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Beranda / Album / Montreal, Fall 1988 31
Tanggal pembuatan / 2013 / July
- ADAPT (394)
PHOTO (by Jean Goupil): Protesters lined up along police barricades outside a large building, in the forground two women and a man try to pass a wheelchair over the barricade, and a policeman tries to block them. To the left of this group a man in a wheelchair (Randy Horton?) looks on as Reverend Willie of Chicago talks with another officer over the barricades. Behind them are lines of other protesters and police officers on either side of the barricades. La Presse, Montreal, Lundi 3 Octobre 1988 (In French) A L'ASSAUT DU REINE ELIZABETH Photo: Jean Goupil, La Presse Une centaine de handicapes in fauteuil roulant ont tenet hier de forcer les barrages policiers a l'entree de l'hotel Reine Elizabeth, ou se tient le congres de l'Association americane des transports publics. Bilan de la journee: une trentaine d'arrestations. Les manifestants reclamalent que les autobus soient a mettre d'utiliser les transports en commun. Page A3 La Presse, Montreal, Monday, October 3, 1988 (In French) AT THE ASSAULT OF QUEEN ELIZABETH Photo: Jean Goupil, La Presse A hundred handicapped in wheelchairs yesterday tried to force the police checkpoints at the entrance of the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, where the congress of the American Public Transit Association is being held. Assessment of the day: some thirty arrests. Protesters claim that buses must be put to use transporting all the public. Page A3 - ADAPT (393)
The Gazette, Montreal, Saturday, October 1, 1988 - ADAPT (392)
Headline only: APTA still says no to lifts Wheelchair activists cross into Canada - ADAPT (391)
Montreal Daily News MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1988 VOLUME 1/NUMBER 169 Picture by Andrew Taylor/Daily News: Along a wet city street hundreds of protesters press against police barricades. Inside the barricades uniformed police are gathered. On the far left and in the center of the photo, protesters lift manual wheelchairs over the barricades. In the center, police push the wheelchair back toward the crowd. Below them, by their feet, several protesters are crawling under the barricades. One officer is trying to keep them back. On the ground further back in the photo, you can see the legs of one protester who is on the wet ground, having made it all the way under the barricades. Caption: 2 - PAGE PHOTO SPECIAL. City police crush wheelchair protest Police clash with disabled demonstrators outside an international transportation conference at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel. About 25 people were arrested last night after a day of protest against the lack of specialized transit services. - ADAPT (390)
PHOTO: Two policemen in fancy hats and uniforms stand behind metal barred barricades looking down at the man in a manual wheelchair on the other side of the barricade. They look slightly mystified and slightly distainful. The man in the wheelchair (Frank McComb) is looking over his shoulder at the camera. He is an older man in a white buttondown shirt and the backpack on the back of his wheelchair has an ADAPT sticker. His facial expression is somewhere between exasperated and michiveous. - ADAPT (389)
Montreal Daily News Tuesday, October 4, 1988 Volume 1/Number 170 50 cents Title: Arrested! Subheading; And she’s only seven Photo by Allan Leishman/Daily News: At least six uniformed police officers surround a very small girl (Jennifer Keelan) dressed all in pink in a manual wheelchair. At her side a woman (Cyndy Keelan, her mother) bends toward her and a police man bends toward her on her other side. Caption: More confrontations: Disabled militants block entrance to Place Ville Marie. Surrounded by MUC police, seven year old Jennifer Keelan and her mom prepare to be carted off to headquarters. Stored and photos on page 2,3 - ADAPT (388)
Photo by Tom Olin?: ADAPT protesters sit holding hands in a kind of circle. Stephanie Thomas and Paulette Patterson are two of the folks in the group of at least eight folks. - ADAPT (387)
The Gazette, Montreal, Sunday, October 2, 1988 PHOTO by Allen McInnis, Gazette: A woman in a manual wheelchair (Stephanie Thomas) sits in front of a blank wall. She is loosely holding the push rims of her chair. Her left leg, closest to the camera, is broken and has a large cast on it. She is wearing a dark shirt with a button, and cotton wide legged pants with a floral pattern. Her eyes are slightly squinting and she looks determined. Caption: Wheelchair-bound Stephanie Thomas: "We try to hit conventions as forcefully as we can." Title: Transit activist expects ride to jail By LYNN MOORE, of The Gazette Stephanie Thomas of Austin, Texas, expects to see some sights most tourists don't during her stay in Montreal — like the inside of the