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Home / Albums / San Francisco, fall 1992 30
In 1992 ADAPT came to San Francisco as part of our AHCA (American Health Care Association) campaign. However, it was an election year (Clinton/Bush Snr) so in addition we called in at their headquarters, and topped off the action with protests at the State and Federal building to address attendant services issues. This was the last national action Wade Blank went to, as he died that winter.
- ADAPT (752)
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. - ADAPT (753)
TITLE: Statement of Governor Clinton on Personal Assistance Services October 16, 1992 I support efforts to make affordable personal assistance services available to Americans with disabilities. We must ensure that all people have the opportunity to live independent lives. People who have disabilities and have a need for personal assistance services should have maximum control over the care they receive. Personal assistance serves must be consumer driven- they must be met by the needs and desires of the user, not the dictates of the supplier. I believe that personal assistance services are of the utmost importance. I understand that every person has different needs. For this reason, I believe that every person has the right to personal assistance services. I believe that personal assistance services should be provided by a wide range of qualified individuals. In my proposal for a National Service Trust Fund, I have suggested that young men and women who go to college can pay for their education by spending two years working in jobs which serve our community - teaching our children, policing our streets, rebuilding our infrastructure. Employment in personal assistance services should be an option in this program, and I hope thousands of men and women choose it. This is only one of many ways in which we can expand the scope of available services. Personal assistance services should be a part of any comprehensive health care reform plan. For this reason, I intend to appoint a task force, including individuals with disabilities, on the role of personal assistance services and long term care in health care reform. Among other things, this task force should examine the role of federal regulations and funding which creates a presumption in favor of institutionalized care over home and community-based services. I have promised to submit a reform package to Congress in the first 100 days of my Administration. The task force will submit recommendations on reform in that time period. It is time for America to realize that silence on issues of concern to people with disabilities is as damaging as prejudice. As President, I will work with individuals with disabilities to empower people to live independently, I will bring people together and make this plan a reality. - ADAPT (772)
Move within, but don't move the way fear makes you move... - ADAPT (755)
TITLE: Clinton, disability rights advocates reach accord on attendant services by Gary Bosworth, special to Access USA News Photo (possibly by Gary Bosworth): A line of ADAPT protesters, mostly in wheelchairs are chanting on the sidewalk outside a large stone building. Quinn Brisben and Ken Heard are at one end and Bob Kafka at the other. You can see barricades behind them. Caption reads: Members of ADAPT protest in front of the Marriot in San Francisco during the annual convention of the nursing home lobby, American Health Care Association. [This article continues on ADAPT 754 but the entire text is included here for easier reading. There is a statement by Gov. Clinton after this article.] On Monday, October 19, the Clinton/Gore campaign released a policy statement that forcefully supports attendant services for persons with disabilities instead of institutionalization The agreement worked out was the culmination of more than a month's negotiation between the Clinton/Gore campaign and the disability rights group ADAPT. In September, ADAPT contacted both the Bush/Quayle and the Clinton/Gore campaigns about the issue of attendant services. Both campaigns were asked to issue policy statements supporting independence for persons with disabilities through attendant services. A mid-October deadline for the statement was given because ADAPT was going to be In San Francisco for a national action at the site of the annual convention for the nursing home lobby, American Health Care Association (AHCA). While the Bush/Quayle campaign ignored the request, Clinton/Gore worked on a statement that was faxed to ADAPT as they were arriving in San Francisco on October 17. The Clinton/Gore statement went a long way to addressing the needs of attendant services, but was still missing the fact that a major crux of the problem had to with the bias in how federal regulations favor more expensive nursing home care instead of less expensive, more efficient attendant services Without the additional language, ADAPT went ahead with its planned non-violent protest march on Monday, October 19. Over 400 persons with disabilities marched in two `groups`, targeting the headquarters of Bush/Quayle and Clinton/Gore simultaneously. In response, the Bush/Quayle headquarters not only blocked off all wheelchair access to their headquarters, they also installed barricades blockading the entrances outside manned by platoons of police, Over at the Clinton/Gore headquarters no barricades were erected as more than 100 persons in wheelchairs from twenty states occupied every nook and cranny of the headquarters, leaving several dozen protesters lined up outside as police looked on without barricades After several hours of the occupation, an updated version of the earlier statement was faxed directly to ADAPT at the protest, from the