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Inicio / Álbumes / Nashville, fall 1993 Opryland 45
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PHOTO: A police officer stands in a doorway of the Capitol with his arm across the doorway and a stern look on his face. Under his arm you can see the back of someone in a wheelchair with a sign on their back. In front of him are two other protesters in wheelchairs; one has a poster that reads "Security, Safety, Choice, Quality, My Home" and below that is a bed pan. The other protester is leaning his head back to look at the policeman and he has on a helmet.
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NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE THE TENNESSEAN THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1993 [Headline] ADAPT negotiators accept help on issues from trio of music legends By BRAD SCHMITT, MARK IPPOLITO and TIMOTHY CORNELL Staff Writers They said they couldn't say what the acronym ADAPT stands for. But three Grand Ole Opry stars, with kind words, handshakes and hugs, last night defused the disabled-rights group's plans to try to disrupt what is arguably Nashville's most important night of the year. Porter Wagoner, Whisperin' Bill Anderson and William Lee Golden brought a close to intense day-long negotiations between ADAPT and Opryland officials trying to head off any trouble during the nationally televised Country Music Association Awards show. An army of Opryland security and Metro police stood by in the event the negotiations failed. Opryland Hotel put chains across entrance roads, ready to block vans carrying protesters. Chain-link fences went up on sidewalks, though they remained open. [Image] [Image caption] Paulette Paterson of Chicago chants at the ADAPT rally. Behind her, country entertainers William Lee Golden, Porter Wagoner and Bill Anderson appear in support of the rally participants. Rex Perry • Staff The three entertainers showed at a 6 p.m. meeting across from the Opryland Hotel with about 150 protesters, mostly in wheelchairs, from ADAPT, Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs Today. A day after the protesters stormed the Opryland Hotel, knocking down a front door, the stars said they would try to help ADAPT push its platform of diverting 25% of Medicaid dollars for nursing homes to home health care. "We're proud and honored to be here with you," Wagoner told the group. A day after Opryland security un-successfully tried to herd protesters off hotel property, Opry stars signed autographs and posed for pictures with them. "I believe what they said was genuine," said ADAPT's Mike Auberger. The group had considered interfering with the CMA Awards show for attention, said Auberger. But after meeting with officials from Gaylord Entertainment Co., Opryland's owner, the group agreed to a press conference with the stars behind the Ramada Inn, across from Opryland Hotel. "We are not here to take away people's fun. We're here to make a point," said Diane Coleman, a Tennessee ADAPT organizer, who uses ‘a wheelchair. "Our opponent is the nursing home industry, not country music fans." ADAPT came to Nashville because the American Health Care Association, made up mostly of nursing home operators, was having its convention at Opryland Hotel. Yesterday's peace was shaky, though. When some groups of protesters entered the hotel afterward as "tourists," security personnel called out on hand-held radios how many entered at one time and where they were going. "We got two WCs [wheelchairs] and a walker, and they're headed to the presidential ballrooms," a radio crackled after one group entered. But the white limousines and Mercedes-Benz sedans driving in were greeted by waving Opryland security and suit-wearing maintenance managers. They were told to wave, several said, to show Opryland is a friendly place. Opryland spokesman Tom Adkinson said company officials tried all week to negotiate with ADAPT, even offering the group a demonstration site: "We've never allowed demonstrations on our property, but we offered it this time." Coleman defended ADAPT's tactics: "I guess it's like any other civil rights movement. When you've tried all the meetings and the phone calls, then there's nothing left but to take it to the streets." [Subheading] What other stars said Kathy Mattea: "We live in a world where there's a lot of need. There's so many people out there trying to do something, to get things done on behalf of so many great causes that sometimes it's just overwhelming. It's overwhelming how much we don't take care of each other." Joe Diffie: "I think any kind of violence is not the right way to go about things. I hope that doesn't happen; I hope they don't disrupt the show for our sakes and for their sakes, too. I think it would bring more embarrassment to them than anything else. If I knew more about it, I'm sure I'd be sympathetic to their cause, as would most people." Radney Foster: "I'm glad those people can exercise their right to protest. I don't know enough about the issues. As far as access for the disabled, I have two friends who live in wheelchairs. I'm all for it."
