednesday at the Capitol where Michigan Militia demonstrators planned on Tuesday to protest against the UN. Extra security personnel were at the Capitol on Tuesday. Truscott said, "We had no idea they would hit the residence." But on Tuesday, although they did not announce it in advance, the handicapped demonstrators assembled at a park near the residence. They carefully watched the comings and goings at the residence before they made their move. Apparently they were not watched with sufficient care. Once they began going through the gate, security personnel were reluctant to swing the gate shut for fear of injuring some of them. The massive swinging gate, with black iron bars, takes about 10 seconds to close. Truscott said "It was a slow gate and they had very fast chairs. They came flying." Although 11-month-old Margaret, Hannah, and Madelene did not hear the protesters, Truscott said they were "so rattled" by all the security and other activity within the residence that they had a sleepless night. All of Michigan should feel violated because protesters, no matter how just their cause or how difficult their lives, were able to storm right up to Michigan's front porch. The way to agitate for funds for home care is not to attack someone else's home. It remains to be seen if they awakened interest in home care or caused a backlash. But by breaching the security ring around the governor's residence they delivered a wake-up call. Truscott said "Clearly, we'll take a very serious look" at security arrangements. For starters, there will be a gate that closes faster. Furthermore, when the gate is open, there will be more security personnel to thwart a rush on the residence.
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"We sympathize with your plight here," Golden told ADAPT members. Anderson said he hopes to learn more about the organization and its goals. "The first step of the education is learning," Anderson said, adding that he sympathized with the group. "By the grace of God she isn't out there," Anderson said after the meeting with ADAPT. Becky Anderson suffered severe head injuries in the wreck. She has since recovered but suffers from some lasting brain damage. Auberger said ADAPT made a name for itself during the trip to Nashville. "I'd say it has been very successful," he said. "When the public starts understanding issues, change comes." Auberger also said Nashvillians are more understanding of the disabled and who they are. "I think people of Nashville have a better perception of people with disabilities. They'll no longer think of us as helpless or pitiful." The meeting with the country artists was a "postive way" to end ADAPT's trip to Nashville, Auberger said. "We got some assurances from them that they're really interested in learning more," he said. "Our next stop will be Las Vegas, when AHCA has its next national convention." [Subheading] No room for pity Members of ADAPT do not mind if their protest tactics offend. Their newsletter is named Incitement, and many wear T-shirts bearing a defiantly anti-pity slogan. "Our strategy flies in the face of the stereotype that disabled people are helpless, dependent and pitiful. In fact, we are strong, determined and powerful," says Diane Coleman, leader of Tennessee's ADAPT chapter.
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Detroit Free Press 10/26/95 [Headline] Capitol Blockade About 300 members of Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT), a group dedicated to better rights and services for the disabled, disrupted business Wednesday at the Capitol by blocking building entrances for about 45 minutes. State Police reopened an entrance at 1:30 p.m. and the protesters began to disperse at 3:30 p.m. after meeting with a representative of Gov. John Engler. Five were arrested for trespassing or disorderly conduct in the group's third day of protesting, State Police Inspector Gary Post said. ADAPT wants Engler, among other things, to ask House Speaker Newt Gingrich to propose earmarking 25 percent f the Medicaid nursing home budget for home and community services. [2 Images] [Caption for both images] Left: A worker jumps out a window at the Capitol in Lansing after demonstrators blocked all exits and entrances to the building Wednesday. Below: A student from Garfield School in Adrian breaks through the crowd of protesters at the Capitol. Students were touring the building and were blocked in by the demonstration. Police later cleared an exit.
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Chicago Tribune, Thursday, October 26, 1995 Section 1 5 [Image] [Image caption] Michigan protest: Demonstrators in wheelchairs block the steps of the State Capitol in Lansing, Mich., Wednesday. They want federal laws favoring in-home care over nursing home care.
