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Chicago Tribune, Thursday, October 26, 1995 Section 1 5 [Image] [Image caption] Michigan protest: Demonstrators in wheelchairs block the steps of the State Capitol in Lansing, Mich., Wednesday. They want federal laws favoring in-home care over nursing home care. - ADAPT (970)
The Detroit News AND Free Press Metro .. Sunday, October 29, 1995 [Headline] Engler staff lapse led to security breach of governor's home GEORGE WEEKS Gov. John Engler and First Lady Michelle Engler are rightly outraged at misguided demonstrators who pounded on doors and windows of their home while they were gone and their triplet daughters were in the kitchen with their nanny. The Englers are also understandably concerned about the rare and baffling security lapse that allowed wheelchair-bound demonstrators to scoot through an open gate on a driveway leading to the official governor's residence in the fashionable Moors River Drive section of Lansing. Make no mistake, an elite state police detail provides excellent around-the-clock security for the first family. When Engler travels, it is with well-trained plain-clothes troopers who know what to do and do it well. They are hard to spot, but they are there, and well armed. There is 24-hour security at the residence, assisted by a variety of electronic devices connected to monitors that guard outposts. An intruder would be foolhardy to try to scale walls or rush the residence day or night. Yet, in broad daylight on Tuesday, about 70 demonstrators, many in wheelchairs, were able to get to the front porch of the residence after the gate opened for a delivery. There should have been sufficient warning. The Denver-based ADAPT (American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today) declared in advance by press releases that they were coming to Lansing to protest planned GOP changes in the federal Medicaid program. There were about 200 demonstrators, most from outside Michigan. They had 150 rooms at the Radisson Hotel, two blocks from the Capitol. On Monday, they seized the GOP state headquarters for several hours, taking over the switchboard and blocking some staffers in their offices. They demanded to see Engler, who ironically supports their call for more funds for more care. They said they targeted Engler because "He's a high profile potential v-p"; he has the ear of House Speaker Newt Gingrich; and he frequently lobbies Congress on welfare and health care issues. Engler declined to meet with them, but Communications Director John Truscott did meet with them and outlined Engler's position in writing. Law enforcement authorities knew that ADAPT planned to demonstrate Wednesday at the Capitol where Michigan Militia demonstrators planned on Tuesday to protest against the UN. Extra security personnel were at the Capitol on Tuesday. Truscott said, "We had no idea they would hit the residence." But on Tuesday, although they did not announce it in advance, the handicapped demonstrators assembled at a park near the residence. They carefully watched the comings and goings at the residence before they made their move. Apparently they were not watched with sufficient care. Once they began going through the gate, security personnel were reluctant to swing the gate shut for fear of injuring some of them. The massive swinging gate, with black iron bars, takes about 10 seconds to close. Truscott said "It was a slow gate and they had very fast chairs. They came flying." Although 11-month-old Margaret, Hannah, and Madelene did not hear the protesters, Truscott said they were "so rattled" by all the security and other activity within the residence that they had a sleepless night. All of Michigan should feel violated because protesters, no matter how just their cause or how difficult their lives, were able to storm right up to Michigan's front porch. The way to agitate for funds for home care is not to attack someone else's home. It remains to be seen if they awakened interest in home care or caused a backlash. But by breaching the security ring around the governor's residence they delivered a wake-up call. Truscott said "Clearly, we'll take a very serious look" at security arrangements. For starters, there will be a gate that closes faster. Furthermore, when the gate is open, there will be more security personnel to thwart a rush on the residence. - ADAPT (976)
Thursday, October 26, 1995 The Ann Arbor News E [Headline[ Disabled keep up protests, block Capitol FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LANSING — On their third day of pro-test, a group demanding better services for the disabled got a meeting Wednesday to voice their views. But it was not with Gov. John Engler. Three members of American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today met with Jeff McAlvey, Engler's legislative liaison, and then ended the protest of about 300 people who had blocked some entrance ways to the Capitol building. They had requested a meeting with Engler. The protesters rallied briefly at noon in front of the Capitol steps. They broke into smaller groups to block entrances to the Capitol. One entrance remained open for 45 minutes before being blocked by protesters. Michigan State Police reopened another entrance at 1:30 p.m. Five were arrested for trespassing or dis-orderly conduct, state police Inspector Gary Post said. Three of them were booked at the Lansing city jail and released on personal recognizance bonds. The group dispersed about 3:30 p.m. after meeting with McAlvey. Verna Spayth of Ann Arbor, state coordinator of the Denver-based group that has staged sit-ins and other protests for better home care, said ADAPT was disappointed Engler did not meet with its members. "I don't think a meeting would have been too much to ask. He apparently thought he could wait us out. But our constituents are outraged and we vow to stay in his face," Spayth said. Engler spokesman John Truscott said the governor was not available. He declined to say where the Republican governor was. [Image] [Image caption] State Police prepare to move Bob Kafka, national organizer of ADAPT, from entrance to Capitol at Wednesday's protest. Photo by: ANN ARBOR NEWS BUREAU PHOTO - ADAPT (969)