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Man in a wheelchair [Frank McNeal], in pink shirt on left, looks at the camera while blocking the entryway to Opryland Hotel. Two security guards behind him try and keep a man on the floor [Erik von Schmetterling] from getting inside. One looks at the camera. To the right of Erik a woman in a wheelchair [Barbara Bounds] wearing sunglasses and a sign that reads "Dismantle AHCA" blocks another door shut. Behind her a woman in a power chair [Robin McGee] is tilted back and wears a sign that reads "people not profits." Someone else in a wheelchair is behind Robin so everyone is jammed in.
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[Headline] Activists at Opryland shrug off court order By Glenn Henderson and Jeff Wilkinson Banner Staff Writers Disabled activists who have disrupted operations at the Opryland Hotel and the state Capitol are threatening to take their civil disobedience to the Grand Ole Opry tonight during the star-studded Country Music Awards. A decision on whether to try to disrupt the nationally televised CMA show (7 p.m. on WTVF-Channel 5) will be made later today, said Mike Auberger, co-director of Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs Today. Opryland officials said the CMA show will go on protest or no protest. ADAPT this week has been picketing the 44th annual American Health Care Association convention being held at the Opryland Hotel. The group is demanding that 25 percent of all Medicaid dollars be diverted from nursing homes to home health care. Auberger said that disrupting the televised CMA show would bring national attention to the group's cause. "It would be a good format to raise the issue," he said. Auberger added that the public protests are necessary to offset the power and money of nursing home lobbyists. "The industry is so powerful," he said. "It comes down to the fact that dollars are more important than people." An Opryland spokesman said park officials are not worried about possible disruptions at tonight's CMA Awards. "The show will go on smoothly no matter what," Tom Adkinson said today. "They (ADAPT members) are under a restraining order issued last night to stay off of our property. "We have no concern about the conduct of the show." Auberger said the restraining order will have no effect on his group's decision: "We have to get our message across." Adkinson would not comment on security arrangements but expressed frustration with the demonstrations. "This whole situation is both reprehensible and unnecessary," he said. "We at Opryland have tried to be accommodating . . . and, frankly, Opryland and Nashville are being victimized in this whole situation. "We don't have a dog in this fight; we're just caught in the middle." On Tuesday, a melee broke out at the Opryland Hotel when a scheduled meeting between ADAPT and members of the American Health Care Association [text cuts off here] Please see ARRESTS, page A-2
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THE TENNESSEAN LOCAL NEWS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1993 B Briefs 2B Deaths 5B Weather 6B [Headline] With ADAPT protest over, Opryland to drop legal fight By KIRK LOGGINS Staff Writer Opryland USA officials say they will not pursue legal action against a group of disabled-rights activists, now that the group has ended pro-tests aimed at a nursing home convention at the Opryland Hotel. "This cost our company and Nashville a considerable amount, to be the unfortunate site of some-body else's dispute," ,Opryland spokesman Tom Adkinson said yesterday. But, Adkinson said, "That's something that we will just have to absorb." Fifty-two people pleaded no contest yesterday to charges that they committed criminal trespass during a demonstration at the hotel Tuesday. Davidson County prosecutors agreed to give the protesters suspended 30-day jail terms, on condition that they not stage any more group actions at Opryland. Forty-one of the protesters approached a makeshift judge's bench yesterday in wheelchairs. Some had difficulty speaking, and many had assistance in signing court documents. Attorney Vance Cramb, sitting as a special General Sessions Court judge, fined each protester $50, plus court costs averaging $138, but suspended most of the fines and court costs at the request of the protesters' attorney, Christine Freeman. Most protesters said, in response to questions from Freeman, that their only income is government assistance. Aides to District Attorney General Tory Johnson agreed yesterday to retire trespassing charges against 44 other protesters who were arrested at the hotel Tuesday but have since returned to their homes in other cities. Court personnel arranged a hearing yesterday in the gymnasium at Correction Corporation of America's Metro Detention Facility near Harding Place, where the protesters were taken after their arrests. All protesters arrested Tuesday were processed and released by early Wednesday, but they were ordered to return to court yesterday. The protests were organized by American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today, called ADAPT, which has demonstrated at earlier conventions of the American Health Care Association, a national nursing home group that was meeting at Opryland Hotel. Diane Coleman, a Tennessee ADAPT organizer, said yesterday that the group's four days of protests here succeeded in focusing attention on the need for more public funding for in-home health-care services as an alternative to nursing home care. "For one thing, we have a meet-ing scheduled with Governor Mc-Wherter on Oct. II to talk about attendant services in Tennessee," Coleman said. "That holds the potential for significant progress."
