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Heim / Albúm / Nashville, fall 1993 Opryland 45
- ADAPT (828)
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. - ADAPT (810)
[Title] 97 arrested at hotel Photos by Nina Alexandrenko, staff: Four police officers, two in uniform and two plain clothes, carry a man (Frank Lozano) by his arms and legs, away from a large columned building (Opryland hotel). All you see is Frank's head and shoulders because he is in a lying position. [Caption reads:] Metro police Officers Don Adcox and Terry Maracle carry ADAPT demonstrator Frank Lozano of Las Cruces, N.M.. from the Opryland Hotel. [Second photo] Two people in wheelchairs sit facing away in aisles leading to doors. They are touching hands through a barrier, and in front of Cathy is what looks like chains. [Caption reads] Protesters Cathy Bruce, left, and Doug Chastain shake hands after stopping Opryland Hotel security officers and Metro police from moving them away from the hotel entrance. Second title: Rights group for disabled leads protest By TIMOTHY CORNELL and TINI TRAN, Staff Writers A police helicopter buzzed over the Opryland Hotel, roads to it were closed and more than 130 officers surrounded hundreds of shouting, spitting, chanting demonstrators yesterday calling attention to the need for in-home health care for the disabled. Ninety-seven demonstrators, many in wheelchairs and all members of Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs Today, ADAPT, were arrested for criminal trespass alter they stormed the hotel in frustration when a scheduled meeting with American Health Care Association officials fell through. The association is holding its 44th annual convention, involving about 4,000 participants, at the hotel. Protesters rushed the hotel's front entrance while a team of off-duty Metro police officers frantically tried to chain the doors. About 14 angry demonstrators in wheelchairs made it inside, struggling with police and cursing at guests. Some jumped out of their chairs and tried to slide on the ground to get inside the doors. One protester, who was not in a wheelchair, jumped on detective Stan Marlar's back as he tried to chain the doors. Marlar quickly removed the man, said Capt. Henry Rogers, who directed off-duty officers inside the hotel. The protester then ran away and was not caught, Rogers said. AHCA officials had originally agreed to meet with the protesters at the Ramada Inn across from the Opryland Hotel yesterday afternoon, but they backed off, after encountering demonstrators in the Ramadas parking lot. "It probably would have gotten into a chanting, shouting thing in the parking lot," said Claudia Askew, spokeswoman for AHCA. "I think they came here to protest." When they heard they were not going to meet, the protesters moved to the Opryland Hotel. Demonstrators were trying to reach the AHCA's convention area inside the hotel, but none did, police said. Instead, they were systematically arrested, booked, and hauled off in buses equipped to handle wheelchairs by police and Opryland security guards. One demonstrator, Quinten Williams of Detroit, was taken to a hospital after a scuffle with police. The arrested protesters were taken to a Corrections Corporation of America building off Harding Place, which was set up as a makeshift night court. Bond was set at $1,000-$1,500. Demonstrators said before the attests they intended to make bail and be released. An additional 150 protesters gathered at the hotel's driveway entrance, blocking traffic into the area. Several demonstrators threatened a similar protest at tonight's Country Music Association Awards at the Opry House. "It shouldn't be comfortable for any hotel to have" AHCA people, said Michael Auberger, co-founder of ADAPT. "Business can't go on as usual. We're saying we won't let this continue without disruption. With the CMA tomorrow, its certainly the way to put the message out to them." Metro police and Opryland security said they would keep officers on the grounds to prevent protests from happening again. Opryland officials also obtained a temporary restraining order against the group last night. Opryland spokesman Tom Adkisson said he felt both the hotel's and the city's reputation were damaged by the protests: "Nashville doesn't deserve a black eye for this incident. We offered them options, and they didn't avail themselves of It. This whole situation Is regrettable, uncomfort- [type is cut off in this scanned image]" [text continues] now go to nursing homes to be reallocated for in-home healthcare needs. AHCA agrees with the concept of more in-home care, but doesn't want to take Medicaid funds from nursing-home patients to do it. "It's just a few simple things we're asking for. It's disgusting," said ADAPT members Irene Norwood of Chicago. The demonstrators had come from across the country to protest at the AHCA convention. Many of them have experience from other demonstrations. "We know that getting arrested is a possibility. Every who [text is cut off in this scanned image] was canceled. When the protest ended, 97 ADAPT members had been arrested. The protest exploded after AHCA rescheduled a 3 p.m. meeting with ADAPT representatives to 3:45 p.m. and moved it from the Opryland Hotel across the road to the Music Valley Ramada Inn. Then the health care association's president and vice president were substituted for the executive committee and ADAPT was forbidden to bring the 50 members it wanted--one from each state. The group instead was limited to six representatives. "This is us bending over backwards to accommodate you," Auberger told AHCA spokeswoman Claudia Askew. "If the issue was important to you, you'd get the executive committee over here and meet with us in the parking lot. "You lied to us," he said, adding there would be no meeting so long as AHCA remained inflexible. Askew countered that the disabled-rights activists really