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Chief of Staff to the President The White House October 2, 2000 Dear Ms. Toomer: The Clinton Administration shares your commitment to providing increased choice for home and community based services and supports. We have received your policy recommendations and we are reviewing them with Secretary Shalala. As we discussed in today's meeting, the President will convene a meeting with Administration officials, members of ADAPT, and leaders of other disability groups in October. My office will contact you to arrange the date and time of this meeting. I look forward to a discussion of these issues. Sincerely, [signed] John Podesta [typed] John Podesta - ADAPT (1287)
This page continues the article from Image 1295. Full text is available on 1295 for easier reading. - ADAPT (837)
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE THE TENNESSEAN THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1993 [Headline] ADAPT negotiators accept help on issues from trio of music legends By BRAD SCHMITT, MARK IPPOLITO and TIMOTHY CORNELL Staff Writers They said they couldn't say what the acronym ADAPT stands for. But three Grand Ole Opry stars, with kind words, handshakes and hugs, last night defused the disabled-rights group's plans to try to disrupt what is arguably Nashville's most important night of the year. Porter Wagoner, Whisperin' Bill Anderson and William Lee Golden brought a close to intense day-long negotiations between ADAPT and Opryland officials trying to head off any trouble during the nationally televised Country Music Association Awards show. An army of Opryland security and Metro police stood by in the event the negotiations failed. Opryland Hotel put chains across entrance roads, ready to block vans carrying protesters. Chain-link fences went up on sidewalks, though they remained open. [Image] [Image caption] Paulette Paterson of Chicago chants at the ADAPT rally. Behind her, country entertainers William Lee Golden, Porter Wagoner and Bill Anderson appear in support of the rally participants. Rex Perry • Staff The three entertainers showed at a 6 p.m. meeting across from the Opryland Hotel with about 150 protesters, mostly in wheelchairs, from ADAPT, Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs Today. A day after the protesters stormed the Opryland Hotel, knocking down a front door, the stars said they would try to help ADAPT push its platform of diverting 25% of Medicaid dollars for nursing homes to home health care. "We're proud and honored to be here with you," Wagoner told the group. A day after Opryland security un-successfully tried to herd protesters off hotel property, Opry stars signed autographs and posed for pictures with them. "I believe what they said was genuine," said ADAPT's Mike Auberger. The group had considered interfering with the CMA Awards show for attention, said Auberger. But after meeting with officials from Gaylord Entertainment Co., Opryland's owner, the group agreed to a press conference with the stars behind the Ramada Inn, across from Opryland Hotel. "We are not here to take away people's fun. We're here to make a point," said Diane Coleman, a Tennessee ADAPT organizer, who uses ‘a wheelchair. "Our opponent is the nursing home industry, not country music fans." ADAPT came to Nashville because the American Health Care Association, made up mostly of nursing home operators, was having its convention at Opryland Hotel. Yesterday's peace was shaky, though. When some groups of protesters entered the hotel afterward as "tourists," security personnel called out on hand-held radios how many entered at one time and where they were going. "We got two WCs [wheelchairs] and a walker, and they're headed to the presidential ballrooms," a radio crackled after one group entered. But the white limousines and Mercedes-Benz sedans driving in were greeted by waving Opryland security and suit-wearing maintenance managers. They were told to wave, several said, to show Opryland is a friendly place. Opryland spokesman Tom Adkinson said company officials tried all week to negotiate with ADAPT, even offering the group a demonstration site: "We've never allowed demonstrations on our property, but we offered it this time." Coleman defended ADAPT's tactics: "I guess it's like any other civil rights movement. When you've tried all the meetings and the phone calls, then there's nothing left but to take it to the streets." [Subheading] What other stars said Kathy Mattea: "We live in a world where there's a lot of need. There's so many people out there trying to do something, to get things done on behalf of so many great causes that sometimes it's just overwhelming. It's overwhelming how much we don't take care of each other." Joe Diffie: "I think any kind of violence is not the right way to go about things. I hope that doesn't happen; I hope they don't disrupt the show for our sakes and for their sakes, too. I think it would bring more embarrassment to them than anything else. If I knew more about it, I'm sure I'd be sympathetic to their cause, as would most people." Radney Foster: "I'm glad those people can exercise their right to protest. I don't know enough about the issues. As far as access for the disabled, I have two friends who live in wheelchairs. I'm all for it." - ADAPT (1109)
Committee on Commerce Subcommittee on Health and Environment Hearing on Community-Based Care for Americans with Disabilities. 10:00 AM 2123 RHOB Thursday, March 12, 1998 - ADAPT (1793)