Clinton/Gore national headquarters. The new revised statement was read to the assembled crowd of wheelchair warriors by Clinton’s director on national disability policy, Bobby Simpson. The final proposal is a far-ranging progressive document that: (1) persons with disabilities must be given the right to choose consumer-driven, community-based attendant services versus institutionalization, (2) employment as attendants by young women and men will be encouraged as an option under the National Service Trust Fund service to their community, (3) appointing a task force that will submit a reform package within the first 100 days of the Clinton Administration to overhaul federal regulations to remove their overwhelming institutionalization bias and instead propose regulations to make attendant services more available, and (4) the task force will include members with disabilities from prominent disability rights `groups` such as ADAPT. With this victory, the occupation was called a success by both the peaceful protesters in their wheelchairs and the workers of the Clinton/Gore campaign. That was in sharp contrast to the mood at the Bush/Quayle headquarters where the republican campaign refused to negotiate and instead issued a statement that the efforts by ADAPT were 'counter-productive' and 'a disservice to the disabled'. The next day, the mood changed again when California’s budget cuts in the state SSI/SSP of 16 1/2percent and attendant services of 12 percent were the subject of the action. The two sites targeted were the federal building and the state building in San Francisco. The police were caught off guard being stationed only at the state building. The federal protective service in charge of the federal building wasn't ready either. What followed was a declaration by ADAPT that the federal building was being turned into a nursing home for the day with all access in and out shut down. Police responded with mass arrests of 49 protesters in the plaza in front of the federal building as the protesters linked arms and wheelchairs together. The remainder of the group then continued on to the state building. Police had removed troops from the state building to go to the federal building. No arrests occurred at the state building as the group chanted and passed out fliers to passers-by. The 49 arrested were held for the day, ticketed, and released down at pier 38, which the police turned into a huge booking and holding facility. On the final planned day of protests, Wednesday, the AMCA convention hotel was the site of the dally protest. Police arrested 114 persons that day when the driveways and streets in front of the Marriott hotel were blocked by people using wheelchairs. It took hours to transport those arrested back down the pier. This prompted Mike Auberger of ADAPT to comment, "If I knew I would be spending so much time here I would have brought my fishing pole.” When released, the group marched in formation backto their own hotel for a night of celebration. It was a long week of work done getting the message out to the general public about the issue of attendant services as a basic civil rights issue. Among the celebrations held Wednesday night was a special wedding ceremony of two ADAPT protesters from Philadelphia and a musical concert put on by performers with disabilities that lasted into the wee hours. By all accounts, the week was a success. Even the police mentioned several times they were totally unprepared for the dedication and training of ADAPT members during the action to the point of admiration that the protesters never lost sight of why they were there - to expose the inhumanity of locking up persons with disabilities into nursing homes, when attendant services are less expensive, more humane, and let individuals retain their civil rights. the end TITLE: Statement of Governor Clinton on Personal Assistance Services I support efforts to make affordable personal assistance services available to Americans with disabilities. We must ensure that all people have the opportunity to live independent lives. People who have disabilities and have a need for personal assistance services should have maximum control over the care they receive. Personal assistance serves must be consumer driven- they must be met by the needs and desires of the user, not the dictates of the supplier. I believe that personal assistance services are of the utmost importance. I understand that every person has different needs. For this reason, I believe that every person has the right to personal assistance services. I believe that personal assistance services should be provided by a wide range of qualified individuals. In my proposal for a National Service Trust Fund, I have suggested that young men and women who go to college can pay for their education by spending two years working in jobs which serve our community - teaching our children, policing our streets, rebuilding our infrastructure. Employment in personal assistance services should be an option in this program, and I hope thousands of men and women choose it. This is only one of many ways in which we can expand the scope of available services. Personal assistance services should be a part of any comprehensive health care reform plan. For this reason, I intend to appoint a task force, including individuals with disabilities, on the role of personal assistance services and long term care in health care reform. Among other things, this task force should examine the role of federal regulations and funding which creates a presumption in favor of institutionalized care over home and community-based services. I have promised to submit a reform package to Congress in the first 100 days of my Administration. The task force will submit recommendations on reform in that time period. It is time for America to realize that silence on issues of concern to people with disabilities is as damaging as prejudice. As President, I will work with individuals with disabilities to empower people to live independently, I will bring people together and make this plan a reality. - ADAPT (754)