Tanguay detention center for women. Thomas and her husband are among about 120 wheelchair-bound members of the American Disabled for Accessible Public Transit (ADAPT) who are prepared to go to jail in their fight for better access to North American transit systems. "We feel that degree of commitment is necessary to get our cause known and to get attention," said Thomas, who has spent 14 years in a wheelchair after a tractor accident when she was 17. The group is in town to continue its battle with the 900-member American Public Transit Association, which begins its four-day convention in Montreal today. The Montreal Urban Community Transit Corporation, a member of the association, is convention host. About 3,000 people are expected to attend. Transit executives "don't have to think of this problem at all," Thomas said, alluding to inaccessible mass-transit vehicles. "They can just ignore it. That's why we try to hit as forcefully as we can during their conventions." Civil disobedience is the name of the game for ADAPT members, and one they have played in every city where the transit association has held a meeting for the past five years. They have chained themselves to buses and buildings, blocked traffic and created major headaches for police. The group's Montreal targets are not yet known because it is keeping that information under wraps. But Montreal's Metro system, which is not wheelchair-accessible, has not gone unnoticed by the activists. Thomas, her fellow activists and several representatives of a Montreal disabled-rights group met yesterday with a lawyer who briefed them on what to expect from local police, jails and courts. The meeting was closed to the media. "Most of these people have done the letter-writing, the testifying and public hearings and things like that but it doesn't work," she said. Public confrontation gets much better results, she said. She pointed to the increase in the number of transit authorities that have bought buses equipped with mechanical lifts to replace their aging vehicles. According to APTA figures, the percentage of buses with lifts has grown to 30 per cent from 11 per cent in 1981. Once arrested and charged, ADAPT members usually plead guilty and opt for jail terms rather than fines, Thomas said. The end of article - ADAPT (386)
Montreal Daily News Title: A wheelchair Army Goes to War! [This article continues in ADAPT 385 but the entire text is included here for easier reading.] Photo 1 by ALLAN R LEISHMAN/Montreal Daily News: In a crowd of uniformed police officers and others, two policemen stand on either side of a protester sitting on the wet ground. The protester sits, back to the camera, wearing a cap and his face and head are obscured by a white trash bag under his jacket. These two police officers are looking back beside the camera. The police barricade is just visible in front of the protester. Caption: Roundup: Police are kept busy by demonstrators last night. Photo 2 on the left and below the other photo by ALLAN R LEISHMAN/Daily News: A person in a manual wheelchair is tipped completely back by attendant and protester Jan Ingram the front wheels of the chair are hooked over a very low heavy metal barrier. Behind that barrier are standard police barricades and uniformed officers are standing behind them. One policeman is in between the standard barricades and the low barrier and he is looking at other officers and pointing at the person in the wheelchair. Caption: Protesting: One of the wheelchair demonstrators near the barricaded Queen Elizabeth Hotel. Title: 25 arrested in downtown demonstration by Ron Charles Montreal Daily News MUC police arrested 25 wheelchair-bound demonstrators last night after they forced their way into the lobby of the Sheraton Centre in downtown Montreal. The demonstrators were protesting the American Public Transit Association's (APTA) reluctance to endorse wheelchair lifts on new buses. They crashed their wheelchairs through a luggage-cart barrier hotel employees had built in an attempt to ward off the protesters. [Subheading] Came along When APTA, a Washington-based transit authority organization, brought its annual conference to Montreal this week, the protesters came along as part of the ticket. The demonstrators, from a group called American Disabled for Accessible Public Transit (ADAPT), have been protesting at APTA conferences for eight years. Only a few members of a local disabled rights group took part in the demonstrations — the rest were from the U.S. Police said all those arrested — who are expected to be charged with assault — were American citizens, many of them Vietnam veterans. About 50 MUC police officers showed up to clear the Sheraton's marble-covered lobby after the protesters, singing "we want to ride," blocked elevators and escalators. Police wheeled the demonstrators one by one to a waiting wheel-chair