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American Hospital Association Vol. 31 No. 21 May 22, 1995 [Heading] AHA blasts proposed federal budget cuts [Subheading] Association leaders favor less drastic measure by Farah Kostreski The GOP-controlled House last week passed a budget resolution that health care groups and many seniors believe moves too far too fast to curb Medicare and Medicaid spending. The Senate this week continues debating a similar plan, which if passed, will set Congress on a course tar making the largest reductions in the federal health pro-grams' history. After spurning alternatives offered by the Congressional Black Caucus. and conservative Democrats and Republicans who wanted deeper spending cuts. the House voted. 238-193. to approve a plan by House Budget Committee Chairman John R. Kasich (R-OH). Kasich's S1.4 trillion deficit-reduction proposal would slow Medicare spending by 5283 billion. and Medicaid spending by S184 billion. over the next seven years. House Speaker Newt Gingrich ( R-GA ) called Republican unity behind the plan "pretty amazing." But House Minority Leader Richard A. Gephardt ( D-M0) maintained that Americans "are not balancing [the budget] on the backs of senior citizens and middle-income people." President Clinton issued a May 18 statement noting that the House budget "fail to meet the test" of reducing the deficit and reflecting Americans' values. Earlier in the week, the president buoyed by a May 16 Washington Post/ABC News poll that found that most Americans oppose the GOP budget plans. urged congressional Democrats to reject Republican plans to reduce Medicare and Medicaid spending absent comprehensive health-system reform. "We're extremely disappointed in what the House did."' said Tom Nickels. AHA vice president and deputy director of federal relations. The numbers are clearly too high to sustain." In a May 17 letter. officials from the AHA and the Federation of American Health Systems offered support for the alternative crafted by Rep. Charles W. Stenholm ( D-TX ) and two dozen conservative Democrats. That plan would have trimmed Medicare spending by S174 billion by 2002—S109 billion less than Kasich's Medicare proposed cuts. The same day, the AHA and the federation joined a coalition of 20 other hospital and health care provider groups in a letter to House members. "We know that savings in the system can be achieved, and we are willing to accept sonic: reductions through restructuring," the groups stated. "The proposals put forward by the House Budget Committee, however, go too far, too fast." The AHA and the federation ran a series of newspaper ads asking lawmakers to work with them to "reform, restructure and save money in Medicare—not gut it." Six teaching-hospital officials converged on Capitol Hill May 16 to plead for parity. The group, convened by the Washington-based Association of American Medical Colleges, said GOP plans to cut Medicare's hospital payment updates and graduate medical education add-ons amount to a double-whammy for them. "We're willing to take our fair share, but not some sort of a KO punch." William Rice, chancellor and vice president for health affairs at the University of Tennessee in Memphis, told reporters. Teaching hospitals may have allies in Senate Finance Committee members Alf once M. D'Amato R-NY) and Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY ). who represent the state with nearly 15 percent of the nation's teaching institutions. The Senate debate continues this week, with members expected to cast final votes on May 25. The Senate Budget Committee's plan would curb Medicare spending by $256 billion and Medicaid spending by $175 billion by 2002. [Image] A dozen or more ADAPT people in wheelchairs sit in front of a door. There is a railing in the middle of the group and up against the door are two police officers. Kevin Ervin of West Virginia ADAPT is sitting on the left side of the photo behind the railing wearing dark sunglasses next to the standing person with the wild hair. Someone [maybe Mary Johnson of the Disability Rag] is on a phone next to the door. Above that persons's head is a poster taped to the wall that reads "Shame on Newt." [Image caption] On Newt's doorstep. Capitol police guard the front door as disabled activists and other demonstrators portest proposed Medicare and Medicaid budget cuts outside House Speaker Newt Gingrich's (R-GA) apartment building.
