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Los Angeles Times 4/10/85 PHOTO by Vince Compagnone, Los Angeles Times: A Trailways bus sits surrounded by half a dozen or more people in wheelchairs. One man in a manual chair with a golf style cap sits alone at the back left corner of the bus. One the right side of the bus, closest to the camera are three other people in manual chairs. They appear to be talking with Bob Conrad and a few others up at the front right side of the bus, by the entrance. Renata Conrad is in the white coat. On the back of the bus is a sign that reads "Got a Group? Charter this Bus. 1-800-527-1566." Caption reads: Handicapped people surround a Trailways bus Saturday, delaying its departure by two hours. [Headline] Disabled People Block Bus at Terminal by Kathleen H. Cooley, Times Staff Writer About 20 disabled people blocked a Trailways bus for more than two hours Saturday at the downtown terminal until the terminal manager agreed to ask a company executive to meet with the disabled group concerning difficulties wheelchair-bound people have with bus travel. The group which represents American Disabled for Accessible Public Transportation (ADAPT), was in town to meet with members of the American Public Transit Assn. today. Representatives of ADAPT said they want a legislation requiring all new buses operated by private companies such as Greyhound and Trailways to be equipped with wider doors, lifts and ramps. Most public transportation operators, including San Diego Transit, provide wheelchair lifts on at least some buses. ADAPT member Claude Holcom bought a ticket to Los Angeles, but when Trailways' personnel told him they would have to fold his wheelchair and carry him to his seat, Holcom declined to board the bus. "We don't think a person should have to be carried aboard a bus," said Wade Blank, one of the protest's organizers. “It's very dehumanizing. They’re taking away their legs." Blank and fellow ADAPT member Mike Auberger said the group is trying to draw attention to the frustrations of traveling by bus and being in a wheelchair. Although both Trailways and Greyhound buses are not equipped to handle wheelchairs, Blank said ADAPT met with Greyhound officials last week to discuss the possibility of fitting new buses with lifts. “This is a symbolic protest, just like the civil rights protests of the '60s, but we have the right to travel the same as anybody else," Blank said. "The wheelchair is like somebody's legs." The Los Angeles bus, with its two passengers, was scheduled to leave the C Street station at 4:15 p.m., but by the time terminal manager Fred Kroner arrived and negotiated with the ADAPT members, it was nearly 7 o'clock before it departed. The two passengers appeared surprised and baffled by the protest and by queries from members of the news media. One man opted to go to the Greyhound terminal two blocks away and catch another bus rather than wait out the protest. The other passenger, Mich Galloway, 23, said he was sympathetic to the group wanting equal access to buses and waited patiently until the protesters dispersed. “I see where they are coming from." Galloway said. "I hope something is done about it." After several phone calls to the Trailways corporate offices in Dallas proved fruitless. the ADAPT members agreed to accept from Koner the name, address and phone number of the company‘s public relations officer. who they intend to call Monday. "l really can't do anything about the situation. l'm just this terminal's manager." Koner said.