ACCESS USA N E W S TM [Headline] Tragedy takes life of disability rights leader [Subheading] ADAPT co-founder Wade Blank drowns trying to save son Gary Bosworth It is surprising how seemingly senseless acts of fate can shakeup ones neat, tidy world. That happened to me with an event that shook the disability community to its very soul. Everything around me seemed to be progressing around me in a steady fashion. My hometown of Desert Hot Springs and the Desert Hot Springs Breakfast Rotary had received a joint award of appreciation from the State of California for their joint co-operation on providing access to persons with disabilities in Desert Hot Springs. A London magazine called asking for photos I took in San Francisco at an ADAPT national action, for use in a story they were publishing about the disability rights movement and the politics of the Clinton administration. There was the surprise phone call from Austria from a dear friend telling me she had decided to come for a visit this summer. To cap off the week, over the week-nd I received the latest copy of Access USA News, which listed the top news events of 1992 affecting persons with disabilities. The top three/four listed were all events I considered myself lucky even to be involved in at the scene, with fellow activists from ADAPT. The world around me seemed in order. The worst problem I was facing was trying to find a speaker for the corn-ing Breakfast Rotary meeting. Suddenly, the deck of cards crumbled. That Mon-day evening I received word of the unthinkable. Reverend Wade Blank, founder/leader/guiding light of Atlantis Community and ADAPT was dead. Wade, 52, was killed in a valiant, but futile attempt to save his 8-year-old son Lincoln from drowning in rough seas off a beach at Todos Santos, Mexico, on February 15,1993. Wade, his wife Molly, and their two children were vacationing. Lincoln got caught in an undertow. Wade swam out to save him but they both drowned. Immediately the phone lines across the country lit up as the horrible, unspeakable news spread to every corner of the dis-ability community. Everybody had known many close friends that had died before in the movement, so death was no stranger in our community, but Wade's death was in-comprehensible. So much of what we have can be traced directly to the personal efforts and convictions started by Wade. in 1974, Wade, [boxed text] In Wade's eyes the disability rights movement really symbolized the ultimate in civil rights movements [text resumes] with a small group of nursing home survivors started the second independent living center for persons with disabilities the world. Named for the fabled lost continent, Atlantis Community was for the rebirth of the lost lives of adults with disabilities neglected and discarded by society. Nobody was too disabled to join Atlantis. In a precedent setting $32 million lawsuit by Wade and those survivors against the nursing home that had incarcerated them, it was finally established that even nursing home residents had some civil rights. When public transit refused them, ADAPT, the activist arm of Atlantis was formed. Wade called on his experience of working with Martin Luther King Jr. during the 60's in the south, and the turbulent years of Kent State, where he was pastor of a local church, for his inner guidance. A two-prong offensive was started in both the federal courts and what became the highly honed IN-THEIR-FACE style of non-violent civil disobedience ADAPT became famous for in their dozen year battle that worked towards public transit accessibility and the ultimate passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act - something unthinkable to even the most far reaching idealist just few short years earlier. Wade saw in the disability movement something unique, the grand equalizer - DISABILITY. Becoming disabled could happen to anybody, at anytime without warning. Disability did not play favorites No matter a person's social standing, culture, race, religion, wealth, politics, intelligence, gender, sexual preference, morality, age, whatever; disability could come crash-ing down destroying one's neat little world. In Wade's eyes, the disability rights movement really symbolized the ultimate in civil rights movements. It pained him that the disability movement throughout the decades has steadfastly been shunned and ignored by every other civil rights movement. The ultimate slap in the face came when Rosa Parks, of the AfroAmerican civil rights movement, cancelled a paid speaking engagement with ADAPT because of ADAPT being too controversial. However, Wade turned even that into an asset of organizing. If the disability community was to get civil rights, they must fight for it them-selves, in the trenches, no matter what the cost. The letter of rejection from Ms. Parks hangs on the wall of ADAPT's national headquarters as a constant reminder—this is our fight alone. [image] [image caption] Wade Blank and his son Lincoln (left) joined ADAPT co-founder, Mike Auberger (far right), at the dedication of the monument honoring the disability rights movement. The dedication was on the second anniversary of the signing of the ADA, July 26, 1992. [text resumes] Always mindful of the importance of self-determination, Wade was proud that over 75% of the employees of Atlantis Community have a severe disability, including every major leadership position. Every regional ADAPT activist leader also has a severe disability. Wade, like all the other great leaders, never asked anyone to do something he was not willing to do himself. He spent an untold number of days in jail, alongside his wheelchair warriors of ADAPT, sometimes over 100 people at a time Wade declined personal publicity himself, preferring the larger message of injustice being told by persons with disabilities themselves. Justin Dart, Chairperson