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Tuis / Albums 41
Datum bygevoeg / 2018 / November / 29
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San Francisco Chronicle, Monday, October 19, 1992 TITLE: S.F. Protesters In Wheelchairs Bar Hotel Exits By Dan Levy, Chronicle Staff Writer Hundreds of demonstrators in wheelchairs calling for a national program for home attendant care surrounded a downtown San Francisco hotel last night in a noisy protest. The protesters blocked the driveway and main entrances to the San Francisco Marriott hotel on Fourth Street for more than an hour, disrupting the opening night convention activities of the American Health Care Association, which represents the nursing home industry. Police in riot gear formed a narrow corridor for hotel guests to pass in and out of the hotel on the Market Street side, but the building was blocked at Fourth Street by about 300 demonstrators -most in motorized wheelchairs, some with dog guides — chanting “Up with attendant care, down with nursing homes." There were no arrests. Attendant care advocates have urged that $25 million of the federal Medicaid budget currently allocated to nursing homes be used to create a national program for home care. Wade Blank, a founder of the Denver-based advocacy group, American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today, said home attendant care is less expensive than institutional care and allows disabled people to live in their communities.
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San Francisco Chronicle S.F.Police Being Trained How To Arrest Disabled Protesters San . Francisco police are bracing for a demonstration this month in which they may arrest dozens of wheelchair-bound protesters, an event that poses special problems for officers. Groups of officers have been taking a two-hour class at the Police Academy aimed at teaching them how to arrest and search disabled people and prevent wheelchairs from being used as weapons. The demonstration is planned in conjunction with the October 1'/-23 [sic] annual convention at Moscone Center of the American Health Care Association, an organization of nursing home and residential-care facility operators. A Denver group that goes by the name ADAPT, an acronym for Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs Today, plans to have 400 protesters at the convention, said Michael Auberger, its organizer and co-founder. ADAPT wants some of the federal money that goes to nursing homes and residential-care facilities to go for attendant care for disabled people who live on their own. “Over the years, we've used various tactics in different situations," Auberger said. “We're very confrontational, and we're going to make sure we get in their face." The Police Academy courses are being taught by Paul Imperiale, the mayor's disability coordinator. He said officers are learning how to search a -person they have arrested without harming the person. Police also are being warned that some protesters may have life-support devices that must be handled with care. Vans with special wheelchair lifts will be available to take away arrested demonstrators.
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Photo Tom Olin?: A view from on high of the line of the ADAPT march down a Chicago street. The line is mostly single file with a T at the front. On the sides a few walking people with ADAPT are helping and police are walking along the street side of the march. On the sidewalk a TV cameraman is filming. From the front of the march left to right you can see Jerry Eubanks being pushed by Bill Henning, Bob Kafka, and Paulette Patterson. Behind them is another row of three activist including Paulette Sanchez and one woman pushing a wheelchair with a small coffin in it. Behind them is another row of three Dorothy Ruffin, a small person behind the coffin and Debbie ______, behind them is someone in a white shirt and Sparky Metz, then George Roberts in a cap and behind him Janette Roberts is holding his chair, next to her San Antonio Fuentes, behind him is possibly Walter Hart and Bobby Thompson is a bit out of the line, then three people, then someone being pushed possibly by Bill Scarborough, then Danny Saenz, then Jennifer McPhail in a purple shirt behing pushed by Richard Zapata, someone is rolling beside them and Babs Johnson is walking beside them too. Behnd that group it gets more difficult to make out faces, but the line goes on out of the top of the picture.
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Photo by Tom Olin?: A group of Chicago police men are huddled by the door of a car. There is a camera person in the foreground. They appear to be helping someone they are guarding in or out of the vehicle.
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Photo by Tom Olin?: A large group of ADAPT protesters on the lower level of the State of Illinois Center are facing the camera and chanting. A woman with a bull horn (Paulette Patterson) is leading the chant; sitting on the back of her chair is her daughter. The group from left to right: First row: small woman in red, Mark McTimmes, and Paulette. 2nd Row: Two unknown ADAPTers, Allen Leegant (standing), Barbara Bounds, on Paulette's other side Tim Sullivan. Behind Mark and Baraba is Arthur Cambell in blue sweatshirt beside Gene Rodgers. Behind Sullivan is Judy Ziegler, standing and Frank Lozano sitting on floor. Behind all of them are several more rows of chanters and then some kind of display board.
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Chicago Defender, Monday, May I I, 1992 Title: Sullivan speaks, get heckled at UIC by Dobie Holland Screaming slogans such as “You're killing us," a group of physically-disabled persons disrupted the commencement speech of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Dr. Louis W. Sullivan Sunday at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Security personnel removed the partially wheelchair-bound group from the UIC Pavilion and escorted them outside, where they joined 500 other protesters from 25 states who picketed outside during the ceremonies. John Gladstone, a Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT) member from Philadelphia, explained the group's militant tactics: “These are radical times. You can only write so many letters. l wrote so many letters to Mr. Sullivan that I had writer's cramp." ADAPT, a national Civil Rights agency, is concerned with Bush Administration policies that have resulted in widespread budget cuts in state Medicaid funding. The reductions, ADAPT members say, will force disabled people to live in nursing homes. The group is calling for 25 percent of Medicaid funds to be ear-marked for community-based nursing centers, which will enable many disabled citizens to live independently from nursing homes. “They're warehousing us (in nursing homes)," Gladstone said. “I've lived in nursing homes for 14 years and I have seen some of the brutality that goes on there." Gladstone said nursing homes are guilty of inhumane treatment and neglect of patients who are unable to defend themselves. The environment in nursing homes, Gladstone added, is not conducive to leading a normal adult lifestyle. "When you live in these nursing home facilities, they take your life away. When I first went into a nursing home, I was in a walker but they wouldn't let me walk and they put me in a wheelchair — now I can't walk," he said. Sullivan, who was under tight security, was not available for comment after the ceremonies. The HHS secretary delivered his address despite the nterruptions and emphasized a need for sensitivity and caring toward all humans.