Detroit Free Press 10/26/95 [Headline] Capitol Blockade About 300 members of Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT), a group dedicated to better rights and services for the disabled, disrupted business Wednesday at the Capitol by blocking building entrances for about 45 minutes. State Police reopened an entrance at 1:30 p.m. and the protesters began to disperse at 3:30 p.m. after meeting with a representative of Gov. John Engler. Five were arrested for trespassing or disorderly conduct in the group's third day of protesting, State Police Inspector Gary Post said. ADAPT wants Engler, among other things, to ask House Speaker Newt Gingrich to propose earmarking 25 percent f the Medicaid nursing home budget for home and community services. [2 Images] [Caption for both images] Left: A worker jumps out a window at the Capitol in Lansing after demonstrators blocked all exits and entrances to the building Wednesday. Below: A student from Garfield School in Adrian breaks through the crowd of protesters at the Capitol. Students were touring the building and were blocked in by the demonstration. Police later cleared an exit. - ADAPT (973)
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PHOTO: A crowd of ADAPT protesters fills the picture. All are in warm jackets, several with red caps. Behind them, silotted against the sky is a statue of a man standing next to something he is resting his hand upon. Some city buildings are visible above the crowd to one side and autumn trees are in the background. In the front is a red headed woman (Shona Eakin) with a red color leader flag. To her left is Gwen Jackson's face at the edge of the picture and in front is Gordie Haug with his arm over his head. - ADAPT (968)
The Detroit News Thursday, October 25, 1995 [Headline] Disabled intensify protests [Subheading] Activists demonstrate in Lansing for third straight day; police arrest five. [Image] [Image caption] Protesters line up outside the Capitol on Wednesday, calling attention to fears that disabled people will be forced into nursing homes and out of private homes or other community care. The group of nearly 300 blocked entrances to the Capitol briefly. Photo by: Dale G. Young/The Detroit News - ADAPT (967)
[Headline] Wheelchair protesters [Subheading] Activists with disabilities travel so they can stay home Yvonne Duffy The 300 or so members of American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT) who stormed Gov. John Engler's residence and blocked entrances to the state Capitol in Lansing last week have dispersed, perhaps leaving in their wake more questions than answers. Who are these Wheelchair "terrorists," as administration officials called them, who demonstrate against government leaders and the health care industry to seek less Medicare spending for nursing homes and more money for in-home care? They are dedicated men and women, most with significant disabilities, who spend their own money to travel from all over the country to participate in ADAPT "actions." Some cut their protest teeth back in the 1960s. Others have come more recently to the disability movement, and are new to the idea that they may be able to influence their destiny. Many are former nursing home residents who have experienced firsthand the mind-numbing isolation, indifferent care (at best), and lack of freedom that inevitably accompany institutionalization. The woman who screamed from the governor's driveway, "Let (lawmakers) lie all night in their own (waste)" probably is a former nursing home resident. She understands all too well that once one undergoes such degradation, one is changed forever. The World Institute on Disability defines personal assistance services as "assistance of another with those tasks which individuals would normally do for themselves if they did not have a disability." ADAPT maintains that adequate personal assistance services and other support could enable one of every 10 nursing home residents to live in his or her own home, resulting in a better quality of life and reduced cost to taxpayers. [Image] [Image caption] Wayne Becker of Austin, Texas, and Hector Racine of Brandon, Vt., were among protesters at governor's house. File photo by Julian H. Gonzalez/Detroit Free Press. Why did ADAPT choose to turn the national spotlight on Michigan? As Republicans attempt to return more government power to the states, members of the Denver-based organization seek federal legislation that would unify the hodgepodge of services now administered by states. Since Engler is perceived as an influential force in a national welfare reform, ADAPT wants to educate him on the need to include community-based personal assistance services in the final package. Engler also is regarded as a close associate of House Speaker Net Gingrich, who was targeted by ADAPT last May. Gingrich has verbally endorsed the idea of national legislation governing personal assistance