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The Seattle Times I MONDAY, JULY 19, 2004 [Headline] Protesters for disabled block streets BY JOANNA HOROWITZ Seattle Times staff reporter About 500 protesters from a group for the disabled barricaded streets yesterday around downtown Seattle's Westin Ho-tel where the National Governors' Association (NGA) is meeting. Additional protests are expect-ed this morning, and the Seattle Police Department advised commuters to expect traffic delays and possible street closures around the hotel between Fourth and Seventh avenues and Union and Stewart streets. American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT) said last night that members would be in front of the Westin at 11:15 a.m. today to announce a list of the "10 Worst States for Community Services." The group said the information was based on data states report yearly to Medicare and Medicaid. ADAPT decided to take to the streets yesterday in an impromptu demonstration after a meeting with Matt Salo, director of the NGA's Health and Human Services Committee, didn't go the way the group had hoped. ADAPT is lobbying for the governors to sign a resolution pledging to favor care for the disabled and elderly in their homes rather than forced institutionalization. Mike Oxford, one of ADAPT's national organizers from Kansas, said that ADAPT asked Salo at the morning meeting yesterday to take the resolution to the governors but that he refused. "Really he wasn't prepared to do anything," Oxford said. "People kind of shouted him out of the room." Christine LaPaille, the NGA's director of communications, said Salo has met with the group a number of times in the past. He was surprised when he arrived at the Red Lion Hotel on Fifth Avenue and found a large crowd, including news media. "It was a news conference, and he wasn't prepared," she said. LaPaille said Salo told the crowd that long-term care was one of the issues on the agenda for the governors' discussion. That answer didn't sit well with ADAPT members. "There was only one thing that came out of that and that was nothing," said John Loyd, one of the core members of Missouri's ADAPT group. "They don't want to open a can of worms," he said. 'Well, this isn't a can of worms. This is a can of people, and we're being kept in a can." The group blocked intersections between Olive and Stewart on Sixth, at Stewart and West-lake and at Fifth and Stewart. They chanted "NGA, pass the resolution," lying in crosswalks to write messages in chalk and carrying signs with slogans such as "Get government off my back, let me live at home." "It's time for Washington and our legislators to see there is a powerful group nationally," said Katrinka Gentile, chairwoman of the Washington State Independent Living Council. Protesters said they planned to stay until someone would speak with them. "I'd rather go to jail than go to a nursing home," said Rich Landers of Salt Lake City. But LaPaille said the NGA is not the forum for that. "We do not set up meetings with them with the governors," LaPaille said. She said that in the past there had been an agreement that pro-tests would stop after meetings were held, but ADAPT continued to protest. The ADAPT demonstration ended later in the afternoon. Seattle police had not been told about yesterday's protest, said department spokeswoman Deanna Nollette. However, the department has been planning for the NGA meeting for more than a year and had officers ready to deploy, she said. Joanna Horowitz: 206-464-3312 or jhorowitz@seattletimes.com
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[Headline] Governors Meeting [Subheading] Various issues divide state leaders, galvanize local demonstrators By J. Patrick Coolican, Matt Rodriguez and Lornet Turnbull Seattle Times staff reporters Though billed as a friendly meeting to discuss issues such as health care and the environment, the National Governors' Association conference kicked off yesterday in Seattle with partisan sniping as Democratic governors attacked President Bush and Republican governors responded in kind against his challenger, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry. By the end of the day, however, the 30 or so governors in attendance were boarding boats to go to dinner together at the home of billionaire software mogul Bill Gates. Meanwhile, several hundred labor activists, students and advocates for the disabled held spirited protests throughout downtown Seattle. At Westlake Park, liberal activists voiced concerns about a cornucopia of issues: the Iraq war, health care, wages, influence peddling, corporate greed. Later in the afternoon, about 400 people representing a disabled-rights group called ADAPT, many of them in wheelchairs, marched and wheeled from Westlake to the Pike Place Market calling for better home-based health care. The groups were also protesting the use of $2 million in corporate money to fund the conference. Many of the corporate sponsors, including Microsoft, Boeing and Amgen, have a large financial stake in the issues being discussed at the conference. The conference started on a divisive note, with the governors playing surrogates for the Bush and Kerry presidential campaigns. The meeting's host Washington Gov. Gary Locke, led the Democratic attack on President Bush. "The Bush administration has done nothing to help us emerge from these hard times. Americans are working fewer hours, for less money," he said, surrounded by a group of Democratic governors in a conference room of the law firm Preston, Gates & Ellis. Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, chair-man of the Democratic Governors' Association, noted that un-employment in his state went up last month. "Tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans will not put those 72,000 Iowans back to work," he said, referring to several tax cuts Bush has signed. Locke and fellow governors from Tennessee, Arizona and several other states also said the large National Guard call-ups for the Iraq war — many of the Guard taken from local police departments — had burdened their states and local communities. [Subheading] The Republican response Republicans responded with their own press conference to blast Kerry. Marc Racicot, Bush-Cheney campaign chairman and a former Montana governor, led the GOP blitz, calling Kerry a liberal who had raised taxes voted [image] [image caption] ALAN BERNER / THE SEATTLE TIMES Dick Hosty, center, of Kansas City, Mo., chants yesterday as about 400 members of ADAPT, a disabled-rights group, march and wheel to Pike Place Market. They called for better home-based health care. [text resumes] against giving $87 billion to the Iraq war effort last fall and switched positions on a number of issues. Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, former chairman of the Republican National Committee, said Kerry was more liberal than his fellow Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy and accused Kerry, a for-mer prosecutor, of being soft on crime. Nebraska Gov. Mike Johanns, referring to Kerry's vote to give Bush authorization to attack Iraq but not the $87 billion to fund the war and reconstruction last fall, said, "The Kerry position just appalls me. How he could vote to send soldiers into harm s way and then not vote to fund them is unforgivable." [Subheading] Three protest marches The first of three protest marches started at midday when about 100 demonstrators, known as the Infernal Noise Brigade, gathered near Seattle Central Community College for a loud and colorful march to Westlake Park. "With all that's going on around us — war, job losses, economic strain — so many people are find-ing themselves in survival mode," said a protester, Ivy Rose Night-scales, a Seattle resident and author. "The common person is under attack." At Westlake, the demonstrators met with several hundred others from labor and community groups for a rally that featured a speech from Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich, still pursuing his quixotic campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. Seattle police officers were out in force on bikes, motorcycles and horses, in cars, paddy wagons and on two buses. At times, they appeared to outnumber the protesters. Police and their bicycles created a barricade around the West-in Hotel, site of the conference, as the demonstrators shouted to the governors to come down. Late in the afternoon, a group of about 400 wheelchair activists and their supporters rolled from the Red Lion Hotel to Pike Place Market in support of more government funding for programs that allow them to live independently. Ben Barrett, whose body was mangled after he was hit by a train in 1993, said "separating people in nursing homes and other institutions is just wrong. "When they put us all in one building on one side of town they get us out of sight and we're out of mind. If they don't have to see us, they don't worry about us." Seattle Police reported no problems and no arrests in connection with the protests "Everything went absolutely according to plan," said spokeswoman Deanna Nolette. The official business of the governors meeting starts today. The schedule includes policy forums on aging and the environment, as well as a governors-only lunch with Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge and a health-care session with former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, both tomorrow. The governors also will talk about U.S. foreign policy. Idaho Gov. Dirk Kempthorne, chairman of the governors association, said the governors will dis-cuss the National Guard in a meeting with Dr. David Chu, undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, and Gen. Ralph Eberhart, commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command. J. Patrick Coolican: 206-464-3315 or jcoolican@seattletimes.com
