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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 - ADAPT (785)
[Headline] Disabled Protesters Disrupt Capitol [Subheading] 114 Arrested After Bailing Out of Wheelchairs, Blocking Halls by Liz Spayd Washington Post Staff Writer More than 200 chanting protesters in Wheelchairs swarmed into the U.S. Capitol yesterday, throwing themselves on the floor and blocking hallways to demand federal programs that would allow the disabled to live on their own. Several of the demonstrators chained their wheelchairs together and spread sleeping bags across the tiled ‘Corridors, saying they were prepared to camp out until congressional leaders agreed to address their concerns. Capitol Police closed off parts of the Capitol and, with the assistance of physicians and of translators for the hearing-impaired, arrested 114 protesters. "Anyone's allowed in the building. But they were [lying] in the hallways and chanting," said Sgt. Dan R, Nichols. “They were asked to leave several times, and when they refused, we arrested them.” The group is in Washington for three days of demonstrations to urge changes in federal policies that would allow greater numbers of disabled people to live independently instead of in nursing homes. Specifically; the activists are asking that 25 percent of Medicaid funds spent on nursing homes be shifted to in-home care programs. "We have no intention of stopping until we get what we want," said Terrance Turner, a Detroit resident who was among the protesters. "If it's not today, then tomorrow. If not tomorrow, then the next day." Shouting, "Down with nursing homes," and, “Free our people," the demonstrators formed a human blockade around the double-doors leading into the office of House Majority Whip David E. Bonior (D-Mich.) for more than two hours. Bonior’s press secretary, John Schelble, said the congressman was at a doctor's appointment when the demonstrators made their surprise visit and didn't return until after they had left. Bonior was targeted, in part, because of his leadership position in the House, but also because his office is on the first floor and therefore more accessible to the disabled. Earlier in the day, the activists met with Health and Human Services Secretary Donna E. Shalala, who told them long-term care for the disabled is a key component of the Clinton administration's health care proposals. "The secretary is very sensitive to their concerns," said Avis LaVelle, spokeswoman for Shalala’s office. “Much of what they're asking for is being addressed by the health care task force." Using civil disobedience to make their point, the organizers of yesterday's protest, members of a group called ADAPT, have been advocating rights for disabled people since the late 1970s. Their first protest was in Denver, when 19 activists illegally detained a public bus that was inaccessible to people in wheelchairs. Since then, ADAPT—which stands for American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today—has become an increasingly militant group. It uses wheelchairs to barricade buildings, and members crawl across dirty streets to dramatize the helplessness of people in nursing homes. One of ADAPT's favorite targets is the American Health Care Association, a Washington-based trade group that represents 11,000 nursing homes nationwide. But making nursing homes the villain is unfair, association spokeswoman Clauda Askew said. Nursing homes, she said, have been wrongly portrayed as malicious institutions that hold people against their will and deny them basic human freedoms. "No one is forced to live in a nursing home,” Askew said. “What ADAPT is advocating is taking funds away from nursing home residents. They're robbing Peter to pay Paul, and that's not the answer." Members of ADAPT exchange power salutes as Capitol Police arrest them during a protest outside a congressional office - ADAPT (1563)
[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 - 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 (925)
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 (1226)
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I want to take this opportunity to reaffirm our support for the principles of emphasizing home and community based services and offering consumers the maximum amount of choice, control, and flexibility in how those services are organized and delivered. Specifically, we support the principles of promoting greater control for consumers to select, manage, and direct their own personal attendant services. -Donna Shalala - 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 (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 (1533)
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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 (820)
PHOTO: People are packed in facing a doorway inside the Capitol with their back to the camera. A man [Verlon McKay] has a poster on the back of his chair that reads "Move $$ to Community Services." Back by the door is a camera person filming. Two police officers stand in the doorway talking. Verlon and the person next to him have their fists raised and all the others show with their posture their intense interest in the doorway. Erik von Schmetterling is sitting to Verlon's right and is signing a chant in ASL [Erik is deaf as well as a wheelchair user.] - ADAPT (815)
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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