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[Headline] Lansing protests aimed at Engler, day honoring United Nations BY CHRIS CHRISTOFF AND DAWSON BELL Free Press Lansing Staff Detroit Free Press 10/25/95 LANSING --Winds of discontent blustered through the capital city Tuesday, and put city hall and the governor's home under siege. About 75 disabled people surprised security officers by storming through an open gate and gather ing on the porch of Gov. John Engler's residence at noon to demand better nursing care. About 150 more, many in wheel-chairs, lined the street outside. Neither Engler nor his wife, Michelle, were home. Their 11-month-old triplets were kept in the back of the house, according to a spokesman. About six demonstrators were arrested for trespassing and later released. Three locked their wheelchairs to a gate using bicycle locks. An Engler aide called the protesters "terrorists." The demonstration broke up peacefully at about 4 p.m. Earlier on Tuesday, about 500 pro-testers led by the Michigan Militia rallied at the state Capitol and then hoped to stop the raising of the UN flag at Lansing City Hall. [Image] [Image caption] Sandi Weber of Pittsburgh, Pa., yells at the governor's mansion in Lansing. JULIAN GONZALEZ/Detroit Free Press. The crowd denounced the United Nations as a world government plot to usurp U.S. sovereignty. It was the second year protesters gathered for the United Nations Day flag-raising, which Lansing officials have done for 15 years. To avoid a confrontation, UN Day organizers moved their program into city hall. The program had been outdoors, where a strong wind kept protest flags at attention. Several dozen police in not gear and on horseback guarded the city hall grounds. Amid loud boos, Mayor David Hollister strode to the flagpole, raised the UN flag and walked back into the building, giving a thumbs-up sign to shouts of "traitor!" "We don't want new world government," said protest organizer Tom Wayne of Galesburg. "People say look at all the great things the UN has done. Excuse me, it's the sacrifice of the American people that put the UN where it's at. Besides that, I'm tired of guys dying for the UN." The two unrelated incidents kept Lansing police busy. At the governor's residence, members of American Disabled for Attendant Disabled Programs Today (ADAPT) wanted to talk to Engler about proposed federal legislation that they said would force more disabled people into nursing homes. They want Congress to ear-mark 25 percent of Medicaid nursing home money for home care services. Leaders of the group, a national advocacy organization for home health care, had demanded a meeting with Engler. They declined an offer by Engler's office to arrange a Wednesday session with several cabinet officials. They chanted, "We'd rather go to jail than die in a nursing home," and, "We're ADAPT. You're trapped. Get used to it." ADAPT member Stephanie Thomas of Austin, Texas, said the group, which claims members from more than 30 states at Lansing protests this week, targeted Engler because he has a high national profile on welfare issues. The Denver-based organization has staged other protests in recent years, usually aimed at Congress or the nursing home industry. On Monday, ADAPT demonstrators blocked a Lansing bookstore in protest of its selling a book by U.S. house Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., and then staged a "wheel-in" at the state Republican Party headquarters. One more day of demonstrations, possibly including a visit to Engler's Capitol office, are planned for today, group leaders said. Engler spokesman John Truscott told the ADAPT crowd and leaders Monday they were misdirecting their protest. He said Engler supports community and home care. But Engler's staff fumed over the incident at the governor's home. "The idea of trying to frighten the first family and first children is pathetic and despicable," said spokesman Rusty Hills. Hills, who described the demonstrators as terrorists, said Engler wouldn't meet with them. "We're not going to meet with people who illegally trespass, who chain themselves to the residence and who chant and scream," he said. At the Capitol, anti-UN demonstrators spit on, trampled, cursed and tried to burn a UN flag on the sidewalk. Organizers ordered them to snuff out the flames. Overhead an airplane flew with a sign that read, "Say No to the UN." "The United Nations global empire wants to tyrannize and oppress the entire world,' said Norm Olson, a founder of the Michigan Militia. "Leaders are out of sync with their leaders, and today is a fine example of that. [Image] [Image caption] Michigan Militia members set fire to a UN flag Tuesday in Lansing. "We have a mayor who walked back into the building giving his thumbs up, his own private little war. He's out of touch with America." Hollister said the anti-UN Day pro-test was smaller than last year's, when he and a few police were caught off guard. "I find it worrisome," he said. "The rhetoric is so angry, so exclusive. It's ideology that doesn't look at the reality of the growing international economy. Hollister said he planned to raise the UN flag himself, regardless of the protest. "I did make one concession," he said. "I wore a bulletproof vest:" - ADAPT (1678)