of former President Bush's Commission on Employment of Persons with Disabilities would many times refer fondly of the 'army of ADAPTas being the truepatriots of the dis-ability movement just like the early patriots who threw tea into the Boston Harbor'. Last year, Wade traveled to Czechoslovakia, at a joint invitation of the Czech government and the Bush Administration to help them in the drafting of their brand new democratic constitution, so that the rights of persons with disabilities would be included. As powerful as these accomplishments are, they do not tell the whole story. Wade was a gentle soul who always had time for anybody, anytime of the day or night. We were all members of his family. We must remember not only the larger things, but also the seemingly small things that gave glimpses to the inner soul of the person we all loved. In Orlando, Wade was arrested in the middle of a radio inter-view, as he was being taken to the paddy wagon, one of his wheelchair warriors furiously wheeled next to him holding a cellular phone to his head so Wade could continue the on-the-air interview all the way to the paddy wagon. That day, 73 wheelchair warriors were arrested fighting against the inhumanity of incarceration in nursing homes, when attendant services are cheaper and more humane. Several were taken to jail in the back of moving vans commandeered by police. During an action against the Social Security Administration national head-quarters in Baltimore, three persons in wheelchairs instinctively peeled off and captured a public bus that wandered a little too close to the protest. Wade ran over to get them to release the public bus, since they were not the target of the day's actions. Coming back to the rest of the protest he calmly said with a touch of humor "buses are like (all habits) once you have one bus you can't stop". There were the times, out of no-where, I would suddenly get a phone call from Wade saying he had just run across something I had written and he had to call to tell me his thoughts on the article. During an action in San Francisco, when he was told the police were setting over a fleet of paratransit vehicles to do mass arrests, Wade responded with, "So-what do you expect us to do, make reservations (for transportation to jail)?" There were also the intimate times of those special ADAPT weddings Wade conducted at some of the national actions. It was a special way, special couples could share the [boxed text] Wade saw in the disability movement something unique, the grand equalizer --DISABILITY [text continues] joy of their love with the only family that understood-ADAPT. One wedding took place just hours after everybody, including the couple to be married, were released from jail. There are the images of Wade the gentle soul, together with fellow fighter, wife, and pillar of strength Molly Blank, and their children on the protest trails with their extended family of ADAPT. Everybody was important; everybody was equal in the end. The national offices of Atlantis Community & ADAPT was really one big massive room with no walls to create artificial barriers within the movement. The lack of walls symbolized Wade's view on life, civil rights, and equality of all people. He gave meaning to the saying, 'DISABILITY PRIDE.' In his memory, ADAPT shall never forget Wade as the fight for freedom continues with even more vigor and sense of purpose than ever before. [image] [no image caption] [Subheading] Wade Blank Memorial Fund A memorial fund has been established in Wade Blank's honor to continue the fight of defending disability rights. Contributions to the WADE BLANK MEMORIAL FUND can be sent to: WADE BLANK MEMORIAL FUND FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF DENVER 300 SOUTH FEDERAL BOULEVARD DENVER, CO 80206 [boxed text] Tribute to Wade Blank at Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. set for May 9th Before he died, Wade planned a series of demonstrations for personal assistance services to be held in Washington, DC, on May 9th, 10th, and 11th. These will go forward in his honor. There will be a tribute to him on Sunday, May 9th, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. [ADAPT logo] Join together in memory of Wade-on May 9th, today, tomorrow, as long as life remains-to continue his struggle for a truly humane society. 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PHOTO: A view from above down on a lobby [at the Department of Labor] full of protesters in wheelchairs and standing. Many are holding colorful posters. There are 2 big posters on a column near the middle of the picture. - ADAPT (1073)
PHOTO: In a large room with a huge oil painting on the wall and a white marble statue, a group of ADAPT people sit looking kind of toward the camera. The side of someone's face is visible in the foreground at the edge of the picture. Mike Auberger is in the center of the crowd. - ADAPT (1064)
PHOTO: Shot from across the street, a long line of ADAPT marchers heads up 7th street. They are passing under the train track bridge and heading east toward HUD. - ADAPT (905)
PHOTO by Tom Olin?: Side of building with big white bricks, two windows one with a window Unit AC. A man [Mark Pasquesi] is climbing up to the window. The windows and side of the building have about 10 yellow and green poster/signs taped on. Messages are "piss on pity", Mi casa su casa my home not yours", "Newt enjoys wasting time", "Nursing homes = no freedom", "Hey Newt We'll be back love ADAPT", "Eliminate nursing home waste", "Give a hoot" and "People before profits." At the bottom of the photo you can see the tops of a couple of people's heads and video camera held by someone [Gordie Haug?}]. - ADAPT (1447)