services. Yet he has not introduced in the House ADAPT's proposed Community-based Attendant Services Act (the measure's acronym, CASA, means "home" in Spanish). That bill, if passed, would make these services a reality. ADAPT members believe people with disabilities are the real experts on what they need. An essential feature of the CASA bill is consumer control, based on need rather than age or specific disability. This approach to independent living contrasts sharply with the medical model now used by most states to determine eligibility. To finance the proposed program, ADAPT calls for redirecting 25 percent of the current Medicare allocation for nursing homes. The proportion now earmarked for in-home assistance is less than five percent. The need is crucial: A 1992 Families USA study reported that 64 percent of Americans who needed personal assistance services could not get them. In Chicago last year, personal assistants struck for a day to protest their low wages and lack of benefits, stranding the employers who relied on them to get out of bed. Hiring honest, responsible people to provide personal assistance, for little more than the minimum wage and without health care or retirement benefits, is fast becoming next to impossible. In a healthy economy such as ours, these essential jobs are among the first to go unfilled, as demand for workers opens up higher-paying positions. What drives ADAPT members to undergo financial expense and personal hardship as they demonstrate around the country year after year, to try to focus attention on an issue about which few Americans care? They keep on because they are acutely aware--often from personal experience--of what most other people with disabilities can scarcely bear to acknowledge, because the specter is so horrifying. Each of us who must depend on personal assistance services to live is but a heartbeat away from a nursing home. Yvonne Duffy writes the "Disabled in America" column for the Free Press - ADAPT (972)
A A News 10/27/95 [Headline] Protest outrages Michelle Engler FROM the Associated Press LANSING --- First Lady Michelle Engler says her support for free speech and the right to assemble gave way to fear and outrage when handicapped protesters demonstrated outside the governor's residence. "It was frightening. I felt totally helpless," she said Thursday of the protest two days earlier. "And I am still outraged and appalled by these tactics." Neither Gov. John Engler nor his wife was home when about 200 pro-testers gathered outside the governor's residence. But a nanny was there with the Englers' 11-month-old triplet daughters when nearly 70 of the protesters pushed through the outside gate and mussed on the front porch, shouting and chanting slogans and briefly pounding on the doors and windows. Six were cited for trespassing. "When they called me and told me what was happening, I was terrified...frightened," said Michelle Engler, who at the time was in Detroit, attending a luncheon where she was honored for her promotion of breast cancer awareness. "All I could think about was my 11-month-old babies." Michelle Engler, an attorney, described herself as "an avid advocate" of First Amendment rights of free speech and peaceably assembly. But Tuesday's demonstration was "over the line" she said. "It they want to picket, they should stay outside the gate. They can picket me, they can picket him," she said, referring to the governor. "But just stay away from my family." [Pulled quote] "It was frightening. I felt totally helpless." — Michelle Engler [article continues] The demonstration was organized by American Disabled for Atm:, tendant Programs Today, a Denver-based group that opposes Republican-backed changes in the federal Medicaid program. Those changes might deny home care for disabled persons and force them into nursing homes. The Medicaid changes are pending in Congress. But ADAPT officials said demonstrations were held in Lansing because of Republicans Gov. Eaglet's high-profile role in advising GOP lawmakers on welfare and Medicaid changes. The triplets were in the back of the house and were not directly exposed to the protesters. But Michelle Engler said they had sensed: the tension and anxiety. Michigan ADAPT organizer Bob Liston of Ypsilanti: "This is a nonviolent organization. We have not hurt anyone and do not intend to hurt anyone. But if Gov. Engler is going to get into national politics, he has to answer to folks nationally. We were doing what we felt was necessary to call attention to this critical issue." - ADAPT (966)
[Headline] Michelle Engler livid about protest [Subheading] Handicapped people at governor's mansion went over the line BY HUGH MCDIARMID Free Press Staff Writer She'd had two days to cool off, but on" Thursday, Michigan's first lady, Michelle Engler, was still furious. "It was frightening. I felt totally helpless," she said. "And I am still outraged and appalled by these the tactics." She was referring to Tuesday's raucous, surprise, midday demonstrations by more than 200 handicappers --most of them from out of state — at the governor's residence in Lansing. Neither Michelle nor Gov. John Engler was at home. But their triplet daughters, whose first birthday comes in 18 days, were there being cared for by a nanny. Sixty-seven protesters, many in wheelchairs, pushed through the outside gate and massed on the front porch, periodically shouting and chanting slogans and, for a tune, pounding on the doors and windows. The others demonstrated on the street and curb out front. "These people were banging on doors and