This is a continuation of the article in ADAPT 755 and the entire text is included there for easier reading. - ADAPT (773)
Oakland Tribune, Monday October 19, 1992 Photo by the Associated Press: A Woman in a manual wheelchair (Julie Farrar) is surrounded by three police officers in helmets. She holds her hands over her head and a poster on her knees reads "...services NOW." Caption title: Wheelchair protest Julia Farrer of the American Disabled Attendant program in San Diego is carried off by police officers yesterday as she tried to block an American Health Care Association meeting in San Francisco. - ADAPT (767)
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. - ADAPT (768)
San Francisco Examiner TITLE: Disabled protest for more funds for home attendants Subheading: Entrances to downtown Marriott are blocked By Wylie Wong of the Examiner Staff, October 19, 1992 About 300 demonstrators in wheelchairs blocked the entrances to the San Francisco Marriott, calling for more funds to allow the disabled to live outside of nursing homes. Sunday's protest was designed to drew attention to the 16 million disabled people who have no choice but to live in nursing homes, said the Rev. Wade Blank, a co-founder Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT). The protesters targeted the American Health Care Association, a nursing-home trade group whose members are staying at the Marriott on Fourth and Minion streets while attending a convention at nearby Moscone Center. ADAPT wants 25 percent of the $27 billion paid to nursing home operators under the Medicaid program to be used to help disabled people pay for personal attendants. But the Bush administration and the health care association, which represents about 10,000 nursing homes, oppose the plan. Only $600 million of that money currently is used for in-home attendant care, said ADAPT co-founder Michael Auberger. Police escorted the protesters on the eight-block trip from their Market Street hotel, and watched as they barricaded themselves at the Marriott's entrances. The protesters chanted. "Down with nursing homes, up with attendant care.” Police were able to keep some entrances open for hotel guests. No arrests were made. Kimberly Horton, who lived in a nursing home from age 6 to 21, described her experience as “living in a prison." "They take away your personal dignity," she said. "You had to eat what they put in front of you. They'd get angry at me for wetting my bed, but wouldn't help when I had to go.” Protester Blane Beckwith, a Berkeley resident, has a personal attendant who takes care of his everyday needs, from taking a bath to preparing food. But state budget cuts have slashed eight hours of care per month. As a result, he has only half an hour per week for grocery shopping with his attendant. "No one can shop for groceries in half an hour, My mother helps me, but she's 62 and can't do it forever." he said. Horton, who wants to take writing classes and become a free-lance writer, fear that more budget cutsar will force him to live in a nursing home. "A nursing home is stifling," he said, "You have no social life. You can't work." Conventioneers who walked past the protesters were unimpressed. "I have no argument with wanting more attendant care,” said John Jarrett, who runs a 79-bed nursing home in New York. "But they shouldn't take it from the elderly,” who would be hurt if ADAPT funding plan were implemented, he said. The demonstrators plan to protest the convention through Friday. A police commander said 90 police officers were on hand. “They haven’t been violent,” he said. “They’ve been very cooperative.“ Last week, officers took two hour classes at the Police Academy to learn how to arrest and search disabled people without harming them. PHOTO by Michael Macor, Examiner: The front of the ADAPT group marching down a downtown street and in the background the line of marchers goes out of sight. Paulette Patterson, Julie Nolan, Carla Laws, Brooke Boston? and Bob Kafka among those leading the march. Photo caption: Disabled people from the group ADAPT make their way down Mission Street to the Marriott Hotel. - ADAPT (775)
San Francisco Examiner Title: DISABLED PROTEST IN S.F PHOTO by Michael Macor: A Squad of five or more police in white riot or motorcycle type helmets grab at a man with CP (Chris Hronis) who is coming out of his wheelchair. Beside him another man in a chair (George Florum) holds the back of Chris' chair, and in front of George another person, partially obscured, in a power chair, is pulled in tight and parked. Caption: Chris Hronis is put back in his wheelchair after blocking the entrance to a health-care convention at San Francisco’s Marriott Hotel on Sunday. He was among 300 wheelchair-bound demonstrators calling for more funding for home attendants so people with handicaps can live outside of nursing homes. [A-4] - ADAPT (766)
San Francisco Bay Guardian Since 1966 Photo by Jane Phiolman Clilano [name is difficult to read, could be wrong]: A huge line of protesters in wheelchairs and some walking, files up a hill beside the parked cars. Paulette Patterson leads and a blind man walks beside her on one side. Bob Kafka rolls just behind them on the other side. Several rows back a lone woman carries a banner on a pole. Caption reads: More than 450 wheelchair activists and their supporters rolled up Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco Oct 19 to occupy the headquarters of the Bush/Quayle and Clinton/Gore campaigns. Demanding a national attendant-service policy, members of Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT) were thrown out of the Bush campaign offices. The Clinton campaign served them refreshments and issued a statement promising that it would work on the issue. - ADAPT (756)
