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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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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 Examiner, Thursday, October 22, 1992 TITLE: 113 more disabled protesters arrested Subheading: Demonstrators blocked intersection of 4th and Mission Examiner Staff Report San Francisco Police arrested 113 protesters -— most of whom were in wheelchairs — in the fourth day of demonstrations calling for more federal money for in-home attendants for the disabled. The people arrested outside of the George Moscone Convention Center were cited for blocking the intersection of Fourth and Mission streets and for blocking Fourth Street, said a police spokesman. Those arrested were taken to Pier 38 where they were cited and released, the spokesman said. An ambulance was called to the scene after a report of a minor accident involving an automobile and a protester in a wheelchair. The unidentified protester sustained minor injuries and refused medical treatment, said a spokesman for the responding medical unit. He was not taken to the hospital. Another ambulance was called when a woman complained of pain in her arm. She was not arrested. On Tuesday, police arrested 45 people for blocking the doors at the United Nations Plaza. Wednesday’s demonstration was one of several held this week while nursing home operators are in town for a convention. Increased funding would help disabled people live in their own homes rather than nursing homes, according to the protesters.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The ADAPT Free Our People logo under a rainbow. The rainbow was a symbol of Atlantis for many years and may still be.
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protest the govemment's failure to establish regulations implementing Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act. It’s also the site of a continuous AIDS vigil. Staffed by volunteers 24 hours a day, the vigil’s purpose is to call attention to the U.S. govemment’s inaction in the face of the AIDS crisis and to disseminate information on services and prevention. I’ve spoken to several of these folks over the past several days, and they are very much in support of our actions. People disabled by AIDS too often end up dying in nursing homes, for lack of the in-home assistance they need. With our chairs, we quickly blockade every entrance to the Federal Building, including the driveway sloping down into a garage. Federal police threaten us with arrest; we hold our ground. It’s the city police, however, who soon start moving in. Things heat up fast. They start hauling us away from the doorways, putting into practice their days of training before our arrival. Mayor Feinstein’s disability advisor and another local advocate were assigned to instruct the officers in how to forcibly arrest people with disabilities, how to lock and unlock wheelchair brakes, and how to disengage motors in order to push chairs manually. The cop I encountered obviously hadn’t paid close enough attention. He comes up behind me and orders me to move. I refuse. He reaches down to disengage my gears so he can move me. But he grabs the wrong levers, and puts on my brakes instead! This makes pulling my chair extremely difficult; he has to yank so hard that he nearly tips my chair over. Once they have cleared us away from the doorways, the police quickly erect barriers and form an aisle for the federal employees to walk in and out of the building. For a while, held back on either side of this corridor, all we can do is keep up a steady stream of chanting at the people passing between our two lines. Then, protestors start wheeling into the street, trying to block the entrance to the passageway. Things get even wilder from there. Cops are trying to restrain wheelchairs, both electric and manual. Meanwhile, they’re going after any ambulatory protestors who steps out of line. Then people start throwing themselves outof their wheelchairs, trying to scramble between barricades, or just sitting there waiting for arrest. That’s what the police are trying to avoid— what with the hassle, the bad publicity, and the fear of inflicting injuries, arresting people in chairs just isn’t worth it. On the other hand, they do want to shut this down. Faced with few choices, the police start hauling people off. The mass arrest takes hours: two or three at a time, the arrestees are loaded into the lift-equipped vans the city has rented from a local paratransit company. These are the same vehicles, and the same drivers, that transported many of us from the airport. Our ranks diminished by the 49 arrests, we leave the area around the Federal Building. We find a spot nearby for an impromptu meeting. Wade Blank tells the exhausted troops that this has been a very successful action; we can be proud of a day of strength and commitment. He also says that the police expect us to retreat now. Are we up for another demonstration? The response is an enthusiastic Yes! So off we go in the direction of a new target. Again, we have been kept in partial darkness about specifics, to avoid cluing in our eavesdropping hotel security guards. It tums out to be the California State Building. We take its two exits easily, and hold it for the rest of the aftemoon. Then we go back to the hotel, where we greet like heroes the retuming arrestees. Wednesday: Day Six For two days we’ve given the AHCA delegates a break while we harassed other targets. Now we head back to the Marriott for our parting shot. We follow the usual game plan at the now-familiar building. This time we protest even more intensely, shouting angrily at the passing delegates. Our chants are more pointed: “HO HO, HEY HEY, HOW MANY BEDS DID YOU FILL TODAY?” which evolves into “HO HO, HEY HEY, HOW MANY CRIPS DID YOU KILL TODAY?” The police seem angrier too. Especially two cops near me, guarding a barricade across the hotel’s garage entrance. They delight in making snide comments. When we see two officers handcuffing one of our brothers who has anhritis, his face contorted in pain at the tightness of the cuffs and the angle of his arms, the cop nearest me sneers, “Look at Mr. Hollywood over there. ” “They're hurting him! ” we counter. “Aren’t'you gong to make them stop?” “Yeah, we’ll get right on that,” one cop laughs. This kind of sarcasm continues throughout the aftemoon. I grow more and more uncomfortable and annoyed at the ignorance and disrespect displayed by these two officers. Finally I decide to leave my post at the garage entrance. I don’t abandon it; I find another protestor to take my place. I want to check out some other action.