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Incitement Incitement Incitement Volume 19 No.1 A Publication of ADAPT Spring 2003 [Headline] No More Stolen Lives [Subheading] A New "Soldier's" Viewpoint, May 2003 by Jeffrey L. Smith On Sunday May 11, 2003, as I stood lined up in front of the White House in Washington DC with several hundred other protesters I thought to myself "Jeff are you SURE you're ready to GO TO JAIL for this cause? As the police officers gave their third and FINAL warning for us to move away from the President's residence I rather quickly decided to "do what I HAD to do." The members of our organization ADAPT had made it crystal clear to me that possible arrest MAY be a price to pay to show we are serious about our mission. I stood my ground with about 90 other people on the side of the arrest line the cops had taped off. This time no one was actually taken to jail. The police decided to just do on-the spot arrests/citations. In years past the cops have indeed taken ADAPT members directly to jail, wheelchairs and all. On Monday May 12, 2003, as I stood in front of the Department of Justice on a very dreary day in Washing-ton DC my heart swelled with sheer Pride! I stood there with at least 200 other [image] [image caption] ADAPT blocked the of Constitution and 9th sts. an entrance to the freeway. Photo by Anita Cameron [text continues] people that had a variety of disabilities (many in wheelchairs) and was an integral member of an "ARMY fighting a system" to ensure that our CIVIL RIGHTS would stop being violated' I thought to myself ?Man now THIS is POWER!" I was new to all this. Within only the past few months I had started working at an Independent Living Center which launched me on a new journey in life. I had never BELONGED in any way such as this. I was a soldier in an army of our times. This Army was NOT military in nature. No. Its target was a system which unjustly imprisoned people that are "different." I was hearing HORRIBLE stories from people who could live independently on their own with relatively minor services from personal-care attendants, yet their primary means of health insurance - Medicaid — would pay only for institutionalization. Some of these stories I was hearing involved cases of abuse, neglect, and varied other unfavorable elements. The WORST part of this for the individuals was they had NO CONTROL over their own lives. They were in JAIL for NO reason. They had committed NO "crimes" other than that of being different/ Abnormal. I SO empathized with these people. I myself had suffered two mild strokes since 1995 and was fortunate to have Medicare, which paid for ALL my services. Had I had only Medicaid, then I could've too been "relentlessly sucked into the same system." We had the Dept. of Justice blocked off most ALL day. We had major intersections surrounding the property barricaded to where traffic was shut down. The citizens of DC were getting Highly Pissed at us "NUISANCES." We passed out info to curious passers-by. The few that I spoke with agreed that the system had to change. We finally forced a meeting with us from Assistant Attorney General Ralph Boyd, [head of Civil Rights for the Dept. of Justice. He made certain commitments. At this point we aren't really sure whether or not his words were mere "lip service" just to get us off his back. On Tuesday May 13 we engaged in one last "blockade" of a Nurses Association, and on Wednesday May 14 we met with various State legislators. On the 15th I traveled back to my home in Memphis, TN and have pretty much been on a high since. People will talk of our country's MILITARY might, but OUR "soldiering missions" used not a Single GRAIN of gunpowder! I was never able to be accepted into any branch of USA military due to my "medical condition." But I have been TOTALLY and unconditionally accepted into an army of a diffeent kind. I am PROUD to be an ADAPT soldier and ready for action! [two images] [caption for both images] (above) Day leaders Erik, Linda Anthony, & Steve Verriden went to to see if the Nurses were going to live up to their word, but they found the doors were locked. Photo by Mark and Tisha Cunningham (left) The nurses were boasting what a fortress their building was, but ADAPT would not sit down for their underestimation of people with disabilities. Here Billy the Kid demonstrates a rolling crawl technique to get up the steps to a side door of the ANA. Photo by Anita Cameron - ADAPT (880)
[Headline] Demonstrations cost taxpayers $100,000 [Subheading] Police ring up overtime patrolling the convention center, where the disabled have held several protests. By Jan Greene Review-Journal 6B Las Vegas Review-Journal/Friday, October 7, 1994 [Image] PHOTO by Jeff Scheld/Review-Journal: A police officer in a tan uniform wearing medical exam gloves and large belt with radio, plastic handcuff-ties, regular hand-cuffs, and other equipment, pushes a man in a manual wheelchair down the street in a long line of single file wheelchairs. Behind them is a long line of cars driving in the opposite direction. [Image caption] A Las Vegas police officer escorts one of about 165 disability rights activists arrested Thursday for blocking entrances to the Las Vegas Convention Center, where the protesters demonstrated against a nursing home trade group. Jeff Scheid/Review-Journal While disabled protesters spent