144 miles from Philadelphia to D.C. to set our people free! - ADAPT (1446)
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ANNIVERSARY ISSUE 15TH ANNIVSERSARY ISSUE [image] drawing of a wheelchair April 29, 1987 [Headline] Wheels of Fortune [Subheading] Michael Smith finally found justice for the disabled this spring-twelve years after his death. By Frank Hogan (Wade) Blank sat with Smith from midnight to morning during his last months. The Atlantis office was set up in the living room of Smith's apartment, and Blank would write down the poetry of Smith composed in his head. Poems like this: TO TED I woke up on a cold evening And found you Sitting beside my bed. You looked into my eyes And I saw that death was on its way. You grabbed my hand And put your head on my chest. And began to sob. And all I could do Was put my hands in your hair And cry Until my heart was sore I tried to calm your soul And this seemed strange, in a way, Because I was the one Who was dying. This memory Of you letting your tears flow, Letting me see the real you, Will remain deep within my heart. Smith died in his Atlantis Community apartment on October 1, 1975. His mother was at his bedside. He'd had plenty of time to plan his funeral; Blank conducted the service at Olinger's (which was wheelchair accessible), friends read Smith's poetry poetry and Joe Cocker's "You Are So Beautiful" played. Afterward everybody drove up to the Tollgate in Central City and got loaded. Smith was at rest, but his ghost would haunt the courts for twelve more years. Wade Blank would probably puke at the idea, but the Atlantis Community disabled rights activist is the closest approximation to a saint that I encountered while writing stories for Westword. Blank was instrumental in creating the Atlantis Community. He was constantly at Michael Patrick Smith's bedside during the former muscular dystrophy poster child's final days. That was after Smith moved out of a nursing home and into an apartment and filed a lawsuit against Heritage House for violating his civil rights and denying him the care he was entitled to under the Medicaid Act. But it wasn't Blank's tenacity in pursuing the lawsuit for over a dozen years and to a victory on Smith's behalf that most impresses me. Blank's utter fearlessness is what's amazing. In the early years of Atlantis' development, Blank's van was torched, a cinderblock was hurled through his living room window and he was continually threatened and harassed. Through all the obstacles, Blank kept shepherding the disabled rights movement forwards. On July 5, 1978, Blank and nineteen disabled activists in wheelchairs blocked buses at the corner of Broadway and Colfax, demanding wheelchair access to public transportation. Since then they've traveled to major cities throughout the U.S. and Europe, performing acts of civil disobedience to make their point. Twelve years after that historic night in downtown Denver, President George Bush signed legislation guaranteeing the disabled equality in the workplace and ordering all public transportation to be wheelchair-accessible. "A few weeks ago, the City of Denver erected a plaque to commemorate that protest," says Blank. "Next time you're down at Colfax and Broadway, take a look at it. The tourist bureau put out a brochure listing it as a sight to see in Denver." Blank isn't resting on his laurels, though. In October, he'll be in San Francisco, leading 400 wheelchair activists as they try to shut down the national nursing home administrators' convention. "We're going to lock all the doors at the Moscone Center and let them know what it feels like to be locked in a nursing home," Blank says. "Then we'll hit California Clinton headquarters unless we get a position paper by October 1 spelling out that if he's elected, Clinton can and will implement a national attendant service program." That program is Blank's main focus these days. "We need to rethink nursing homes," he says. "The patient is a commodity. You can talk quality care, but when you're a commodity you're not really talking about humanity. It's like saying we want o have nice clean barns before we slaughter the cattle. It's not bad service, it's the system." That's another thing I like about Blank: He's not afraid of hyperbole. His only fault is that he's a Cleveland Browns fan. He stand up to the system and wins. He embodies everything that was good about the Sixties, with a Nineties addition: Blank has a publicity coordinator in Hollywood. Michael Smith's story was made into a television movie a few years ago, and Blank is talking to Quantum Leap producers about dramatizing the 1978 standoff in downtown Denver. And still Blank defects all credit to disabled activists. Even the PR agent furthers the cause of the Atlantis Community rather than Blank's personal triumphs. "Mike [Smith] is the acorn of the oak tree, says Blank. "He left quite a legacy." Blank's leaving quite a legacy himself. Westword 9/2/93 - ADAPT (1783)
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105th Congress 1st Session H.R. 2020 To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of community attendant services under the Medicaid program. In the House of Representatives June 24, 1997 Mr. Gingrich introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Commerce A Bill To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of community attendant services under the medicaid program. 1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of 2 Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 3 Section 1. Short Title. 4 This Act may be cited as the "Medicaid Community 5 Attendant Services Act of 1997".