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THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER Wednesday, May 21, 1986 [This article continues in ADAPT 245, but the entire text is included here for easier reading.] [Headline] Handicapped bus protests to continue [Subheading] Judge offers three protesters choice of jail or leaving city BY DAVID WELLS and JAMES F. McCARTY The Cincinnati Enquirer and ENQUIRER WIRE SERVICES The issue of handicapped people and their accessibility to mass transit reached a peak Tuesday locally and nationally, sparking protests that were expected to go on today. In Cincinnati, a judge ordered three handicapped protesters who had been arrested to leave the city or go to jail. One of the men, a native Cincinnatian, chose to ignore the edict, and his bail of $3,000 was revoked late Tuesday. In Washington, D.C., the Department of Transportation issued long-awaited criteria for making the nation's public transportation systems more accessible to 20 million handicapped people. Neither decision was well received by the handicapped community. The Rev. Wade Blank of ADAPT (American Disabled for Accessible Public Transportation) said late Tuesday that a dozen or more of its members were planning an act of civil disobedience in Cincinnati today that he expected would get them all arrested. “We decided that to leave Cincinnati under the present atmosphere of basic human rights violations, would be to ignore our moral obligations," Blank said. George Cooper, who was arrested Monday said, “I thought my hometown of Dallas was conservative, but Cincinnati is more conservative." Cooper arrested Monday with two other members of ADAPT on charges of disorderly conduct during a demonstration at Government Square. Hamilton County Municipal Judge David Albanese imposed the sentence on the the ADAPT protesters. Late Tuesday, police spotted ADAPT member Mike Auburger, a former Cincinnatian who lives in Denver, driving a car through the -- city—an apparent violation of Albanese's order to leave the city. Cooper and Robert Kafka, Austin, Texas, were arrested after they crawled up the steps of a Queen City Metro bus, paid their fares and demanded the right to ride. Auburger was arrested when he tried to grab a wheel of the same bus as it pulled away from the stop. Metro's Assistant General Manager Murray Bond said disabled persons were not permitted on regular coaches because the company does not think it is safe. Metro provides wheelchair lifts on Special Access buses. but Bond said the cost of installing wheelchair lifts on regular buses would be prohibitive. Defense attorney Joanie Wilkens said after Tuesday’s hearing that she considered Albanese's order unusual but that ADAPT did not have the time or resources to fight it in court. ADAPT members were in Cincinnati to protest policies of Queen City Metro and the American Public Transit Association, which is having a convention at the Westin Hotel. In Washington, DOT's issuance of a final regulation requiring transit systems to provide reasonable alternative transportation for the handicapped contained no surprises. Many transit systems have been moving for several years toward providing alternatives such as van service or a taxi voucher system for handicapped passengers. But ADAPT and other national disability rights groups, dismayed by the new rule, almost immediately filed federal lawsuits against DOT to block the move. Handicapped representatives said the new rule fell far short of carrying out the law. A federal court in 1981 ruled that a federal requirement that all transit systems be accessible to the handicapped was too much of a financial burden. It told the Urban Mass Transportation Administration to develop new requirements that would assure that the handicapped are provided service. Under the final rule announced Tuesday, a transit authority must establish some alternative services for the handicapped if the regular bus or rail service can not be made accessible. Other members of ADAPT continued to picket in their wheelchairs in front of the Westin Hotel on Tuesday. The group suspended a wheelchair from a wooden cross. It symbolizes how the disabled are being crucified," said Bill Bolte, who helped to hoist the chair. PHOTO -- The Cincinnati Enquirer/Fred Strau: Two protesters hang a wheelchair on a large wooden cross. One man in a cowboy hat and plaid shirt (Joe Carle) steadies the cross and the chair from below, while a second man (Jim Parker) stands and pulls the manual wheelchair higher. Behind them several other protesters (including Joanne ____) watch and stand by extensive police barricades in front of the APTA convention hotel. Caption reads: Joe Carle, left, and Jim Parker chain a wheelchair to a cross Tuesday outside the Westin Hotel. The two were among several members of the American Disabled for Accessible Public Transit demonstrating against City Metro and the American Public Transit Association which is meeting at the Westin.