San Franscisco Chronicle, Tuesday October 20, 1992 Boxed text: Top of the News. Disabled Protest. The S.F. headquarters of the Clinton-Gore campaign was blocked by dozens of protesters in wheelchairs. page A15 Title: Protesters in Wheelchairs Block Clinton Headquarters in S.F Photo by Brant Ward/The Chronicle: Four protesters block a doorway. A woman sitting or squatting speaks with a woman in a wheelchair (Lisa Harris) who is being fanned with a poster by another woman (Sue Davis) standing behind and to the side of her. Directly behind her A man (Carl ___) stands in the doorway also blocking it. Caption: Sue Davis fanned fellow Texan Lisa Harris as the two helped barricade the Clinton-Gore campaign headquarters at Sutter Street and Van Ness Avenue in a protest for home care for the disabled. Article by Dan Levy, Chronicle Staff Writer: The San Francisco headquarters of the Clinton-Gore campaign was blocked off for most of the afternoon yesterday by dozens of disabled people who staged a sit-in inside the Sutter Street building and clogged the entrance ramp with their wheelchairs. Sensing an opportunity to take their demands for Medicaid reform to a national audience, the demonstrators pressed local Clinton-Gore officials to urge the Arkansas governor to address financing of home attendant care at yesterday's presidential debate in East Lansing, Mich. Campaign officials tried to contact Bill Clinton and journalists on the debate panel by telephone, but they were unable to get the candidate to call the San Francisco office, said Willie Fletcher, Northern California co-director for the Clinton-Gore campaign. But in a statement released from his national headquarters in Little Rock, Ark., Clinton said personal assistant services for disabled people “must meet the needs and desires of the user, not the dictates of the supplier." Advocates for disabled people have argued that federal financing arrangements for delivering health care favors nursing homes at the expense oi home-based or community-based services. The demonstration marked a second day of protests in San Francisco by American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today, a national advocacy group which timed its actions to coincide with the national convention of the American Health Care Association, which represents the nursing home industry. How Protest Proceeded Yesterday's protest began in the morning as a procession of more than 100 people in wheelchairs roiled up Van Ness Avenue to the Bush-Quayle campaign office at McAllister Street. Riot police prevented the demonstrators from entering the building, although police Commander Mike Brush said the facility was not wheelchair-accessible. A larger faction of demonstrators went on to the Clinton-Gore office, where campaign officials allowed the demonstrators to occupy the building and block the front door. The campaign also paid for coffee and cake, which was served to the protesters. Three people were detained and released during the protest, police said, and two others were cited for obstructing a doorway. The disabled group has charged that the nursing industry takes a disproportionate share of federal health care dollars for the disabled. The group is asking that 25 percent of the $28 billion Medicaid budget be used to create a national program for home attendant care. In California California is one of 28 states that have established home attendant care programs through Medicaid, but advocates said Governor Wilson's order to trim the state home attendant care budget by 12 percent might result in the institutionalization of disabled people who could no longer afford to pay for home care. Nursing homes nationwide spend an average of $25,000 to $30,000 a year for each patient, said conventioneer Karin Shirley, a nursing home administrator from Orono, Maine. A non-nurse attendant working for relatively low wages can tend to the needs of many disabled people at home, said Mike Auberger, a cofounder of the protesting disabled group. - ADAPT (760)
Ypsi residents join protest for disabled By Emily Church, Press Staff Writer [This article continues on ADAPT 751 but the full text is included here for easier reading.] SAN FRANCISCO - Two Ypsilanti residents joined more than a hundred protesters Monday in blocking access to the headquarters of the Clinton-Gore and Bush-Quayle campaigns with their wheelchairs. And Ann Arbor activist Verna Spayth was among about [unreadable] people arrested Tuesday in the third demonstration since Sunday for disabled people's [f]ights for home health care at a downtown federal building in San Francisco. Spayth, who uses a motored cart, joined Ypsilanti residents Bob Liston and Mark Loeffler, who uses wheelchairs, in a National American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT) rally. ADAPT activists planned a week-long protest to coincide with the annual American Health Care convention of nursing home operators. "We came here to bring to (the nation's) attention the fact that $28 billion is being spent on nursing home care; what we would like is 25 percent re-directed for home health care so that people with disabilities can live independently in their own homes instead of being warehoused in institutions,” said Liston, a former specialist for the Oakland-Macomb Center for Independent Living. Loeffler is an Eastern Michigan University student. ADAPT members also hoped to draw national attention to proposed