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Aruba Daily Monday, May 13, 2002 [Headline] Some 200 wheelchair [2 image] [caption for both images] Some 200 wheelchair bound people surround the front of the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue, 12 May 2002, in Washington, DC. The group from the American Disabled for Accessible Public Transit (ADAPT) organization yelled on loudspeakers across the fence to US President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush as a Mother's Day card in recognition of their work in advancing literacy and education, and their efforts on behalf of Afghan women, and asked for their support for countless American women who are forced into segregation away from home and family by failed public policy that supports institutions over community. - ADAPT (1395)
[headline] A Mother's Day Wish To Barbara and Laura Bush: [subheading] Give the "Gift of Freedom" May 12, 2002 Dear Barbara and Laura Bush: Happy Mother's Day. Today millions of women all over our country are recognized for their role as cornerstones and nurturers of our families and community. You both are among these women, for both your private and public roles. You both are known for your belief in the importance of family, community, independence and opportunity. Barbara, your work on literacy is widely recognized, and speaks to a fundamental cultural need, as fundamental as long-term care. Laura, you too work on education issues, and have rightly been honored for your support of Afghan women; American women also need your help. As we celebrate Mother's Day, many of the the women we honor are neglected by our long-term care system. Long-term care is overwhelmingly a women's issue. Approximately 1.2 million women live in nursing homes and other institutions. This alarming fact reminds us that our long-term care system does not support community and family values; in fact it does the opposite --- disproportionately forcing women into nursing homes and other institutions. Consider these long-term care statistics: About 75% of nursing home residents are women; Average cost of service in a nursing home was $48,000 (1997); Estimated nursing home costs by 2030 will be $97,000; The typical woman over 65 has an income of about $13,000; Nearly 50% of women in nursing homes are on Medicaid; Two thirds of home care consumers are women; Almost 8 in 10 unpaid caregivers are women. These women bore and raised us, and now when they need support they become the victims of our throw-away society. There is a better way to treat our grandmothers, mothers, daughters and sisters! Our long-term care system needs to be reformed. The Medicaid Community Attendant Services and Support Act of 2001, MiC-ASSA, is a step in the right direction and will begin the reform necessary to give women the ability to choose where and how they receive services. We ask you to talk with your son and husband, President George W Bush, and with other sons, husbands, fathers and brothers! Talk with daughters, wives, daughters-in-law, sisters, mothers and even grandmothers. Encourage the President, and the others too, to support S. 1298 and HB 3612. This support gives the "Gift of Freedom" to America's mothers on Mother's day. Thank you for your support of freedom and dignity for woman. Free Our People! ADAPT members - ADAPT (1394)
THE BOSTON GLO BE The Nation [Headline] Crowd in wheelchairs asks Bush for funding More than 150 people in wheelchairs staged a Mother's Day protest outside the White House to demand that President Bush fund alternatives to nursing homes for the elderly and the disabled. Scores of people in wheelchairs lined up on Pennsylvania Avenue across from the executive mansion on either side of a giant Mother's Day "card" addressed to the president's wife, Laura, and his mother, Barbara. It asked them to urge Bush to support federal funding for things like personal assistance to help_people live at home rather than in institutions. The demonstration was peaceful, with no arrests, law enforcement officers said. (Reuters) - ADAPT (1393)
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For Immediate Release Contact: Jennifer Palmieri May 14, 2002 202-863-8148 DNC Chairman McAuliffe Calls for 'Real Freedom, Not Just New Freedom" for Americans with Disabilities Washington, D C.--Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Terry McAuliffe today called on Congress to enact "Real Freedom" initiatives that improve the independence, economic self-sufficiency and societal participation of Americans with Disabilities. "President Bush's so-called New Freedom Initiative falls far short of the "Real Freedom" needed by Americans with disabilities," McAuliffe said. "President Bush is failing not only to live up to the rhetoric in his New Freedom Initiative, but also the real bipartisan nature of disability policy, failing to sustain the strong Clinton Administration record, and, most of all, failing people with disabilities. • Real Freedom means knowing that our prosperous nation will strengthen and modernize Social Security for all current and future beneficiaries. • Real Freedom means real choice in which people with disabilities receive long-term services and supports. We need federal legislation, like MiCASSA, (Medicaid Community Attendant Services Act) to be enacted that offers Real Freedom for people with and without disabilities the choice of receiving long-term care services and support in their own homes in the community. • Real Freedom means assuring that seniors and people with disabilities have access to and can afford needed prescription drugs. We need a comprehensive prescription drug plan, like the one proposed by Senate Democrats, so that those living on a fixed income don't have to choose between eating and maintaining their health. --more-- • Real Freedom means being able to leave their homes without fear. We need to modify Medicare homebound rules so that people with disabilities can maintain their health and move about freely in their communities. • Real Freedom means having access to quality, affordable health care to enable people with disabilities and parents of children with disabilities to go to work and contribute to our nation's economy. President Clinton signed the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act into law. Our nation now needs swift implementation of this law and passage of the Family Opportunity Act so that parents of children with disabilities will not have to impoverish themselves to get the services their children need. "We need Presidential leadership and Congressional action to enact 'Real Freedom' initiatives that improve the independence, economic self-sufficiency and societal participation of Americans with Disabilities Democrats will continue to fight on the issues that will give people with disabilities more than just rhetoric. We will fight to give them real freedom," McAuliffe said. ### For more information go to: www.democrats.org Democratic National Committee Pres Office 430 South Capitol Street SE Washington, DC 20003 Phone - 202/863-8148 Fax - 202/863-7194 E-mail: dnc_press_office@dnc.democrats.org URL: wwvv.democrats.org - ADAPT (1390)
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LABOR NOTES 7435 MICHIGAN AVE., DETROIT, MICHIGAN 48210 PHONE (313)842-6262 #280 JULY 2002 [Headline] Disability Rights Activists Get Unions' Attention ADAPT, the national disability rights group, blocked access to the headquarters of the AFL-CIO, AFSCME (right), and SEUIC May 14 to demand meetings with union leaders. ADAPT is seeking union support for a Senate bill (S. 1298) that would reform Medicaid to give people a choice of long-term care in their homes and communities rather than in institutions. ADAPT said it acted "after years of tension between the disability rights community and the nation's unions." Both ADSCME and SEIU (public employees and Services Employees, respectfully) represent nursing home workers. Linda Anthony, an ADAPT organizer from Pennsylvania, said that unions "have been a significant part of the problem, not wanting institutions to close because their members faced job loss." That position clashes with many disabled individuals' strong desire to stay out of nursing homes. The bill, dubbed MiCASSA, would allow people eligible for nursing home care under Medicaid to choose instead to receive care from personal attendants in their own homes. Unions leaders quicjly agreed to schedule meetings with ADAPT. AFL-CIO Legislative Director William Samuel assured activists that the federation "supports the effort to move care for people with disabilities into the communities where they live and work, allowing them to retain their independence while getting care and services in the most appropriate setting." ADAPT National Organizer Bob Kafka said that ADAPT "shares the unions' goal of a living wage for the workers who assist us. That only increases the chances we will get better care from more qualified assistants...What we will not accept, though, is holding people with disabilities hostage in nursing homes and institutions to protect jobs for unionized employees." - ADAPT (1388)
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