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The Cincinnati Post, Wednesday, May 21, 1986 I-B Title: Disabled activists may defy court order in bus protest By Mary Kane, Post staff reporter Wheelchair-bound activists are prepared to defy a court order today and force a showdown with city authorities over what rights the handicapped have to public transportation. The Rev. Wade Blank, a founder of Americans Disabled for Accessible Public Transportation, said three activists ordered to get out of town will hold a news conference at noon in front of the Westin Hotel. Robert Kafka of Austin, Texas, George Cooper of Dallas and Michael Auberger of Denver risk being jailed on disorderly conduct charges if they show up at the Westin. Judge David Albanese of Hamilton County Municipal Court on Monday ordered the three to leave Cincinnati Tuesday or forfeit their $3000 bonds. A pre-trial hearing is scheduled for June 26. The men were arrested Monday during a demonstration in front of the Westin, where conferees of the American Public Transportation Association are meeting. The activists have been staying at a Newport hotel, an arrangement that does not violate Albanese's order. However, once inside Cincinnati city limits they are in violation. Members of ADAPT, a national handicapped rights group, have pitted their wheelchairs against the steel frames of buses to protest what they call a lack of accessibility to public transportation for the handicapped. Mr. Blank, a Presbyterian minister, said 12 severely handicapped ADAPT members also will attend the news conference today and announce their intent to block buses in the street. That tactic is intended to challenge law enforcement authorities. Mr. Blank said police have been reluctant to arrest the most severely handicapped of the group. A member with cerebral palsy will be among today's protesters, he said. Mr. Blank said the 12 will risk arrest by the action.
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Gazette-Telegraph 5/21/86 Wheelchair-bound protesters arrested CINCINNATI (AP) — Police arrested at least 17 chanting, wheelchair-bound protesters who blocked a hotel entrance or chained themselves together in a doorway at the Cincinnati transit agency’s building Wednesday. Police said those arrested included George Florom of Colorado Springs; Joe Corle of Denver, Ernest Taylor and George Roberts of Hartford, Conn.; Rick James of Salt Lake City; and Glenn Horton, Jim Parker and Frank Lazano, all from El Paso, Texas. It was the third consecutive day of protests by a nationwide group called American Disabled for Accessible Public Transportation (ADAPT), which has staged similar protests elsewhere to demand equal access to public transit. Police said the 17 protesters who had been arrested were charged with disorderly conduct. They were taken in vans to the Hamilton County Justice Center, where they refused to post bonds.
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Denver Post 7/27/90 Bush signs rights bill for disabled Anti-discrimination act called world's strongest by Denver Post Staff and Wire Reports With row upon row of disabled Americans cheering and sometimes weeping with happiness, President Bush yesterday signed landmark legislation banning discrimination against the disabled. The legislation, considered the world's strongest civil rights protection for the disabled, prohibits discrimination in employment, public accommodations, transportation and telecommunications. Bush backed it strongly and Congress approved it despite opposition from some business groups who argued it would be too costly and would produce an explosion of lawsuits. The president appealed to business, saying: “You have in your hands the key to the success of this act, for you can unlock a splendid resource of untapped human potential.” Some 2,000 disabled visitors and their families, some in wheelchairs, some deaf with interpreters, some blind with Seeing-Eye dogs, attended the ceremony in Washington to create what Bush called “this splendid scene of hope spread across the South Lawn of the White House." In Denver, disabled activists said the national law would give new momentum to local access and fairness programs that already are well ahead of most cities. “It’s unfortunate that it takes an act of Congress to give equal opportunity to all citizens, but now it’s there, and we can get some work done,” said Bill Farrell, chairman of the Denver Commission for People With Disabilities. Mayor Federico Pena said the city would speed up its program to add wheelchair ramps on street curbs and convene a conference next April to address the disability act's effects on Denver. The city also will consider waiving permit fees and other ways to help small businesses make renovations to accommodate the disabled. PHOTO (by Associated Press): Medium close up of President George H.W. Bush (41) is sitting outside at a table with three piles of paper in front of him. He is turned away from the camera and toward an older man dressed in black (Rev. Harold Wilke) to give him a pen with which Bush was signing the A.D.A. The Reverend, smiling, stands behind Bush and lifts his foot up to take the pen with his toes. Beside the two of them and at the end of the table another man in a suit (Evan Kemp) sits and smiles broadly as he watches the transaction. Caption reads: SIGNING: The Rev. Harold Wilke accepts a pen from President Bush at the signing of the disabilities act yesterday. Wilke has no arms and uses his feet for hands. Evan Kemp, left, ls chairman of the Equal Opportunity Commission.