windows . terrorizing innocent people inside," said Michelle Engler, who, at the time, was attending a Cobo Hall luncheon in Detroit she was honored for her work on breast-cancer awareness. "When they called me and told me what was happening, I was terrified...frightened. All I could think about was my 11-month-old babies." Engler, a 36-year-old attorney, described herself as "an avid advocate" of the First Amendment, including free speech and the right to peaceably assemble, but she said Tuesday's demonstration was "over the line." "If they want to picket, they should stay outside the gate. They can picket me, they can picket him," she said, referring to the governor. "But just stay away from my family." See ENGLER, Page Six (unavailable at this time) [This page also continues the article from Image 952. See 952 for full text] - ADAPT (971)
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PHOTO: A mass of ADAPT protesters facing toward the Michigan Governor's house. Behind them you can see a part of the circular driveway and a fancy neighbor's house. In the forground you can see Doug Chastain on the far right side of the photo with orange and white stripes on his sleeve. Behind him is a row of people including Latonya Reeves in a white wrap, George Roberts with buttons all over his red cap, Erik von Schmetterling in a grey hoodie facing the camera, among others. Behind Erik is a man standing in a red coat and to his right is Joe Ehman, to his right is Diane Coleman in a blue hoodie, and to her right is Raymond ___ in white glasses. Behind the man in the red coat is David with Wittie in black. Everyone is very bundled up with hoodies, scarves, warm coats and more. - ADAPT (959)
A crowd of ADAPT protesters further from the Governor's house, perhaps at the gateway to his driveway. On either side is a pack of protesters facing the house and in the center, somewhat lined by about 10 police officers, a line of ADAPT people are coming away from the house. In front is a woman in a motorized wheelchair with a poster that says Our Homes NOT Nursing Homes. Bheind her is San Antonio Fuentes with his hand extended out. Behind him another person in a wheelchair and behind them Sue Davis is in an orange rain poncho. To the left of the line, between the police officers you can see Bob Kafka in a brown hat and red sweatshirt, in front of him Tom Olin is taking a picture and in front of him Mike Oxford is standing looking past the police at the people in the line. Everyone is dressed very warmly. - ADAPT (938)
[Headline] ADAPT rallies one more time By David Wahlberg Lansing State Journal Protesters with disabilities wrapped up in a three-day siege of Lansing institutions Wednesday by blocking off Capitol entrances and demanding attention from Gov. John Engler. "How about we show them what it's like to be in a nursing home," said Verna Spayth of Ann Arbor, dispatching about 300 members of Denver-based American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today, or ADAPT, to position their wheelchairs and walkers at noon in front of all Capitol doors. "We're ADAPT, you're trapped, get used to it," the demonstrators chanted, interspersed with "Engler, Engler cut the crap. Now it's time to face ADAPT." Engler spokesman John Truscott issued a statement saying the governor supports ADAPT's goal of funneling more Medicaid money to in-home services and reducing dependency on nursing homes. "It is obvious that your protests in Lansing have been misdirected," Truscott said. Ben Martin, a 64-year-old retired House worker visiting the Capitol to check on retirement benefits, managed to slip out the south entrance between wheelchairs. "it's kind of tough to get out, but I think they have a right to what they're doing," he said. "They've got a point of view, and they're getting screwed." By 2 p.m., police had carved a trail to the front door, allowing legislators and others to get in. Schoolchildren on tours were frightened by the protest, and some demonstrators were removed from the scene, officials said. ADAPT is targeting Michigan because Engler is a Republican leader of welfare reform, group leaders said. "He will only give enough money for one wheelchair for each person for their whole life," said Charles Johnson, 48, of Detroit. "Nobody can last a whole lifetime with one chair unless thye do stay in a nursing home." ADAPT has been active in Lansing since Monday morning, when the group took over Waldenbooks stores in Lansing Mall and Meridian Mall, pulling copies of House Speaker Newt Gingrich's "To Renew America" off of shelves. Monday afternoon, it protested at the state Republican Party headquarters, and on Tuesday about 150 group members surrounded Engler's home. [Image] [Image caption] Capitol protest: State police officers remove American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today protesters from the Capitol doorways Wednesday. Members of the group blocked entrances and exits of the Capitol following a rally. Photo by: Rod Sanford/Lansing State - ADAPT (965)
Detroit Free Press Saturday, October 28, 1995 Hugh McDiarmid Politics [Headline] GOP in a dither to find Bonior foe Demonstration Redux: Engler's staff went ape and his wife, Michelle, loudly condemned it. But the governor's own reaction to Tuesday's demonstration at the governor's residence by 200-plus handicapped home-care advocates was...well, softer. On WWJ-AM radio's "Ask the Governor" Thursday, he labeled it "guerrilla theater, 1990s style." But he said the goal was to get media attention and, in that, they were "pretty effective."