just wanted to protest and that her group wanted the meeting. And, she added, there were no lies. "It, unfortunately, may have appeared that way," she said, "but we didn't lie to them." But ADAPT believed they did. Group members waited in the Ramada Inn parking lot until 4 p.m., hoping Askew would get the AHCA's executive committee to meet with them. She didn't. "It doesn't look like there's go- ing to be a meeting here," Auberger said. "If there's no meeting here, we're going to go make a meeting." And at 4 p.m., the wheelchairs rolled, spilling out onto Music Valley Drive and crossing McGavock Pike at the entrance to the Opryland Hotel. Opryland security personnel waited in the driveway, determined to stop any wayward protesters from entering the property. The mass of protesters, most rolling, some walking, split at hotel driveway, some going left, some going right, lining up in what appeared to be the beginning of a peaceful, lawful protest. But then a huge group rushed from the center and charged the Opryland Hotel. [Subheading] Protester hurt Quentin Williams, 38, of Detroit was at the front of the group. His effort was stopped when an unidentified Opryland security guard from the hotel, tossed him from his wheelchair, causing his head to hit the pavement. Williams lay on the pavement, blood pouring from the side of his head, while Opryland security guards chased other protesters. Bystanders helped Williams back into his chair, and he was transported to Memorial Hospital to be treated for lacerations to the head. Despite guards' efforts, almost 100 protesters reached the front of the building. Security staff managed to close the doors — one was broken down in the process — and keep most of the protesters outside. Chains went up, doors were locked, and huge buses were parked at the entrance to the hotel, essentially barricading the place. "We wouldn't be here if they weren't here," Auberger said, referring to AHCA. At the front door, protesters chanted and refused to leave. "We didn't come here to beat up on Nashville. But we're not going to let them do business as usual. Their convention is not going to be fun," Auberger said. Metro police, after complaints from the hotel, took over. Each protester was asked to leave and, if the protester refused, was arrested. Police used techniques learned in the classroom last week to subdue the protesters without a single injury, said Don Aaron, Metro police spokesman. No police officers were injured, either. Those arrested were loaded onto buses and taken to the Metro Detention Facility at DeBerry, where they were booked. All were charged with misdemeanor criminal trespassing. Banner Staff Writer Steve Cavendish contributed to this report. [Subheading] Few pleased with security For all of Opryland's efforts to keep protesters away from its guests weren't too pleased. "I expect to see tanks and armored cars out there next," said Frank Linden, a nursing home director from York, Pa. "They're coming out here with helicopters and paddy wagons, and, find for what?" he asked. "Where are they going to go? Don't they have a right to say what they want to say?" Linda Lippiatt, another nursing home association member from York, said the protesters had some valid points to make and that more people should be cared for at home. But the protesters' complaint should not be with the association, she said: "It's all part of a lousy health-care system. It's a problem, and not just for them." Another guest, Jim Hawkins, from Dayton, Ohio, said he had wanted to go outside to hear what the protesters had to say, but was blocked by Opryland security guards: "They won't even let us hear them. This is just outrageous." --TIMOTHY CORNELL - ADAPT (806)
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. - ADAPT (829)
- ADAPT (811)
3 B Tuesday, September 28, 1993 —— THE TENNESSEAN PHOTO by Rick Musacchio, Staff: Two police officers stand over three protesters in wheelchairs, two of whom are holding hands. [Caption reads] Tennessee Trooper Amos Claybrooks, left, and Capt. Paul Tackett try to keep protesters from entering a door to the governor’s office. [Title] Disabled demand to see governor By REAGAN WALKER, Staff Writer About 300 members of American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today, or ADAPT, lined the first floor of the state Capitol yesterday demanding to talk with Gov. Ned McWherter. The national organization is in town to bring attention to the lack of Medicaid funding for home health care. The group follows the American Health Care Association, the nation's largest lobbying group for nursing homes, to its annual convention each year to protest a system that group members say unfairly dumps disabled and elderly people into nursing homes. The healthcare association is meeting this week at Opryland Hotel, and its executive board will meet with members of ADAPT today. Last week ADAPT asked to meet with McWherter this week. But he was already scheduled to be in Germany, where he met with officials of Mahle GmbH yesterday regarding plans for an expansion of its Morristown plant. Mahle Inc. is the U.S. arm of Mahle GmbH, one of the world's major suppliers of pistons. Even knowing the governor was out of the country, the group began crowding into the first floor hallway of the Capitol shortly after noon yesterday demanding Mcwherter talk with them by phone about their concerns. McWherter did not call, but his staff set up a meeting with the group for Oct. 11. Diane Coleman, a member of the Tennessee chapter of ADAPT, declared the protest successful about 5 p.m. “We call upon Governor McWherter to put human rights before state rights, to put people ahead of profits," Coleman said. The group said McWherter's health-care plan, TennCare, does not address long-term care. The state also does not pick up the Medicaid option to provide some money for those people choosing home health care. Because Tennessee doesn't provide that Medicaid option, LaTonya Reeves, 29, said she moved from Memphis to Denver. Colorado provides Medicaid coverage for home health care. “My choice was to either move or go into a nursing home," Reeves said. - ADAPT (813)