bus being used as a paddy wagon. Police snipped chains linking protesters Mike Auberger and Bob Kafka's wheelchairs to a handrail in the lobby. Although the APTA conference is taking place at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, some of the 3,000 attendees are staying at the Sheraton. Earlier in the day, police turned the Queen Elizabeth into a fortress with metal street barriers as about 75 demonstrators wheeled toward the APTA conference headquarters. They blocked traffic in both directions on Dorchester for more than two hours as police tried to pen the group in with the barriers. Police took two protesters who had crashed the barriers out of their chairs in order to lift them and their chairs over the barriers. [Subheading] Took chair "The police took his chair away, separated him from his legs," said Lori Taylor as she watched from the side-walk when police lifted her husband, Lester, over the barrier. "He can't walk, he's just sitting on the wet ground and all he wants to do is ride a bus like you and me." Bill Bolte, who started ADAPT's Los Angeles chapter, said police overreacted to the demonstration. "This really confuses me because I know that after the Canadians (hockey team) won the Stanley Cup, all types of terrible activity went on," said Bolte. "People overturned cars while everyone, including the police, just looked the other way and went and had a cup of coffee." Several demonstrators who broke through the police perimeter smashed their chairs into barriers in front of the hotel entrance, but hotel security and police stood their ground. Police arrested some 25 wheelchair demonstrators after they forced their way into the lobby of the Sheraton Centre. They were protesting the American public transit association’s reluctance to endorse wheelchair lifts on new buses. It was showdown time yesterday, as wheelchair-bound protesters took on city cops outside the Sheraton hotel on Dorchester Boulevard Some demonstrators where roughly carried and wheeled away as the melee grew ugly. The protesters were making their case for better accessibility to buses at the American Public Transit Association convention. - ADAPT (385)
[This is a continuation of the article in ADAPT 386. The entire text of the article is included there for easier reading.] Montreal Daily News Monday, October 3, 1988. Photo 1 by Allan Leichman/Daily News: Three uniformed police officers lift a protester (Bob Kafka) whose face is contorted in a yell of pain. One is bending over his legs while the other two have him by the arms. Behind and out of focus other officers and protesters are visible. In the foreground is the trunk of a car. Photo 2 missing picture id inset below the other picture: An officer pushes protester (Bob Kafka) away in his manual wheelchair. Two people stand in the foreground one watching. Caption: Police arrested some 25 wheelchair demonstrators after they forced their way into the lobby of the Sheraton Centre. They were protesting the American Public Transit Association's reluctance to endorse wheelchair lifts on new buses. - ADAPT (384)
ADAPT [flyer in French for the Montreal protest] [Title] Nous Serons Transportes 4536 East Colfax Denver, Colorado 80220 303-393-0630 Cette resolution est presentee par l'organisation -ADAPT, American Disabled for Accessible Public Transport (Les Handicapes Americains pour un Transport Publique Accessible). Attendu que: C'est imperieux que les citoyens employants les fauteils roulants pour la mobilite ont la capacite d'employer le transport publique afin de participer egalement dans la societe; Attendu que: La technologie est disponible a faire les autobus accessible aux fauteils roulants; Attendu que: Plusieurs des grandes villes ont fait accessible leurs autobus (l'adaptation du reseau regulier) et ils ont trouve que ce projet produit un success marquant; Attendu que: Offrir seulment le transport adapte pour les personnes handicapees (transport de la porte a la port dans un minibus special), ca les isole et rend alienees. En effet, un transport special souligne que la separation n'est jamais l'egalite. Attendu que: L'Association de Transport Publique de l'Amerique; APTA, represent presque toutes les societes de transport des Etas Unis et plusiers du Canada - Montreal parmi eux. Aussi, APTA a le pouvoir a encourager ses membres a faire leurs systems de transport accessible a les personnes handicapees, et APTA a le pouvoir a encourager les fabricants des autobus a constuir les autobus accessibles. Par consequent le suivant est resolu: 1) L'Association du Transport Publique de l'Amerique, APTA, demand publiquement l'accessibilite totale pour tous les systems du transport publique. 2) APTA declare a tous les fabricants des autobus qu'a l'avenir les membres d'APTA n'achetent que les autobus accessible. - ADAPT (383)