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PHOTO: A large group of marchers stretch back as far as you can see. Some are in wheelchairs, some are walking. Two posters are visible one says "Give us Freedom" and the other "Attendant Services is a Civil Right. The group fills the frame of the photo.
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Nashville Banner Tuesday, September 28, 1993 Local & State B [Image] (Banner photos by Larry McCormack): A police officer stands at the center with one arm holding a man in a black cowboy hat [Billy Montalvo], who is standing way off balance. The policeman, with his other hand, is holding a wheelchair push handle of someone totally obscured by another officer with his back toward the camera. Over the other officers shoulder is the face of a woman. In front of the officer on the floor by his feet is a female protester with her arm raised up and in front of her, also on the floor another person is raising a white cane in the air. A man [JT Templeton] in a motorized wheelchair wearing a National Civil Rights Museum sweatshirt is in front to one side, and from that same side someone is reaching toward the cane. They are in a doorway. [Image Caption] Tennessee State Trooper Harold Gooding moves disabled-rights activist Billy Montalvo away from a door leading to Gov. Ned McWherter's office during Monday's protest on Capitol Hill. No arrests were made. Banner photos by Larry McCormack [Headline] Activists call meetings '1st step'
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[Headline] Country stars soothe ADAPT activists [Subheading] Trip a success, group believes By Rob Moritz Banner Stan Writer [Image] Banner photos by Laura Embry: A man [William Lee Golden] with below shoulder length gray hair and a long gray beard and mustache in a black suit, hugs a woman [Anita Cameron] in a green ADAPT jacket, headband and hat. Both are smiling. They are in a parking to and behind and slightly out of focus you can see lots of other ADAPT folks, a camera people, and others milling around. Caption reads: William Lee Golden (left) hugs ADAPT protester Anita Cameron of Philadelphia after the country artist met with the group. Three noted country artists"sympathize" with the goals of disabled activists who have protested in Nashville this week, including a violent disturbance at the Opryland Hotel. "We are here to try to help and help you every way we can. We want to bring attention to your cause and your fight," Grand Ole Opry member Porter Wagoner told about 150 members of the American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT) on Wednesday. "These people need to be heard. We hope we can bring people's attention to it," Wagoner said. Wagoner, Bill Anderson and William Lee Golden met with the protesters in a parking lot on Music Valley Drive across from the Opryland Hotel. The meeting occurred about an hour before the nationally televised Country Music Association Awards. The meeting was Nashville disabled fear backlash arranged by Opryland officials who feared that ADAPT might stage a disruptive protest at the CMA event. The group threatened such an action after 97 protesters were arrested Tuesday for trespassing at the hotel. ADAPT members have been in Nashville since Sunday to protest and try to meet with the American Health Care Association, which is having its annual convention at the Opryland Hotel. The group is demanding that 25 percent of all Medicaid dollars be diverted from nursing homes to home health care. ADAPT protesters demonstrated Sunday at the entrance to the Opryland Hotel before being told they'd be able to meet with [ Please see PROTEST, page B-3] (unavailable at this time) [Headline] Nashville disabled fear backlash By Glenn Henderson Banner Staff Writer [Image] Photo 2: A curved line of people in wheelchairs and sitting on the ground curves from a woman in a wheelchair [Paulette Patterson] who is raising her fist and yelling. Behind her stands a main in a black suit with long gray hair and bear [William Lee Golden] and another man in working type clothes [Porter Wagoner]. Both are holding black and pink ADAPT shirts rolled up in their hands. They are outside in a parking lot. [Image caption] ADAPT's Paulette Patterson cheers the group on. Golden and Porter Wagoner (right) look on. Disabled activists who converged on Nashville to loudly promote their cause have left local disabled residents holding the bag, they claim. "They're going to leave Nashville, leaving the ones of us who live here to deal with the backlash," Mary McDonald says of the protesters who disrupted operations at the state Capitol and the Opryland Hotel this week. McDonald, 43, who has multiple sclerosis, uses a wheelchair. She's not the only member of the local community of disabled people who disagrees with the tactics of American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT). Rick Slaughter, a 31-year-old man whose legs, in his words, "don't