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. - ADAPT (814)
Photo by Nashville Banner: ADAPT folks marching in their wheelchairs single file into the Tennessee Capitol building via the bunker like street entrance. Above and partly obscured, is the Greek looking above ground part of the capitol. Caption reads: ADAPT protesters enter the State First Street, across the Woodland Capitol after marching from North Street Bridge and through downtown. Title: Disabled-rights group now demands results By Rob Moritz Banner Staff Writer Disabled-rights activists are hoping for results as they meet today with American Health Care Association officials and next month with the governor. “What we've got now are meetings. What we want are results,” local disabled-rights organizer Diane Coleman said Monday outside the governor's office in the state Capitol. “The meetings are a first step, and that's good, but we do want results,” she added. Today’s 3 p.m. meeting with AHCA's executive board will be held at Opryland Hotel, where the nursing home group ia holding its annual convention. More than 200 members of Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs Today from 28 states protested at the hotel’s entrance Sunday before being granted a meeting with AHCA. ADAPT wants to divert 25 percent of all Medicaid dollars from nursing homes to home health care. On Monday, the same protesters — in wheelchairs — occupied the state Capitol for nearly six hours before being assured of an Oct. 11 meeting with Gov. Ned McWherter, who is on a two-week trade visit to Germany and Japan. The activists demonstrated at the state Capitol because they hadn’t received a response from a letter Coleman sent to McWherter earlier this month. The protesters blocked several offices, chanted and generally disrupted the afternoon work schedule for many state employees before Metro police and Capitol police arrived. No arrests were made. Metro police blocked off Charlotte Avenue near the Capitol during the demonstration, causing traffic tie-ups for downtown commuters. After nearly six hours of demonstrating and chants such as, “the people united will never be divided," and “up with attendant care, down with nursing homes," the group finally was told it could meet with the governor next month. “So far, Tennessee has chosen human warehouses over in-home services,” Coleman said, adding that more than 35,000 disabled people are in Tennessee nursing homes. “Put human rights over state rights," she said. Coleman says the letter she sent to the governor contains three requests: * That the governor establish a task force to study home care services for the elderly and disabled. * That he make a commitment to reverse what they believe is an institutional bias in long-term services funding in the state. * That he make a commitment to promote ADAPT’s goals at the National Governors Association. President Clinton's health care reform calls for the expansion of home care programs, Coleman said. Meanwhile, a Capitol cleaning crew worked - overtime Monday night to clean up trash left by ADAPT protesters. - ADAPT (820)
PHOTO: People are packed in facing a doorway inside the Capitol with their back to the camera. A man [Verlon McKay] has a poster on the back of his chair that reads "Move $$ to Community Services." Back by the door is a camera person filming. Two police officers stand in the doorway talking. Verlon and the person next to him have their fists raised and all the others show with their posture their intense interest in the doorway. Erik von Schmetterling is sitting to Verlon's right and is signing a chant in ASL [Erik is deaf as well as a wheelchair user.] - ADAPT (817)
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' - ADAPT (825)
Nashville Banner Tuesday, September 28, 1993 Local & State B [Headline] POLICE BEAT By Glenn Henderson [Subheading] On a roll : They came, they sat --and they appear to be conquering. None have been arrested--yet--even though members of Americans with Disabilities for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT) stopped traffic at a major intersection and trashed the state Capitol building, leaving garbage and ADAPT stickers in the governor's hallways. The organization protested Sunday at the American Health Care Association's annual convention, blocking McGavock Pike near the Opryland Hotel for hours. The group wants federal money currently going to AHCA--a nursing home lobbying association— to be rerouted to care at home. They regularly protest at AHCA conventions. "We were very lenient with them Sunday night," Metro police spokesman Don Aaron says. Aaron was so concerned with the potential media coverage of police arresting the disabled protesters that he called a meeting prior to the AHCA convention — a meeting with newspaper editors and TV news directors. Kind of a pre-protest damage control meeting. And the next day, police held a training class at the South Sector precinct to teach officers safe ways to subdue and arrest disabled protesters. "The week isn't over," Aaron says. "The word has been conveyed to them that in the future, if they are told to leave or clear a roadway and they refuse, we're going to arrest them." There is irony here: Metro prepared to deal with them at Opryland, but state police have jurisdiction over the Capitol. - ADAPT (818)
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. - ADAPT (819)
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. - ADAPT (839)
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 - ADAPT (823)
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. - ADAPT (802)
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