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Atlanta Journal 10/4/1990 Disabled protesters arrested downtown Charged in blocking of building’s doors By Bill Montgomery and Ben Smith staff writers As supporters cheered and chanted, more than 30 activists for the handicapped in wheelchairs were arrested for sealing off the Richard B. Russell Federal Building in Atlanta Wednesday. They were lifted by police aboard MARTA buses and taken to hastily arranged hearings in a parking lot at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium. U.S. Magistrate John Strother released the activists — who are protesting U.S. government funding of nursing home care for the disabled — on personal appearance bond for arraignment in Magistrate's court on Nov. 16. The defendants face a maximum $50 fine or 30 days in jail for a class B misdemeanor, hindering access to and from a federal building. Wednesday's blockade at the Russell building by American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT), continued the strategy that the group used to seize the Morehouse College administration building and a nursing home association headquarters in Decatur on Monday and Tuesday. About half of the 100 protestors who appeared at 11 a.m. to blockade all street level doors refused orders by Russell Building security chief Thomas W. Woodall to move away from the entrances by 2:30 p.m. or face arrest. Several chained themselves and their wheelchairs to the revolving doors. Employees and people attempting to enter the Russell Building used a tunnel from the federal annex across the street to enter the building. Atlanta police, federal marshals and Russell Building security officers began arrests at 2:45, less than 90 minutes before some offices in the building close for the day. Protesters who moved away from the doors chanted “Free our people now!” as their arrested comrades, some grinning and flashing raised thumbs and “victory” signals, were lifted by their wheelchairs onto four MARTA buses. By 5 p.m., 31 men and women had been delivered to a parking lot across from the stadium for the hearings. The protesters are demanding that the federal government redirect 25 percent of funding for the disabled from nursing homes to home care. They argue that 250,000 disabled people are being held in nursing homes against their will, and that this shift in funding is more humane and cost-efficient.
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6/DISCLOSURE NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1997 [Headline] Even Newt & Bill have to learn to ADAPT If ever there were a textbook example of the payoff from working together, ADAPT s two-week action In June would have to be it. The key victory was introduction of the Medicaid Community Attendant Services Act, MiCASA--the culmination of seven years of work by thousands of ADAPT members from across the nation--a date to meet the President, and the start of preliminary meetings with his Cabinet folks. Heading into DC things were look-ing a bit bleak. The White House was stalling, House Speaker Gingrich seemed to be waffling on the deal he made years ago in Atlanta to introduce CASA, and Congressional Democratic leadership seemed bound to ignore us. [Subheading] Promises, promises During the November ADAPT action in Atlanta, the President had promised, through his then Director of Public Liaison Alexis Herman, to meet with ADAPT before the end of the first quarter of 1997. Here we were at June. Well we had taken off our shoes for some heavy math but there was no way we could make June come out as anything but the end of the second quarter, and still not even a commitment for a meeting date. An eleventh hour call from Clinton's staff saying "we'll be setting up something soon" was taken as nothing more than a delay tactic. And ADAPT had had it with delays. So we wrote a letter listing the consistently broken promises from the White House and demanding a response with a definite meeting date by 5 p.m. Monday, the next day. Then all 250 of the first wave of ADAPTers marched over to Bill's place to deliver the letter. We had made it 3 feet wide by 5 feet tall, to assure it would not get lost in a pile on someone's desk. Once at the White House we strung out in a line across the front, and each and every ADAPT person signed the letter. At first the Secret Service, who guard behind the black iron fence, were reluctant to take the letter up to the White House, but when we said we'd then have to stay to make sure it got inside, they figured out a way to deliver it for us. When we arrived back at the hotel, it was well after 6 p m. A fax from the White House had just arrived. It consisted of a White House cover sheet, and two blank pages. Granted politicians don't like to make commitments, but this seemed a trifle vague, even for this master politician. Puzzled, we