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หน้าหลัก / อัลบั้ม / Washington DC, March 2004 17
วันที่โพสต์ / 2020 / พฤษจิกายน
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VISIT ABLE AT THE ABILITIES EXPO - BOOTH 427 AWARD WINNING New York Able The Newspaper Positively For, By & About the Disabled April 2004 Vol. 9, No. 11 [Headline] ADAPT CALLS ON BUSH [Subheading] Marchers Demonstrate for 'No More Stolen Lives' [images] [image captions] New York ADAPT coordinator Nadina LaSpina, left, leads a group of demonstrators through the streets of Washington. At right, marchers gather at the Washington Monument. Angered by a president they say promised freedom from institutions, then cut the funding needed to achieve that freedom, 500 ADAPT activists and allies marched on Washington, D.C. to protest President Bush's FY 2004 and 2005 Medicaid budgets. The "No More Stolen Lives" march was followed by a vigil for all the people currently confined in nursing homes and other institutions by administration cuts and the institutionally biased Medicaid policy. Marchers were also calling for a meeting with the president, who has never met with members of the disability community. "Disability issues are not partisan. Four years ago when President Bush issued his New Freedom Initiative and his executive order mandating implementation of the U.S. Supreme Court Olmstead decision, we believed him," said Steve Verriden, Wisconsin ADAPT organizer. "But here we are four years later, facing the worst Medicaid cuts in history, which will, without a doubt, keep people illegally confined in nursing homes and other institutions and force even more people into those settings. This loss of personal freedom and all the president's empty promises are unconscionable because they mean more stolen lives." Bush's New Freedom Initiative articulated that people with dis-abilities have the right to access all parts of their community and the American way of life. It directed all federal departments to assess and plan removal of bar-Hers that prevent people with disabilities from having that ac-cess. According to ADAPT the Olmstead Executive Order promised older and disabled Americans home and community based services and supports, instead of the forced institutionalization that results from the institutional bias in the nation's Medicaid program. States must pay for nursing home services, but are not required to pay for the same services in a person's own home and community. "The people who led our march were those who have had years of their lives stolen by the Medicaid institutional bias," said Cassie Jones, Philadelphia ADAPT organizer. "We want the president to hear loud and clear that we are tired of having to wait for our freedom." "We're lying cuz you're lying," was the name of the demonstration at the HHS (Health and Human Services) building, where there was an early morning lie-in. Wheelchair users slid out of their chairs and crawled into sleeping bags on foam mats and they were served breakfast in bed. According to ADAPT, the momentum to reverse the institutional bias in the nation's long term care system by HHS has ground to a halt. Thousands of people with disabilities and older Americans are still unnecessarily being forced into nursing homes and other institutions because of the inaction of HHS coupled with the administrations proposed cuts to and caps on Medicaid. As part of this grassroots campaign, ADAPT urged dis-ability advocates to contact Sen. Charles Grassley, asking him to introduce the legislation that includes Money Follows the individual, as well as schedule hearings on MiCASSA. According to ADAPT, his office has had this draft legislation since July 25, 2003 and nothing has been introduced. He says he will hold hearings but has not set a date. For information contact ADAPT, 512 442-0252 . - ADAPT (1527)
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PHOTO: A mass of people in wheelchairs as well as a couple of standing people press up against the front doors of the Health and Human Services, HHS, headquarters on the Independence Ave side of the building. Above their heads in large brass letters a sign reads "Hubert H. Humphrey Building." Everyone is bundled up and facing the building. One person [possibly Dorothy Ruffin] has an orange color leader flag and there is an American flag on the building. Many people in wheelchairs are carrying pillows and sleeping bags and other large bundles. - ADAPT (1519)
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PHOTO: At least three rows of wheelchairs are lined up blocking vehicular exit to the Health and Human Services, HHS, Department. Everyone is bundled up to the max. Some standing people are among them and two people [David Wittie and possibly Cathy Cranston] have green color leader triangular flags, indicating this is the green team. Facing them on the junction of the street and driveway are two other people in wheelchairs. A sign by the side of the driveway reads "Exit only do not enter." Rounded concrete barriers line the edge of the driveway with spaces large enough for sidewalk pedestrians to pass by. - ADAPT (1530)
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PHOTO: The very large plaza in front of Health and Human Services headquarters (an entire city block in size) is filled with ADAPT protesters. Most are very bundled up but many are wearing vests over their winter garb with the ADAPT logo on them. It is a very big crowd. - ADAPT (1522)
PHOTO: On the plaza in front of Health and Human Services headquarters a row of peole bundled up with heavy coats with ADAPT vests are lined up against the windows walls of the building. A stolen lives banner is tacked to the white marblesk wall. In front of these people ohters are laying down, there are abandoned sleeping bags and mats, with wheelchairs of all kinds intersperced between them. An odd rectangle of police caution tape is tied to several of the wheelchairs. Several folks have smallish American flags. The scene has an intense and somewhat chaotic air. - ADAPT (1521)
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