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[Headline] Activists at Opryland shrug off court order By Glenn Henderson and Jeff Wilkinson Banner Staff Writers Disabled activists who have disrupted operations at the Opryland Hotel and the state Capitol are threatening to take their civil disobedience to the Grand Ole Opry tonight during the star-studded Country Music Awards. A decision on whether to try to disrupt the nationally televised CMA show (7 p.m. on WTVF-Channel 5) will be made later today, said Mike Auberger, co-director of Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs Today. Opryland officials said the CMA show will go on protest or no protest. ADAPT this week has been picketing the 44th annual American Health Care Association convention being held at the Opryland Hotel. The group is demanding that 25 percent of all Medicaid dollars be diverted from nursing homes to home health care. Auberger said that disrupting the televised CMA show would bring national attention to the group's cause. "It would be a good format to raise the issue," he said. Auberger added that the public protests are necessary to offset the power and money of nursing home lobbyists. "The industry is so powerful," he said. "It comes down to the fact that dollars are more important than people." An Opryland spokesman said park officials are not worried about possible disruptions at tonight's CMA Awards. "The show will go on smoothly no matter what," Tom Adkinson said today. "They (ADAPT members) are under a restraining order issued last night to stay off of our property. "We have no concern about the conduct of the show." Auberger said the restraining order will have no effect on his group's decision: "We have to get our message across." Adkinson would not comment on security arrangements but expressed frustration with the demonstrations. "This whole situation is both reprehensible and unnecessary," he said. "We at Opryland have tried to be accommodating . . . and, frankly, Opryland and Nashville are being victimized in this whole situation. "We don't have a dog in this fight; we're just caught in the middle." On Tuesday, a melee broke out at the Opryland Hotel when a scheduled meeting between ADAPT and members of the American Health Care Association [text cuts off here] Please see ARRESTS, page A-2 - ADAPT (1807)
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On a bright sunny day a large crowd fills the shot. In the center a man in an ADAPT T-shirt wearing glasses and squinting in the sun, smiles a huge smile. He is upright in his wheelchair and caries an American Flag with Long Term Care printed at the bottom. To his right an older woman (Barb Toomer) wearing sun glasses, sits beside him and between them is a large piece of equipment like a box camera. On his other side a woman (Grace Gotchalk) looks determined, and on her other side a man (Albert Sparky Metz) is beaming a smile. Others in the crowd have the long term care flags. - ADAPT (1480)
METRO DC MD VA S WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2003 B3 [Headline] Going the Distance for the Disabled [Subheading] 144-Mile March Urges Right to Live Free of Institutions By DARRAGH JOHNSON Washington Post Staff Writer Already, they had cruised 128.6 miles in their wheelchairs and eat-en too many jelly doughnuts for breakfast and too many peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch. "I can't wait to have a hoagie," fantasized Topeka, Kan., res-ident Jo Ann Donnell yesterday morning, "with Genoa salami with provolone. That, and a scotch and soda." They had endured rain-soaked pillows and sunburned forearms and cars whizzing by way too close for comfort. And every night for almost two weeks, these 250 advocates for the disabled had wheeled into their campsites, plugged their chairs into chargers and spent the next 10 hours on their cots, sacrificing mobility for the chance to make a statement. Now there they were yesterday morning, lined up in blue tents next to a driving range in Beltsville, eating more jelly doughnuts and getting ready for another six hours. Another 10 miles. Another day of clogging traffic along one of Maryland's busiest roads, Route 1, as they zoomed two miles an hour in the right-hand lane and chanted, 'Free Our People!' In the midst of the preparations was co-organizer Bob Kafka, whose wild white hair and beard gave him an added presence as he turned on his cordless microphone and cried, "Today . . . we're heading to D,C.!" He started waving a piece of pa-per, as cheering erupted around him, and men in ball caps and women in chic, Juicy Couture-esque sweat suits and red-spangled sandals leaned closer. "I have a letter here, dated September 15, on White House stationery," he continued, and with the mention of "White House," the crowd immediately quieted down. On Sept. 4, the members of the advocacy group ADAPT had started this 144-mile wheelchair march at the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, and with every town they stopped in, they tried to whip up support for bills in the U.S. House and Senate that would "allow all Americans to receive long-term care services in their own homes, instead of being forced into nursing homes, as they are under cur-rent Medicaid policy," as their mission statement on their Web site describes. Currently, Medicaid funds automatically pay for nursing homes, but the funds can be diverted to pay for home health care only by the most diligent and seemingly connected of patients. So nearly all the march participants live in fear that someday if, for example, pneumonia further disabled them, they would be forced to spend the rest of their lives in an institution. "I would rather die," said Terri Stellar, 40, her voice cracking and her eyes tearing up as she talked. "I would rather die than go into a place like that." She knows because she was there, she said. Stellar, a social worker in Austin, was in a car accident four years ago that broke her left hip and foot and landed her in a rehabilitation hospital that she said was no different from a nursing home. She was supposed to spend two weeks there. She spent three months, until the insurance money ran out. "We would like to invite you and five of your fellow representatives of ADAPT back to the White House," Kafka read, to continue our discussion . . . of policies to promote home and community-based care for individuals with disabilities. We have reserved the Lincoln Room at the White House Conference Center." "The letter is signed," Kafka finished, "by the special assistant to the president!" "Whoo hoooo!" surged the group. Everyone was tanned after almost two weeks in the sun. On every third chair flapped an American flag with the stars arranged in the shape of a person in a wheelchair, and chanting started up: "Free Our People! Free Our People!" From there, the chairs wheeled toward Route 1, where three Maryland State Police cruisers and a Prince George's County police car waited with lights flashing to escort them to the District line. The mood was cautiously jubilant. Just one more day and 14 more miles before their big rally this afternoon on Capitol Hill, where they hoped Congress members and 5,000 supporters would show up to join them. Already, Sens. