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Нүүр хуудас / Цомог / Free Our People March, 144 miles Philadelphia to DC, September 2003 85
- ADAPT (1504)
Local News Philadelphia & Its Suburbs FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2003 The Philadelphia Inquirer [image] [image caption] On Baltimore Avenue, (from left) Ernest Morrison, Deborah Russel, Peggy Dougherty and Don Locke lead the way. [second image] [image caption] Marion D'Ambrosio visits with Karin Dinavdi during a lunch break for the group D'Ambrosio operates DeSimone's Salad Express, which served as caterer. Inquirer photographs by Michael S. Wirtz [Headline] In solidarity, aiding a cause Yesterday, 120 people from across the United States started on the Free Our People March, a 144-mile trek from Philadelphia to Washington sponsored by ADAPT, a national group focusing on rights for people with disabilities. The group seeks passage of legislation to provide more support services to disabled and older people. [third image] [image caption] Peggy Dougherty of Easton flaunts her American spirit. - ADAPT (1505)
MARYLAND Page 12B Sunday, Sept. 14, 2003 : The Sun in Howard [image] [image caption] CHIAKI KAWAJIRI : SUN STAFF. Almost 200 demonstrators rally in Baltimore during a stop in their two-week trek from Philadelphia to Washington to build support for Medicaid funding for home care of the disabled. [Headline] Backers of home care for disabled stage a rally at the Inner Harbor [Subheading] Demonstrators call for Medicaid funding By ALEC MACGILLIS SUN STAFF Close to 200 protesters, most of them in wheelchairs held a noon rally yesterday at the Inner Harbor on their two-week odyssey from Philadelphia to Washington to support disabled people who want to live at home rather than in nursing homes. The protesters, drawn from across the country, are traveling 144 miles from Philadelphia to Capitol Hill to build support for the Medicaid Community-Based Attendant Services and Supports Act, federal legislation that would require Medicaid to pay for home attendant care so that disabled people aren't unnecessarily forced into nursing homes. Many states provide some' Medicaid funding for home care services but have been cutting the support during the fiscal crunch, lengthening the waiting lists for disabled people hoping to leave nursing homes. Advocates for home care say it costs less per person than nursing home care, but the legislation requiring the funding of home attendants has stalled since being introduced in 1997, thanks partly to opposition from the nursing home industry and from governors who say the legislation would cost too much. Yesterday, poncho-covered protesters gathered at the plaza at Pratt and Light streets to argue for the legislation on the principle of human freedom: It is wrong, they said, to ware-house people who, with help, could live in their own homes. "We sit here in Baltimore, where Francis Scott Key wrote of the 'land of the free and home of the brave,' and we demand this freedom," said Barbara Toomer, a protester in her 70s from Salt Lake City who uses a wheel-chair because of a spinal-cord injury. The trek organized by a dis-abled-rights group called ADAPT, or American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today — involves dozens of wheelchairs, some of them powered manually, 10 vans, four trucks, 12 portable toilets, 50 tents and 350 gallons of water. On Friday night, the protesters camped in Patterson Park. Terrence Turner, 46, came from Denver to. take part in the trip. Turner, who lost his legs after a 1986 shooting in Detroit, said he believes strongly in keeping the disabled out of nursing homes even though he's never had to stay in one. "It's like taking a fish out of water Eventually, you die," said Turner, who was using a manual wheelchair. Ben Barrett, 45, came from northern Wisconsin for the trek because he's seen how much better off fellow disabled people in his county are after being re-leased from nursing homes into care at their own homes. "Congress guarantees your right to live in an institution but not the right to live in your own home," said Barrett, who has been in a wheelchair since being hit by a freight train eight years ago. - ADAPT (1506)
Delaware County Daily Times Friday September 5, 2003 5 [Headline] Their cause is marching on [image] [image caption] More than 120 Disability Rights Advocates marched 10 miles from Philadelphia to Glenolden yesterday, en route to Washington, D.C. Above, Raymond Jones, right, pets Inky, a service dog belonging to Daniese McMullin-Powell at First Presbyterian Church in Glenolden, where the group camped on the first leg of its journey. Times staff/ Paula E. Doyle - ADAPT (1507)
[left side margin images of faces, without any captions] [Headline] FREE OUR PEOPLE MARCH & RALLY Did you know that if you become disabled and need help, most of the time your only choice is to go to a nursing home? Didja know people with all kinds of disabilities (even people who use ventilators) live in their own homes and get services there? Didja know the main problem is federal Medicaid rules that keep services focused on institutions? And the nursing home lobbyists work hard to keep it that way too! MiCASSA— the Medicaid Community Attendant Services and Supports Act will solve the problem! Many of us marching were once stuck in a nursing home or other institution, or have been threatened with it. 13 years ago when we started this campaign we knew this could work and people are unnecessarily institutionalized in nursing homes and similar places. Since then, thousands of people have moved from institutions like nursing homes, and proven time and again it can be done! BUT, over 2 million people are still stuck, many want out but don't have that choice. Help us make MiCASSA a reality! - ADAPT (1510)