called to see if Clinton had intended such a vacant response, but allegedly everyone had gone home for the day. So we had to take it on face value. Tuesday we took the matter of this meeting to the one who made the promise: Alexis Herman herself. Since November she had received a promotion, she's now the Secretary of La-bor. Her office was right down the street, so we decided to drop in and see what she could do to clear up the problem. She had, after all, said in her November letter to ADAPT she would "be in touch with [ADAPT] directly to discuss the appropriate arrangements for this meeting." We figured she probably wasn't getting her tele-phone messages, or all her mail, be-cause she had never responded to one of our calls or letters. [Pulled quote] At first the Secret Service, who guard behind the black iron fence, were reluctant to take the letter up to the White House, but when we said we'd then have to stay to make sure it got inside, they figured out a way to deliver it for us. We poured through the security guards' station and flooded the Department of Labor lobby, a big echo-ing glass and granite job. Workers crowded the balconies and stairways as we chanted "We Want Alexis' and "Our Homes NOT Nursing Homes." Herman was off at a celebration when ADAPT hit the lobby. Negotiations were turned over. to her replacement Maria Echaveste. It finally turned out a little job coaching seems to be in order for the White House staff. They relaxed the letter this time with the pages facing the right direction so we were able to see the response. Clinton set September 10 as the meeting date, and with Echaveste now involved, we strengthened the deal by arranging to hold the first of the preliminary meetings with the Cabinet folks who deal with long term care for while we would still be in town. [Subheading] Second wave Two days later the second wave rolled in. After Sunday's meetings and workshops and updates, this group was ready for bear. Monday of the second week was June 21, the date by which Gingrich had promised to introduce CASA. We had not yet received a copy of the "final draft" and we did not want something we had never seen being introduced, but we were not going to let this deadline slide. ADAPT has fought for a national attendant services program for seven years, and since 1994 Gingrich had promised to introduce such a bill. [Subheading] Newt watch The leadership team decided on perhaps the hardest action of all, at least for ADAPT folks--a vigil, a Newt Watch. We ringed the Capitol Rotunda and settled in. Tensions were high as the tourists flowed through the room and we waited and waited. The noon deadline passed and Gingrich's staff said they were working as fast as they could with Legislative Council (the folks who really write all the bills introduced in Congress). We agreed to wait a bit longer, and in the meantime sent out feelers to some of the other Congressional leadership. Our message: we are here, we want CASA, are you with us? Minority Leader Dick Gephardt finally agreed to meet with a few of us the next day and committed his support for the principles of CASA. By 5 p.m., though we had made progress with other members of Congress, we had all but lost hope for the Speaker. The leadership team decided that we would start chanting and block-ing at 6 p.m. to at least send a message of our commitment to the issue. Capitol Police must have gotten wind of the plan because only a few minutes later Gingrich's staff called and asked a small group of ADAPT folks meet with them and Legislative Council directly to iron out any problems so the bill could be introduced late that night (the House was staying late to work on the budget anyway). We had come so close; to throw it away would be a tragedy, but what if this was just another trick? Then the leadership team came up with a plan. We left the Rotunda, the small group went off to meet with Gingrich's people, and the rest of us marched over to the Rayburn building, where Gingrich's office is located. We took up our Newt Watch again. The hours crawled by. There was no word. We just had to have faith, and we did. But we also began planning in case we needed to extend this stay. Folks agreed.to give& up plane tickets and camp out if need be. We were too close to give up now, everyone was ready to do what needed to be done. After a couple of hours the negotiators sent out Steve Gold and Zan Thornton with an update. We—finally--were sitting down with Legislative Council staff who understood our goals. Together we were rewriting the bill to be much better than it was originally, but it would take a while. So we continued to wait. Later they told us Gingrich's people kept asking "they're still out there?" Around midnight when our people emerged from the building with a new and better Medicaid Community Attendant Services Act, MiCASA, and