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) and Reps. Danny K. Davis (D-111.) and John M. Shimkus (R-111.) have sponsored legislation to help their cause. But on whether anything will change dramatically as a result of this odyssey that brought advo-cates from all over the country [image] [image caption] BY SUSAN BIDDLE--The Washington Post. Advocates for the disabled make their way along Route 1 In Maryland en route to today's rally In Washington. [text resumes] from Salt Lake City and Boulder, Colo., and Missoula, Mont., and West Haven, Conn.-46-year-old Albert "Sparky" Metz was reserving judgment. "Actions speak louder than words," he said gravely. Cerebral palsy has garbled his speech to the point where he often needs his attendant, Andy Rowe, to "translate" for him. But after spending his childhood in a state-run home in Oklahoma, and his adult years until 1990 in a nursing home, Metz uses whatever plat-form he can find to describe the difference between life in an institution and life on his own. "Freedom," he said, straining back his head. In the institution, he said, "I had to tell them where I was going." But today, he lives in a duplex in Austin with his wife, Laurie, and their dog, Elvira, "and now I go shopping, and (or walks around Town Lake." He has visited Hippie Hollow, the nudist colony near his house, and wheeled his chair to the edge of the lake. Though he hasn't gone skinny-dipping—"it isn't accessible," he said—he didn't wear a shirt for the occasion. But better than just the freedoms of movement and decision-making, he said yesterday, surrounded by friends in chairs, is the freedom he now has to make a difference. "Ten years ago..." he said, the words pushing forth with more vowel sounds than consonants, requiring the listener to lean in and concentrate. "Ten years ago, Austin didn't have accessible cabs." Today, Austin does. "And l—he smacked his heart with his hand, beaming—"I helped with that." - ADAPT (1472)
DAILY BRIEFING — Thursday, September 18, 2003 Austin AmericanStatesman statesman.com [Headline] Disabled demonstrators end trek with rally for in home care bill By Chuck Lindell AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF WASHINGTON — Weary and sore after leading her wheel-chair on a two-week, 144-mile protest, Austin's Jennifer McPhail crossed the finish line Wednesday on Capitol Hill, greeted by whoops and cheers from hundreds of well-wishers. "It was tough. We went from being in this ridiculously hot weather to driving rain the next day,' McPhail said "It doesn't hurt as bad as I thought it would, but I'm hurting." McPhail was among 215 people with disabilities, most of them in wheelchairs, who began their journey at the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia to rally support for a bill that would divert more federal money to in-home care instead of nursing homes or similar facilities. "We're sending a message to Congress that the long-term care system needs to stop warehous-ing people in nursing homes and other institutions," said Bob Kafka, also of Austin and one of the national organizers for the event billed as the Free Our People March and sponsored by the disability rights group ADAPT. [image] [image caption] Kevin Wolf ASSOCIATED PRESS. Austin's Bob Kafka helped organize the Free Our People March, in which 215 people with disabilities traveled from Philadelphia to Washington. Traveling seven to 16 miles a day, spending the night in a tent city that volunteers spent hours building up and tearing down each day, the caravan of pro-. testers arrived in Washington in the early afternoon for a 20- minute, traffic-stopping display. With shouts and chants, the group urged Congress to pass the Medicaid Community-based Attendants Services and Supports Act, which would change Medicaid rules that mandate nursing-home home instead of home-based care. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, told the crowd that he will push the Senate Finance Committee to hold hearings on his bill early next year. "Keep up the pressure," he said. Harkin's bill has 14 co-sponsors in the Senate. Seven of the 81 House co-sponsors are Texas Democrats, including Rep Lloyd Doggett of Austin. clindell@statesman.com; (202) 887-8329 - ADAPT (1463)
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[pamphlet] [graphic showing a route from Philadelphia to Wilmington to Baltimore to Washington, DC] [graphic of ADAPT] ADAPT's Free Our People March [image] September 4-17 2003 140 Miles... from Philly to DC, to set our people free!! MiCASSA NOW!! - ADAPT (1358)
PHOTO: There is a lot of motion in this picture. A person in wheelchair, wearing a yellow shirt is turned away from the camera toward a set of double doors that say public entrance, with a wheelchair symbol. Around this person are Five law enforcement people. One man wearing black gloves is grabbing the chair with both hands. Two others are holding their hands in front of themselves toward the wheelchair in a somewhat feeble looking attempt to stop it. - ADAPT (1333)
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PHOTO: Martina Robinson sits in a dark place, her chin resting on her hand. She is looking off to her right. In her other hand she holds a bright orange poster that reads, "ALEXIS YOU GAVE US YOUR WORD" - ADAPT (986)
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