work," says the group has gone too far. Slaughter volunteered when Metro police needed someone to teach them the proper way to subdue a disabled person. "These, people come into town and stir things up and then leave town," Slaughter says. "Today, I couldn't help but feel awkward whenever I encountered a stranger. It makes me look bad." They should get what they're after, Slaughter says, but they're going about it the wrong way. "They're making a lot of people in town uneasy-- they're making a mess in Nashville," he says. "If they want to raise Cain, they need to take it to the top. Why don't they go see Hillary?" While McDonald, Slaughter and Mollie Ingram are critical of ADAPT's tactics, they do support its cause in wanting 25 percent of Medicaid money now going to for-profit nursing homes to be diverted to at-home care, or attendant programs. They've chosen the American Health Care Association, currently holding a convention at the Opryland Hotel, as their primary target of protest. AHCA represents most of the nation's nursing homes. "I believe in what they want," McDonald says. "No one wants to live in a nursing home. But I'm very much against the way they're trying to get it." [Please see REACTION, page B-3] (unavailable at this time)
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PHOTO by Tom Olin: A man [Quentin Williams] is lying on his side on the ground, partially in his manual wheelchair which is also on it's side. His feet are strapped to the footrests and he is raising his head slightly from the pavement of the road. His right arm is extended and his left hand is raised above his hip. He has an expression of concern and pain. In the back of the photo at some distance other wheelchairs and a couple of people's legs are visible. They are all moving away from him.
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PHOTO by Tom Olin?: A large semicircle of ADAPT activists are in a foyer at the bottom of a fancy stairway. It appears to be inside the Tennessee Capitol building. They have posters taped to their wheelchairs with messages like: "ADAPT: Nursing Homes Kill Loved Ones", "Volunteer McWherter for a Nursing Home," and "FREE [Our People]." From left to right Verlon McKay sits with white ADAPT cap and hand held out. Behind him Tom Cagle is standing; beside Verlon in a scooter is Barbara Bounds. Beside Barbara standing in the center with arms raised is Spitfire with hands raised in her white sweatshirt that says "I don't get mad I get arrested." Beside her Sharon and LaTonya Reeves are talking. Behind them are many more protesters facing the center too.
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The Tennessean, Tuesday September 28, 1993 Local News [Title] Health-care plan too little, groups agree By-TAMMIE SMITH, Staff Writer Two health-care groups at odds over home-based care agree on one thing: President Clinton's plan for health-care reform doesn't go far enough in addressing long-term care needs. The 239-page draft copy of Clinton’s plan devotes 15 pages to long-term care, principally calling for creation of a new long-term care program under the Social Security Act. The new program would concentrate on: - Expanding home- and community-based services. - Improving Medicaid coverage for institutional care. - Improving the quality and reliability of private long-term care insurance and creating tax incentives to encourage people to buy it. - Creating tax incentives that help individuals with disabilities to work. - Piloting a study intended to pave the way toward greater integrjation of acute and long-term care. The American Health Care Association, an organization representing 11,000 nursing homes, thinks the plan is a first step but falls short of comprehensive reform. The association, which has drawn 4,000 people to its annual convention this week at Opryland Hotel, maintains Medicaid has been “masquerading as a long-term care system for far too long." Under the President’s plan, Medicaid would still be the main resource for taking care of the poor, but people would be encouraged to take out private insurance to pay for long-term care should they need it. Clinton’s proposals don't go far enough, said association representatives and members of ADAPT, a group representing disabled people, which has its own beef with the American Health Care Association. “He hasn’t really tackled the whole issue," said Linda Keegan, spokeswoman for the American Health Care Association. “He has taken two small areas — home health services and long-term insurance — and builds in proposals to deal with those issues. He doesn’t address respite care, adult day care, nursing home care, residential care, hospice care or subacute care." The association maintains a comprehensive plan would incorporate all these types of care. ADAPT, which is short for American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today, agrees with the health care association that Clinton's plan fall shorts.