a commitment it would be introduced as soon as Gingrich himself had read it. ADAPT has fought for a national attendant services program for seven years, and since 1994 Gingrich had promised to introduce a bill [such as CASA]. One day of the Newt Watch had been extremely productive. We had finally been able to sit down together with all the players and we had squeezed out a bill agreeable to all. We could continue the Newt Watch until we saw it introduced, but several other targets remained to attend to. [Subheading] 2020 vision The leadership team agreed we had another target to tackle and we would still have Wednesday if the Speaker reneged on his promise. Just as we gathered to share a letter of commitment to meet with us from the Secretary of. Transportation, Mike Auberger's cell phone rang. MiCASA was introduced. It was now HR 2020. Talk about timing. This left another hard decision for the leadership team to make. There are several very confrontational, targets ADAPT needs to tackle. We could address one then or we'd probably have address it in the future. We had one more day. How could it best be spent? Discussion went round and round and in the end the decision: keep the heat on CASA. We would visit every last member of the House of Representatives' offices, leave them a copy of CASA and talk to their staff about it. There are three House office buildings, and we had three color teams. Each team took a building, split up and covered each floor. By the end of the day we had distributed 440 copies of CASA. We had talked to 420 aides and a smattering of Representatives. Those who had been forced into nursing homes or ICF-MRs shared their stories. Those among us who provided attendant services shared how easily the concept can be implemented. Gingrich's office was getting lots of calls on this new bill. We had our first co-sponsor. Mi-CASA had been launched.
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TESTINOMY HR2020 I WENT INTO A NURSING HOME WHENN I WAS 14 YEARS OLD. I REMAINED THERE FOR 43 YEARS. THEY TIED ME IN BED IN A STRAIGHT JACKET. THEY HIT ME ON MY HEAD WITH A SOAP IN A SOCK, SO IT DIDN'T LEAVE MARKS. I HAVE LIVED IN MY OWN APARTMENT WITH ATTENDANTS HELPING ME FOR OVER 20 YEARS. I WOULD RATHER BE DEAD THAN GO BACK TO A NURSING HOME. PLEASE SUPPORT HR2020 SO EVERY DISABLED PERSON CAN CHOOSE IF THEY WANT TO LIVE IN THEIR OWN HOME. FRANK MCCOLM [SIGNED] FRANK MCCOLM
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THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the National Governors Association, NGA, by a vote of the membership and the Executive Committee supports the following: A) The current long term services and support system has an institutional bias that must be reformed through a cooperative effort by the federal government, the states and the disability/older community including those who use services; and B) The long term services and support system must include the principles that home and community services and supports are the first priority and that support services should be provided in the most integrated setting; and C) No person with a disability or older American should be forced into a nursing home or other institution because of the lack of integrated home and community options; and D) People with disabilities and older Americans must have full inclusion in the design, implementation and review of the long term services and support system; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the NGA supports the passage and funding of the Medicaid Community Attendant Services and Supports Act, MiCASSA (currently S971-HR 2032) and legislation that include the Money Follows the Person initiative (currently S.1394-HR 1811); and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the NGA work with the individual states to assure that the Supreme Court's Olmstead decision is aggressively implemental and that the measure of this implementation be, in a year, how many people have gotten out of nursing homes and other institutions and how many people have been diverted from nursing homes and other institutions; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the NGA work with the states to assure that any 1115 waivers submitted by a State should have statewide public hearings before development and submission to HHS, and that the 1115 waiver process should not be used to undercut current community Medicaid services and federal protections; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the NGA supports reform of the long term services and support system that does not result in block granting, capitating or otherwise reducing or eliminating funding to the states or the removal of the current national Medicaid protections. Passed this day ___ July 2004 [logo of ADAPT Free Our People]
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