a third day being taken away by police this time for blocking entrances to the Las Vegas Convention Center parking lot on Thursday — officials were tallying the cost to taxpayers of their demonstrations at $100,000. Thursday's protest resulted in about 165 demonstrators being removed and cited for creating a public nuisance by having an unlawful assembly, a misdemeanor. The group, Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs Today, or ADAPT, has been protesting the annual convention of the American Health Care Association, a nursing home group. ADAPT wants a quarter of the federal funds that go toward nursing homes shifted to independent living arrangements for the disabled. Part of ADAPT's strategy for gaining attention to the cause is appearing at the nursing home group's meetings, making a lot of noise and getting its members arrested. Local taxpayers will pay for that strategy to the tune of about $100,000, according to Las Vegas police Lt Carl Fruge. He said most of that cost is from overtime for officers called in to keep the peace and cite dozens of people in wheelchairs. About half the approximately 120 officers involved were pulled from regular duty elsewhere in the valley. The Metropolitan Police Department also spent taxpayer money to rent specially equipped buses, to get special equipment, to train officers and to have? a helicopter circle overhead for surveillance. The Nevada Highway Patrol also assigned 10 troopers to help divert traffic but didn't incur any overtime because the officers were switched from high-accident risk areas they normally patrol, said trooper Steve Harney. ADAPT organizers said the cost was minimal compared with the money spent on nursing homes, some of whose residents could live more cheaply with some help on their own. National organizer Mike Auberger said people wouldn't question the cost if the group were protesting, for example, the Ku Klux Klan. "We didn't come here because we wanted to raise hell for Las Vegans," Auberger said. "The reason we're here is the AHCA. Let them pay for it." Fruge noted the Culinary union has voluntarily paid the overtime costs for police officers responding to union protests at, for example, the Frontier and MGM Grand hotels. Culinary Secretary-Treasurer Jim Arnold confirmed the union pays those costs to avoid being "a burden on the community." Still, Arnold didn't want to criticize ADAPT. "They've got to do what they feel is right to get their point across," Arnold said. Everyone has a right to demonstrate." Overall, Fruge said the experience has been a good one for Las Vegas police officers, 120 of whom received special training in dealing with the disabled. Similar training will be made a part of the department's police academy curriculum, he said. Also, he said, the Police Department was able to prove it can handle a disturbance at the convention center. "The message is, 'This is a safe place to hold your convention,'" Fruge said. ADAPT leaders were also happy with the week. "Now people in Las Vegas understand the issue," Auberger said. "The value of that is very important." - ADAPT (1194)
26A Denver Rocky Mountain News World & Nation Insidedenver.com/keyword: AP News Desk — (303). 892-2728 e-mail newsdesk@denver-rmn.com [Headline] Court rules in favor of disabled [Subheading] Supreme Court says group homes appropriate for some hospitalized mental patients By Linda Greenhouse The New York Times WASHINGTON Isolating people with dis-abilities in big state institutions when there is no medical reason for their confinement is a form of discrimination that violates federal dis-abilities law, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. The 6-3 decision, in a case brought against the state of Georgia by two women with mental impairment, was a substantial victory for a disabilities rights movement. That movement has looked to the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 as a tool for breaking down institutional walls that separate people with serious mental and physical problems from the larger community. The ruling affirmed, in most respects, a decision last year by the federal appeals court m Atlanta, which held that states have a duty under the 1990 law to provide care in group homes when medically appropriate. In 1994 the federal appeals court in Philadelphia, in the only other appellate decision on [separate article begins] IN COLORADO Activists for the disabled in Colorado said Tuesday's Supreme Court decision is a major victory. "It's a critical step to show the state that people have the right to choose where and how they receive services and that segregated services will not be tolerated," said Joe Ehman, organizer with ADAPT, which works on issues for the disabled. "It says to (Gov. Bill) Owens that people have a right to choose where they live, and it's not the state's job to do that." Colorado was one of seven states that supported a Georgia law that kept two women in mental hospitals long after Georgia's department of human services recommended they be transferred to the community. Mike McLachlan, solicitor general with the Colorado Attorney General's office, said he had not seen the decision. However, he said he believes that the ruling will have little impact on Colorado. "Colorado already by law encourages community settings instead of