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Tuesday October 23, 2001

San Francisco Chronicle

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[image caption] Penni Gladstone/ The Chronicle

Activists for the rights of the disabled, many of them in wheelchairs, blocked off the streets around San Francisco City Hall yesterday afternoon and halted traffic in the Civic Center area. They also blocked the main entrances to City Hall.

They were protesting the city's plan to rebuild Laguna Honda Hospital, its long-term care center. Critics want the hospital closed and public money and emphasis shifted to in-home care and community-operated facilities.

The protesters, who numbered more than 100, are affiliated with Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs, the Denver group that is holding its semiannual meeting in San Francisco.

[second article] A 18 San Francisco Chronicle
Thursday, October 25, 2001
[headline] Rights Protest Parade

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[image caption] Brant Ward/ The Chronicle

Activists from Denver's Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs, in San Francisco for their semiannual meeting, led a protest parade from City Hall to United Nations Plaza yesterday, where they blocked entrances to the Federal Building in a third and final day of demonstrations against the voter-approved plan to rebuild Laguna Honda Hospital. ADAPT favors small-scale, community-based care, but Mayor Willie Brown met with protesters to say he cannot reverse the voters' decision.

[third article] San Francisco Examiner
Thursday October 25, 2001

[Headline] Sit-in
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Joann Donnell of Kansas shots: "Our homes, not nursing homes" during a protest outside the federal building at United Nations Plaza in San Francisco on Wednesday. Disabled residents protested living conditions for the third straight day.

Karen Vibert-Kennedy/ Examiner

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