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[Headline] Disabled activists think tactics work By Jeff Woods and Rob Moritz Banner Staff Writers At the height of this week's clash between police and disabled-rights activists at Opryland Hotel, one enraged protester shouted, "It's Apocalypse Now!" As a police helicopter swept across the sky, the throng of demonstrators charged into out-numbered security guards at the hotel's entrance. Before the battle ended, over-turned wheelchairs littered the roadway, one protester sprawled on the pavement with blood pouring from his head, and police arrested 97 others on charges of criminal trespass. The bleeding demonstrator was not seriously injured. But if the scene bore any resemblance to Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam War movie, protesters were gleeful. They are front-line fighters for America's newest civil rights movement--the crusade for equal rights for people with physical disabilities. "I just want to say, you all kicked ass. It was one hell of an action," protest organizer Bob Kakfa told a victory rally Wednesday before the demonstrators began leaving Nashville. "You guys. knock down barricades better than any battering ram," Kafka yelled from his wheelchair as the crow cheered, then chanted "Free Our People!" The protesters belong to ADAPT (American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today), a 10-year-old, Denver-based organization practicing the politics of confrontation around the country. ADAPT members stage rallies, occupy offices, blockade buildings and force mass arrests [Please see B-3] (unavailable at this time) [Headline] ADAPT: Group doesn't care if others see tactics as violent, offensive [Continued from page B-1] (unavailable at this time) in order to gain the media spotlight for their cause. [Subheading] CMA protest averted Three noted country artists met with the disabled activists Wednesday and said they "sympathize" with their goals. The meeting with the artists was part of a compromise that prevented any possible ADAPT-sponsored disruption of the nationally televised Country Music Association Awards. The group had threatened such an action after 97 protesters were arrested Tuesday for trespassing at the Opryland Hotel.. "we are here to try to help and help you every way we can. We want to bring attention to your cause and your fight," Grand Ole Opry member Porter Wagoner told about 150 members of ADAPT. "These people need to be heard. We hope we can bring people's attention to it," Wagoner said. Wagoner, Bill Anderson and William Lee Golden met with the protesters in a parking lot on Music Valley Drive across from the Opryland Hotel. The three country artists each were presented with an ADAPT T-shirt and a list of the group's goals and objectives. "These people do have a reason for what they're doing," Wagoner said. "They should be heard." Golden, a former member of the Oak Ridge Boys, specifically was requested by ADAPT when the offer was made by Opryland to call Wednesday's meeting.
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Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Secretary Washington, D.C. 20201 To ADAPT: The Secretary of HHS and top Administrative officials agree to meet with 15 Adapt representatives by January 3, 1999 to develop a transition plan that will result in each and every state complying with the most integrated setting requirements of the ADA. The meeting agenda will include the Secretary's assurance that she will work with ADAPT so that the FY 2000 Budget includes sufficient funds to carry out the aforementioned objective. Sincerely, [signed] John J. Callahan [typed] John J. Callahan Assistant Secretary of Management and Budget [two images] [caption for both images] Photos by Susan Briggs
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Along the side of a wet street in front of a hedge and at least 20 foot tall stone wall is a line of ADAPT protesters most in rain ponchos. At the top of the wall is a row of cars parked nose in to a fence at the top of the wall. Behind them is a large government type building. A few people are on the upper level looking down at the ADAPT crowd below.
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PEOPLE IN WHEEL CHAIRS DO NOT WANT TO DIE IN NURSING HOME! THEY DEMAND THEIR VOICE TO BE HEARD TERMS TO BE MET! A large group of the Disabled Population known as ADAPT protested at Laguna Hunda Hospital protesting "Free our People". The Disabled group was represented from all parts of the U.S. and have protested before in other states, facilities, hospitals, courts, and as far as the Federal and Legislative Governments. The purpose of the protest was to oppose the funding in which the hospital was recipient to funds to re-model the hospital with Medicaid funds. Funds were to be dispensed for the re-building of the hospital which was creating the same restrictive environment that institutionalizes peoples lives. ADAPT demands were to allocate funds instead for the building to be scattered affordable and accessible housing in which would enable persons with disabilities to have choices in their lives where they would have their home. The city of San Francisco owns the Laguna Hunda Hospital so the city could have the choice of what to do with the hospital. The protest continued peacefully throughout the week. A spokesperson for the ADAPT group were in hoping to meet with the Mayor Willie Brown to discuss options for the disabled community.
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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