institutions," he said. "The question is the speed by which the people who are in institutions must be integrated into the community." It was not known Tuesday how many people in Colorado would be affected. — Tillie Fong, News Staff Writer [this article ends] [originally article resumes] the subject, reached the same result. The Supreme Court's decision six months ago to hear Georgia's' appeal in this case alarmed advocates for people with disabilities, who feared that the court might steer the law in the opposite direction and reverse the nationwide trend toward deinstitutionalization. An unusually vigorous grass-roots campaign sprang up around the case, leading 15 of the 22 states that had originally supported Georgia to disavow the state's position in the Supreme Court. The case involved a 1995 lawsuit filed on behalf of Lois Curtis and Elaine Wilson, both of them mentally retarded and mentally ill, who sought state care outside the Georgia Regional Hospital, where they had lived, off and on, for years. Both remained in the hospital for sever-al years after state doctors had concluded that they could be more appropriately cared for in small group homes. In some respects, the decision Tuesday was the court's first, rather than last, word on the subject, and it may require more cases to clarify the full dimensions of the ruling. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's majority opinion held that states' obligation to care for people in small, neighborhood-based settings was limited to some degree by available resources. States are not required to close their big hospitals — which, the court stressed, may still be appropriate for some people — or to create group home programs that they do not now have. In fact, though, every state now has such a program. The decision interpreted a regulation that requires states to make "reasonable modifications" in their programs to avoid discriminating against people with disabilities, while at the same time providing that states heed not make "fundamental" alterations. - ADAPT (1749)
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[Headline] Lincoln Will Close [Subheading] ADAPT gets a commitment from Governor Blagojevich By Tim Wheat [Subheading] ADAPT Action Report: Sunday, September 11, 2007. Following a long, difficult struggle shutting down business at the James R. Thompson Center, ADAPT won commitments from Illinois Governor Blagojevich's office not to reopen the Lincoln Developmental Center, a 131-year-old institution that housed people with developmental disabilities. It started with a long line of ADAPT activists snaking its way through downtown Chicago this morning. The police stopped traffic and kept pedestrians from crossing the march. When ADAPT reached the state office complex, hundreds of activists rushed across the plaza and flooded the Thompson Center's atrium, leaving the Chicago Police behind. Once inside, the activists took over the elevator bays and the escalators. Although access up into the offices was limited, the expansive atrium remained busy and open to the public. Sixteen floors above the atrium, four ADAPT activists had made their way up into governor's office; from there they could start the discussions. Other activists were stranded one floor below the atrium, but they were able to block pedestrian traffic into two walkways. The building echoed with the noise of 500 angry activists. ADAPT added colorful banners and yellow caution tape at the entrances, elevators and escalators they blocked. By 2 p.m., much of the shock of the occupation had worn off and negotiations had stalled. Then ADAPT "bumped up" the action by blocking the rest of all the building's the entrances, including the public transit gate for the Blue Line El. "I was standing by and noticed that there were openings," said activist Tom Benzinger. "I decided to jump in and block the entrance. Cops were escorting passengers through--but I wouldn't let them go, because I want them to have the experience of being 'locked in' a nursing home." [image] [image caption] Photos by Tim Wheat The "bump-up" raised the tension and brought Blagojevich's staff back to the table. Rahnee Patrick of Chicago ADAPT told them that it was just fine to lock people with disabilities up because that is the way Illinois treats its citizens with disabilities every day. With the prospect of seeing hundreds of activists arrested, the staff conceded to ADAPT's demands. ADAPT was in the process of another "bump-up" when word arrived of successful negotiations. The whole of ADAPT came together in the massive atrium for the announcement. Two of Governor Blagojevich's representatives, Matt Summy and Grace Hou, stood in a sea of tired, but still boisterous, activists. Their commitments: Not only would the Lincoln Center stay closed, but ADAPT would be at the table for the Illinois Money Follows the Person and the Governor's office would meet with ADAPT before October 17. "they wouldn't have come down here unless it was for you holding strong, sending a message that people with disabilities deserve to live in the community [cheers]," said Rahnee. "There are so many people right now in Illinois that don't want to be in those nursing home beds. Thanks for standing up for them today." - ADAPT (1433)
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