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Nashville Banner Tuesday, September 21, 1993 POLICE BEAT Glenn Henderson [Headline] A public relations nightmare Imagine four burly police officers on the ground subduing a frail young man whose legs don't work — a disabled man who has fallen from his wheelchair and is struggling with police. Imagine that on television and in color photos on the front page of the Nashville Banner. It's Don Aaron's worst nightmare. Aaron, public relations representative for the Metro Police Department, knows that scenario will look "real bad." He also expects it to happen. The American Health Care Association, which represents' nursing homes, plans a convention at the Opryland Hotel later this month. And where that group goes, so goes ADAPT. ADAPT — Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs Today is a group of wheelchair radicals who protest, block doors, chant, yell and generally try to disrupt the AHCA conventions. The two groups are at loggerheads because ADAPT wants federal money taken from nursing homes and placed into home attendant programs. Aaron worries so much about the possibilities of the police appearing "brutal" in dealing with the protesters that he took the extraordinary step of asking newspaper editors and television news directors to a meeting sort of before-the-fact damage control. Police know four officers can subdue a suspect without harm much easier than one officer can. The public, however, also knows four officers can manhandle a suspect a whole lot better than one can. Aaron wants the media to write and broadcast stories that explain the "subduing" angle. ADAPT, he says, would be gleeful were the media to play up visions of manhandling. At a training session last week where police were taught safe ways to subdue a person in a wheelchair the media were encouraged to attend one officer expressed the sentiments of most of his co-workers. "If they're breaking the law, we're going to arrest them. It won't matter that we're doing what we're supposed to do and that we're doing our best to do no harm. "When they show four cops on the ground 'subduing' a disorderly man with no legs, we're not going to look too good." [Local & State]
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PHOTO [from Incitement] by Tom Olin: A woman [Marva Ways] with her hair in braids in a top-knot bun, sits in her wheelchair, legs crossed in front of her. She looks tired but assured as she gazes out in front of her. In her two hands she cradles a microphone. She is wearing black fingerless gloves and her fingers are extended so the microphone is between her palms. [caption below reads:] Marva Ways charged up the crowds at the Nashville action.
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Nashville Banner Wednesday Afternoon, September 29, 1993 Nashville, Tennesse 46 pages, 6 sections TODAY'S NEWS TODAY [Headline] Disabled threaten CMA show [IMAGE 1] Photos by Steve Lowry: Photo 1 - Four uniformed police officers in safety jackets and holding clipboards talk with five people in wheelchairs. Front row is Karen Tamley (left) with pony tail, Stephanie Thomas with bush hair and far right facing the camera head down looking at her communication letter board is Phillis Burkehead. Two men are behind them, one with a head pointer and the other, on the left, in a large manual wheelchair. He is talking with a man [Jim Glozier] kneeling on the ground beside them with his hands handcuffed behind his back. In the background are several plain clothes officers. Photo 2: A man [Bob Kafka] with a beard and mushtasche wearing a fishing hat with an ADAPT patch on the front, holds up his hand and looks out of a window. Caption reads: Metro police officers (above) obtain information from arrested ADAPT protesters during the group's demonstration at the Opryland Hotel. After his arrest, protester Bob Kafka (right) missing picture id uses sign language to communicate with people outside the school buses that were used to transport the demonstrators to jail. Trespassing charges were lodged against 97 protesters. ADAPT's next target: tonight's nationally televised CMA Awards show at the Grand Ole Opry. Banner photos by Steve Lowry
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