funding cuts for home health care in California and to those in place in other states, including Michigan. The protests Tuesday had been the most volatile yet, Liston said. On Sunday. protesters blocked access to the hotel hosting the nursing home convention. The police broke it up in about two hours. "Bush's campaigners on Monday refused to talk to the demonstrators," Liston said. However, Clinton’s staffers told the ADAPT members that, if elected, Clinton would work toward redirecting funds from nursing homes to community-based organizations and home health care. Liston said the protests will end Thursday. “I think that it’s been very powerful to have this many people with very severe disabilities coming together again across the nation to protest this,” Liston said. The protest was his first, as well as Loefiller’s, he said. “I think the Clinton protest was a stepping stone,” He said. "‘It was definitely a success (If elected) we'll have to hold him accountable to what he has said." At the least, ADAPT hoped to bring attention to the home care issue. “A lot of the people have no idea what's going on,” Liston said. ADAPT is an about nine-year-old organization with a Michigan chapter that started as a means to address the disabled's needs fro ; public transportation. They are now almost exclusively focused on the home care issue, Liston said. - ADAPT (751)
Protest This is a continuation of the article in ADAPT 760 but the entire text is included there for easier reading. - ADAPT (774)
[The picture has two parts of the article joined together. Entire text of the article is included here as one for easier reading.] ADAPT targets SF offices of Presidential candidates Disabled activists say they'll shut down the offices of the two U.S. Presidential candidates in San Francisco this October unless the two announce that they will publicly support a national attendant services program. The activists, members of the Denver-based ADAPT, will be in San Francisco Oct. l7-22 to stage protests outside the convention of The American Health Care Association (AHCA), the chief lobbying group of the nursing home industry. ADAPT also plans to hit the Regional Health and Human Services of fice, the California Medical Association, and California Gov. Pete Wilson's local office (he is cutting attendant services in the state). The protest outside the AHCA convention is an annual affair with ADAPT which is trying to get a fourth of money allocated to nursing homes redirected into attendant care programs. ADAPT argues that too many disabled people are being warehoused in nursing homes when they could be leading more fulfilling lives outside the homes. Such attendant care could be provided at a lower cost than the care given in nursing homes. The Clinton and Bush campaigns are being targeted at the same time, partly because each candidate has received major support from the nursing home industry. When ADAPT took on the transit industry a few years back and won the battle to make wheelchair lifts mandatory on all public buses, the Bush White House met with the militants and said it would support their demands. Such support has not been forthcoming in the attendant care program. The Clinton campaign recently issued a one page statement on disability issues: "Bill Clinton has long recognized that people with disabilities are some of our nation's greatest untapped resources. He believes that all persons with disabilities must be fully integrated into mainstream American society, so they can live fulfilling and rewarding lives. As Governor, Bill Clinton has compiled a strong record of supporting public and private initiatives to enhance the independence and productivity of persons with disabilities. As President, he will continue his efforts. A Clinton Administration will ensure that children with disabilities receive a first-rate education that suits their needs. People with disabilities will be able to live in their own homes, in their own communities. Adults with disabilities will work alongside their non—disabled peers. And people with disabilities will have access to comprehensive health care and consumer-driven personal assistance services." Wade Blank of ADAPT acknowledged that Clinton had hit all the buzz words. "There was a time when I would be out on the street working for a candidate who made that kind of statement," he said. "But I'm tired of platitudes. I want to hear some specifics. "It doesn't say anything about nursing homes or that he will guarantee the right of disabled people to live in their own homes.“ Unless Blank and his fellow militants hear those specifics, he said they will make good on their threat to shut down Clinton's office. "Don't threaten us, they tell me, " Blank added. " But I'm just like the weatherman. I'm just letting you know what the weather is going to be tomorrow. If you want to take that as a threat, well...." The end - ADAPT (764)
Oakland Tribune 10/20/92 Photo by the Associated Press: A line of protesters in wheelchairs, some accompanied or pushed by walking protesters roll down the street. To one side a motorcycle police officer is sitting on his bike. Behind the line you can see blurred cars. From front to back: Mary McKnew and man walking, man rolling being pushed, Mike O'Neill pushed by Cindy ____, Doug Chastain is looking sideways, several more protesters follow by the picture gets blurry. Caption title: NO ROLLING OVER Some 350 protesters in wheelchairs demonstrated yesterday in San Francisco for a national program for home attendant care. Sunday they disrupted the opening of a nursing home convention of the American Health Association. Police yesterday said three people were cited for blocking the street at two political party headquarters along Van Ness Avenue.