[3 photos] [caption] PHOTOS BY TOM OLIN [Headline] Free Our People Continued from page 1 [that page is currently missing] nation's nursing homes and institutions." Marchers camped along the way, traveling with tents, portable bathrooms and a mobile physical plant to recharge and repair wheelchairs. Vans rode along the route to retrieve those with mechanical problems or dead batteries. The marchers who averaged about 10 miles per day were greeted and hosted along the way by volunteers who provided food and assistance. Some nights they camped out and other nights were spent in churches. Additional marchers joined the procession along the way. Marchers were elated en route when co-organizer Bob Kafka received a letter from an assistant to President George Bush inviting ADAPT "back to the White House to continue our discussion." Organizers planned to meet at the White House, as well as lobby in Congress, after the march. Amtrak provided a special train for 300 people stopping in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania to pick up passengers. The train arrived in Washington in time to greet the marchers as they passed the station and then the 300 joined the march for the final leg to the rally on Capitol Hill. "The marchers looked like they had survived a war as they came by," said Danny Robert who traveled from New York City. "They were so burned from the sun and some looked battered." Thousands of supporters cheered the marchers as they arrived at the rally. MiCASSA co-sponsors, the first to speak, included Senators Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Arlen Spector (R-Pa.) and Representatives Danny Davis (D-Ill.) and John Shimkus (R-Ill.). A number of national disability groups were represented on the podium including the National Council on Aging, the National Council on Independent Living, ADA Watch, the American Association for People with Disabilities. In a poignant moment Yoshiko Dart stood next to Justin Dart's wheelchair, hat and boots as she spoke to the crowd. - ADAPT (1511)
Award Winning New York Able THE NEWSPAPER POSITIVELY FOR, BY &ABOUT THE DISABLED [Headline] FREE OUR PEOPLE: ADAPT Leads March for MiCASSA [image] [image caption] PHOTO BY TOM OLIN. Rep. Dennis Moore, center, plays Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" while, left to right, Rep. John Shinkus, Sen. Tom Harkin and Rep. Danny Davis join in at ADAPT's MiCASSA rally. More than two hundred people from more than 25 states and two from Switzerland, most using wheelchairs, traveled 144 miles from the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, Pa. to Washington, D.C. in ADAPT's Free Our People March, Sept. 4 through 17 to emphasize to Congress the need to pass MiCASSA, the Medicaid Community-based At-tendant Services and Supports Act (S971 and HR 2032). Marchers endured thunder-storms and intense heat to emphasize the need to keep people out of nursing homes. Federal law guarantees funding for nursing horns., but does not guarantee that the same dollars are spent to help people stay in their own homes, which most feel would be a significant sayings to taxpayers. "We've been working for over ten years to get this legislation passed," said Eric von Schmetterling of Philadelphia ADAPT at the start of the march, "and Congress keeps re-fusing to act, despite the fact that there are 600 organizational supporters and despite the fact that every additional day they keep their heads in the sand, they are wasting the lives of older and disabled Americans who remain warehoused in this Continued on page 10 [we do not have the next page] - ADAPT (1512)
City of Philadelphia Proclamation ADAPT is the leading direct action organization for the civil rights of Americans with disabilities. For 20 years, ADAPT has been a leader in the fight for accessible public transportation, the redirection of public funds from nursing homes and institutions to community-based services, and for a national personal assistance policy based on functional need, not diagnosis. Nursing homes are the most expensive and least desirable form of long-term care, yet they are required by federal Medicaid policy in every state. Americans with disabilities are demanding an end to the system that forces people into institutions and nursing homes through the passage of an amendment to Medicaid legislation. This amendment, the Medicaid Community Attendant Services And Supports Act (MiCASSA), would provide community attendant services and supports which range from assisting with activities of daily living (eating, grooming, dressing, bathing, transferring), instrumental activities of daily living (meal planning and preparation, managing finances, shopping, household chores, phoning, participating in the community), and other health-related functions. It would include hands-on assistance, supervision and/or [illegible], as well as help to learn, keep and enhance skills to accomplish such activities. ADAPT's Free Our People March, an historic 14-day, 144-mile march, will start off on Thursday morning, September 4, 2003, from the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia to Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. It will end at the Upper Senate Park on September 17, 2003, with the largest disability rights rally in history. Therefore, I, John F. Street, Esq., Mayor of the City of Philadelphia, do hereby proclaim Thursday, September 4, 2003, as ADAPT'S FREE OUT PEOPLE DAY in our great city. and urge all Philadelphians to help people with disabilities to live fuller, richer lives in their communities, not in institutions, so that they can have opportunities to obtain education, employment, and become contributing members of their neighborhoods. [signed] John F. Street [typed] John F. Street [seal of the city] Given under my hand and the Seal of the City of Philadelphia, this fourth day of September, two thousand and three. - ADAPT (1513)
Hartford County Maryland Office of the County Executive Certificate of Appreciation Be it hereby known, that the County Executive of Hartford County, Maryland, did present to ADAPT (American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today) Free Our People March this Certificate of Appreciation in recognition of the historic Free Our People March- September 4-17, 2003. As you travel though Hartford County, know that we are committed to the full participation of all citizens, with and without disabilities, in our community and we support the services that make the choice of independent living possible. Congratulations and best wishes as you proceed to our Nation's Capitol! Given under my hand the Seal of Hartford County [signed] illegible County Executive of Hartford County, Maryland On the 10th day of September Two Thousand Three Attest: [signed] illegible Secretary to the County Executive - ADAPT (1514)
[certificate] Proclamation Be it known that Whereas, The Free Our People march and Rally is an effort to call attention to and build support for the Medicaid Community Attendant Services and Supports Act (MiCassa); and, Whereas, more than 100 disability rights supporters, including 28 from Texas, will participate in the March from Philadelphia to Washington, DC: and, Whereas, This Medicaid bill will help give disabled and older Americans a choice of home- or community-based long-term care rather than institutionalization in a nursing home; Now, Therefore, I, Will Wynn, Mayor of the City of Austin, Texas, do hereby recognize Austinites participating September 4-17, 2003 in ADAPT's Free Our People March & Rally In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the City of Austin to be affixed this 28th Day of August in the Year Two Thousand Three [signed] Will Wynn [typed] Will Wynn, Mayor, City of Austin - ADAPT (1515)
ADAPT 20 Years of Freeing Our People!