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Page 10/Handicapped Coloradan two major presidential campaigns. The following is one participant‘s day-by-day report of the week’s events. Saturday: Day One Activists from the Bay Area hold a rally in Pioneer Square. Four of us, having arrived early with ADAPT’s advance team, decide to go check out the rally. We get there right at 2 p.m. when the gathering is supposed to begin; we are the first ones there, except for a dozen or so cops. Soon, however, Connie Arnold, Peter Mendoza, and a few other folks from the disability community show up, with arm bands, flyers, and a megaphone. Gradually a crowd of 40 or 50 gathers. As a gesture of support for ADAPT, the rally’s timing seems a little off, since most ADAPTers won’t arrive until later today. But at least it’s one way to encourage the involvement of some local people who, for one reason or another, won’t be joining the ADAPT protests. And locals do have a compelling interest here: California, once regarded almost as a disability utopia because of is generous and consumer-controlled services, is now experiencing harsh cutbacks due to a state budget crunch. Some in the community are beginning to realize that a nationwide system is needed. A few speakers introduce the issues: the cuts in personal assistance services, and the monopoly exercised by the nursing home industry. Then individuals are invited to come before the crowd and describe their own experiences with personal assistance services, independent living, and/or institutionalization. Sunday: Day Two Members of ADAPT from throughout the country, having rested a bit from the previous day’s traveling, gather in the hotel’s huge meeting room. The four-hour training covers ADAPT’s history and purposes, the basics of civil disobedience, and a tentative outline of the week’s activities, including the convention of the American Health Care Association (AHCA), which represents the nursing home industry. (The convention is the main reason ADAPT chose San Francisco this time around). Like most ADAPT meetings, this one is part strategy session, part pep rally. Mike Auberger, Stephanie Thomas, Shel Trapp, and others remind the group of our previous successes and our proven collective power. Meanwhile, the back of the room bustles with the buying and selling ofT-shirts, jewelry, luggage tags, books, bandanas, and other ADAPT-logoed paraphernalia. These entrepreneurial activities are an important fundraising strategy; local chapters use the proceeds from these sales to help pay members’ travel expenses to ADAPT actions. With the introductory business taken care of, the group discussion tums to immediate plans. AHCA delegates are arriving today and will attend a cocktail party this evening. Since our arrival, the word has been passed that we would hit the Marriott Hotel, where the AHCA delegates are staying. But we don’t want the police to know that until we get here. So at the meeting, Auberger announces that our target is a cocktail party at the Moscone Convention Center. The meeting ends. People disperse to grab late lunches and/ or bathroom breaks. Then we reassemble in the lobby at 4 p.m., lining up and dividing into color-coded teams. This preparation period is always busy but fun: hand-printed placards and duct tape are passed up and down the line, turning wheelchairs and bodies into mobile signboards with slogans like “NURSING HOMES = DEATH" and “MY HOME, NOT A NURSING. ” This is also a time of socializing and reunion, punctuated by shrieks of recognition, hugs, sharing of news. As we await our marching orders, we meet new people and greet friends we haven’t seen since the Chicago actions back in May or the Orlando actions a year ago. Finally we head out, marching single file down the middle of the street. We chant along the way: “FREE OUR BROTHERS, FREE OUR SISTERS, FREE OUR PEOPLE NOW!” and "UP WITH ATTENDANTCARE, DOWN WITH NURSING HOMES!” The police dutifully block the traffic, providing a safe and visible route through city streets to our destination. Our relationship with the police is a strange and sometimes contradictory one: they play a dual role, both adversary and escort. Along our route some are courteous, some indifferent. Here we don’t engage with them on the same intense level we will later on. When we get to Fourth Street, we stop at the Marriott instead of continuing on to the Moscone Center. We quickly separate into our teams. Despite our efforts to deceive them, the police are ready for us. They have fenced off every entrance with their steel barricades, yellow tape, and armed, heavy-booted officers. But this works fine for us—if they can keep us out, then we can keep everybody else out. Each team takes a different door. I end up posted at the main entrance, in line with a dozen other protestors. A barricade separates us from the door, but we are effectively blocking access for the AHCA delegates, many of whom are trying to return to the hotel
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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.
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Photo by Tom Olin (?): ADAPT protesters sit surrounded by police in brick paved plaza. In foreground is Karen Tamley with a cap on her head. Behind her Stephanie Thomas (with ADAPT NOW poster on her legs) and Anita Cameron (with white cane) are talking. Other ADAPT folks in wheelchairs are partially visible.
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Ann Arbor [newspaper] 10/22/92 Title: Local people take part in protests Three local people are taking part in a series of demonstrations in San Francisco this week to draw attention to issues involving the disabled. Members of American Disabled for Attendant Program Today, a national advocacy group have protested at the San Francisco headquarters of the Bill Clinton and George bush campaigns, and at the California State Building. The group contends that federal policy favors nursing homes over home-based or community-based care. Local people taking part in the protests are Verna Spayth of Ann Arbor and Bob Liston and Mark Loeffler of Ypsilanti. ADAPT has targeted San Francisco for a different demonstration each day this week because the city is hosting the national convention of the American Health Care Association, which represents the nursing home industry. Inset photo: A tight headshot of woman (Verna Spayth) with shoulder-length hair and glasses holding a microphone in front of her. Below the picture, it says: SPAYTH.
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San Francisco Chronicle, Wednesday, October 21, 1992 Photo by Vince Maggiora/The Chronicle: Two San Francisco policemen wrap their arms around a man in a wheelchair (George Roberts) who is trying to get through or hold onto a police barricade. Two other protesters look on. Behind them, all is a part of a big fancy stone building. Caption Title: 45 Arrested as S.F. Protests by Disabled Continue Police arrested a disabled demonstrator blocking doors at the Old Federal Building at United Nations Plaza in San Francisco yesterday. He was among 45 people, many in wheelchairs, arrested during a protest seeking more federal money for home care, rather than nursing home care, for the disabled. There have been several protests during a convention of nursing home operators.