The Gazette, Montreal, Monday, October 3, 1988 Final [edition] 50 cents Title: Police arrest 28 wheelchair activists after protest in hotel lobby By Michael Doyle and Catherine Buckie of the Gazette Twenty-eight wheelchair protesters were arrested and charged with mischief last night after 50 of them staged a noisy demonstration in the lobby of the Sheraton Center on Dorchester Blvd. The protesters were demonstrating against the lack of mass transit facilities for the handicapped. They sang We Shall Overcome and chanted “Access is a Civil Right!” as they blocked off elevators and escalators at the downtown hotel. Police took the wheelchair activists to the Bonsecours St. station. They were to be arraigned before a judge at 1 a.m. today. “We don’t want to hold them for nothing,” said Const. Bernard Perrier. “We want to put them before a judge as soon as possible. It will be up to the judge to decide what happens to them after that.” The demonstrators were mostly members of a U.S. group, American Disabled for Accessible Public Transit (ADAPT). They are here to badger transit-authority representatives from across the continent – including officials of the Montreal Urban Community Transit Corp. – who are attending the convention of the American Public Transit Association. “We’re just trying to make their convention as inaccessible to them as public transit is for us,” group organizer Rev. Wade Blank of Denver, Colo., said earlier that day. A squad of about 80 police officers was called in to clear the hotel lobby. One protester, Bob Kafka, a 42-year-old Vietnam veteran from Austin, Texas whose neck was broken in a car accident, had chained himself to a railing in the lobby. Police cut the chain with shears. The activists decided to demonstrate at the Sheraton because a large number of delegates to the transit convention are staying there, Kafka said. “We’re sorry for the inconvenience, but we’ve been inconvenienced all our lives,” he said. Hotel general manager Alfred Heim, who used a bullhorn to read a portion of the Eviction Act to the protesters before the police moved in, said he expected some trouble because the protesters attend each transit convention. The demonstration closed the westbound lanes on Dorchester Blvd. outside the hotel for about two hours. It was the second time yesterday that the demonstrators had disrupted traffic on Dorchester Blvd. Earlier, more than 75 of the wheelchair activists blocked traffic outside the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, site of the convention. Police there put up barricades to contain the activists, who were eventually allowed to line up single-file on the north side of the street, away from the hotel entrance. Picture, Page A-3 The end - ADAPT (382)
The Gazette, Montreal, Monday, October 3, 1988 Photo by The Gazette's James Seeley Three adults in wheelchairs (ET, Claude Holcomb, and a blond in a motorized wheelchair) look on as a police man crouches down and tries to hold the barricades against a 7 year old (Jennifer Keelan) in a wheelchair being pushed by her mom (Cyndy Keelan). In one corner a TV cameraman captures the scene. Everyone is wearing rain gear and the streets behind them are shiny wet. [Headline] No access for wheelchairs Activist Cynthia Keelan of Scottsdale, Arizona pushing her wheelchair-bound daughter Jennifer, 7, is blocked by police barricades at demonstration outside transit convention yesterday. The demonstrators were demanding full access to public transit for the disabled. Keelan was arrested last night during a later demonstration at the Sheraton Centre. - ADAPT (380)
PHOTO by Tom Olin: Looking up at two men with disabilities are sitting on a wide flight of stairs as they climb down. One man (Bob Kafka), with bushy hair and beard is in suspenders, jeans and a thick white shirt. He is holding his right hand above his head, holding a ticket; his mouth is open, yelling. The other man (George Roberts) is wearing a jacket and dark pants and is on his side holding onto a metal railing in the middle of the stairs. In the gloom above them you can see some official looking people with reflective stripes on their jackets, someone standing behind them, possibly filming, and a row of people standing in the far background. - ADAPT (379)
This is a picture of 2 transit tickets from the Montreal transit system. They are in French. One is yellow with black print and blue watermarks. IT says 1988 and 6 for $5.50 Societe de Transport de la Communaute Utbaine de Montreal. It's ticket number 0668443 The other is grey with black print and darker grey watermarks. It says $1.00 1988 Societe de Transport de la Communaute Utbaine de Montreal. It's ticket number 578959. These are two examples of the tickets purchased by ADAPT to ride the subway from Longueuil (a city across the Saint Lawrence River from Montreal) to Montreal. Trying to ride this inaccessible system was part of our action.